CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Thursday, December 5, 2013
16:00 Welcome, Introductions
16:15 Roundtable Discussion on Teaching
17:45 Break
19:30 Keynote Address by Dipesh Chakrabarty
21:00 Reception
Friday, December 6, 2013
9:00 Coffee
9:45 Panel I — Europe vs. Empire, discussant: Robert Morrissey
Celine Spector: “Civilization and Corruption: the Negative Dialectics of Europe during the Enlightenment”
Alex Semyonov: “Mirrors of Imperial Imagination in Early Twentieth Century Russian Empire"
Stella Ghervas: “Can a European Peace System Be an Antidote to a Continental Empire? The Congress System as an Experiment”
Gregor Kokorz: “L'Europe n'existe pas? About the Construction of a European Musical Space”
11:30 Lunch Break
13:45 Panel II — Memory & Commemoration, discussant: Leora Auslander
Berthold Molden: “Mnemonic Hegemony? The Power Relations of Contemporary European Memory”
Françoise Lavocat: “Memory of Natural Disasters, Construction and Representation of Europe”
Tomasz Łysak: “Artistic Interventions: from Commemorating Post-Holocaust Losses to Carving a Space for Jewish Life in Poland”
Roma Sendyka: “Prism: Understanding Non-Sites of Memory”
15:30 Break
16:00 Panel III — Society & Urbanity, discussant: Robert Bird
Kirill Ospovat: “The Theater of War and Peace: The "Miracle of the House of Brandenburg" and the Poetics of European Absolutism”
Peter Bagrov: “Gleams of the West: Distribution and Reception of European Films in Soviet Russia of the 1920s – 1940s”
Judit Bodnar: “Shamed by Comparison—Eastern Europe and the 'Rest'”
Monika De Frantz: “The Cosmopolitan Politics of Comparative Urbanism: a European Contribution”
17:45 Panel III ends
Saturday, December 7, 2013
9:00 Coffee
9:45 Panel IV —Boundaries & Empire, discussant: John Boyer
Lucile Dreidemy: “The Long-Term Impact of Authoritarianism in Post-Dictatorial Europe: A Case Study Based on the Myth Surrounding the Austrian Dictator Engelbert Dollfuss.”
Eszter Bartha: “Lonely fighters: East German and Hungarian Workers under Postsocialism”
Petra Hanáková: “The Seas and Skies of Bohemia: Projections and Inventions of the National Space”
Andrey Shcherbak: “Nationalism in the USSR and Yugoslavia: Historical and Comparative Perspectives”
11:30 Lunch Reception (lunch provided to those registered)
13:00 Panel V — Signs & Systems, discussant: Philip Bohlman
Federico Celestini: “Heteroglossia and hybridity in Gustav Mahler's Wunderhorn Symphonies”
Agnieszka Rejniak-Majewska: “The Politics of Formalism. Purity, Objectivity, and the Question of the Self”
Anouk Cohen: “Formatting the Truth in Morocco: The Transformation of Moraccan Prison Writings into Archives"
Joanna Nykiel: “Ellipsis Phenomena in American English and Selected European Languages”
14:45 Break
15:00 Concluding Remarks