Breaking Empires, Making Nations? The First World War and the Reforging of Europe
Rompre les empires, faire les nations? La Première Guerre Mondiale et la refonte de l’Europe
An international conference at the College of Europe, Natolin, Warsaw, 7-8 April 2015, organised by The Chair of European Civilization
The languages of the conference are English and French, with simultaneous translation between the two. There is no conference fee. However, we ask you to confirm your attendance by 16 March 2015. Please email Anna Banach at anna.banach@coleurope.eu
For more information please see: https://www.coleurope.eu/page-ref/ep-geremek-european-civilization-chair
Program:
7 April 2015, Auditorium Copernicus, Retinger Building
13.00-14.00 Registration
14.00-16.00 Inaugural session
Welcome by the Vice-Rector, Mrs Ewa OŚNIECKA-TAMECKA
Address by the Rector, Professor Jörg MONAR
Introduction by the Chairholder, Professor Richard BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI
Keynote lecture by Professor Sir Hew STRACHAN (University of Oxford) The Ideas of 1914
Discussion
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-18.30 Panel 1: (Re)imagining Empires, Nations and a Continent
Professor Andrzej NOWAK (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) Eastern European Geopolitical Shifts and the British Imperial Imagination, 1914-1919
Professor Gunda BARTH-SCALMANI (University of Innsbruck) The Habsburg Monarchy: From ‘Prison of Nations’ to ‘Successor States’ – National Developments and the Gender Aspect
Professor Michael WINTLE (University of Amsterdam) Europe’s Self-Image during the First World War, as Expressed in the Visual Arts
Discussion
8 April 2015, Auditorium Copernicus, Retinger Building
09.00-10.45 Panel 2: Soldiers, Civilians and Nations
Professor Frédéric ROUSSEAU (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III) Les Combattants français et leurs familles (tbc)
Dr Stephan LEHNSTAEDT (German Historical Institute, Warsaw) Facing Enemies? Ethnic Approaches in Poland by the Central Powers and Nazi Germany
Dr Dmitar TASIĆ (University College Dublin) Forging a New Identity – from the Serbian to the Yugoslav Army
Discussion
10.45-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.45 Panel 3: War, Nations and Communities
Professor Frank SYSYN (University of Alberta) The War through the eyes of a Ukrainian cleric and patriot: The Diary of Mykhailo Zubrytsky
Dr Alexander WATSON (Goldsmiths’ College London) Forging a Nation, Breaking a Community: Cracow at War, 1914-1918
Dr Alex DOWDALL (College of Europe, Natolin, and Trinity College Dublin) Forced Displacement, Local Communities and the Nation: France’s Refugees and their European Context, 1914-1918
Discussion
12.45-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Panel 4: Aftermaths, Legacies and Memories
Professor John HORNE (Trinity College Dublin) Empires and Nations in Transition: Paramilitary Violence 1917-1923
Dr Jens BOYSEN (German Historical Institute, Warsaw) Post-war in the Province: Germany’s Defeat and Revolution and the German-Polish struggle over Their Strategic Borderlands (West Prussia, Greater Poland, Upper Silesia), 1918-22
Professor Susan GRAYZEL (University of Mississippi) The Gendered Legacy of the Great War
Dr Élise JULIEN (Institut d’Études Politiques de Lille) France et Allemagne de l’entre-deux-guerres: des mémoires nationales contrastées du premier conflit mondial
Discussion
15.30-15.45 Coffee Break
15.45-17.15 Student Workshops (venues tbc)
Professor Georges MINK (Collège d’Europe, Natolin) La question polonaise et la Pologne pendant la Première Guerre Mondiale: protagonistes, débats, effets
Quincy CLOET (College of Europe, Natolin) Unite or Wither Away: European Reflections on Pacifism, Decay and Integration after the First World War
Dr Alex DOWDALL (College of Europe, Natolin) Europe on the Move – Population Displacement
17.15-17.30 Coffee Break
17.30-18.30 Concluding Roundtable (speakers tbc)
18.30 Closure of the Conference