Colonialism within Europe: Fact or Fancy? 22nd-23rd June

Colonialism within Europe: Fact or Fancy?

Conference at NUI Galway, 22-23 June 2012

Provisional Conference Programme

Fri., 22^nd June 2012

9.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

9.15-10.30 Session 1 The Irish Experience

Nicholas Canny, Dept. of History, NUI Galway

‰ÛÏWas Ireland a colony? The history of a debate‰۝

Bogdan Murgescu, Dept. of History, University of Bucharest

‰ÛÏA Colonial Periphery? Ireland and Romania in the Early Modern Era‰۝

10.30-11.00 Coffee

11.00-13.00 Session 2: North-South Relations

Piotr Szlanta, Dept. of History, University of Warsaw

‰ÛÏThe Russian bear in the land of the Persian lion. The patterns of subjection 1890-1914‰۝

Enrico Dal Lago, Dept. of History, NUI Galway

‰ÛÏItalian National Unification and the Mezzogiorno: A Case of Internal Colonialism?‰۝

Clemens Ruthner, Dept. of Germanic Studies, Trinity College Dublin

‰ÛÏAustria‰۪s Only ‰ÛÏColony‰۝: Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878-1918‰۝

Commentator: Ulrike Lindner, Dept. of History, University of Bielefeld

13.00-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.30 Humboldt Foundation Programmes by either member of Humboldt staff or Prof. DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_n, Dept. of History, NUI, Galway

14.30-16.30 Session 3: German Peripheries

Detmar Klein, Dept. of History, University College Cork

‰ÛÏGerman-Annexed Alsace and Imperial Germany: A Process of Colonisation?‰۝

Nils Langer, Dept. of German, Bristol University

‰ÛÏGermany and the Danes: Language Politics in Schleswig-Holstein‰۝

RÌ_isÌ_n Healy, Dept. of History, NUI Galway

‰ÛÏGermans and Poles in Poznania and West Prussia‰۝

Commentator: TBA

16.30-17.00 Coffee

17.00-18.00 Keynote Address: Mark von Hagen, Dept. of History, University of Arizona

19.00 Conference Dinner

Sat., 23 June 2012

9.30-11.00 Session 4: Contested Territories in the Interwar Period

Christoph Mick, Dept. of History, University of Warwick

‰ÛÏColonialism in the Polish Eastern borderlands, 1919-1939″

Guido Hausmann, Dept. of History, University of Munich

‰ÛÏMaps of the Borderlands: Russia and the Ukraine‰۝

Commentator: Mridu Rai, Dept. of History, Trinity College Dublin

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 Session 5: Sovietization as Colonization

Paul McNamara, Dept. of History, NUI Galway

‰ÛÏPolonization and Sovietization in Poland‰۪s Recovered Territories‰۝

Balazs Apor, Centre for European Studies, Trinity College Dublin

‰ÛÏPolitical Rituals and the Sovietization of Hungary‰۝

Commentator: Ulf Engel, Centre for African Studies/Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.15 Session 6: Colonial Practices

Alan Kramer, Dept. of History, Trinity College Dublin

‰ÛÏThe Colonial Origins of the Concentration Camp‰۝

Second speaker to be arranged

15.15 Closing Discussion