W O R K S H O P
BUILDING CULTURAL NATIONS
THE MATICA AND EQUIVALENT INTERMEDIARY STRUCTURES IN EUROPE
NISE / SPIN / CEU, 2012
Central European University – Budapest
Tuesday 14 February 2012
17h00-20h00
Guided tour of the Central European University
Welcome and presentation – [CEU] / Louis Vos (NISE) / Joep Leerssen (SPIN)
Reception
Wednesday 15 February 2012
09h00-12h30
Introduction – Alexei Miller (CEU, Budapest)
Origins in Trans- and Cisleitania
- chairperson: Miroslav Hroch (Univerzita Karlova, Prague) -
- ‘Matica Srpska’ – Dušan Nikolić (Matica Srpska, Novi Sad)
- ‘The Matice Česká’ – Magdalena Pokorná (Univerzita Karlova, Prague)
- ‘Matice in the regional context: comparison of Kashubian, Sorbian and Czech-Silesian initiatives’ – Miloš Řezník (Technische Universität Chemnitz)
- ‘Precursors of the Slovak Matica‘ – Benjamin Bossaert (Univerzita Komenského, Bratislava)
- ‘Slovak Matica (Matica slovenská)’ – Dagmar Kročanová-Roberts (Univerzita Komenského, Bratislava)
- ‘The Slovenian Matica’ – Marijan Dović (Institut za Slovensko Literaturo, Ljubljana)
Coffee
Discussion
12h30-13h45 Lunch
13h45-16h15
Variations in Central and Eastern Europe
- chairperson: Alexei Miller (CEU, Budapest) -
- ‘Birth of the Ossolineum. How memory of the past shaped the future of the Polish nation’ – Andrzej Krajewski (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, Warsaw)
- ‘The Ukrainian cultural and educational society “Galician-Ruthenian Matica”‘ – Iryna Orlevych (Krypiakevych Institute, Lviv)
- ‘Matica dalmatinska: a regional, national or multination institution?’ – Daniel Baric (Université François-Rabelais, Tours)
- ‘Activity of the Macedonian societies in the 1880s and 1890s’ – Liljana Gushevska (SS. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje)
- ‘Intelligentsia in exile: the case of the Macedonian scientific and literary society in Saint Petersburg’ – Aleksandar Zdravkovski (Central European University, Budapest)
Coffee
Discussion
16h30-18h30
Guided tour of Budapest
Evening
Conference dinner at First Strudel House of Pest
Thursday 16 February 2012
09h15-12h30
Equivalents
- chairperson: Louis Vos (NISE) -
- ‘Eastern Club and the “Silver Age” of the Tatar culture (1880-1906)’ – Oxana Zemtsova (European University Institute, Florence)
- ‘Felibrige, or the impossible Occitan nation’ – Philippe Martel (Université de Montpellier III)
- ‘Literary and philological societies in the Low Countries: questions of political centralization and artistic and scholarly autonomy’ – Jan Rock (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
- ‘Cultural institutions and organizations in Wales in the nineteenth century’ – Marion Löffler (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
- ‘Repeal reading rooms and the Young Ireland movement of the 1840s’ – Roisín Higgins (Boston College, Dublin)
Coffee
Discussion
12h30-14h00 Lunch
14h00-15h00
Conclusions and research agenda – Joep Leerssen (SPIN) & John Neubauer (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Closing
Afternoon
Exploration of Budapest