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"Regimes of Historicity and Discourses of Modernity and Identity, 1900-1945, in East-Central, Southeast and Northern Europe"

Date: 29 – 30 October 2006
Venue: Hungarian Cultural Institute Sofia, Aksakov street 16
Organised by Centre for Advanced Study Sofia

P R O G R A M M E

29 October, Sunday

Morning Session

10.00 – 10.15 Welcome, Introductory Remarks, Diana Mishkova

10.15 – 10.45 Călin Cotoi (Romania), “Social Democracy and Narodnicism in
interwar Romania. National Identity and the Left. 1900-1945”

10.45 – 11.15 Johan Eellend (Sweden), “Framers of modernity: The farmer as
modernizer in Estonian history writing during the first half of the 20th century”

11.15 – 11.45 Coffee Break

11.45 – 12.15 Maya Gorcheva (Bulgaria), “The Literary Sources of the Dummy
Ideological Identity: The Proliferation of Leftist, Libertarian and Cosmopolitan
in the Interwar Bulgarian Fiction”

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch


Afternoon Session

14.00 – 14.30 Camelia Crăciun (Romania), “Competing Identity Discourses within
the Jewish Intellectual Milieu of Romanian Language in the interwar Period. On
the concept of Generation as a possible self-referential identity group
construct, on its discontinuity and its dislocation from the historical context”

14.30 – 15.00 Galia Valtchinova (Bulgaria) “Looking into the future, ‘Seeing’
the Past: Symbolic [re]productions of history in interwar Bulgaria”

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee Break

15.30 – 16.00 Samuel Edquist (Sweden) "Discourses on modernity in the political
culture of Sweden, 1900–1945"

16.00 – 16.30 Özlem Altan (Turkey) “Gendered Projects of National Identity
Formation: The Case of Turkey”

16.30 – 17.00 General Discussion


30 October, Monday

Morning Session

09.30 – 10.00 Clemena Antonova (Bulgaria), “The Role of the Sacred Image as a
Symbol of National Identity in the Inter-war Period. The Cases of Russia and
Bulgaria”

10.00 – 10.30 Gergana Mircheva (Bulgaria), “’Degeneration’ and ‘Regeneration’ in
Regimes of Historicity: the Modernization Discourse of Eugenics”

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 – 11.30 Stefan Nygård (Finland), “Philosophical and ideological anti-modernism
in Finland and Sweden 1900–1945”

11.30 – 12.00 Galina Goncharova (Bulgaria), “Histories “from the Right”. “The
Traditions of the Fatherland” and the Organizing of the Bulgarian Right
Publicity”

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch


Afternoon Session

14.00 – 16.30 Prof. Michael Werner (l'École des hautes études en sciences
sociales)
Seminar “Handling Facts and Concepts: Problems of Transnational Historiography
in Europe”

16.30 – 19.00 Free program