Dr. Heidi Hein-Kircher
9:00 am KEYNOTE
Heidi Hein-Kircher:
Challenges of the Double Transformation of Eastern European and Baltic States after 1918
9:45–11:15 am SECTION I: (Re-)Obtaining National Independence
Agata Domachowska:
The Proclamation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes an Montenegrin fight for independence
Kestutis Kilinskas:
Grey Zone of Democracy: Political Rights and Subordination of Army in Lithuanian War of Independence
Sebastian Paul:
A New Beginning for Democracy and Nation States in the Tri-Border Region Germany – Poland – Czechoslovakia after the “Great War” (1918-1923). A Transnational Comparison on the Local Level
11:15-11:30 am Coff ee break
11:30 am –1:00 pm SECTION II: Nationalizing the public space
Ivan Basenko:
The Ukrainian daily press of Kyiv: promoting and reshaping the national idea throughout revolutionary 1917-1918
Melinda Harlov-Csortan:
Nationalizing, but democratizing? Hungarian revitalization approaches through public art in between World Wars
Vera Volkmann:
Ethnic confl icts and local government. The case of Daugavpils
1:00–2:00 pm Lunch break
2:00–3:00 pm Povilas Mintautas:
The Discoursive Strategies of Nationalization and Democratization in Lithuania in 1930s
Benjamin Naujoks:
Rich history, poor democracy? The First Republic of Lithuania between
democratization and authoritarianism
3:00–3:15 pm Coffee break
3:15–4:15 pm SECTION III: Conflicts in the new states
Catalin Parfene:
“Foreigners” Symbolizing the Romanian Nation after 1918: Austro-Hungarian Football Networks in Greater Romania
Sarka Navratilova:
The German Social Democratic Worker’s Party in the Brno City after the Constitution of Czechoslovakia 1918–1920
Ákos Bartha:
Between Nationalism and Liberalism: the Public Career of Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky (1886–1944)
4:15–4:30 pm Coff ee break
4:30–6:00 pm David Feest, Darius Stalinuas, Heidi Hein-Kircher:
Concluding remarks and final discussion
6:30 pm Dinner