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Conference
Exile, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
21-23 June 2007
Warburg-Haus, Hamburg
Research on migration, diasporas and exile suggests that the specific trans-national situation with which exiles are confronted, frequently leads to the emergence and development of nationalist or cosmopolitan attitudes towards other ‘nations’ or ethnicities, political and social groups. Nineteenth and early twentieth-century national historiography suggests that, during the process of nation building and the formation of national identities in western Europe, tendencies to develop rival national identities in exile were much stronger than in the so-called ‘cosmopolitan age’ of the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. In the case of the Italian Risorgimento exile in France reinforced those exiles’ ‘nationalism’, other groups in diaspora, including the Huguenots, who migrated to different European and overseas destinations between 1548 and 1787, are identified as ‘cosmopolitans’. However, closer assessment of diasporic groups and of exile makes evident that exiles frequently developed attitudes that would be identified as simultaneously both cosmopolitan and nationalist.
This conference seeks,
1)To discuss different forms of exile to approach a more differentiated perspective on exile and its consequences for groups living in a trans-national context. These groups reacted to their circumstances by creating a new political, social, economic and/or cultural identity.
2)To define and explain ‘nationalism’ and the so-called ‘rise of the nation-state’ in the context of ‘exile’ and diasporic movements.
3)To define and explain cultural, political or social ‘cosmopolitanism’ in the context of ‘exile’ and Diasporas.
Programme
Thursday, 21 June
10.00 Welcome: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Claudia Schnurmann (Hamburg)
Introduction: Dr. Susanne Lachenicht (Hamburg)
10.30 - 12.00 The Cosmopolitan Age? Chair: Dr. Angelika Epple
Prof. W. Douglas Catterall (History, Lawton/Oklahoma):
Nations, Ethnicity, and the Swedish Nation in the Age of Freedom (1730-1760).
Dr. Liam Chambers (History, Limerick):
‘Une Maison Particulière et Isolée’ ?: Migration, National Identity and the Irish Colleges (Paris) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
14.00 – 16.00 Cosmopolitanism, Chair: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
Dr. Kate Daniels (Oriental Studies, Cambridge):
'The Song of Everyone without a Homeland': A Palestinian Writer in 'Cosmopolitan' Beirut.
Prof. Dr. Harald Hagemann (Economics, Stuttgart-Hohenheim):
Cosmopolitanism and Aerial Roots. Emigré Economists in Britain and the United States after 1933
Dr. Frank Grüner (East-European History, Heidelberg).
Nationalism and Anti-cosmopolitanism in Russian and Soviet Ideology
16.30 – 18.30 Revolution and Exile, Chair: Dr. Susanne Lachenicht
Dr. Maurizio Isabella (History, London):
A Nationalism of the diaspora: Italian Risorgimento and
Cosmopolitanism (1796-1848)
Dr. Michael M. Miller (Nationalism Studies, Budapest):
From Liberal Nationalism to Rootless Cosmopolitanism:
Simon Deutsch and 1848ers in Exile
Niall Whelehan (History, Florence):
Paris, New York, and the Role of Exile in Irish Nationalism
1860-1885
19:00
Lecture: Prof. Dr. Bertrand van Ruymbeke (History, Paris): Diaspora, Exile, Identity: Le Refuge huguenot in a global and comparative perspective
Chair: Prof. Dr. Hermann Wellenreuther
Friday, 22 June
10.00-13.00 From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, Chair: Prof. Dr. Claudia Schnurmann
Dr. Bartosz Awianowicz (Classics, Torun):
Two Poets in Exile: Ovid and Philip Callimachus Buonaccorsi
Dr. Heleni Porfyriou (Urban History, CNR -ICVBC -Rome):
Greek Diaspora in the Italian peninsula, between nationalism and cosmopolitanism
Dr. Daniel S. Murphree (History, University of Texas at Tylor): Cosmopolitanism and Paradise: French Exiles, Racialization, and National Identity in the Colonial Floridas, 1564-1573
Michael Studemund-Halévy (Hamburg):
Forced Expulsion in the 17th Century: Hamburg’ s Portuguese Community
15.00 – 16.30 Jewish Identity, Chair: PD Dr. Andreas Brämer
Dr. Markus Bauer (School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth)
Galuth – A debate on Nationhood and Exile in Eastern and Western European Jewry
Anne-Christin Saß (East-European History, Berlin):
Life in Transition - East European Jewish Migrants in Berlin
1918-1933
17.00 – 18.30 (20th c.) Nationalism, Chair: Prof. Dr. Frank Golczewski
Beatrice Penati (History, Pisa):
Exile and Transformation of Nationalist Discourse: The Case of Russian Muslim Emigrés to Western Europe between the two World Wars
Anna Holian (History,Tempe):
Between Nationalism and Internationalism:
Displaced Persons at the UNRRA University of Munich, 1945-1948
Saturday, 23 June
10.00 – 11.30 Structuring Space – Structuring Identity, Chair: PD Dr. Kirsten Heinsohn
Dr. Samuel D. Albert (Art History, New York):
Constructing Identity: Jewish, Arab, and British Architectures in Mandate Palestine (1918-1948)
Anne Hass (Landscape Architecture, Munich):
The Chicago School. How to justify social discrimination and exclusion by transforming the bio-ecological Monoclimax theory into a theory of city development
12.00 – 14.00 Postcolonial Perspectives, Chair: Prof. Dr. Andreas Eckert
Dr. William O’Reilly (History, Cambridge):
The Oxford Cosmopolitan Club and the Migration of Nationalism: Oxford, Berlin, Harvard
Birte Timm (History, Erfurt):
Migration and the Decolonisation of Jamaica – The "Jamaica Progressive League" in New York and Kingston
Dr. Baz Le Cocq (African Studies, Berlin):
Teshumara: exile and nationalism in late 20th century Tuareg society
Conference fees: € 15 (students € 7.50).
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