International Conference
Anno 1922: Central Europe Between Old and New Order
Beer-Sheva & Jerusalem / Online
Monday-Wednesday, 12-14 December 2022
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DAY 1: Monday, December 12, Beer Sheva, Marcus Family Campus, Oren Hall, Building 26
10:30-11:00 Reception & Greetings
11:00-13:00 SESSION I: ECONOMY (Karine van der Beek, Beer-Sheva)
Benjamin Vogt, Oxford
Transnational Finance of Reconstruction: From the League Loans to the Dawes Plan
Johannes Gleixner, Munich
“Currency Experiments” and “Schildbürgerstreiche”: The Monetary Disentanglement and Re-Entanglement of Czechoslovakia
Jerzy Łazor, Warsaw
“L’Impérialisme du pauvre”: France and its Eastern European Clients
Cristiano La Lumia, Naples
Stabilizing Post-Imperial Spaces: The German-Polish Convention on Upper Silesia
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-17:30 SESSION II: AUSTRIA (Mark Gelber, Beer-Sheva)
Christopher Wendt, Florence
Post-Imperial Austrian Tyrol: On Faith, Nation, and Region
Niall Buckley, Dublin
Reforming Reform: Ignaz Seipel’s Austrian Counter-Revolution
Christian Fleck, Vienna
Divided: The Austrian Labor Movement
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
Dagmar Wernitznig, Ljubljana
Gender and Order: The Travel Log of Sarah Wambaugh
Wilfried Göttlicher, Graz
The “Future of the Nation”: School Reform between Old and New Order
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DAY 2: Tuesday, December 13, Jerusalem, Mount Scopus Campus, The Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 405
9:30-12:30 SESSION III: MINORITIES (Iris Nachum, Jerusalem)
Anat Varon, Beer-Sheva
Home and Away: Jewish-Austrian Authors Travelling Mandatory Palestine
Rotem Giladi, Jerusalem/London
A Liminal Year: Nathan Feinberg’s “The Problem of National Minorities”
Marina Germane, Vienna
Minorities in Parliament: Elections of 1922 in Poland, Latvia and Lithuania
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
Dóra Pataricza, Turku/Szeged
The Imprisoned Rabbi: Numerus Clausus in Hungary
András Joó, Budapest
Challenging Discrimination: Lucien Wolf and Hungary’s Numerus Clausus Law
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 SESSION IV: ZEITGEIST (Yehudit Dori Deston, Jerusalem)
David J. Rosner, New York
“Decline of the West”: Oswald Spengler’s Dystopia
Péter Techet, Zurich/Freiburg
“Pure Theory of Law”: Habsburg Legacy in Post-Habsburg Order
Anne Hultsch, Vienna
Losing a Language: Prague’s German Treasure
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-18:00 SESSION V: VIOLENCE (Ofer Ashkenazi, Jerusalem)
Katharina Friege, Oxford
“Frau Emma kämpft im Hinterland”: The Dramatic Oeuvre of Ilse Langner
Oded Heilbronner, Ramat-Gan
A Small Town in Germany 1922: Nazi Provocations and Mass Violence in Coburg
Patryk Pleskot, Rzeszów/Warsaw
Embattled: Poland’s Violent 20s
Charles Sabatos, Istanbul
Anti-War Fictions: Satires from the Post-Habsburg Margins
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DAY 3: Wednesday, December 14, Jerusalem, Mount Scopus Campus, The Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 405
9:30-11:30 SESSION VI: BORDERS (Oded Steinberg, Jerusalem)
Angela Ilić, Munich
Contested Territories, Disputed Identities: Lower Styria and Istria between Old and New Orders
Robert L. Nelson, Windsor
German Speakers in Borderlands: From Stabilization to Rescue
Michael Burri, Bryn Mawr
Delimiting Former Twins: The Interallied Commission and the Austrian-Hungarian Boundary
Peter Polak-Springer, Berlin
National Bordering: Upper Silesia between Germany and Poland
11:30-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-13:30 SESSION VII: IDEOLOGIES (Rebekka Grossmann, Jerusalem)
Ruth Nattermann, Rome/Munich
Early Resistance: Italian Fascism and its Female Opponents
Oskar Mulej, Vienna
Politics of Language: “Liberalism” in the Slovene, Austrian, and Czech Cases
Alexandra Preitschopf, Klagenfurt
Anti-Bolshevism: Russian Émigrés between Old and New Order
13:30-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:00 SESSION VIII: CENTRAL EUROPE AND BEYOND (Eran Shlomi, Jerusalem)
Anastassiya Schacht, Vienna
Culture and Diplomacy: The League of Nations’ Early Ties with the Soviet Regime
Friedemann Pestel, Freiburg/Berkeley
Musical Mobility: Between Post-Imperial Crisis and Transatlantic Migration
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30 Keynote Lecture by Pieter Judson, Florence
Imposing the New, Safeguarding the Old: Habsburg Central Europe’s Postwar Imperial Order