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