Centre de recherches en histoire et épistémologie comparée de la linguistique d'Europe centrale et orientale (CRECLECO) / Université de Lausanne // Научно-исследовательский центр по истории и сравнительной эпистемологии языкознания центральной и восточной Европы
International Conference
Europe’s Symbolic Geographies
CEU, Budapest, May 27-29, 2004
Convenors: Sorin Antohi (CEU), Larry Wolff (Boston College)
Thursday, May 27
Arrivals
18:00-19:30 Inaugural Session:
Welcoming Remarks (Sorin Antohi, Larry Wolff)
Keynote Address: György Konrád
Reception follows.
Friday, May 28
9:00-11:00 Panel 1: European Topologies : Geographical, Historical, Biomedical
Chair: Sorin Antohi
Maria Todorova Spacing Europe: What is a Historical Region?
Mark Bassin Is Europe Still a Geographical Concept? Does It Matter?
Anastasia Karakassidou The Symbolic Geographies of Health and Illness
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-14:00 Panel 2: Borders and Borderlands : Power, Civilization, Psychology
Chair: Larry Wolff
Alfred J. Rieber Frontiers of European Borderlands: Symbolic or Real?
Patrick Sériot The Impossible Border between East and West in the Discourse on Language among Nineteenth-century Slavophiles
Andrei Zorin Feeling across Borders: The Europeanization of Russian Nobility through Emotional Patterns
Corin Braga Psychogeography. A Blueprint
14:00-17:00 Break
17:00-19:00 Panel 3: European Networks : Geometries and Identities
Chair: Mark Bassin
Marsha Siefert Networking Europe: Communication Technologies and Symbolic Geographies
Jean-Jacques Wunenburger Du cercle au réseau: vers une identité transitionnelle de l'Europe ("From Circle to Network: Towards a Transitional Identity of Europe". In French. Simultaneous translation provided.)
József Böröcz The Switch and the Broadband: Modalities of Coloniality in European Geopolitics
19:30 Dinner (CEU)
Saturday, May 29
9:00-11:00 Panel 4: Eastern, Central, Southeastern Europes : Ideology, Geopolitics, Empire
Chair: Maria Todorova
Larry Wolff Philosophic Geography and the Ideology of Empire in Eastern Europe
Stefan Troebst Continentality vs. Maritimity: The Case of Central Europe
Halil Berktay Between the First and the Third Divisions: Ottoman Late Imperial and Modern Turkish Nationalist Reactions to the Possibility of Relegation
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-14:00 Panel 5: Discursive Spaces : Lived Experience, Fiction, Metaphysics
Chair: Anastasia Karakassidou
Attila Melegh From Reality to Twilight Zones: The Function of the East/West Slope during and after the Collapse of State Socialism
Tyrus Miller A Geography of Dispersion: Central Europe and the Symbolic Spaces of the Avant-Garde
Iver B. Neuman The Return of the Sacred Symbolic Geography: The Realms of Harry Potter
Sorin Antohi Beyond Symbolic Geographies: Europe’s Ethnic Ontologies
14:00-16:00 Break
16:00-18:00 Panel 6: European and EU Topographies : Inclusions and Exclusions
Chair: József Böröcz
Mario Bédard The Renewal of European Geosymbolic – A Key Factor for the Affirmation of EU’s Own Identity and for the Fulfillment of its Multicultural Society’s Project
Maurizio Bach EU and Turkey – An Established-Outsiders Relation?
Yehuda Elkana Europe Seen from Somewhere
18:00-18:30 Coffee Break
18:30-19:30 Concluding Session
20:00 Dinner (Menza, Liszt Ferenc tér)
Sunday, May 30
Departures
List of Participants :
Sorin Antohi (History, CEU)
Maurizio Bach (Sociology, Universität Passau)
Mark Bassin (Geography, University College, London)
Mario Bédard (Geography, Université du Québec à Montréal)
Halil Berktay (History, Sabanci University, Istanbul)
József Böröcz (Sociology, Rutgers University)
Corin Braga (Literature, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj)
Yehuda Elkana (Rector, CEU)
Anastasia Karakassidou (Anthropology, Wellesley College)
György Konrád (Budapest/Berlin)
Attila Melegh (History, Budapest University of Economics)
Tyrus Miller (Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Iver B. Neuman (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
Alfred J. Rieber (History, CEU)
Patrick Seriot (Faculté des Lettres, Université de Lausanne)
Marsha Siefert (History/Communications, CEU)
Maria Todorova (History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Stefan Troebst (Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Europe, Universität
Leipzig)
Larry Wolff (History, Boston College)
Jean-Jacques Wunenburger (Philosophy, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3)
Andrei Zorin (Literature, Moscow State University)
The collective volume based on the conference proceedings will be co-edited by Sorin Antohi and Larry Wolff, to be published with CEU Press. The conference and volume are mainly financed by CEU's Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies (www.ceu.hu/pasts); additional financial support comes from the University of California, Santa Cruz.