PRIN 2009 Imperi e Nazioni in Europa dal XVIII al XX secolo Coordinatore nazionale Antonello Folco Biagini

Direzione scientifica Giovanna Motta

Centro di ricerca Cooperazione con l'Eurasia, il Mediterraneo e l'Africa subsahariana

Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Dipartimento di Storia, Culture, Religioni Editing Antonello Battaglia Martina Bitunjac

Scientific Committee

Dominique Arel (Ottawa University) Francesco Benvenuti (Università di Bologna) Antonello Folco Biagini (Sapienza, Università di Roma) Stefano Bianchini (Università di Bologna) Mariam Chkhartishvili (Ivane Javakhishvili, Tbilisi State University) Pasquale Fornaro (Università di Messina) Ljubomir D. Frčkoski (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University) Altay Goyushov (Baku State University) Alexey Gromyko (Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Science) Andre Liebitch (Graduate Institute of International and Development Study) Giovanna Motta (Sapienza, Università di Roma) Matteo Pizzigallo (Università di Napoli, Federico II) Joan Aurel Pop (Università Babes-Bolyai di Cluj-Napoca) Lapo Sestan (Università di Napoli, L'Orientale) Stanislaw Sierpowski (University of Poznan) Roberto Sinigaglia (Università di Genova) John Treadway (Richmond University)

Steering Committee Martina Bitunjac Andrea Carteny Gabriele Natalizia Roberto Reali Daniel Pommier Vincelli

General Informations and Program

20 June, 2013 13.00-15-00 Registration

15.00-16.00

Aula I Opening of the conference by Luigi Frati, Rector of the Sapienza, University of Rome Roberto Nicolai, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities Mariano Pavanello, Director of the Department of History, Cultures, Religions

16.00-19.00

Panel Sessions

20.00 Dinner at Casa dell’Aviatore

21 June, 2013

9.30-10.30 Registration 10.00-13.00 Panel Sessions

13.00-15.30 Lunch

15.30-19.00

Panel Sessions

19.00

Aula I Final remarks by Antonello Biagini, Pro-rector for Cooperation and International Relations

22 June, 2013

Free day

Details:

The panels will take place at the Sapienza-University of Rome. Piazzale Aldo

Moro 5, 00185 Rome in seven different rooms (Aula).

Faculty of Humanities (Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia), Ground floor:

AULA I, AULA II, AULA III, AULA IV.

Faculty of Humanistic Studies (Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia), Second Floor

Aula A Storia moderna, Aula A Storia medievale , Aula B Storia moderna.

Conference Floor map: Ground floor

Conference floor map: Second floor

Registration, Dinner, Lunch

Registration:

Registration will be carried out at the Faculty of Humanities

(Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia), ground floor. The Information

desk will be open Thursday starting from 13.00 and Friday

starting from 9.30.

Dinner:

20 June, 20.00. The dinner will be available in the near of the

University at Casa dell’Aviatore, Viale dell’Università 20, 00185

Rome. The dinner and the lunch are included in the price of

registration.

Lunch:

21 June, 13.00-15.30. The lunch will be served at the campus of

Sapienza-University of Rome.

How to get here:

From Fiumicino Airport "Leonardo Da Vinci" by train: (recommended): The best option is to take the no-stop train "Leonardo Express" to Termini station (travel time: about 30 minutes). From Termini follow the instructions below. The train timetable and fares can be found on the TRENITALIA website . Notice: the trains from Termini to Fiumicino Airport leave from tracks 23 and 24, which are far on the right from the main entrance of the station. Allow an extra 10 minutes to get there. by taxi: The official fixed rate (all included) from Fiumicino airport to any destination within the ancient Roman walls (Mura Aureliane), included La Sapienza campus, is 48 euros. The ride to La Sapienza campus takes about 50 minutes. From Ciampino Airport "G. B. Pastine" by bus (recommended): Connections to Termini station (in about 30-40 minutes) are guaranteed by the bus services operated by ATRAL , COTRAL , SIT and TERRAVISION companies. The fare is about 5 euros. From Termini follow the instructions below. by taxi: the official fixed rate (all included) from Ciampino airport to any destination within the ancient Roman walls (Mura Aureliane), included La Sapienza campus, is 30 euros. The ride to La Sapienza campus takes about 30 minutes. From Termini Train Station: From Termini station to the campus is a 15 minutes' walk. Leave the station through the right side exit (Via Marsala), and follow

these directions. Alternatively take one of the taxi cabs lining outside the front entrance of the station. Public Transportation: Subway: Take the Line B and stop at Castro Pretorio. From there to the campus is a 10 minutes' walk. Bus: Several bus lines stops in the streets around the perimeter of the campus. The ticket price for a single journey is 1,50 euros and they need to be purchased in advance. To plan your trip visit the ATAC website. Useful links: Public train network: http://www.fsitaliane.it/homepage_en.html Fiumicino airport: http://www.adr.it/web/aeroporti-di-roma-en-/pax-fco-fiumicino Ciampino airport: http://www.adr.it/web/aeroporti-di-roma-en-/pax-cia-ciampino Bus and subway public network: http://www.atac.roma.it/index.asp?lingua=ENG

Sapienza Campus map

Full Program

AULA I, June 20, 2013

16.00-17.30

The Roots of Nation States: National Identity in Modern

Age

Chair and Discussant: Alessandro Saggioro

Mateo Ballester Rodríguez War and National Identity: Conflict with France and the Development of a Spanish National Identity in the Early Modern Age Jean-Charles Speeckaert Living at the crossroads of Empires : The Austrian Netherlands and the balance of power game Daniel Dumitran From Balkans to the Habsburg Empire. The social integration of non-privilegiated Greek merchants in the small towns of Transylvania and Hungary Iacob Mârza, Mârza Radu The Meaning of the Concept of “Nation” in Transylvania in the 18th Century Sopio Kadagishvili Georgian Self-determination in the Eighteenth Century (Saints and Collective Memory)

AULA I, June 20, 2013

17.30-19.00

The Endless End of Empires. Challenging the Decline Interpretation in the History of the Ottoman and Spanish Empires, 16th-19th Centuries Chair and Discussant: Fernando García Sanz

Evrim Türkçelik After Lepanto. The Reconfiguration of the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean Context Rubén González Cuerva In Search of a New Political Project. From Spanish Monarchy to Catholic Monarchy in the 17th Century Meltem Akbas, Darina Martykánová Techno-Scientific Policies of the State and the Question of “Foreign Models” in a Comparative Perspective Juan Luis Simal, Darina Martykánová The Catholic King and the Ottoman Sultan. The Metaphor of the Oriental Despot and the Crisis of the Spanish Monarchy in the Early Nineteenth Century

AULA II, June 20, 2013

16.00-17.30

From the Ottoman Empire to the Kemalist Republic: the Journey of Modern Turkey Chair and Discussant: Fabio L. Grassi

Mónika F. Molnár The Crisis of the Ottoman Empire Seen by 17-18th-century Italians Sara Barbieri Managing Diversities in a Multinational Empire: the Millet System Manuela Borraccino The Tanzimat and the Struggle of Non-Muslim Minorities for Citizenship: the Short Season of the Reformism Within the Decline of the Ottoman Empire Vangelis Kechriotis What Histories did Balkan States and the Ottoman Empire Narrate to Each Other During the Long 19th Century? Ion Josan Becoming a Turk: Turkishness Between the Empire and the Nation State Cecilia Alina Sava Myth or Reality? The Presumptive Romanian-Turkish Military Convention and the International Public Opinion

AULA II, June 20, 2013

17.30-19.00

Constructing National Identity in late Ottoman Empire

Chair and Discussant: Alberto Becherelli

Maria Mandamadiotou The Greek Orthodox Community of Mytilene: From the Multi-ethnic Symbiosis in the Ottoman Empire to the Greek State, 1908-1912 Uğur Peçe Zekeriya Fighting for the Fatherland: Conscription of the non-Muslim Ottomans (1908-1912) Fabio L. Grassi An Anti-nationalistic Dream: Ottomanism Güldeniz Kıbrıs A Late Ottoman/Early Republican Construction of Turkish Identity: Neo-Hellenism Movement

AULA III, June 20, 2013

16.00-17.30

Hapsburg Empire and Nationalities

Chair and Discussant: Andrea Carteny

Vlad Popovici Culture, Science and the Political Culture of the Romanians in Transylvania and Hungary (1848-1918) Mirela Popa-Andrei The Ecclesiastical Elite Involved in the National Movement of the Transylvanian Romanians During the Period of Austrian “Semi-Liberalism” 1860-1865 Giordano Altarozzi, Cornel Sigmirean The National Question in Transylvania on the Ausgleich’s Eve Emil Ovidiu Iudean, Oana Valentina Sorescu From Protest Petitions to Parliamentary Action – The Attitude of the Leadership of the Nationalities in Hungary in Regards to the Minister Ágoston Trefort’s Magyarization Policy Alexandru Onojescu Politics and Parliamentarism. The Romanian Political Elite from Transylvania between Vienna and Pest

AULA III, June 20, 2013

17.30-19.00

The Role of Minorities in Late Hapsburg Empire

Chair and Discussant: Giuseppe Motta

Norbert Tóth The Very First Law on Minorities in the World: the Hungarian Law on Minorities of 1849 and its Impact on the Hungarian Legislative Ideas on Minority Issues and Nation Politics Ferenc Laczó The Jewish Issue and the Redefinitions of the Hungarian Nation. An Analysis of Major Debates of the 19th Century Anida Sokol The Austro-Hungarian Language Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina Sokol Pacukaj The Role of Italy and Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Independence of Albania

AULA IV, June 20, 2013

16.00-17.30

National Identity in Tsarist Russia

Chair and Discussant: Elena Dundovich

Antonio Stango The Building of the Empire in the 18th Century’s Russia Oxana Zemtsova Civil Freedoms and Discussion on Russianness in the Late Romanov Empire Elena Pavleeva Russian nationalism(s) and the notion of empire at the turn of the 20th century

AULA IV, June 20, 2013

17.30-19.00

Tsarist Russia and the Others: Essays on Identity and Foreign Policy Chair and Discussant: Alexey Gromyko

Iulia Malitska Arm-wrestling over Authority: German Colonists’marriage in the nineteenth-century Southern Russian Empire Francesco Randazzo Italian Foreign Policy and Diplomatic Activity of Giulio Melegari (1901-1912) Emilio Cassese The Russian Secret Mission to the Vatican. Historical Dynamics and new European Alliances Oleg N. Misko Does it makes sense to save an Empire? Reforms, reaction and revolution. Rome vs Russia

AULA A Storia moderna, June 20, 2013 16.00-17.30 The Religion of Nations

Chair and Discussant: Martin Arndt

Ana Victoria Sima The Reception of the Italian Risorgimento in the Public Conscience of the Romanian Ecclesiastical Intellectuals from Transylvania Fabio Di Giannatale Catholicism and the Idea of Nation in the Italian Risorgimento Marta Turkot Religion in the post imperial state – the case of Poland Jacek Maj Byzantine Tradition in the East-Central Europe in the 19th Century: the Case of Poland Manuela Pellegrino Totalitarian Soviet Regime in Russia and the Persecution of the Catholics in the Twenties and Thirties

AULA A Storia moderna, June 20, 2013

17.30-19.00

The Main Characteristics of China and the Meaning of National Identity (18th-20th centuries) Chair and Discussant: Federico Masini

Federico Masini Introduction - The Process of “Sinicization” of the Qing Dinasty Davor Antonucci The Multinational Qing Empire in the XVIII Century: Legitimacy and Innovation in the Chinese Imperial Tradition Marina Miranda A Comparison Between the Chinese and the Imperial Concept with Regard to the Modernization Process During the XIX Century Li Zhiwei Headsman, Spectres and Monsters: History and Violence of the Fall of Chinese Empire in Mo Yan's Sandalwood Death Monica Gheorghita Soft Power Etiquette Facing the Honest Shadows of Realpolitik: New Perspectives on Sino-European Relations and their Impact on Foreign Policy

AULA B Storia medievale, June 20, 2013

16.00-17.30

Economy of Inequality: Colonialism and Economic Development Chair and Discussant: Donatella Strangio

Damian Panaitescu The Ottoman Fiscal and Commercial Policies over Wallachia During 1700-1830 Revaz Gvelesiani, Nana Maisuradze German Capital in Georgia at the End of the 19th and at the Beginning of the 20th Centuries and its Importance Francesca Romana Lenzi The Italian Internationalization and the Balkans: the experience of Italian and Romanian Commercial Bank (1920-1942) Eka Lekashvili, Giorgi Gaprindashvili Socialist Integration in the Context of Regional Economic Integration (On the Example of the South Caucasian States) Mara Marginean Reconfiguring the Romanian Architectural Practice by the late 1950s – Soviet Models and Local Economic Programming

AULA B Storia medievale, June 20, 2013 17.30-19.00 The Economy of Nationalisms

Chair and Discussant: Roberto Pasca Di Magliano

Fernanda Rollo, Ana Paula Pires War and Empire: Portuguese Africa and the War Economy (1914-1919) Milan Balaban Economic Nationalism Between Two World Wars José Antonio Sánchez Román Living in an Imperial World. The ‘Periphery’ and the Shaping of the Economic International Community in the Inter-war Period Donatella Strangio Companies and firms in the "Italian Somalia" (1960-1970)

AULA B Storia moderna, June 20, 2013 16.00-19.00

Gender and Empires

Chair and Discussant: Mariam Chkhartishvili

Pallavi Baruah Role of Women in the Nation Building Process During the Ahom Period in the 18th Century Assam Giovanna Motta Marie Louise Habsburg: an Austrian Empress of France Claire Delahaye Wilsonianism and woman suffrage: influences, connections and crosscurrents in democratic discourses (1912-1920) Enrique Bengochea Tirado The Sección Femenina in the Spanish Sahara: Colonial project, national framing and gender building Natalia Dmitrievna Krjuchkova Female involvement in building of the British Empire (the end of the XIX-th – the beginning of the XX-th c.) Jennifer Griffiths Aeroaesthetics and the Male Gaze Diana Shendrikova The Comfort Women: The Comfort System of the Japanese Imperial Armed Forces

AULA I, June 21, 2013 10.00-13.00

Theoretical Approaches to Empires and Nations

Chair and Discussant: Fabio L. Grassi

Inese Grumolte Marxist Intellectuals' Debate on the National Question" Theoretical reconsideration Sanja Lazarević-Radak Impery, Text And Shifting Balkanization. (From 19th Century to the present day) Nada Sekulić Warfare, State and National Sovereignty in XVIII and XIX Century in the Klausewitz’s and Faucault’s Theories of War Shih-chieh (Jay) Su From Kulturnation to Staatsnation: the Construction of National Identity in the Life and Work of Leopold von Ranke Manuel Pousa Castelo “Why Get Angry About Losing Just a Territory?” Teaching 19th Century European Nation-states and Empires Francesca Zantedeschi Pan-nationalisms as the Arbiter of Nations and Empires throughout the Long 19th Century Martin Arndt Fichte and the Nation-State - Emancipation or Regression?

Salvatore Santangelo Manifest destiny: An Imperial Vocation? Daniele Conversi Nationalism and Westernization Gabriele Natalizia The United States Between the Moment of Unipolarity and Strategic Continuity

empires and nations

AULA I, June 21, 2013 15.30-19.00

Theoretical Approaches to Empires and Nations II

Chair and Discussant: Altay Goyushov

Ferran Archilés Imperialism, “Regeneration” and national identity in Spain (1880-1914) Anne-Sophie Bentz Nations and Nationalism in Postcolonial Theories Giovanni C. Cattini, Carles Santacana The international models of Catalan nationalism (1882-1912) Mariam Chkhartishvili Conceptualizing Georgian Nation within Romanov Empire. Georgian intellectuals in search of matrix Nicolae Costrut Defining Imperialism Robert Lukenda “From a divided to a dividing memory” – the interrelation of nation and memory in the late 20th century Caterina Bassetti States, Nations and Regionalism in the Perspective of the European Integration Process Alexandra Paula Calin Soft power and its influence on the developing countries

AULA II, June 21, 2013 10.00-13.00 Literature, Nationalism, Identity: the Rising of an Intellectual Conscience in Europe Chair and Discussant: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

Caterina Giannottu Nation Building and Politics in Rome Between 1798 and 1870 through the satire of Pasquino Sharon Worley Renaissance Brutuses in Napoleonic Italy Gabriella Brutovszky Nations and National Minorities in the Light of Pasquils Ljiljana Stošić Oriental Exoticism in the Serbian Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries. The Balkans as a European Obscure Object of Desire Lorenzo Marmiroli The Italian intelligentsia and Armed Intervention in the Great War: The Debacle on the Cultural Magazines La Voce and L’Unità Elena Dumitru From Pittsburgh to Marosvécs. Baron Kemény János and the Formation of the Helikon Community Éder Silveira Avant-Gardism or Cult of the Past? Brazilian Intellectuals and the Disputes Between Nationalisms in the Interwar Period Tanko Promož Communist and Anti-communist Ideology during World War II. in Slovenian Novel

Júlia-Eszter Andorkó Ideology and literature in “Utunk” (1960-1979) Tatjana Koprivica Montenegro through the Lens of the Marubi Atelier

AULA II, June 21, 2013 15.30-19.00

The Narration of National identity

Chair and Discussant: Elena Dumitru

Maria Nogués Bruno Political thought and literature: the concept of nation according to the authors of the Spanish Generation of ‘98 Gábor Crnković Monarchy Stereotypes And Identity Problems In The Novels of János Herceg Zoe Detsi-Diamanti From Colony to Empire: American National Identity and the Undesirable “Other” in Charlotte Barnes’ The Forest Princess (1848) Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou Nations and Empires Built on Ruins: Restoring Historical Memory in Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit Effie Yiannopoulou Utopia and the Multicultural nation in Andrea Levy’s Fiction

AULA III, June 21, 2013 10.00-13.00

From the Great War to Versailles

Chair and Discussant: Alessando Vagnini

Roberto Sciarrone Germany’s Next War: Plans and Strategies between 1905 and 1913 Ioana Elena Ignat Transylvania During the First World War: Demographic, Socio-economic and Cultural Aspects Francesca Di Giulio Religious and Ethnic Identities in First World War Macedonia. Perspectives from the Holy See’s Diplomacy Nazar Bağci Ethnic Conflicts in Anatolia and the Turkish War of Independence 1918-1922

Lucian Săcălean

Projects of Recontruction of Romanian and Hungarian States, After 1918

Irina Belova Prisoners of War of the Central States and the Soviet Reality

AULA III, June 21, 2013 15.30-19.00 Rethinking Croatian Question in 20th Century

Chair and Discussant: Martina Bitunjac

Piero Di Girolamo At the origin of the democratic and revolutionary "interventism": perceptions of the multinational Empires' crisis through the liberal, socialist and revolutionary "sindacalist" press (1908-1915) Andrea Carteny D’Annunzio at Fiume, building a New Italy (1919-1920) Alberto Becherelli Italo-Yugoslav Relations and the Adriatic Issue (1918-1924) Ivanka Dodovska Regional Security Pacts in South Eastern Europe between the Two World Wars Vilim Pavlović Eastern Adriatic in the Croatian National Revival Dragan Bakić Milan Stojadinović, the Croat Question and the International Position of Yugoslavia, 1935-1939 Gabriele Vargiu The Trieste Question and the 1948 Elections in Italy. An Assessment of National and Foreign Propaganda Michele Pigliucci The last Risorgimento: riots in Triest in 1953

AULA IV, June 21, 2013 10.00-11.30

Constructing National Identity within the British Empire

Chair and Discussant: Mevlüt Çelebi

Gianluca Pastori Feudal or federal? The impact of British policy on the political and institutional system of the khanate of Kalat (North-West India, 1870-1914)

Michał Leśniewski Permissive Confederation in South Africa. British Empire in South Africa, 1875-1881: A Case Study in Changes in Imperial Thought Andrey Ivanov The Integration of the Maori into the British Empire in the late XIX Century Michael N. Michalis From an Empire of the Orient to an Empire of the West: Ottoman and British Perceptions of Modernity in Cyprus Kartia Snoek Citizenship, Naturalisation and the Rise and Fall of the British Imperial Subject

AULA IV, June 21, 2013 11.30-13.00

Models of European Colonial Empires

Chair and Discussant: Andrea Carteny

Antonello Battaglia A Mediterranean Struggle: The Tunisian Crisis in 1864 Francesco Cerasani The Imperialism of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Perspectives and historiography of German Südpolitik Andrey Salnyy, Tatiana Danilova Strengthening of the political power of Russian Empire in the steppe area of the North Caucasus region in the middle of the 19-th century Oliver Charbonneau The Moro Problem: Race, Religion, and American Colonial Empire in the Southern Philippines, 1920-1940 Tuija Parvikko Heart of Darkness. Rereading Hannah Arendt’s critique of colonialism with Edward W. Said Radu Murea Defensive Modernization. Paving the Way to Colonialism Stefano Pelaggi Colonialism Through Emigration: The Italian Politics in Latin America Between Nationalism and Commercial Expansion from Crispi to the Rise of Fascism

AULA IV, June 21, 2013 15.30-19.00

From Empire Subjects to Nations: Models of Decolonization

Chair and Discussant: Gabriele Natalizia

Enrico Magnani Colonialism and the Birth of International Institutions: The Mandate System of the League of Nations and the Trusteeship Architecture of the United Nations Ole Frahm South Sudan – an outlier in post-colonial African nation-building? Daniel Pommier Vincelli The Challenges of a Post-Colonial Nation: The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (1918-1920) Teresa Segura-Garcia Indian rulers abroad: Princely travel, empire and anti-colonial politics in Western India and the world, c. 1900-1939 Jorge Ramos Tolosa The first failures of the UNO in Palestine: Partition Plan, creation of the State of Israel and Nakba as a result of half century of Zionist colonialist policies Philippe Tristani Iraq decolonization and the oil cold war: A superpower struggle and the end of Iraq Petroleum Company, 1958-1972 Joanna Modrzejewska-Leśniewska Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan 1979 as a Continuation of Imperial Policy of the Tsarist Russia

Daniela Pinheiro Machado Kern “The Amazonian Idol”: the naissance of a National symbol in the Empire of Brazil (1848-1885) Mihaela Bolos The intellectual property protection system in the French and British colonies during 1919-1989

AULA A Storia moderna, June 21, 2013 10.00-13.00

Was the Real-Socialism System an Empire?

Chair and Discussant: Elena Dundovich

Anton Vatcharadze The Great Purge as a Weapon of Totalitarian “Emperor” Joseph Stalin Anna Troján The Failure to Cope with Socialist Realism in the Soviet Union of the 1930's (Andrej Platonov) Martina Bitunjac Die Rote Hilfe! German Solidarity With Italian Anti-fascists Under the Regime of Mussolini Alina Buzăianu A Recall of the Anticommunist Armed Resistance in Romania (1944-1962) Manuela Marin Nationalism and Socialism in Romania. The Case of Nicolae Ceausescu`s Cult of Personality Mihai Croitor Gh. Gheorghiu-Dej and the Roots of the Romanian Dissidence inside the Communist Camp Cezar Stanciu National Interests and International Communism: The Romanian Communists Advocating “Allargamento”, 1967-1973

Francesco Dall’Aglio Old Bones for New Quarrels: Medieval History and Nationalist Issues in Southeastern Europe During the Socialist Era Liudmila Volakhava Belarusians’ Soviet Identity and Its Role in the Establishment of the Lukashenko Authoritarian Regime Amit Mishra, Pramod Mishra New Challenges to Democracy with the End of Cold War

AULA A Storia moderna, June 21, 2013 15.30-19.00 Clashing Empires in Cold War Era

Chair and Discussant: Antongiulio De’ Robertis

Andreea Emilia Duță The Romanian the Struggle for Detente Inside of Warsav Treaty Arpad Hornyak Northern Borders of Yugoslavia in the Concepts of Communist Party of Yugoslav after the World War II Valentina Mariani Outer Space: a new dimension for the application of the principle of balance of power during the Cold War Ivan Laković The Fear and the Solution. Yugoslavia between the Soviet threat and the Western military aid 1948-1958 Maciej Stanecki The Twilight of the British Empire in the Polish analysts' opinion in the 1960s Andrea Giannotti Some considerations about the “Brežnev Doctrine”. Between instances of proletarian internationalism and socialist expansionism Laura Venegoni Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi -Modernisation and Millenary Tradition (1941 – 1979)

AULA B Storia medievale, June 21, 2013 10.00-13.00

National Minorities between Nation States and Empires

Chair and Discussant: Ljubomir D. Frčkoski

Rubin Zemon From “Millet” to “Nations” and/or “Minorities” Giuseppe Motta National Sovereignty vs. International Law. The League of Nations and the Protection of Minorities Maria Dan Transylvania From the Creation of National Identities to the Interethnic Conflict of 1848 Gleb Pilipenko Russian Language Among Hungarians in Transcarpathian Region (Ukraine): Sociolinguistic Features Katalin Rac Orientals Among the People of the East: Nationalism, Orientalism, and the Jewish Question in Nineteenth-Century Hungary Alessandro Pistecchia Social Inclusion and Identity Strategies: Romanian’s Roma Experience During the Years of Real Socialism

AULA B Storia medievale, June 21, 2013 15.30-17.30 The Building of National Identity: the case of Romania

Chair and Discussant: Giordano Altarozzi

Gabriel Lataianu, Stefan Bruno Coming late to the party. Romania’s accelerated modernization between 1859 and 1916 Cosmin Sebastian Cercel Between Constitution and Exception: Nation-Building, Sovereignty and Fascism in Interwar Romania Paul-Ersilian Roşca The Perspectives of the Monarchy in Interwar Romania. From the Constitutional Monarchy to Right-Wing Totalitarianism Petru Szedlacsek How the Liberals Monopolized Cultural Nationalism: Infusing Politics with National Ideology in Romania at the Turn of the Nineteenth-Century Florina Sorescu The Italian Ratification of the Treaty of Basarabia of October 28th, 1920 Radu Mârza Historians, Diplomacy and Nationalism in Romania (1918-1946)

AULA B Storia medievale, June 21, 2013 17.30-19.00 The Building of National Identity: the Case of Southern-Eastern Europe Chair and Discussant: Nadan Petrović

Robert Brier Nationalism in International Society: The Second International and the Nationalities of East-Central Europe’s Multinational Empires Ljubomir D. Frčkoski Macedonia in the Imperial Balkan Policies at the Beginning of XX Century Aleksandra Kolaković Serbian Elite and the Issue of Development of the National Culture in the Late 19th Century Ana Živković Snowley British Perceptions of nineteenth-century Nationalism in Montenegro: From Denigration to Glorification Klejda Mulaj Nationalism and Political Violence in the Aftermath of Imperial Collapse: The Emergence of New States and the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 Slavko Burzanović Montenegro in the Italian foreign policy during the Balkan wars (1912-1913) Blerina Sadik The Fundamental Rights of the Albanian Population of Chameria in Front of the Greek Municipal Law and International Law: 1913- 1926

Yana Stoeva The Genesis of the Modern Bulgarian State: Fallen Empires, Ideological power, the Formation of a National Consciousness and the European Identity Ali Nuri Tahir Irredentist Violence in the Early 20th Century and Comparison of Greek and Bulgarian National Revivals

AULA B Storia moderna, June 21, 2013 10.00-13.00 War and National Identity in the Age of Extremes

Chair and Discussant: Daniel Pommier Vincelli

David Sarkisyan From Second to Third Reich Vangelis Tzoukas British perceptions of the Greek Armed Resistance during WWII Olaf Glöckner Zionist movement and the State of Israel as reflective of European National Movements Rigas Raftoupoulos From the Ioannis Metaxas’ regime (1936-40) to the Colonels’ regime (1967-74) Davide Borsani Imperial legacy and Cold War rationale: the Anglo-American diplomacy and the Falklands war in 1982 Klara Plecitá-Vlachová Czech Republic and the modern Czech Nation

AULA B Storia moderna, June 21, 2013 15.30-19.00 National Identity in Eastern Europe after Cold War Era: Selected Case Studies Chair and Discussant: Daniel Pommier Vincelli Costanza Calabretta The Debate on German Nation After the Fall of the Berlin Wall Piotr Chmiel Between Nations and Empires. The Contemporary Reflections on Central Europe Álvaro Cúria Understanding the 1989/1991 Events in Eastern Europe: An Approach on Different Interpretations Gruia Badescu Nation-Building, Socialist Style: A Comparison of Macedonia and Moldova Alexander Tsurtsumia Revolutions and Geopolitical Transformations Tlepstok Aslanovich Ruslan The Caucasus in the System of Geopolitical Coordinates XIX-XX Elena Dundovich Econationalism Alfredo Sasso The Defeat of the Democratic Yugoslavism in Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Union of the Reformist Forces of Yugoslavia (1990-92) Carlos Gonzalez Villa Poisoned support? Hypothesis on the implications of US foreign policy towards Yugoslavia, 1981-1991

Waldemar Cudny Socio-economic transformation of Polish cities after the fall of communism at the example of the cities with domination of the traditional economy Ege Celeste Reinuma The Alibi of Memories: The Political Idealism, Culture and Ideology in Post Communist Countries