Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study. Szentháromság utca 2. 1014 Budapest, Castle District
Programme
Thursday, 23rd February
15:00
Official opening by Gábor Klaniczay (Collegium Budapest, Permanent Fellow)
Afternoon session
European Intimacies: Old Attachments in a New Context
Chair: András Kovács (CEU Nationalism Studies – HAS Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities)
15:15
Réka Albert (EHESS-Paris, Former Mellon Fellow)
The Destiny of « Nation-making » Processes in Contemporary Europe
15:45
Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University)
Nationalism, Localism, and Embarrassment: Europe's Collective Cultural Intimacy
16:15
Coffee break
16:45
Andrea Muehlebach (University of Chicago)
From Welfare State Nationalism to the “Caring Community”: Transformations of Welfare in Italy
17:15
Discussion
18:00
'Mellon Evening'
Reception for former Mellon Fellows and the Workshop Participants
Friday, 24th February
Morning session
The Conflicts of National Loyalties
Chair: Éva Kovács (Center for Central European Studies, Teleki-László Foundation - University of Pécs, Dept. of Communication and Cultural Studies)
10:00
Chris Hann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle)
The National Question and the Minorities Question: East-Central Europe and East-Central Asia Compared
10:30
Marc Abélès (LAIOS-EHESS-CNRS, Paris)
Integration vs. Nation: Some Anthropological Considerations on French Referendum
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
Vintilâ Mihâilescu (SNSPA, Romanian Peasant Museum, Bucharest)
What nationalism for what post-modernity? The case of the Romanian Peasant’s Museum
12:00
Discussion
12:30
Lunch break
Afternoon session
National Self-Representations in the New Europe
Chair: Ferenc Hörcher (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Dept. of Aesthetics, Former Mellon Fellow)
14:30
Tamás Hofer (Budapest)
Shifting Interpretations of Hungarian History in Budapest Street Names and Monuments, 1990-2006
15:00
Gábor Sonkoly (Atelier Franco-Hungarian, Department on Social History, ELTE Budapest, Former Mellon Fellow)
European Territories: Identity and Development. Developing a European Multidisciplinary Curriculum
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
Gyöngyi Heltai (Université Laval, Québec - Atelier Franco-Hungarian, ELTE Budapest)
Hungary-Images on the European Stage. Three Examples Related to the 'Theatre of the Nations' Festival and the 'Union of European Theatres'
16:30
Begümºen Ergenekon (METU, Ankara)
The Turks: A Native Anatolian Nation
17:00
Discussion
Saturday, 25th February
Morning session
Recycling Religious Representations
Chair: Gábor Vargyas (University of Pécs, Dept. of Ethnology-Cultural Anthropology –HAS
Institute of Ethnology)
10:00
Gábor Klaniczay (Collegium Budapest, Permanent Fellow)
New canonizations and a revival of old cults of saints in Post-Communist East-Central Europe
10:30
Valérie Kozlowski (EPHE, Paris)
New Ukrainian Saints in France: Stakes and Symbolic Construction of National Identity
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
Galia I. Valtchinova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Former Mellon Fellow)
'Unconscious Historicization'? Politics, Nationalism, and History in Interwar Bulgaria Through the Eyes of Local Visionaries
12:00 Closing Discussion