Memo of the 20th ERC Negotiating Modernity Project Meeting
Lviv 6-9 September 2012
Participants: Maria Falina, Ivars Ijabs, Maciej Janowski, Michal Kopeček, Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič, Ostap Sereda, Balázs Trencsényi, Ivana Trkulja, Alex Voronovici.
During the meeting we discussed the following topics: fin-de-siecle Social Darwinism and the rise of integral nationalism, Feminism, Anti-Semitism; Yugoslav additions to the post-45 chapters; anti-totalitarian dissent in the 1950s, the political ideas of 1968; Ukriainian, Latian additions to the chapters Moldavian political thought between 1945 and 1990; Ivana presented the results of her research in Serbia and Bulgaria.
On 6 September, we held a workshop on Ukrainian political thought in the 19th and 20th centuries:
Locating modern Ukrainian political thought on the European intellectual map
Academic workshop organized by the
"Negotiating Modernity. History of Modern Political Thought in East-Central Europe"
project and
Ivan Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Venue: Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Bohomoltsia 6
Program
10.00-10.15 Welcome and introductory remarks (Balázs Trencsényi and Ostap Sereda)
10.15 - 11.30 Political thought of Ukrainian elites in the age of Enlightenment (Volodymyr Sklokin)
Discussant: Maciej Janowski
11.30 - 11.45 Coffee-break
11.45 - 13.00 From romantic populism to integral nationalism: the problem of "narod" and "narodnytstvo" in Ukrainian political thought (Georgiy Kasianov, Ostap Sereda)
Discussant: Maciej Janowski
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 15.45 How far left and how far right? Conflict and convergence of socialism and nationalism in Ukrainian political thought (Anatoliy Kruglashov, Oleh Zhernokleiev)
Discussant: Balázs Trencsényi
15.45 - 16.00 Coffee-break
16.00 - 17.15 Negotiating external ideological influences: Russian, Soviet, Polish, and Western European (Oleksandr Zaytsev)Discussant: Michal Kopeček
17.15-17.30 Coffee-break
17.30 - 18.45 Territorial varieties of Ukrainian political thought? Different identity projects in Ukraine (Ostap Sereda, Leonid Zashkilnyak).
Discussant: Maria Falina
18.45 - 19.00 Conclusions
19.30 Dinner
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