Wednesday, 18 December 2013

12.30-13.15
Registration and Welcome

13.15-13.30
Introduction: Stefan Couperus (Utrecht)

13.30-14.30
Keynote 1: Jon Lawrence (Cambridge): Languages of place and belonging in England from the 1930s to the 1960s
chair: Harm Kaal

14.45-17.00
Panel I: Forging the local
chair: Harm Kaal

Liesbeth van de Grift (Nijmegen): Farming communities as a source of national strength: Sweden and Germany, 1890-1930
Natalia Starostina (Young Harris): Cheminot garden-cities and the practices of paternalism and social control in interwar France: extolling virtue or generating boredom?
Jeremy DeWaal (Vanderbilt): The turn to local communities in early postwar West Germany: the case of Hamburg, Lübeck, and Bremen, 1945-1965
Stefan Couperus (Utrecht): The invention of the neighbourhood as a body politic, 1930-1950

17.00-18.00 Drinks

Thursday, 19 December 2013

09.00-10.00
Keynote 2: Stefan Berger (Bochum): Constructing National Communities Through History in Europe: from Hyper-Nationalism to the Search for Alternative National Histories, 1918 to the long 1960s
chair: Wim van Meurs (Nijmegen)

10.00-12.15
Panel II: Questioning nationhood in the interwar period
chair: Wim van Meurs (Nijmegen)

Irina Nastasa-Matei (Gheorghe Sincai): Reshaping identity: the Transylvanian Saxons during the interwar period
Ronald Kroeze (VU Amsterdam): The problem of building a moral community in a pluralist country: the case-Oss
Fabien Théofilakis (Berlin): Community membership, national identity and discourse: how to say and define Deutschtum in Western and Central Europe (1914-1945)
Florian Kührer-Wielach (Mainz): Beyond nation and region: offers of belonging in interwar Transylvania

12.15-13.15 Lunch

13.15-15.30
Panel III: (Re)constructing nationhood after 1945
chair: Liesbeth van de Grift (Nijmegen)

Matthew Grant (Essex): Constructing a Cold War national community: citizenship and anti-communism in postwar Britain, 1945-56
Wim de Jong (Nijmegen): Dutch McCarthyism? Anticommunism as a tool for the image of a democratic community (1920-1960)
Máté Zombory (Budapest): Nation and democracy after the catastrophe. Conceptions of political community and the discourses on the past in early postwar Hungary
Harm Kaal (Nijmegen): Constructing communities in postwar election campaigns: the rise of people’s parties

15.30-15.45 Coffee break

15.45-18.00
Panel IV: European and transnational vistas on community
chair: Phillip Wagner (Berlin)

Anne-Isabelle Richard (Leiden): A sense of belonging, the Dutch interwar European movement between Europe and Empire
Koen van Zon (Nijmegen): A democratic European community? (1952-1960)
Maarten van den Bos (Pax Christi): A Vatican conspiracy? Religion, reconciliation and the unification of Europe, 1944-1950
Marleen Rensen (Amsterdam): The republic of letters in interwar Europe

18.00 Drinks

Friday, 20 December 2013

09.00-10.00
Keynote 3: Rosemary Wakeman (Fordham)
chair: Stefan Couperus

10.00-12.15
Panel V: Technologies of neighborhood building
chair: Stefan Couperus

David Kuchenbuch (Giessen): In search of the human scale – notions of "Community" in German and Swedish urban planning in the early 1940s
Andreas Joch (Washington): Community eludes the architect? German architect planners, American democracy, and the question of community building in Transatlantic perspective
Kenny Cupers (Urbana-Champaign): From the past into the future: the neighborhood unit in Europe, 1930s-1950s

12.15-13.15 Lunch

13.15-15.15
Panel VI: Creating expert communities
chair: David Kuchenbuch (Giessen)

Tracey Loughran (Cardiff): Constructing and re-constructing trauma: psychological medicine and the creation and transformation of discursive communities, c. 1914-1945
Phillip Wagner (Berlin): Reconstructing a transnational expert community, the International Federation for Housing and Town planning, 1945–1955
Michel Geertse (Architectuur Lokaal): From garden cities to new towns: continuity and change in transnational planning dialogue 1913-1993

15.15-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-17.15
Panel VII: Manifestations of cultural and religious communities
chair: Anne-Isabelle Richard (Utrecht)

Niek Pas (Amsterdam): Cycling identities. The Tour d'Algérie Cycliste and the second colonial occupation of French Algeria 1949-1953
Erika Regner (Vienna): Communities arising from literature – overstepping borders and boundaries
Sebastian Hösch (Stuttgart): Constructing community: the use of Heimatfeste (carnivals to honor home) in the German Land Hessen
Ondřej Matějka (Prague): Constructing Czech socialist community 1948-1968: a Protestant perspective

17.15-17.30 Wrap-up and farewell