Shared/Entangled Histories: Comparative Perspectives on Hungary and Romania

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Conference
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Open to the Public
Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 7:00pm
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 7:00pm to Saturday, September 13, 2008 - 5:15pm

A Conference Organized by:

Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, CBEES, Södertörn University College.
CEU-HESP Comparative History Project, History Department, Central European University

In collaboration with:

Department of Political, Administrative and Communicational Sciences, and
Department of Sociology and Social Work, Babeş-Bolyai University
Romanian Institute for the Study of National Minority Issues

The conference is sponsored by the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, CBEES,
Södertörn University College; Swedish Institute and by the Higher Education Support
Program, Central European University.

 

Thursday, September 11

19.00 Reception at hotel Onix

Welcome:

Anders Blomqvist, Doctoral Student in History, Centre For Baltic and East European Studies,

Södertörn University College

 

Friday, September 12

09.00 Introduction:

  • Constantin Iordachi, Associate Professor, Department of History, CEU
  • Balázs Trencsényi Assistant Professor, Department of History, CEU

Conference Venue: Facultatea de Sociologie - Str. Dostoievski (Ex Str. Plugarilor), Nr. 34-36.

Dynamism of Nation-Formation

 

09:15 Key Note Lecture: Prof. Keith Hitchins (Department of History, University of Illinois,

Urbana-Champaign) “Accommodation or Separation: Romanians and Hungarians in Transylvania, 1867-1940”

 

Panel 1

9:45 to 11:15

Chair: Constantin Iordachi Dr. (Associate Prof, Department of History, Central European

University, Budapest)

  • Zoltán Pálfy, Dr. (Lecturer, Department of Political, Administrative and Communicational Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) "Nationhood reframed: Transylvanian educated elites before and after the WWI border changes”
  • Gábor Egry, Dr. (Research Fellow, Institute of Political History, Budapest) “Nation-Building and/or Regionalism? Identity Politics on the Crossroads of Mutual Challenges”
  • Attila Lajos, Dr. (Lecturer, Department of History, Växjö University) “Political Power, Socialism and Nationalism: The Influence of Nationalism on the Political Development of Communist Regimes in Central and Eastern Europe”

11:15 to 11:45: Break

 

Panel 2

11:45 to 13:15

Chair: Balázs Trencsényi, Dr. (Assistant Prof., Department of History, Central European University, Budapest)

  • Franz Horváth, Dr. (Fellow at Leo Baeck Institute, London) “Minority radicalization in interwar Romania. Comparatice remarks on the mentality and political movements within the German and Hungarian ethnic groups”
  • Raul Cârstocea, Doctoral Student (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College of London) “Peasants into Anti-Semites. Hungarian and Romanian Anti-Semitism in the Context of the Nation-Building Project”
  • Ottmar Traşcă, Dr. (Researcher, “George Bariţiu” Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca) “Rumänien und die Entwicklung der Frage Siebenbürgens vom Beginn der Operation "Barbarossa" bis zur Militärbesetzung Ungarns (Unternehmen "Margarethe I)”

Lunch 13.15 to 14:30

  • 'Canonization' of National Cultures and Historiography

14:30 Key Note Lecture: Kristian Gerner, Prof. (Department of History, Lund University) “Transylvania, Finland, Norway and Scania – contrasting histories”

 

Panel 3

15:00 to 16:00

Chair: Balázs Trencsényi, Dr. (Assistant Prof, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest)

  • Ragnar Björk, Dr. (Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Södertörn University College, Stockholm) “The entanglements and disentanglements of the Nordic nations and peoples”.
  • Csaba Zahorán, Doctoral Student in History (Eastern European Department, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) “Hungarian and Romanian History Textbooks: A New Hungarian- Romanian Project”

16:00 to 16:30 Break

 

Panel 4

16:30 to 17:30

Chair: Kristian Gerner, Prof. (Department of History, Lund University)

  • Eric Beckett Weaver, Dr. (Budapest) "The First Hungarian and Romanian Attempts to Correct Common Historical Narratives through the League of Nations
  • Martin Mevius, Dr. (University of Amsterdam) “History as a Weapon: National historical feuds between communist Romania and Hungary”

 

Saturday, September 13

Shared Spaces and Ethnicity

 

Panel 5

9:00 to 10:30

Chair: Anu-Mai Kõll, Prof. (Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University College)

  • Viorel Achim, Dr. (Senior Researcher, “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History, Romanian Academy) “The “Gypsy Question” in Hungary, Transylvania, and Romania in the Nineteenth Century. A comparative approach”
  • Chris Davies (Doctoral Student, University of Oxford) “A case study in contested "ethnogenealogies”: The Moldavian Csangos/Ceangai”
  • Valér Veres, Dr. (Lecturer, Department of Political, Administrative and Communicational Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) "A comparative analysis of the ethnonational identity of Hungarian minorities from the Carpathian Basin”

10:30-11:00: Break

 

Panel 6

11:00 to 12:30

Chair: Prof. Keith Hitchins (Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Ábrahám, Barna, Dr. (Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Slavonic Languages and Central Europe, Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Piliscsaba) “The question of national cohesion in the public opinion of the Romanians of Transylvania in the second half of the 19th century”
  • Bálint Varga-Kuna, (Doctoral Student, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) "The Hungarian Millennial Monument on Tâmpa Hill"
  • Alexandru Ghişa, Dr. (Counselor at the Diplomatic Archives Department, Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bucharest) “Identity Movements in Central Europe. Case-studies: Hungary and Romania”

Lunch 12:30 to 13:45

 

Political Thought and Practice

 

Panel 7

13:45 to 15:15

13:45: Key Note Lecture: Levente Salat, Dr (Associate Prof., Department of Political, Administrative and Communicational Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) “Barriers of political nature in front of the Romanian-Hungarian rapprochement”

Chair: Constantin Iordachi Dr. (Associate Prof, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest)

  • Krisztina Bojan, Doctoral Student – Sonia Pavlenko, Doctoral Student (Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca) “The History of Cooperation in the Field of Higher Education. Case study: The relationship between Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and University of Szeged (Hungary)”
  • Cǎlin Cotoi, Dr (Lecturer, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest) “Entangled Histories. The Problems of the “Tool-Box” Approach in CEE”

15:15-15:45: Break

 

Panel 8

16:15 to 17:15

Chair: Levente Salat, Dr (Associate Prof. Department of Political, Administrative and Communicational Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)

  • Cornelia Ilie, Prof. (English Linguistics, Örebro University, Södertörn University College) “Populism in post-communist Romania and Hungary: Representing cultural and political otherness”
  • Péter Balogh (Research Assistant, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University College, Stockholm) “The influence of political territorial hierarchies on local communication and contacts: The cases of Pomorskie/Pommern and Bihor/Bihar”
  • Horváth, István, Dr. (Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca) “Mass migration from Romania to Hungary (1987-1991). The ethnic unmixing thesis revisited”