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(Around the globe) Conference “Paths of Transition / Transformation. Local Societies in Southeastern Europe in Transition from Empires to Nation States after World War I”

 

 

23.–24.11.2017, Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien, München

 

 

The dominant understanding of the end of WWI in Southeastern Europe is still marked by the emergence of nation states, rashly nationalizing institutions, space and people at the ruins of empires. The fall of empires certainly meant the end of a specific experience of state building and configuration, one based on the dominance of a metropolitan centre over peripheries that were ruled in a differentiated way. Although the empires turned to nationalizing themselves under the pressure of and challenge by the nation-state model, they still left a legacy that new nation states, also imperialising entities, could not easily dispose of.

 

With the new idea and legitimacy of statehood and the new, uniform and “homogeneous” states in the making, local societies had to face a period of transition, a systemic change that aimed at the profound reconfiguration of state and social relations. However, what seemed as a straightforward development at the general level did not necessarily mean a similar transformation (comprehensive and sustainable social change) for local and regional societies.

 

Uneven transition can be explained with a broad range of factors. Revealing how and why these were effective in certain cases and failed to have an effect on other ones is a key issue for understanding the transition process. Comparison of such disparate (or even similar) stories across space would allow for revealing these factors behind different local outcomes and paths of transition. The types of change in local societies, the potential to gain agency, the significance of the changes for individuals with varying social backgrounds are just a few of the many themes that can be brought to the fore when the focus rests on local cases and they are analysed through a comparative lens. Therefore, the conference attempts to bring together a wide range of case studies that present material for further comparisons and the comparative study of certain problems.

 

 

Abstracts:

http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/1f1b7d_23612c1443054df1938c25f1d890e961.pdf

 

Program:

http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/1f1b7d_3b1ad3c1e3214d82a760f8a21261cc53.pdf

 

 

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(Around the globe) Kolloquium “Interaktionsräume französischer und deutscher Wirtschaftseliten 1920–1950”

Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris

 

21.09.2017 – 22.09.2017

 

Deutsch-französisches Kolloquium organisiert vom Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung in Zusammenarbeit mit SIRICE (CNRS), Triangle UMR 5206 und dem DHIP mit finanzieller Unterstützung der Backbone European Consulting Group

 

Die Tagung möchte die Kontinuitäten der Kontakte deutscher und französischer Wirtschaftseliten untersuchen und auf diese Weise die europäische Integration von ihrer Vorgeschichte her in den Blick nehmen. Dabei soll danach gefragt werden, wie und in welchen Formen Angehörige der wirtschaftlichen Eliten zu Vertretern staatlicher Wirtschaftspolitik wurden, wie dieser Rollenwandel durch deren soziales und politisches Selbstverständnis ermöglicht und seinerseits durch die wirtschaftlichen und politischen Veränderungen beeinflusst wurde. Es stellt sich auch die Frage, inwieweit diese Entwicklung durch die Nähe der Karrierewege politischer und administrativer Eliten gefördert wurde. Ziel ist, zu prüfen, inwieweit die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen zwischen den 1920er und 1950er Jahren aus der Geschichte des Wandels der Wirtschaftseliten und ihrer Verbindungen neu zu verstehen ist.

 

Programm Tagung Wirtschaftseliten:

https://www.dhi-paris.fr/veranstaltungsdetails/seminare/SeminarTime/detail/interaktionsraeume-franzoesischer-und-deutscher-wirtschaftseliten-1920-19502802.html

 

 

 

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Video-snimka konferencije “Identities, Categories of Identification, and Identifications between the Danube, the Alps, and the Adriatic”

Objavljena je snimka konferencije Identities, Categories of Identification, and Identifications between the Danube, the Alps, and the Adriatic održane u Ljubljani 20. i 21. travnja 2017. na kojoj su sudjelovali konzultant projekta Pieter M. Judson i član projekta Nikola Tomašegović.

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SISTORY

HISTORY OF SLOVENIA

Identities, Categories of Identification, and Identifications between the Danube, the Alps, and the Adriatic

Language: English

Type of publication: Video

Year: 2017

Keywords: identitete, identifikacija, nacionalizem, habsburška dediščina, identities, identification, nationalism, Habsburg legacy

Publisher(s): Oddelek za zgodovino Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, Ljubljana, Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, Ljubljana, Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut für Historische Sozialwissenschaft, Wien, Muzej novejše zgodovine Slovenije, Ljubljana

Co-author(s): Tamara Scheer, Kaja Širok, Marko Zajc, Rok Stergar

Permalink: http://hdl.handle.net/11686/37958

 

Contributions:

Stefan Donecker: Identity and Identification in Premodernity: The State of the Debate 35 years after John Armstrong’ s Nations before Nationalism

Ümit Eser: Before Becoming Bulgarians: Pre-National Identities of the Orthodox Christian Communities in Eastern Rumelia, 1878-1908

Jernej Kosi: When the Slovenes Encountered the Slovenes: Ethnic Boundaries and the Process of Nationalisation in Prekmurje after the Dissolution of Austria-Hungary

Daniel Heler: Ethno-Genesis of Gorani People and ‘Deviant’ Contemporary Histories of Kosovo

 

Before the Nations, Beyond the Nations – Panel 1 Discussion

 

Tamara Scheer / John Paul Newman: 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: Identification in the Danube Empire: Shaping Riverine Transformations in the Late Habsburg State

Igor Vranić: Political Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Empire: The Case of Izidor Kršnjavi

 

Imperial, National, Non-National – Panel 2 Discussion

 

Karin Almasy: Postcarding Identities in Lower Styria (1890–1920): The Linguistic and Visual Portrayal of Identities on Picture Postcards

Susanne Korbel: Staging Similarities, Staging Differences: (Jewish) Volkssänger and Their Performance of Habsburg Identities

Clemens Ruthner: Colonial Habsburg: The Bosnian Foreigner in Literary Texts of Imperial Austria, ca 1900

Anita Buhin: “Naše malo misto” (Our Small Town): Yugoslav Mediterranean Dream

 

Defining, Performing, and Staging Identities – Panel 3 discussion

 

Pieter M. Judson: People and their Categories: Creating Difference from Below and from Above in the Context of Empire

Daniel Brett: It’ s Not About the Nation or Ethnicity: Identity, Politics, and Society in the Romanian and Irish Countryside 1900-1947

Ivan Jeličić: The Typographers’ Community of Fiume: Between Spirit of Category, Class Identity, Local Patriotism, Socialism, and Nationalism(s)

Martin Jemelka / Jakub Štofaník: Being Modern Christian and Worker in the Czechoslovak National State 1918-1938

 

Peasants, Professionals, Workers – Panel 4 discussion

 

Marta Verginella / Irena Selišnik: The First Publicly Active Slovene Women on the Intersection of National Identities and Multinational Space

Martina Salvante: Renegotiating Identity: Disabled Veterans in Trentino and South Tyrol

Marco Bresciani: Country for Nationalists? State- and Nation-Building in Post-Habsburg Interwar Istria

 

Identities in Transition – Panel 5 discussion

 

Etienne Boisserie: 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: Statistical Nation-Building in Civil Croatia and Slavonia during the Second Half of 19th Century

Filip Tomić: Serbs in Croatia and Slavonia 1908 – 1914: The Contested Construction of an Ethnic Category, Conditions of its Deployment and the Issue of Its Reception

Luka Lisjak: “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

 

Panel 6 discussion

 

Tomasz Kamusella: Concluding remarks

 

 

http://www.sistory.si/SISTORY:ID:37958?language=en