2019
THE REMARQUE INSTITUTE’S KANDERSTEG SEMINAR
REVISITING 1919: A HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD POSTWAR MOMENT
Wednesday, April 10th – Sunday, April 14th, 2019
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, April 10th
Arrival of participants by train in Kandersteg
Check in: Waldhotel Doldenhorn
CG-3718 Kandersteg
Tel. +41.33.675.81.81
Fax +41.33.675.81.85 2
19:30 Welcome reception followed by dinner at hotel
Thursday, April 11th
10:00 INTRODUCTION AND WELCOMING REMARKS
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University
Session I
10:30 – 12:30
CONSEQUENCES OF THE CONFERENCE AND THE PEACE
Denis Clark, University of Calgary, “Nation-States and National Characters at the Peace Conference: the Case of Poland?”
Łukasz Mikołajewski, University of Warsaw, “Far Away from Versailles: War and Pogroms in Ukraine, 1919”
Clara Mattei, The New School, “1919 Britain: Capitalism Contested"
Madeleine Dungy, New Europe College, “Trade Politics in Transition”
Stephen Gross, New York University, “Energy Transition?: Coal, Oil, and the End of the War”
Alan Sharp, Ulster University, “‘A Living Thing is Born:’ A New World Order”
12:45 Lunch at hotel
Free afternoon until:
Session II
17:30 – 19:30
RELIGIOUS AND IDEOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS
Brett Wilson, Central European University, “Modernity and Mysticism in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire”
Albert Wu, The American University of Paris, “1919 and the Crisis within Global Christianity”
Lale Can, City College of New York, “Intersections of Ottoman Imperial and Religious Belonging, 1919”
Gil Rubin, Harvard University, “Jews, Minority Rights and the Nation-State”
Talbot Imlay, Laval University, “Socialist Visions of the International Order”
Ara Merjian, New York University, “Birth of Fascism, 1919”
19:30 Drinks followed by dinner at hotel
Friday, April 12th
Session III
10:00 – 12:00
CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC TRANSFORMATIONS
Maria Tatar, Harvard University, “The Afterlife of War on the German Home Front,
1919”
Jonathan Wipplinger, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Jazz Occupies Germany:
Transnational Exchange and Weimar Culture around 1919”
Karen Painter, University of Minnesota, “Music and Loss: Shadows of 1919 over
Germany and Austria”
Abigail Weil, Harvard University, “Jaroslav Hašek in Russia”
Irina Denischenko, Vanderbilt University, “The Avant-Garde in 1919: A Comparative
Look at Soviet Russia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia”
12:15 Lunch at hotel
Free afternoon until:
19:00 Drinks at hotel
19:30 Dinner at the Landgasthof Ruedihus
Saturday, April 13th
Session IV
10:00 - 12:00
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE GLOBAL POSTWAR SYSTEM
Susan Pedersen, Columbia University, “How Did 1919 Shape the Interwar System?"
Kimberly Lowe, Lesley University, “Intergovernmental Humanitarianism, 1919: Planning for Peace during the Wars after the War”
Urs Matthias Zachmann, Free University of Berlin, “The Reluctant Internationalist: Japanese Perspectives on Paris and Post-1919 International Institutions”
Elisabeth Forster, University of Southampton, “The Global and the Local: The Treaty of Versailles, the May Fourth Movement, and the Rise of Communism in China”
Durba Ghosh, Cornell University, “1919: Amritsar, Rowlatt, and a Royal Proclamation.”
Trygve Throntveit, University of Minnesota, “In League: Popular Support for US Membership in the League of Nations, 1917-1920”
12:15 Lunch at hotel
Free afternoon until:
17:30 WRAP-UP SESSION
Larry Wolff, New York University
19:00 Drinks and Gala dinner at hotel
Sunday, April 14th
Departure of participants
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