Under the title \u201cEurope reframed: regionalisms, sub-state nationalisms and the redrawing of state borders in the interwar period\u201d this international conference will tackle a variety of topics including self-determination in the interwar years, the construction of de-centralized and subaltern structures, secession and independent states, irredentism and state concurrence, irredentism and dissident minorities, irredentism and emerging states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The conference will have a panel of 2 Keynote speakers and 13 lecturers who will run through the history of the changing borders of Europe during the interwar period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Open to the public but registration mandatory \u2013 send an email before 21 May to info@nise.eu<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Programm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 10.50h Some notes towards a transnational approach to the history of national movements (19th-20th centuries) 11.30 – 13.10 ‘Sub-state nationalisms in Spain and the Rif War (1909 – 1927)’ ‘Battlefield, outpost or oasis of peace? Identities, self-government and nationalism(s) in Friuli between 1919 and 1939’ ‘The Albanian minority question in the League of Nations’ 11.30h – 13.10h ‘Peuples et Fronti\u00e8res (Peoples and borders), a Europeanist journal against the Europe of the Treaties (1936-1939)’ ‘Four Minority Language Writers in the Aftermath of World War I’ ‘Debating Diversity, Minorities and Small Nationhood. Catalan Nationalism in the Interwar Years, 1914-1936’ ‘Farming the nation: agrarian parties and the nationality questions in the aftermath of WWI’ 14h ‘Reframing Europe’: Languages and nations in interwar period’ 14.40h – 17h ‘The Turning of the Tide \u2013 Jewish Emancipation and Anti-Semitism in Romania, 1918-1923’ ‘\u2018Visca Catalunya Lliure!\u2019 Regionalist Battles on the Ramblas in the Immediate Aftermath of WWI’ ‘The Greater Romania and the Hungarian question: the Szeklers of Transylvania’ 14.40h – 17h ‘The dilemma of dual loyalty. Werner Hasselblatt and the rise and failure of Baltic German minority politics in the inter-war period’ ‘Legal guarantees of the League of Nations in the protection of minorities’ ‘Proto-diplomacy across the Mediterranean: the Catalan participation in the first congresses of Byzantine Studies in South-Eastern Europe during the interwar period’ Kontakt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n eva.bidania@nise.eu<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KEYNOTE 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
X.M. N\u00fa\u00f1ez Seixas<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SESSION 1. Irredentism and Periphery
Chaired by Paolo Perri<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A. Iglesias Amor\u00edn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
M. Stolfo<\/p>\n\n\n\n
D. Cali<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SESSION 2. Irredentism and Minorities debated
Chaired by Joep Leerssen<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S. Carney<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J. Krol<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J. I. Duyster Borreda<\/p>\n\n\n\n
M. Cabo Villaverde<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KEYNOTE 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
F. Zantedeschi<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SESSION 3. Diversity and Repression
Chaired by Ludger Mees<\/p>\n\n\n\n
R. Carstocea<\/p>\n\n\n\n
F. Grafl<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A. Carteny<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SESSION 4. Minorities and Diplomacy
Chaired by Xos\u00e9 Manoel N\u00fa\u00f1ez Seixas<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J. Hackmann<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L. Kalaja<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L. Mallart<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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