(Source: Princeton)
In the coming two days, the Department of History at
Princeton is organizing a conference on Law and Legality in Modern Eastern
Europe.
Here the programme:
Program
Friday, October 4, 2019
1:15 p.m. Welcome and Introductions
Emily Greble (Vanderbilt University)
Iryna Vushko (Princeton University)
1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Politics of Punishment in the Habsburg
and Russian Empires
Chair: Emily Greble
Alison Frank (Harvard
University), “The Emperor and the Executioner: Justice, Mercy, and Capital
Punishment in the Habsburg Monarchy”
Iryna Vushko (Princeton University), “Imperial Golgotha:
Spielberg Prison in the Habsburg Empire”
Daniel Beer (Royal
Holloway), “Rituals of Civil Death: Sovereignty and Subversion in the Reign of
Alexander II”
Commentator: Ekaterina Pravilova (Princeton University)
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Overlapping and Contested
Sovereignties
Chair: Iryna Vushko
Natasha Wheatley (Princeton University), “Sovereignty as a
Knowledge Problem”
Aimee Genell (Western
Georgia University), “From the Legalist Empire to the Sovereign State”
Emily Greble (Vanderbilt University), “Debating Concepts of
Sovereignty: Muslims in Post-Ottoman Europe”
Dominique Reill (University of Miami), “Eeeny, Meeny, Miny,
Law: Law-Making and Self-Determination in Absence of a State”
Commentator:
Lauren Benton (Vanderbilt University)
6:30 p.m. Dinner
Saturday, October 5, 2019
8:30 a.m. - 9 a.m. Breakfast
9 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. International Law and Regional
Implications
Chair: Emily Greble
Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania), “Testing the New
‘Laws of War’: Imperial Russia and the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War”
Jared Manasek (Pace University),
“Occupation, Sovereignty, and the Presumption of Legality: the “Forgotten”
Ottoman Exclave of Ada Kale in the Danube International Waterway”
Kent Schull (State
University of New York, Binghamton), “Repatriating POWs in Post-Great War
Eastern Europe: Negotiating Citizenship & Belonging in the Wake of
Dismantled Empires, New Nation States & Imperial Ambitions”
Commentator: Eric Weitz (The City College of New York and the Graduate
Center, CUNY)
10:45 a.m. - 11 a.m. Coffee Break
11 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. The Transformation of the East European
Legal Order in the Twentieth Century
Chair: Iryna Vushko
Gábor Egry (Institute of Political History, Budapest),
“The Law of the State, the State of the Nation: the Idea of the Nation and the
Transformation of Legal Categories in Interwar Eastern Europe”
Melissa Feinberg (Rutgers University), “The Dilemmas of
De-Austrianization: Family and Marriage Law in the First Czechoslovak Republic”
Rebecca Reich (Cambridge University), “Journalism and
Judgment in the Post-Stalin Period”
Commentator: Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania)
1 p.m. Concluding Lunch
All info on the conference here
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