Programme
Thursday, April 20, 2017
8.45: Morning coffee
9.15: Opening remarks
9.30: Keynote speech:
Stefan Donecker (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research), Identity and Identification in Premodernity: The State of the Debate 35 Years after John Armstrong's Nations before Nationalism
10.30: Coffee break
11.00: Panel 1: Before the Nations, Beyond the Nations
Chair: Marko Zajc (Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana)
- Ümit Eser (Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya),Before Becoming Bulgarians: Pre-National Identities of the Orthodox Christian Communities in Eastern Rumelia, 1878-1908
- Jernej Kosi (University of Ljubljana, University of Graz), When the Slovenes Encountered the Slovenes: Ethnic Boundaries and the Process of Nationalisation in Prekmurje after the Dissolution of Austria-Hungary
- Daniel Heler (Charles University, Prague), Ethno-Genesis of Gorani People and ‘Deviant’ Contemporary Histories of Kosovo
12.30: Coffee break
12.45: Panel 2: Imperial, National, Non-National
Chair: Rok Stergar (University of Ljubljana)
- Tamara Scheer (University of Vienna) and John Paul Newman (Maynooth University), Donations Requested: The Imperial, National, and Transnational Identities of The Ban Jelačić Association for Disabled Veterans and their Families in Vienna and Zagreb
- Robert Shields Mevissen (Georgetown University), Identification in the Danube Empire: Shaping Riverine Transformations in the Late Habsburg State
- Igor Vranić(European University Institute, Florence), Political Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Empire: The Case of Izidor Kršnjavi
15.45: Panel 3: Defining, Performing, and Staging Identities
Chair: Kaja Širok (National Museum of Contemporary History, University of Ljubljana)
- Susanne Korbel (University of Graz), Staging Similarities, Staging Differences: (Jewish) Volkssänger and Their Performance of Habsburg Identities
- Clemens Ruthner (Trinity College,Dublin), Colonial Habsburg: The Bosnian Foreigner in Literary Texts of Imperial Austria, ca 1900
- Luka Lisjak (Central European University, Budapest), “Changing the Nation’s Character”: The Slovenian Tradition of Critical National Characterology and Its Role in the Intellectual Definitions of National Identity in the 20th Century
- Anita Buhin (European University Institute, Florence), “Naše malo misto” (Our Small Town): Yugoslav Mediterranean Dream
Friday, April 21, 2017
9.00: Morning coffee
9.30: Keynote speech:
Pieter M. Judson (European University Institute, Florence), People and their Categories: Creating Difference from Below and from Above in the Context of Empire
10.30: Coffee break
11.00: Panel 4: Peasants, Professionals, Workers
Chair: Veronika Bajt (The Peace Institute, Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies)
- Daniel Brett (Open University), It’s Not About the Nation or Ethnicity: Identity, Politics, and Society in the Romanian and Irish Countryside 1900-1947
- Ivan Jeličić (University of Trieste), The Typographers' Community of Fiume: Between Spirit of Category, Class Identity, Local Patriotism, Socialism, and Nationalism(s)
- Martin Jemelka and Jakub Štofaník (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague), Being Modern Christian and Worker in the Czechoslovak National State 1918-1938
12.30: Coffee break
12.45: Panel 5: Identities in Transition
Chair: Borut Klabjan (Science and Research Centre Koper, European University Institute, Florence)
- Marta Verginella and Irena Selišnik (University of Ljubljana), The First Publicly Active Slovene Women on the Intersection of National Identities and Multinational Space
- Martina Salvante (University of Warwick), Renegotiating Identity: Disabled Veterans in Trentino and South Tyrol
- Marco Bresciani, Country for Nationalists? State- and Nation-Building in Post-Habsburg Interwar Istria
14.15: Lunch for participants (at the venue)
15.45: Panel 6:
Chair: Irina Marin (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies)
- Karin Almasy (University of Graz), Postcarding Identities in Lower Styria (1890–1920): The Linguistic and Visual Portrayal of Identities on Picture Postcards
- Etienne Boisserie (Inalco, Paris), Family Networks and "Generation Key" in the Renewed Approaches of Social Questioning of the Slovak Elite at the Beginning of the 20th Century
- Nikola Tomašegović (University of Zagreb), Statistical Nation-Building in Civil Croatia and Slavonia during the Second Half of 19th Century
- Filip Tomić (Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb), Serbs in Croatia and Slavonia 1908 – 1914: The Contested Construction of an Ethnic Category, Conditions of its Deployment and the Issue of Its Reception
17.45: Coffee break
18.00 Concluding remarks
Tomasz Kamusella (Universityof St Andrews)