Dublin Conference and Seminars 2023 Nationalism, Nation-Building, and the Decline of Empires | Program

Day 1 – Conference

Thursday – 25 May

@ Freemason Hall

9:00 AM Welcome

Jonathan Laurence, Clough Center (Boston College)

Giancarlo Bosetti, Reset DOC

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM – The Burden of Imperial Decline on Nationalism in Europe

Karen Barkey (Bard College)
Robert Gerwarth (University College Dublin) – The Long Shadow of 1918: How the Break-Up of Europe’s Land Empires Shapes our Present
Constantin Iordachi (Central European University) – Liberalism, Nationalism and Minorities: The Making of Nation-State Citizenship in Post-Ottoman Balkans
Chair: Alessia Passarelli

11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM – The Sick Man of Europe and neo-Ottoman Ambitions

Cengiz Aktar (University of Athens EKPA) – Observations on the Illiberal Outcome in the post-Imperial Successor State Turkey
Salim Çevik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs) – From Empire to Nation: Religious and Ethnic Pluralism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Johanna Chovanec (University of Vienna) [VIRTUAL]
Chair: Jonathan Laurence

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM- 4:30 PM – Russian Nationalism and the “Russian World”

Riccardo Cucciolla (Università degli Studi di Napoli – Orientale) – Unintentional Divorces and Forced Marriages. The National Discourses in Uzbekistan and Armenia toward the “Russian World”
Mark Kramer (Harvard University) – Putin and Putinism: Autocratic and Imperial Ambitions
Marlène Laruelle (George Washington University) [VIRTUAL]
Chair: Mark Lilla

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Day 2 – Conference

Friday – 26 May

@ Freemason Hall

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM – The Soviet Legacy

Anna Colin Lebedev (Université Paris Nanterre) – Memory and amnesia of the Soviet past in the Ukraine war
Andrea Graziosi (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) – Stalin’s and Soviet Theory of Nationality and Nationalism: Intellectual Roots and Political Legacy
Yaroslav Hrytsak (Catholic University of Lviv) – The Third Ukraine: A Case of Civic Nationalism
Chair: Marta Craveri

11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM – Habsburg: the Conflict between Identity and Integration

Marco Bresciani (Università degli Studi di Firenze) – Fascist Ideas, Practices and Networks of “Empire”: Interwar Italy as Post-Habsburg History
Pieter Judson (European University Institute) – Prison of Peoples? Conflict Management in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848-1925
Clemens Ruthner – Bosnia-Herzegovina: (Colonial and Imperial) Lessons to be learned from the Habsburg Monarchy
Chair: Alessandro Ferrara

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM- 4:30 PM – The Weight of Nationalism and Borders today

Daniela Luigia Caglioti (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) – Citizenship and Nationalism: Inclusion and Exclusion in Interwar Europe;
Mike Cronin (Boston College Ireland) – Sport and Nationalism
Yuli Tamir (Beit Berl College) – Embracing The National Flag or Can Liberal Nationalism counter Populism?
[VIRTUAL]
Chair: Giancarlo Bosetti

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Day 3 – Conference and Seminars

Saturday – 27 May

@ Boston College Ireland

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM -Student Workshop Presentations

11:30 AM Coffee Break

11:45 AM – Roundtable: The changing balance among superpowers: nations and neo imperial ambitions

Organizing Partners

Reset Dialogues on Civilizations

Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme

The Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy at Boston College

Boston College – Ireland

With the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation – France Delegation.