- Date(s)
- November 3, 2022 - November 4, 2022 (Daily)
- Location
- Online
- Time
- 16:00 - 21:00
- Price
- Free
Join Queen’s University, Belfast and the University of California, Berkeley for a free inter-disciplinary conference exploring ‘Contested Europe’. As Europe experiences uncertainty and contested change, we welcome speakers from a range of disciplines across Anthropology, History, Slavic Studies, Ethnomusicology, Politics, Philosophy and Sociology. Contested Europe discusses diverse and challenging themes such as borders, displacement, resistance, sensations and representations. Full schedule and abstracts can be found below.
We look forward to seeing you.
SCHEDULE
3 November 2022
Session 1 - BORDERS AND NATIONALISM
9.15 – 10.40am (PDT) / 4.15 – 5.40pm (UK)
Alex Titov - Contested borders: why does Putin think of south-eastern Ukraine as ‘age old’ Russian lands?
John Connelly - What the Ukraine War tells us about European Nationalism
Blaze Joel - The Last Berlin Walls in Europe: Memory and Social Division in Post-1989 Europe
5 mins break
Session 2 - HISTORY, DISPLACEMENT AND IMAGINATION
10.45 am – 12.10pm (PDT) / 5.45 – 7.10pm (UK)
Sara Friedman - Imagined Heimats: An exiled Jewish sexologist's German literary home
Danny Kowalsky - East-West Historiographical Schisms in Contemporary Europe: Disturbances at the International Colloquium: ‘La Nouvelle École Polonaise d’Histoire de la Shoah’ (Paris, 21-22 February 2019)
Brian Byrne - Investigating the use of Immersive Technologies to negotiate Identity in Contested Spaces
5 mins break
Session 3 - PATHS AND RESPONSES
12.15 – 1.40pm (PDT) / 7.15 – 8.40pm (UK)
Dylan Riley - Special Paths: The US and Germany in Comparative Perspective
Matt Kovac - The Brest Charter After Brexit: From a “Europe of Peoples” to the “Peoples of Europe”?
Alexander Jeffery - Irish Security Responses to Northern Ireland in the post-hunger strikes period
4 November 2022
Session 1 - SENSATIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS
9.15 - 10.40am (PDT) / 4.15 - 5.40pm (UK)
Susie Deedigan ‘The policy of patience has failed and is over’: emergency law and state executions in Ireland during the Second World War
Djordje Popovic - Integration without Political Theology: An Example from post-Yugoslav Fiction
Chrysi Kyratsou - Refugees (non)belongings and music 'on the doorstep of Europe.'
5 mins break
Session 2 - IDENTITIES, BOUNDARIES AND RESISTANCE
10.45am – 12.10pm (PDT) / 5.45 – 7.10pm (UK)
Pawel Koscielny - Ruptured Remembrance: How Inclusion in the Common European Memory became Exclusion
Raluca Roman - Roma trans-national migration and shifting European boundaries
Rebecca Bamford - Nietzsche on colonialism, freedom, and good Europeans
5 mins break
Session 3 - EUROPE, MARGINALITY AND THE WORLD
12.15 – 1.40pm (PDT) / 7.15 – 8.40pm (UK)
Niamh Cullen - Encounters with the margins of Europe: Anthropologists and the ‘discovery’ of rural, Mediterranean Europe, 1950s to 1970s
Rina Schiller - Traditional Irish Community Music: European Unifier or Exotic ‘Other’?
Juneseo Hwang - Global Environmental Challenges and the EU’s Peacebuilding Framework: The Emergence of an Environment-Peace-Security Nexus?
Closing Remarks
1.40 pm (PDT) / 8.40 pm (UK)
PRESENTERS
Biographies and abstracts can be found on the Eventbrite page.
QUB
History
Dr Alex Titov: Contested borders: why does Putin think of south-eastern Ukraine as ‘age old’ Russian lands?
Dr Niamh Cullen: Encounters with the margins of Europe: Anthropologists and the ‘discovery’ of rural, Mediterranean Europe, 1950s to 1970s
Dr Danny Kowalsky: “East-West Historiographical Schisms in Contemporary Europe: Disturbances at the International Colloquium: ‘La Nouvelle École Polonaise d’Histoire de la Shoah’ (Paris, 21-22 February 2019)”
Alexander Jeffery: Irish Security Responses to Northern Ireland in the post-hunger strikes period (politics?)
Susie Deedigan: ‘The policy of patience has failed and is over’: emergency law and state executions in Ireland during the Second World War
Anthropology
Dr Raluca Roman: Roma trans-national migration and shifting European boundaries
Brian Byrne: Investigating the use of Immersive Technologies to negotiate Identity in Contested Spaces
Ethnomusicology
Dr Rina Schiller: Traditional Irish Community Music: European Unifier or Exotic ‘Other’?
Chrysi Kyratsou: Refugees (non)belongings and music 'on the doorstep of Europe.'
Philosophy
Dr Rebecca Bamford: Nietzsche on colonialism, freedom, and good Europeans
Politics
Dr Juneseo Hwang: Global Environmental Challenges and the EU’s Peacebuilding Framework: The Emergence of an Environment-Peace-Security Nexus?
Alexander Jeffrey: Irish Security Responses to Northern Ireland in the post-hunger strikes period
UCB
History
Matt Kovac: The Brest Charter After Brexit: From a “Europe of Peoples” to the “Peoples of Europe”?
Blaze Joel: The Last Berlin Walls in Europe: Memory and Social Division in Post-1989 Europe
Pawel Koscielny: Ruptured Remembrance; How Inclusion in the Common European Memory became Exclusion
Sara Friedman: Imagined Heimats: An exiled Jewish sexologist's German literary home
Prof John Connelly: What the Ukraine War tells us about European Nationalism
Sociology
Prof Dylan Riley: Special Paths: The US and Germany in Comparative Perspective
Slavic Studies
Prof Djordje Popovic: Integration without Political Theology: An Example from post-Yugoslav Fiction
- Department
- School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics
- The Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice
- Audience
- All
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