x-post: HABSBURG
The Center for Austrian Studies presents an international and interdisciplinary symposium
The Causes and Dynamics of Nationalism, Ethnic Enmity, and Racism in Central and Eastern Europe
cosponsored by
The Austrian Cultural Institute, New York; The Kommision fuer neuere Geschichte Oesterreichs; The University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts, Institute for Global Studies, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Immigration History Research Center
9:00-10:45 (concurrent sessions)
NATIONAL AND ETHNIC ENMITY: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEORY
The Causes of Nationalism, Michael Hechter, University of Arizona
Nationalism and the Collapse of Empires: 1959 and 1989 Compared, Edward Tiryakian, Duke University
The Global Dynamics of Ethnic Violence, Susan Olzak, Stanford University
THE HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE: CZECHS, GERMANS, HUNGARIANS
Hungarians and Germans in the Late 18th Century: Inventing Stereotypes, Olga Khavanova, Moscow State University
Czechs, Germans, Bohemians? Images of the Self and Other in Bohemia, 1800-1848, Hugh Agnew, George Washington University
The Image of the Other in the 19th Century: Historical Scholarship in the Czech Lands, Jiri Staif, Charles University
11:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m. (concurrent sessions)
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ENMITY
The Psychology of Nationalism, Ethnic Enmity, and Racism in Central Europe, Peter Loewenberg, UCLA
UNCreating the Other: The Psychology of Conflict Resolution, Chesmak Farhoumand, York University
Crisis of the Self and the Other: An Explanatory Model, Juergen Furtwaengler, Hamburg Military Hospital
CREATING THE OTHER IN EASTERN EUROPE
Rejecting the Claims for Otherness: Russian Reaction Toward Ukranian Nationalism, 19th and 20th Centuries, Alexey Miller, Institute for Slavic Studies, Moscow
Gentry, Jews, and Peasants: Jews as the Others in the Formation of the Modern Polish Nation in Galicia, 1848-1914, Kai Struve, Herder Institute
Imagining the Slavs: The Changing View from German Nationalism to National Socialism, Christian Promitzer, University of Graz
Lunch
2:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m. (concurrent sessions)
DEFINING THE SELF, CREATING THE OTHER
Becoming Caucasian: Vicissitudes of Whiteness in American Politics and Culture, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University
Rethinking the Idea of the Other: The Case of African Americans, Rose Brewer, University of Minnesota
Denying Community: The Production of Antagonism in the Discourse of Everyday Life in Israel and Yugoslavia, Glenn Bowman, University of Kent
CREATING PERCEPTIONS OF MUSLIMS
Creating the Other through Violence: New Identities Emerging from the Ashes of the Former Yugoslavia, Daniele Conversi, Central European University
The Changing Perception of Muslim Minorities in the Balkans, Ulf Brunnbauer, University of Graz
Islam in the Balkans 1989-1997,Valeria Heuberger, University of Vienna
6:15 p.m.
Reception, Dinner, and Kann Memorial Lecture
The National Question Revisited: Reflections on the State of the Art, Professor Dennison Rusinow, Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh
FRIDAY 7 MAY
9:00-10:45 (concurrent sessions)
THE AUSTRIAN EXPERIENCE: ETHNICITY AND POLITICS
The Development and Functions of Ethnic Stereotypes in Austria and in Hungary in the Nineteenth Century, Andras Vari, Budapest University of Economics
The Other in Present Day Austria and Its Political Implications, Anneliese Rohrer, Die Presse
Austria's Siege Mentality: Subnational Identities in Theoretical and Comparative Perspective, Anton Pelinka, University of Innsbruck
NATIONALISM IN THE HABSBURG EMPIRE
National and Political Heroes, Waltraud Heindl, Austrian Southeast Europe Institute
Nationalist Violence in Small Town Austria at the Turn of the Century, Pieter Judson, Swarthmore College
The Austrian-Slovenian-Italian Border Region (Dreilandereck): Causes and Consequences of the Partition of a Region by Nation States, Andreas Moritsch, University of Vienna
11:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m. (concurrent sessions)
IMAGES OF THE OTHER: LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND DISCOURSE
Creation of Other through the Linguistic (Diectic) Aspects of Nationalism, Tomasz Kamusella, Wroclaw University
Diseases of Jews and African-Americans: A Comparison, Klaus Hoedl, University of Graz
Black Women's Bodies as Constructed as Other by Europeans, Michelle Lockhart, Hamline University
THE FUNCTIONS OF THE OTHER: AUSTRIA
Imagination, Rhetoric and Economic Nationalism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy, Catherine Albrecht, University of Baltimore
Multifaceted and Complex Strangeness: Historical Interpretive Scenarios Austrian Reaction to the Other, Josef Ehmer and Sylvia Hahn, University of Salzburg
Cultural Pluralism through Translation? Imagining the Other in the Habsburg Monarchy, Michaela Wolf, University of Graz
Lunch
2:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m. (concurrent sessions)
THE FUNCTIONS OF THE OTHER: ANTI-SEMITISM
Waves of Hate: Romanian Anti-Semitism Before the Holocaust, William Brustein, University of Minnesota
National Identities and the Jewish Question in Postwar Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe: A Comparison, Helga Embacher, University of Salzburg
THE FUNCTIONS OF NATIONALISM
The Mobile Frontier: Symbolic Boundary Construction at the Borders of the Balkans, Pamela Ballinger, Bowdoin College
From the Hearth to the Workplace: Nationalist Strategies of Female Teachers in Croatia,1900 1914, Meghan Hays, University of Michigan
Self as Other: Fluid Identities in Central Europe before 1945, Peter Thaler, University of Minnesota
Projekt Mitteleuropa: Croatians and the Politics of Recognition in the New Europe, Daphne Winland, York University
6:30 p.m. Dinner
SATURDAY, 8 MAY
9:00-10:45 (concurrent sessions)
CREATING NATIONAL IDENTITIES IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Obsessed with Originality: Multicultural Society in Slovenia, Oto Luthar, University of Maribor
Serbia between East and West, Dejan Guzina, Carleton University
Nationalism and the Yugoslavian Conflict in European Context, Vanessa Pupavac, University of Nottingham
VIEWING THE OTHER AND ONESELF
Searching for the Other Across the Generational Gap: A Journey, Bjorn Krondorfer, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Imaging Identical Twins: Dynamics of Creating the Other, Jean Strommer and Joan Strommer, University of Minnesota and Virginia Commonwealth College
11:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m. (concurrent sessions)
THE ROMA, PAST AND PRESENT
The Roma: Myth and Reality, Ian Hancock, University of Texas, Austin
Ethnic Minorities in Czech and Slovak Schools: Policies and Representations, 1940s-1990s, David Canek, Charles University
Roma Migration to Canada, Barbara Falk, York University
From the Margins to Multiculturalism: The Representational Politics of the Roma Migration to Canada, Gerald Kernerman, York University
DEFINING THE SELF AND THE OTHER IN CENTRAL EUROPE
Ethnology, Cultural Reification, and the Dynamics of Difference in the Kronprinzenwerk, Regina Bendix, University of Pennsylvania
National Stereotypes between the Austrians and Their Neighbors, 1895-1995, Arnold Suppan, University of Vienna
Establishment of Minority Schools in Imperial Austria, Atsushi Otsuru, Kobe University
State, Nation and the Enemy: Identity Politics in the Political Literature of Czechoslovakia and Hungary, 1920-1939, Peter Haslinger, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg
Lunch
2:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m. (concurrent sessions)
CREATING IMAGES OF GREEKS AND TURKS IN THE SCHOOLS
Angels and Demons: Greek and Turkish Images in School Textbooks, Lily Hamourtziadou and Bulent Gokay, Keele University
What Austrians Are Not: The Turk as the Other in Postwar Austrian Schools, Peter Utgaard, Washington State University
MAPPING THE SELF AND THE OTHER
Peoples of the Mountains, Peoples of the Plains: Space and Ethnographic Representation in the Balkans, Karl Kaser, University of Graz
Forging the Croatian Nation: The Ambiguity of Croatian Cultural Identity at the End of the Nineteenth Century, Sally Kent, University of Wisconson, Stevens Point
Representing National Territory: Cartography and Nationalism in Hungary, 1700-1848, Irina Popova, Central European University
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