Wars in intellectual and artistic reflection. Media and the production of knowledge in Eastern Europe, 1900-1939

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Wars in intellectual and artistic reflection. Media and the production of knowledge in Eastern Europe, 1900-1939

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Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg; Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg; Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg; Giessen Center for Eastern Europe, Giessen; in cooperation with NEPOSTRANS – Negotiating post-imperial transitions, Institute of Political History, Budapest
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Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Gisonenweg 5-7, Marburg
Ort
Marburg
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
10.09.2019 - 11.09.2019
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Peter Haslinger

Already before 1914, wars around the globe were increasingly being monitored by intellectuals in Eastern Europe and served as topoi for artistic expression and media events due to the expansion of the newspaper market. During World War One, a vast number of critical assessments, planning literature and artistic expressions were produced in response to the new quality of warfare and the massive number of casualties. The disintegration of empires, a newly defined geopolitical order and socio-economic upheaval together with icreasing revolutionary sentiments in society and military clashes (like the wars of independence or clashes over the location of future borders that followed World War One) opened up a new and extremely diverse spectrum of views and positions. During the 1920s and 1930s – against the backdrop of new economic pressures in Central Europe due to the Great Depression and colonial or civil wars (in Spain and Ethiopia) – the position of intellectuals and artists remained polarized.

This historical setting is the starting point for the conference. From the perspective of intellectual history, art history, cultural studies, and philosophy, it raises the question of how intellectual and artistic reflection on war and violence developed before, during, and in the aftermath of World War One. A further aim of is to interpret war as a cultural topos that contributed to the institutionalization of certain social values, attitudes and roles. The conference looks at intellectual reflection, not as merely existing at the level of lofty theories, but rather as a social reality.

Programm

October 10th

14:15
Peter Haslinger: Welcome and introduction

14:30
Chair: Gábor Egry (Budapest)

Diliara Brileva (Kyiv): Fear of imperial censorship: World War I in the Tatar Muslim periodical press in late imperial Russia

Laima Laučkaitė (Vilnius): Activities of German Artists in Oberost: The case of Vilnius

Peter Haslinger (Marburg/Giessen): The demise of the Habsburg Empire, the formal end of Austro-Hungarian dualism, and Czech(oslovak) national utopias

16:00 Discussion

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

17:00
Chair: Anna Veronika Wendland (Marburg)

Andrej Menshikov, George Vedernikov (Ekaterinburg): The philosophy of war in polemical tracts during the World War I

Tatyana Kruglova, Ekaterina Cherepanova (Ekaterinburg): The comparative analysis of Soviet and Austrian war discourses in the post-imperial situation: Intellectual models and life trajectories

18:00 Discussion

18:45
Keynote lecure: Petar Bojanić (Beograd): Why is the ‚Great War‘ great?
Discussion

October 11th

9:30
Chair: Guido Hausmann (Regensburg)

Elena Teytelbaum, Olga Yazovskaya (Ekaterinburg): War and the intellectual discourse of European and Asian post-imperial world: Spanish and Japanese philosophers on militarism, national and international issues – a comparative analysis

Anna Davletshina, Diana Satybaldina (Ekaterinburg): The future of Russia after the First World War: Reflection of émigré intellectuals

10:30 Discussion

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30
Chair: Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg)

Jovana Papovic (Paris): Performing war through physical culture: The Sokol movement in interwar Yugoslavia

Giedrė Jankevičiūtė (Vilnius): Signs of the presentiment of war in the visual culture of Lithuania of the 1930ies: The image of the gas mask

12:30-13:00 Discussion

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00
Chair: Heidi Hein-Kircher (Marburg/Wuppertal)

Liudmyla Pidkuimukha (Kyiv): The language situation in Ľviv during the interwar period: Historical and socio-cultural aspects

Mikhail Ilchenko (Ekaterinburg): Modernist architecture, the Great War and utopia of the new age: Representations of the interwar urban heritage

15.00
Ekaterina Cherepanova, Ulf Brunnbauer, Peter Haslinger: Closing remarks

15.30 End of conference

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