Wednesday, 21 March, 14.00–19.00
14.00
Martin Baumeister - Roma
Welcome
Carolin Kosuch - Roma
Introduction "Secularism and Freethought from a European Perspective"
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I - Freethought in European National Movements
Chair: Viviana Mellone - Napoli
14.30
Anton Jansson - Göteborg
Tracing the Genealogy of Modern Secular Sweden: Late 19th Century
Secularists on the Nation and the State
14.55
Yuval Jobani - Tel-Aviv
Jewish Secularisms and the Building of the Hebrew Nation (1904−1922)
15.20
Barbara Wagner - Warszawa
New Country. Poland for and against Freethinkers
15.45
Daniela Haarmann - Wien
The Hungarian Republic of Letters – The Magyarization of Hungary in the early 1800's
16.15
Coffee Break
16.45
Todd Weir - Groningen
Commentary, Discussion
18.00
Keynote Lecture
Detlef Pollack - Münster
Secularization − A Contentious Concept in the Historical and Social Sciences
Thursday, 22 March, 9.30–18.00
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II - Networks and Organizations of Freethought: National and Transnational
Chair: Árpád von Klimó - Washington
9.30
Daniel Laqua - Newcastle
"The Most Advanced Nation on the Road to Liberty": Nationalism and the International Freethought Federation
9.55
Johannes Gleixner - München
Diverging Secularities between the Nation and the Movement: The "International of Proletarian Free-Thinkers" in Central and Eastern Europe during the 1920s in a National and International Framework
10.20
Katharina Neef - Leipzig, Chemnitz
The Komitee Konfessionslos. The Politicization of Leaving Church in the
early 20th Century
10.45
Jessica R. Strom - Mansfield (Connecticut)
Nationalists Abroad: Adriano Lemmi, Giuseppe Mazzini, and Lajos Kossuth
11.15
Coffee Break
11.45
Fulvio Conti - Firenze
Commentary, Discussion
12.45
Lunch Break
14.00
Midday-Lectures
Monika Wohlrab-Sahr - Leipzig
Multiple Secularities: A Comparative Perspective on the Study of Religion and its Other
Todd Weir - Groningen
Two Cultures Debate: Secularism and Socialism in Germany 1870 to 1933
15.00
Short Coffee Break
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III - Identities and Practices of Freethought
Chair: Costanza D'Elia - Cassino
15.15
Laura Fournier Finocchiaro - Paris
Garibaldi and Mazzini: Anticlericalism, Laicism, and the Concept of a National Religion
15.40
Antoine Mandret-Degeilh - Toulouse, Paris
A Secular Avant-Garde? About the Unknown Freethinker Roots of Today's French Civil Baptism
16.05
Christhardt Henschel - Warszawa
Cultures of Reading. Self-Images of Polish Freethinkers
16.30
Coffee Break
17.00
Jakub Basista - Kraków
Commentary, Discussion
Friday, 23 March, 9.15–14.00
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IV - Projects. Freethought, Science and Politics
Chair: Thomas Blanck - Köln
9.15
Carolin Kosuch - Roma
Cremation and the Material Culture of 19th Century European Freethought
9.40
Claus Spenninger - München
Vestiges of a Secular Movement: Scientific Materialism in the 1850s
between Emancipation and Technocracy
10.05
Christoffer Leber - München
Integration through Science? The Monist Movement in Imperial Germany between Nationalism and Internationalism (1910–1915)
10.30
Katalin Straner - Firenze, Southampton
Evolution and Nation in the Press: The Hungarian Reception of Darwinism before and after the Ausgleich (1859–1875)
11.00
Coffee Break
11.30
Rebekka Habermas - Göttingen
Commentary, Discussion
12.30
Lunch
13.30
Final Roundtable with Monika Wohlrab-Sahr - Leipzig
14.00
End of Conference