Program June 21, 2013

AULA I, June 21, 2013

10.00-13.00

Theoretical Approaches to Empires and Nations
Chair and Discussant: Fabio L. Grassi
Inese Grumolte Marxist Intellectuals' Debate on the National Question" Theoretical reconsideration Sanja Lazarević-Radak Impery, Text And Shifting Balkanization. (From 19th Century to the present day) Nada Sekulić Warfare, State and National Sovereignty in XVIII and XIX Century in the Klausewitz’s and Faucault’s Theories of War Shih-chieh (Jay) Su From Kulturnation to Staatsnation: the Construction of National Identity in the Life and Work of Leopold von Ranke Manuel Pousa Castelo “Why Get Angry About Losing Just a Territory?” Teaching 19th Century European Nation-states and Empires Francesca Zantedeschi Pan-nationalisms as the Arbiter of Nations and Empires throughout the Long 19th Century Martin Arndt Fichte and the Nation-State - Emancipation or Regression? Salvatore Santangelo Manifest destiny: An Imperial Vocation? Daniele Conversi Nationalism and Westernization Gabriele Natalizia The United States Between the Moment of Unipolarity and Strategic Continuity

 

AULA I, June 21, 2013

15.30-19.00

Theoretical Approaches to Empires and Nations II
Chair and Discussant: Altay Goyushov
Ferran Archilés Imperialism, “Regeneration” and national identity in Spain (1880-1914) Anne-Sophie Bentz Nations and Nationalism in Postcolonial Theories Giovanni C. Cattini, Carles Santacana The international models of Catalan nationalism (1882-1912) Mariam Chkhartishvili Conceptualizing Georgian Nation within Romanov Empire. Georgian intellectuals in search of matrix Nicolae Costrut Defining Imperialism Robert Lukenda “From a divided to a dividing memory” – the interrelation of nation and memory in the late 20th century Caterina Bassetti States, Nations and Regionalism in the Perspective of the European Integration Process Alexandra Paula Calin Soft power and its influence on the developing countries Saadia Pekkanen Nationalism and International Relations in Asia: reflection from the perspective of Japan's space Policy

AULA II, June 21, 2013

 10.00-13.00

Literature, Nationalism, Identity: the Rising of an Intellectual Conscience in Europe
Chair and Discussant: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou
Caterina Giannottu Nation Building and Politics in Rome Between 1798 and 1870 through the satire of Pasquino Sharon Worley Renaissance Brutuses in Napoleonic Italy Gabriella Brutovszky Nations and National Minorities in the Light of Pasquils Ljiljana Stošić Oriental Exoticism in the Serbian Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries. The Balkans as a European Obscure Object of Desire Lorenzo Marmiroli The Italian intelligentsia and Armed Intervention in the Great War: The Debacle on the Cultural Magazines La Voce and L’Unità Elena Dumitru From Pittsburgh to Marosvécs. Baron Kemény János and the Formation of the Helikon Community Éder Silveira Avant-Gardism or Cult of the Past? Brazilian Intellectuals and the Disputes Between Nationalisms in the Interwar Period Tanko Promož Communist and Anti-communist Ideology during World War II. in Slovenian Novel Júlia-Eszter Andorkó Ideology and literature in “Utunk” (1960-1979) Tatjana Koprivica Montenegro through the Lens of the Marubi Atelier

AULA II, June 21, 2013

15.30-19.00

The Narration of National identity
Chair and Discussant: Elena Dumitru
Maria Nogués Bruno Political thought and literature: the concept of nation according to the authors of the Spanish Generation of ‘98 Gábor Crnković Monarchy Stereotypes And Identity Problems In The Novels of János Herceg Zoe Detsi-Diamanti From Colony to Empire: American National Identity and the Undesirable “Other” in Charlotte Barnes’ The Forest Princess (1848) Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou Nations and Empires built on ruins: Restoring historical memory in Charles Dicken's Little Dorri Effie Yiannopoulou Utopia and the Multicultural nation in Andrea Levy’s Fiction

AULA III, June 21, 2013

10.00-13.00

From the Great War to Versailles
Chair and Discussant: Alessando Vagnini
Roberto Sciarrone Germany’s Next War: Plans and Strategies between 1905 and 1913 Ioana Elena Ignat Transylvania During the First World War: Demographic, Socio-economic and Cultural Aspects Francesca Di Giulio Religious and Ethnic Identities in First World War Macedonia. Perspectives from the Holy See’s Diplomacy Nazar Bağci Ethnic Conflicts in Anatolia and the Turkish War of Independence 1918-1922 Lucian Săcălean Projects of Recontruction of Romanian and Hungarian States, After 1918 Irina Belova Prisoners of War of the Central States and the Soviet Reality

AULA III, June 21, 2013

15.30-19.00

Rethinking Croatian Question in 20th Century
Chair and Discussant: Martina Bitunjac
Piero Di Girolamo At the origin of the democratic and revolutionary "interventism": perceptions of the multinational Empires' crisis through the liberal, socialist and revolutionary "sindacalist" press (1908-1915) Andrea Carteny D’Annunzio at Fiume, building a New Italy (1919-1920) Alberto Becherelli Italo-Yugoslav Relations and the Adriatic Issue (1918-1924) Ivanka Dodovska Regional Security Pacts in South Eastern Europe between the Two World Wars Vilim Pavlović Eastern Adriatic in the Croatian National Revival Dragan Bakić Milan Stojadinović, the Croat Question and the International Position of Yugoslavia, 1935-1939 Gabriele Vargiu The Trieste Question and the 1948 Elections in Italy. An Assessment of National and Foreign Propaganda Michele Pigliucci The last Risorgimento: riots in Triest in 1953

AULA IV, June 21, 2013

10.00-11.30

Constructing National Identity within the British Empire
Chair and Discussant: Mevlüt Çelebi
Gianluca Pastori Feudal or federal? The impact of British policy on the political and institutional system of the khanate of Kalat (North-West India, 1870-1914) Michał Leśniewski Permissive Confederation in South Africa. British Empire in South Africa, 1875-1881: A Case Study in Changes in Imperial Thought Andrey Ivanov The Integration of the Maori into the British Empire in the late XIX Century Michael N. Michalis From an Empire of the Orient to an Empire of the West: Ottoman and British Perceptions of Modernity in Cyprus Kartia Snoek Citizenship, Naturalisation and the Rise and Fall of the British Imperial Subject

 
 

AULA IV, June 21, 2013

11.30-13.00

Models of European Colonial Empires
Chair and Discussant: Andrea Carteny
Antonello Battaglia A Mediterranean Struggle: The Tunisian Crisis in 1864 Francesco Cerasani The Imperialism of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Perspectives and historiography of German Südpolitik Andrey Salnyy, Tatiana Danilova Strengthening of the political power of Russian Empire in the steppe area of the North Caucasus region in the middle of the 19-th century Oliver Charbonneau The Moro Problem: Race, Religion, and American Colonial Empire in the Southern Philippines, 1920-1940 Tuija Parvikko Heart of Darkness. Rereading Hannah Arendt’s critique of colonialism with Edward W. Said Radu Murea Defensive Modernization. Paving the Way to Colonialism Stefano Pelaggi Colonialism Through Emigration: The Italian Politics in Latin America Between Nationalism and Commercial Expansion from Crispi to the Rise of Fascism

AULA IV, June 21, 2013

15.30-19.00

From Empire Subjects to Nations: Models of Decolonization
Chair and Discussant: Gabriele Natalizia
Enrico Magnani Colonialism and the Birth of International Institutions: The Mandate System of the League of Nations and the Trusteeship Architecture of the United Nations Ole Frahm South Sudan – an outlier in post-colonial African nation-building? Daniel Pommier Vincelli The Challenges of a Post-Colonial  Nation: The  Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (1918-1920) Teresa Segura-Garcia Indian rulers abroad: Princely travel, empire and anti-colonial politics in Western India and the world, c. 1900-1939 Jorge Ramos Tolosa The first failures of the UNO in Palestine: Partition Plan, creation of the State of Israel and Nakba as a result of half century of Zionist colonialist policies Philippe Tristani Iraq decolonization and the oil cold war: A superpower struggle and the end of Iraq Petroleum Company, 1958-1972 Joanna Modrzejewska-Leśniewska Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan 1979 as a Continuation of Imperial Policy of the Tsarist Russia Daniela Pinheiro Machado Kern “The Amazonian Idol”: the naissance of a National symbol in the Empire of Brazil (1848-1885) Mihaela Bolos The intellectual property protection system in the French and British colonies during 1919-1989

AULA A Storia moderna, June 21, 2013

10.00-13.00

Was the Real-Socialism System an Empire?
Chair and Discussant: Elena Dundovich
Anton Vatcharadze The Great Purge as a Weapon of Totalitarian “Emperor” Joseph Stalin Anna Troján The Failure to Cope with Socialist Realism in the Soviet Union of the 1930's (Andrej Platonov) Martina Bitunjac Die Rote Hilfe! German Solidarity With Italian Anti-fascists Under the Regime of Mussolini Alina Buzăianu A Recall of the Anticommunist Armed Resistance in Romania (1944-1962) Manuela Marin Nationalism and Socialism in Romania. The Case of Nicolae Ceausescu`s Cult of Personality Mihai Croitor Gh. Gheorghiu-Dej and the Roots of the Romanian Dissidence inside the Communist Camp Cezar Stanciu National Interests and International Communism: The Romanian Communists Advocating “Allargamento”, 1967-1973 Francesco Dall’Aglio Old Bones for New Quarrels: Medieval History and Nationalist Issues in Southeastern Europe During the Socialist Era Liudmila Volakhava Belarusians’ Soviet Identity and Its Role in the Establishment of the Lukashenko Authoritarian Regime Amit Mishra, Pramod Mishra New Challenges to Democracy with the End of Cold War

AULA A Storia moderna, June 21, 2013

15.30-19.00

Clashing Empires in Cold War Era
Chair and Discussant: Antongiulio De’ Robertis
Andreea Emilia Duță The Romanian the Struggle for Detente Inside of Warsav Treaty Arpad Hornyak Northern Borders of Yugoslavia in the Concepts of Communist Party of Yugoslav after the World War II Valentina Mariani Outer Space: a new dimension for the application of the principle of balance of power during the Cold War Ivan Laković The Fear and the Solution. Yugoslavia between the Soviet threat and the Western military aid 1948-1958 Maciej Stanecki The Twilight of the British Empire in the Polish analysts' opinion in the 1960s Andrea Giannotti Some considerations about the “Brežnev Doctrine”. Between instances of proletarian internationalism and socialist expansionism Laura Venegoni Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi -Modernisation and Millenary Tradition (1941 – 1979)

AULA A Storia medievale, June 21, 2013

10.00-13.00

 

National Minorities between Nation States and Empires
Chair and Discussant: Ljubomir D. Frčkoski
Rubin Zemon From “Millet” to “Nations” and/or “Minorities” Giuseppe Motta National Sovereignty vs. International Law. The League of Nations and the Protection of Minorities Maria Dan Transylvania From the Creation of National Identities to the Interethnic Conflict of 1848 Gleb Pilipenko Russian Language Among Hungarians in Transcarpathian Region (Ukraine): Sociolinguistic Features Katalin Rac Orientals Among the People of the East: Nationalism, Orientalism, and the Jewish Question in Nineteenth-Century Hungary Alessandro Pistecchia Social Inclusion and Identity Strategies: Romanian’s Roma Experience During the Years of Real Socialism

AULA A Storia medievale, June 21, 2013

15.30-17.30

The Building of National Identity: the case of Romania
Chair and Discussant: Giordano Altarozzi
Gabriel Lataianu, Stefan Bruno Coming late to the party. Romania’s accelerated modernization between 1859 and 1916 Cosmin Sebastian Cercel Between Constitution and Exception: Nation-Building, Sovereignty and Fascism in Interwar Romania Paul-Ersilian Roşca The Perspectives of the Monarchy in Interwar Romania. From the Constitutional Monarchy to Right-Wing Totalitarianism Petru Szedlacsek How the Liberals Monopolized Cultural Nationalism: Infusing Politics with National Ideology in Romania at the Turn of the Nineteenth-Century Florina Sorescu The Italian Ratification of the Treaty of Basarabia of October 28th, 1920 Radu Mârza Historians, Diplomacy and Nationalism in Romania (1918-1946) Magdalena Ionescu The relashionship between the Romanian people's Republica/Socialist Republic of Romania and the United Nations Organization from the perspective of minority rights

AULA A Storia medievale, June 21, 2013

17.30-19.00

The Building of National Identity: the Case of Southern-Eastern Europe
Chair and Discussant: Nadan Petrović
Robert Brier Nationalism in International Society: The Second International and the Nationalities of East-Central Europe’s Multinational Empires Ljubomir D. Frčkoski Macedonia in the Imperial Balkan Policies at the Beginning of XX Century Aleksandra Kolaković Serbian Elite and the Issue of Development of the National Culture in the Late 19th Century Ana Živković Snowley British Perceptions of nineteenth-century Nationalism in Montenegro: From Denigration to Glorification Klejda Mulaj Nationalism and Political Violence in the Aftermath of Imperial Collapse: The Emergence of New States and the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 Slavko Burzanović Montenegro in the Italian foreign policy during the Balkan wars (1912-1913) Blerina Sadik The Fundamental Rights of the Albanian Population of Chameria in Front of the Greek Municipal Law and International Law: 1913- 1926 Yana Stoeva The Genesis of the Modern Bulgarian State: Fallen Empires, Ideological power, the Formation of a National Consciousness and the European Identity Ali Nuri Tahir Irredentist Violence in the Early 20th Century and Comparison of Greek and Bulgarian National Revivals

AULA B Storia moderna, June 21, 2013

10.00-13.00

War and National Identity in the Age of Extremes
Chair and Discussant: Saadia Pekkanen
David Sarkisyan From Second to Third Reich Vangelis Tzoukas British perceptions of the Greek Armed Resistance during WWII Olaf Glöckner Zionist movement and the State of Israel as reflective of European National Movements Rigas Raftoupoulos From the Ioannis Metaxas’ regime (1936-40) to the Colonels’ regime (1967-74) Davide Borsani Imperial legacy and Cold War rationale: the Anglo-American diplomacy and the Falklands war in 1982 Klara Plecitá-Vlachová Czech Republic and the modern Czech Nation

AULA B  Storia moderna, June 21, 2013

15.30-19.00

National Identity in Eastern Europe after Cold War Era: Selected Case Studies
Chair and Discussant: Daniel Pommier Vincelli
Costanza Calabretta The Debate on German Nation After the Fall of the Berlin Wall Piotr Chmiel Between Nations and Empires. The Contemporary Reflections on Central Europe Álvaro Cúria Understanding the 1989/1991 Events in Eastern Europe: An Approach on Different Interpretations Gruia Badescu Nation-Building, Socialist Style: A Comparison of Macedonia and Moldova Alexander Tsurtsumia Revolutions and Geopolitical Transformations Tlepstok Aslanovich Ruslan The Caucasus in the System of Geopolitical Coordinates XIX-XX Elena Dundovich Econationalism Alfredo Sasso The Defeat of the Democratic Yugoslavism in Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Union of the Reformist Forces of Yugoslavia (1990-92) Carlos Gonzalez Villa Poisoned support? Hypothesis on the implications of US foreign policy towards Yugoslavia, 1981-1991 Waldemar Cudny Socio-economic transformation of Polish cities after the fall of communism - at the example of the cities with domination of the traditional economy Ege Celeste Reinuma The Alibi of Memories: The Political Idealism, Culture and Ideology in Post Communist Countries