Niels Grüne, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
Wednesday, 06 September 2023
09:00–10:30
Opening Session
Welcome Addresses and Introduction
Joachim Berger (Mainz): Negotiating Difference and Belonging in Europe: Findings and Perspectives from a Research Institute
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break
11:00–12:30
Panel 1: Europeanness (Re-)Considered
Matthijs Lok (Amsterdam): In Praise of Diversity: The Limits of Europeanness in Pluralist Narratives of History
Elisa Reato (Paris): Reflections on the European Question
Neus Rotger (Barcelona): Europe and Europeanness in Global Literary Studies
12:30–14:00
Lunch Break
14:00–15:30
Panel 2: Utopias and Dystopias
Florian Ambach (Innsbruck): Nationalizing Europe or Europeanizing the Nation? Transforming Images of Europe in the Work of the Schlegel Brothers (1801–1805)
Ferdinand Mowinckel (Florence): The Scandinavian European: Carl Bonnevie’s Vision of a United Europe in the Interwar Years
Marjet Brolsma (Amsterdam): A War of Words: Contested Notions of Europe in Second World War Propaganda
15:30–16:00
Coffee Break
16:00–17:30
Panel 3: Migrant Views
Maria Adamopoulou (Budapest): Southerners or Europeans? The Greek Gastarbeiter in West Germany
Francesco Vizzarri (Giessen): The Other Europe of Migrants: Italian Workers’ Organisations in West Germany and Their Idea of “Europe” in the 1970s
Werner Schroeder (Innsbruck): Accession Perspectives for European States to the EU
Evening activity: mountain trip (voluntary)
Thursday, 07 September 2023
08:30–09:30
Keynote 1
Frithjof Benjamin Schenk (Basel): Europe as Russia’s “Constituting Other”: From the Politics of Westernisation in the 18th to the “Post-European Age” in the 21st Centuries
09:30–11:00
Panel 4: Refuge and Exile
Alexandra Preitschopf (Klagenfurt): Bolsheviks as “Asian Barbarians”, Russian Democrats as “True Europeans”? Images of Russia and Self-Perception of Russian Émigrés in Interwar Anticommunism
Patricia Chiantera-Stutte (Bari): Europe and the EU in Some Works of the Dystopian Literature after 1989
Rieke Trimçev (Greifswald): The Shifting Mental Maps of Europe during Refugee Crises, 2015–2022
11:00–11:30
Coffee Break
11:30–13:00
Panel 5: Europe Confronting the Nation
Erkjad Kajo (Pavia/Athens): Debating Europeanness from the Margins: Geographical Imagination and Nation-Building in the Albanian and Greek Political Thought
Anna Marta Dworak (Rzeszów): Two Portraits of Nineteenth-Century Russia – Russia in La Russie en 1839 by the Marquis Astolphe de Custin and in the Diaries of Polish Exile Diarists
Arnab Dutta (Groningen): Europeanness and the Conceptual Divide between the British Isles and the Continent: Indian Students in Interwar Europe
13:00–14:30
Lunch Break
14:30–15:30
Keynote 2
Ina Habermann (Basel): Sailing to Byzantium? The Riddled Relationship between Britain and the Mediterranean
15:30–16:00
Coffee Break
16:00–17:30
Panel 6: Peripheries (and Centres)
Isabella Walser-Bürgler (Innsbruck): Flickers from the Fringe: Negotiating Europe in Early Modern Latin Texts on Borderland Regions
Ulrich Tiedau (London): A Turn of the Century Proponent of European Federation from the Continent’s “Periphery”: Jacques Novicov (1850–1912)
Filip Tomić (Zagreb): Stjepan Radić’s Europe: (Di)vision of the Continent from the Periphery of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
19:00
Conference Dinner
Friday, 08 September 2023
09:00–10:00
Panel 7: Differences and Identity Claims
Torsten Korte (Sorengo/Berlin): European Würzburg and Oriental Venice: Notions of Cultural and Historical Difference in Giambattista Tiepolo’s History Paintings
Helen Williams (Norwich): Some Foreign Field: Written Notions of English Identity Relative to Europe after the First World War
10:00–11:00
Panel 8: Travelling Concepts
Lucio Valent (Milan): Sailing Oceans, Steppe and Jungles: Europe, the Europeans and the Worldwide Cultural Intersections in Emilio Salgari’s Literary Production
Ross Cameron (Glasgow/Strathclyde): The Balkan Wars (1912–1913) and the Idea of Europe in British Travel Writing
11:00–11:30
Coffee Break
11:30–13:00
Panel 9: Borders and Spaces
Patrick Plaschg (Innsbruck): Conceptualising the “Barrier”: Spatial Planning Concepts of Integration and Separation as Value-Laden Common European Instruments of Diplomatic Actors to Secure Peace during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1713/14)
Muriel Gonzales Athenas (Innsbruck): European Geographies at the End of the Early Modern Period: Techniques of Construction
Nicole Brandstetter (Munich): Discourse of Exclusion and Border Crossings in John Lanchester’s Novel The Wall
13:00–13:30
Final Discussion and Farewell