Comparative Ways into Competing Versions of Modernity in East Central Europe
Professional trajectories, ideological reconversions and the politics of science
May 6
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10:00-10:30 |
Opening of the conference |
10:30-12:30 |
PANEL 1: ETHNIC POLITICSChair: Călin Cotoi Veronika Szeghy-Gayer Social network and habits of Hungarian teachers in Kosice, 1918-1925 János Fodor Change of political leadership from the Târgu Mureș National Council to the Prefect of Mures County 1918-1922 Gábor Egry Not seeing the forest for the trees? Minority teachers in the restructured local education system in Sighet 1918-1925 Eric Beckett Weaver Citizenship options, migration and change of elites in Voivodina 1918-1923 |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch break |
14:00-16:00 |
PANEL 2: IDEOLOGICAL RECONVERSIONSChair: Constantin Iordachi Cristian Vasile Modernity, Modernization, and Propaganda in Communist Romania Ionuț Biliuță Forever on the road to Damascus. The political conversion of Orthodox clerical elites, from the Austro-Hungarian monarchy to Romanian national communism Valentin Săndulescu From discourse to practice: the transformation of Iron Guard intellectuals during the National Legionary State (Sept. 1940 - Jan. 1941) Anca Șincan Setting up an agenda by remote control: Silviu Dragomir and the History of the “National” Church in the first half of the 20th century |
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16:00-16:30 |
Coffee break |
16:30-18:00 |
KEYNOTE SPEECHJames Ward Crossing Rubicons: Understanding Contradictions in the Life of Jozef Tiso (1887–1947) |
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19:00 |
Dinner for speakers |
May 7
9:30-11:00 |
PANEL 3: TECHNOLOGIZATION OF ELITESChair: Emese Lafferton A concern for numbers: State agnosticism and expert knowledge in counting Gypsies and Roma Cholera, health for all, and bacterial associations: Nation-building in XIXth century Romania Changing the city to change the proletarian body: clinical anatomy, ‘soft’ heredity and urban reform in interwar C20 Vienna |
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11:00-11:30 |
Coffee break |
11:30-13:30 |
PANEL 4: STATES, STATISTICS AND BUREAUCRACIESChair: Karl Hall Narcis Tulbure History with data, history of data: Disclosure, concealment, and selectivity in socialist statistics Attila Melegh Population management, demographic science and mental maps in state socialist Hungary Agnes Gagyi Articulations of world-economic integration and institutionalized knowledge production in the case of Hungarian reform economists: an example for a research perspective Andrasz Pinkasz Statistical Reform and its econometric usage during the Hungarian economic reforms in the Sixties |
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13:30-15:00 |
Lunch |
15:00-16:30 |
ROUND TABLE: CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PLANSRound table participants: Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Karl Hall, Constantin Iordachi, Emese Lafferton, Attila Melegh, Matthias Riedl, James Ward
Source: https://ias.ceu.edu/cwc/program |