Academic Migration, Elite Formation and Modernisation of Nation-States. Second half of 19th century-1939

The aims of this conference are (1) to offer a systematic overview of the current state of research in the field of the history of academic migrations, (2) to highlight the achievements of and the gaps in national historiographies and (3) to discuss the problems emerging from the existing sources and suggest solutions by elaborating common instruments in terms of concepts and categories.

Conference Program

Thursday, April 7
Gellner Room

14.30 Welcome by Professor Victor Karady (Central European University, Budapest)

15.00 Plenary Lecture
Professor Helga Hammerstein (Trinity College, Dublin)
Student migration - a challenge

16.15 Coffee Break

SESSION 1 

Academic Migrations from the European Periphery and the Mediterranean Basin
Chair : Victor Karady (Central European University, Budapest)

16.30 Carolina Rodriguez Lopez (Instituto Antonio de Nebrija de estudios sobre la Universidad, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Apprendre à l'étranger ce dont nous avons besoin chez nous. Note sur les
voyages d'études des universitaires espagnols (1900-1939)

17.00 Nicolas Manitakis (Paris)
Historiographie et sources sur les migrations d'études des Grecs : un bref aperçu

17.30 Laszlo Szögi (University Library, Budapest)
Hungarian students migration abroad. Results of the last ten years of investigations

18.00 Andreas de Boor (Martin-Luther Universität, Halle)
Erfahrungen historisch-statistischer Untersuchungen zur Studentenmigration

19.00 Dinner

Friday, April 8
Popper Room

SESSION 2

Academic Migrations from Eastern and Central Europe
Chair : Natalia Tikhonov (Geneva)

9.30 Anatolij Ivanov (Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
Die "russische studentische Diaspora" im Ausland am Ende des 19. und zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts: Vaterländische Historiographie und Quellenlage

10.00 Alexander Dmitriev (Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg)
From Foreign Postgraduate Preparation to Soviet Academic Trip : State Regulation of Russian presence in the European "University Republic", 1910-1920

10.30 Ljubinka Trgovcevic (Belgrade University)
From Import of Elite to Creation of domestic Intelligentsia. State of research about academic migrations and elite formation in Serbia (1839-1914)

11,00 Coffee Break

11.30 Lucian Nastasa (G. Baritiu History Institute, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Cluj)
For a Prosopography of the Romanian Academic Migrations (1864-1948). Sources and Historiography

12.00 Dimitar Vesselinov (St. Clement University, Sofia)
Formation de l'élite bulgare (1878-1939): études préliminaires.

12.30 Arpine Maniero (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Armenische Studenten in Detuschland vom Ende des 19. bis zu Anfang des 20 Jhs. Forschungsstand und Quellenbasis

13.00 Lunch

SESSION 3

Foreign Students and Host Countries
Chair : Claudie Weill (EHESS, Paris)

14.30 Hartmut R. Peter (Martin-Luther Universität, Halle)
Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Ausländerstudiums in Deutschland. Kritische Bemerkungen zu zentralen Problemen

15.00 Eva Bauer (European University Institute, Florence)
Bildungsmigration und national motivierte Studentenunruhen in der Habsburgermonarchie 1866-1915

15.30 Zsuzsanna Heilauf (Budapest)
Foreign Students in Higher Education Institutions in Hungary between
1635 and 1944

16.00 Elisa Signori (Pavia University)
Italian Universities and foreign Students (1900-1939)

16.30 Coffee Break

17.00 Pierre Moulinier (Paris)
Historiographie et sources de l'histoire des migrations étudiantes en France (1800-1940)

17.30 Natalia Tikhonov (Geneva)
Foreign students at Swiss universities : academic sources and statistical data

18.00 Marc Vuilleumier (Geneva)
Quelles sources sur la vie des étudiants slaves, juifs, arméniens, etc. en Suisse ?

18.30 Pieter Dhondt (Leuwen Catholic University)
Foreign students at Belgian universities. A statistical and bibliographical approach

19.00 Dinner

Saturday, April 9
Popper Room

SESSION 4

Academic Migrations beyond Universities and new investigations
Chair : Elisa Signori (Pavia University)

9.30 Claudie Weil (EHESS, Paris)
Migrations étudiantes et nomadisme institutionnel

10.00 Ewa Bobrowska-Jakubowska (Musée d'art américain, Giverny)
La formation artistique : problème fondamental des jeunes créateurs en Pologne à la fin de la période des partages. Entre le pays et l'étranger

10.30 Alexandre Kostov (Académie des sciences de Bulgarie, Sofia)
Les étudiants balkaniques dans les écoles techniques françaises, XIXe - début du XXe siècle

11.00 Florea Ioncioaia (Alexandru-Ioan Cuza University, Iasi)
Title to be confirmed

11.30 Boris Czerny (Université de Caen) et Claudie Weill (EHESS, Paris)
Candidats au départ : les correspondances de l'Association des étudiants russes de Paris, 1908-1911
 
12.00 Nicolas Manitakis (Paris)
Les étudiants migrants face aux Etats modernes bureaucratiques : les pérégrinations académiques sous tutelle étatique (fin XIXe siècle - première moitié du XXe siècle)

12.30 Lunch

14.00 - 16.00 Round table discussion
Editorial project on sources and historiography of academic migrations within and to Europe

16.00 Short Sightseeing tour in Budapest

19.0 Dinner