Whose Love of Which Country? Towards an Intellectual History of Patriotic Discoursesin the Early-Modern Period (2007) | Pasts Inc., Center for Historical Studies

Date:

Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 9:00am to Sunday, May 27, 2007 - 5:00pm

Second international workshop of the project The Intellectual History of Patriotism and the Legacy of Composite States in East-Central Europe

Part I - Enlightenment modalities of patriotism

9.30-10.10 László Kontler The Lappon, the Scythian and the Hungarian: Philosophical history, enlightened patriotism and conceptions of community
10.10-10.50 Teodora Shek-Brnardiæ Modalities of Enlightened Patriotism(s) in the Mid-Eighteenth Century Habsburg Monarchy: The Case Studies of Bohemia and Hungary-Croatia
10.50-11.30 Zsuzsa Török National scholarship through transnational exchange: State sciences in late 18th-early 19th century Transylvania
11.30-12.10 Milo¹ Øezník Das landespatriotische Programm der galizischen Stände um 1790: Von der polnischen Tradition zur Etablierung eines neuen Landespatriotismus
12.10-13.00 Buffet Lunch

Part II - Ethnicity and collective memory

13.00-13.50 Alexander Nikolov Patriotic and proto-national motives in the late medieval Bulgarian literature (12th-15th centuries)
13.50-14.40 Lovro Kunèeviæ Civic and ethno-linguistic discourses in Renaissance Ragusa
14.40-15:30 Domagoj Maduniæ Strategies of distinction in the works of Vinko Pribojeviæ, or what makes Slavs Slav
15.30-16.20 Sándor Bene Marsigli’s mission in the recaptured territories in South-Hungary - the uses of national history in mapping the region and the 'national projects' of the expert

Part III - Humanist visions of the nation

16.40-17.30 Farkas Gábor Kiss Urban patriotism in Upper Hungary and the Humanist mirror of princes literature at the turn of 15th-16th centuries (Valentine Eck’s treatise)
17.30-18.20 Lucie Storchová Nation, patria and the aesthetics of existence. Late humanistic discourse of nation (in Veleslavín’s circle) and its rewriting by the modern Czech nationalist movement

Part IV - The politics of the Estates and the love of Fatherland

9.30-10.20 Benedek Varga István Bocskay’s revolt (1604-06) and the patriotic discourse of the Estates
10.20-11.10 Kees Teszelszky The Hungarian Roots of a Bohemian Humanist: Johann Jessenius a Jessen and Early Modern National Identity (1609) (new paper)
11.10-12.00 Petr Ma»a Patres Patriae or Traditores Patriae? Was there any patriotic discourse of the Bohemian Estates in the second half of the seventeenth century?
12.00-13.00 Lunch

Part V - Political theology and layers of identity

13.00-13.50 Márton Zászkaliczky References to political allegiance in the works of Protestant preachers in mid-16th century Hungary
13.50-14.40 Vladimír Urbánek Patria Lost and Chosen People: The case of seventeenth-century Bohemian Protestant exiles
14.40-15.30 Balázs Trencsényi Patriotism and Elect Nationhood – the Hungarian case in a European context
15.30-16.30 General discussion, technical issues