PD Dr. Heidi Hein-Kircher
WEDNESDAY, July 3
14.00-15.45 NORMATIVE CONCEPTS OF STATE ASSESSMENT
Chair and Comment: Peter Haslinger
Igor Milić, Luka Nikolić: Examining the Failure of Failed States: The Twofold Nature of the Incumbent
Samuël Kruizinga: Size Matters. Debating the Relative Size of European States, 1814-Present
Pedro Ponte e Sousa: Globalization and Foreign Policy Change in the Longue Durée: between Theory and Practice
15.45-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-18.00 ASSESSING WEAK AND FAILING STATES
Chair and Comment: Jonathan Gumz
Szilveszter Csernus-Lukács: The Formation of a New State: Austria-Hungary
Takehiro Okabe: Long Shadow of a Failed State: The Finnish Democratic Republic (1939-40), its Consequences, and the Soviet Finno-Ugric Studies - Elsbeth Heaman: Canada as an Almost-Failed State over Two Centuries
Ivan Sablin: Parliament for a Subaltern Europe: Russian and Soviet Statehood in the Works of Russian Language Intellectuals, 1900s-1990s
18.00-19.30 KEYNOTE André Liebich: East Central Europe, between empires and independence
19.30 Welcome Dinner at Restaurant Weinlädle (please register for the table reservation)
THURSDAY, July 4
9.30-11.30 IMPROVING STATE VIABILITY
Chair and Comment: Friedrich Cain
Máté Pétervári: State Intervention in the Economic Life: The New Bankruptcy Act in Hungary after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise
Christopher Pooya Razavian: The Rise of Perfectionism as the Moral Purpose of the Modern Iranian State
Başak Akgül: The Rationality of Irrationailty: „Corruption“ in Ottoman Forest Politics
11.30-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-13.30 THE PRACTICE OF ASSESSING NEW STATES
Chair and Comment: Heidi Hein-Kircher
Tamás Székely: How to assess a Dualistic Empire: The Success and Failure Stories of Austria-Hungary
Malika Bahovadinova: Building or Failing the Tajik State: the Presence and Work on International Community in Post-Soviet Tajikistan
Renáta Paládi: The State Assessment and its Impacts on International Politics by Example of Non-Recognized State of the Donetsk People’s Republic
13.30-14.45 Lunch break
14.45-16.45 SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION AND STATE ASSESSMENT DURING THE COLD WAR
Chair and Comment: Anna Veronika Wendland
Friedrich Cain: Concious Governmentality? Science Studies and East-West German Relations
Isaac Mckean Scarborough: On the Cusp / Over the Edge: The Inversion of Soviet Economic Self-Valuation
Eglė Rindzevičiūtė: Systems Analysis as Infrastructural Knowledge. Scientific Expertise and Dissensus under State Socialism
Jacek Tebinka: British Assessments of Communist Poland 1956-1989. From Development to Permanent Crisis
GUIDED TOUR: Collections of Herder-Institute
19.00 Dinner (self-payers)
FRIDAY, July 5
09.30-11.15 STATE ASSESSMENT AND HISTORICAL RUPTURES I
Chair and Comment: Klaus Richter
Marco Bresciani: Fascist Projects of Statehood and Empire: a Habsburg / Post-Habsburg Perspective
Maciej Górny: Back and Forth. Borders Assessment and Geography, 1914-1919
Metin Atmaca: Accomplished on the Paper Failed on the Ground: The Kurdish Delegation Initiative for a State in Paris Peace Conference of 1919
11.15-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.15 STATE ASSESSMENT AND HISTORICAL RUPTURES II
Chair and Comment: Marco Bresciani
Suparna Banerjee: State Assessment in the Third Reich through the Prism of Carl Schmitt
William De Jong-Lambert: Of Books and Bombs: Restoring the Ordered World in Defeated States after World War II
Paweł Jaworski: The Swedish Middle Way – Myth or Reality? How it Arose and Developed (1930s-1960s)
13.15-14.15 Lunch break
14.15-15.00 FINAL DISCUSSION Wrap up and Comments: Heidi Hein-Kircher, Klaus Richter