Saturday, 26 May.
09.30 – 10.00. Registration and organisers’ welcome.
10.00 – 11.30. Panel 1: Historical Outliers and Transnational Challenges to Periodization. Chair: Mr Alex Burston-Chorowicz (University of Oxford).
Imogen Bayley (Central European University). Caught Between East and West: The Displaced Persons of Occupied Germany in the Immediate Aftermath of the Second World War.
Michał Adam Palacz (Oxford Brookes University). Challenging national periodization in the history of medicine: a case study of Polish refugee anaesthetists.
Constanze Jeitler (University of Vienna). 15 Salzburger Vorstadt, Braunau am Inn: Adolf Hitler’s Birthplace as a Site Withstanding Periodization.
11.30 – 11.45. Coffee break.
11.45 – 13.25. Keynote lecture. Professor Ritchie Robertson, FBA (University of Oxford). Border Clashes: Between Enlightenment and Romanticism.
13.25 – 14.30. Lunch break.
14.30 – 16.30. Panel 2: Continuities Across Transitions. Chair: Dr Alessandro Iandolo (University of Oxford).
Julia Klimova (UCL). Is “Russian Liberalism” different to “Western Liberalism”? The case study of Russian liberals in the aftermath of the First World War.
Liza Weber (University of Sussex). Documenta and its Double: Germany’s Myth of Modernism and its “Degenerate” Jew.
Aaron Clift (University of Oxford). “L’homme au couteau entre les dents” and the “Classes dangereuses”: Continuities in Anticommunist Discourse in France.
George Bodie (UCL). In Times of Fading Light: The German Democratic Republic, the Global South, and the end of the Cold War.
16.30 – 16.45. Coffee break.
16.45 – 18.15. Panel 3: Long-term Cultural Continuities. Chair: Mr. Lucian George (University of Oxford).
Andrea Talaber (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences). Continuing traditions? The case of national days in Czechoslovakia and Hungary in the 20th century.
Lucian George (University of Oxford). Recurring Rumours: Fears of Re-Enserfment in Post-Emancipation Poland.
Charlotte Doesburg (UCL). Poetry and the Beast – The adaptation of the folk epic, the Kalevala, in Finnish metal music.
Sunday, 27 May.
10.00. – 11.30. Panel 4: ‘Intellectual Time’: Periodization in late 18th- and 19th-century European Scholarship. Chair: Dr Oded Y. Steinberg (European Forum at the Hebrew University and Humphrey Center for Social Research, BGU).
Oded Steinberg (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev). The Unique Periodizations of James Bryce, J.B. Bury and E.A. Freeman.
Donatus Dusterhaus (University of Fribourg). Periodisation and the apocalyptic thought around 1800.
Morgan Golf-French (UCL). From Luther to Fichte: Charles de Villers’ narrative of Enlightenment in the history of German philosophy.
11.30 – 11.40. Coffee break.
11.40 – 13.10. Panel 5: Peripheral modernisms and translations. Chair: Ms Jade McGlynn (University of Oxford).
Alessia Benedetti (University of Manchester). Dantean Echoes: A Case Study on Western Literature’s Reception in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Russia.
Johannes Kristian Huhtinen (European University Institute). Greek myths in early 20th-century Finnish political resistance.
Panayiotis Xenophontos (University of Oxford). The Wastelands of 20th-century Greece and Russia: T. S. Eliot, Giorgos Seferis and Joseph Brodsky.
13.10 – 13.40. Lunch break.
13.40 – 14.30. Professional Development Event.
14.30 – 16.20. Panel 2: Non-Simultaneities and Peripheral Regions. Chair: Ms Hannie Lawlor (University of Oxford).
Karina Jarzyńska (Jagiellonian University). We have (sparsely) been modern. Polish literary modernism in post-secular perspective.
Laura Blanco de la Barrera (University of Oxford). Periodization, Enlightenment and Conflicting Views within the Literary Historical Discourse-Building in 19th century Galicia.
Marija Snieckute (University of Amsterdam). (Mal)Functions of Cultural Transfer and the Split in Periodization on the Imperial Borderlands.
Constance Hardesty (University of Oxford). A Case of Time and Technology: The 240-Year Controversy about Lightning Rods.
16.20 – 16.35. Coffee break.
16.35 – 18.05. Panel 6: Political and Institutional (Dis-)Continuities. Chair: Ms Imogen Bayley (Central European University).
Pedro Ponte e Sousa (New University of Lisbon). Portugal and the military: overlooked agency in continuities and discontinuities in domestic politics and foreign policy.
Jan Antoni Burek (European University Institute). The history seems different from the shop-floor. Challenging established caesurae in the history of XXth century Poland from micro-historical perspective.
Daniel Schrader (University of Regensburg). Representative institution-building during anti-institutional times. Communicative practices of Samara’s city councillors as a challenge to assumed revolutionary (dis-)continuities, 1917-1918.
