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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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