Program June 20, 2013



AULA I, June 20, 2013
16.00-17.30

The Roots of Nation States: National Identity in Modern Age

Chair and Discussant: Alessandro Saggioro


Mateo Ballester Rodríguez
War and National Identity: Conflict with France and the Development of a Spanish National Identity in the Early Modern Age

Jean-Charles Speeckaert
Living at the crossroads of Empires : The Austrian Netherlands and the balance of power game

Daniel Dumitran
From Balkans to the Habsburg Empire. The social integration of non-privilegiated Greek merchants in the small towns of Transylvania and Hungary

Iacob Mârza, Mârza Radu
The Meaning of the Concept of “Nation” in Transylvania in the 18th Century

Sopio Kadagishvili
Georgian Self-determination in the Eighteenth Century (Saints and Collective Memory)




AULA I, June 20, 2013
17.30-19.00

The Endless End of Empires. Challenging the Decline Interpretation in the History of the Ottoman and Spanish Empires, 16th-19th Centuries

Chair and Discussant: Fernando García Sanz


Evrim Türkçelik
After Lepanto. The Reconfiguration of the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean Context

Rubén González Cuerva
In Search of a New Political Project. From Spanish Monarchy to Catholic Monarchy in the 17th Century

Meltem Akbas,  Darina Martykánová
Techno-Scientific Policies of the State and the Question of “Foreign Models” in a Comparative Perspective

Juan Luis Simal, Darina Martykánová
The Catholic King and the Ottoman Sultan. The Metaphor of the Oriental Despot and the Crisis of the Spanish Monarchy in the Early Nineteenth Century





AULA II, June 20, 2013
16.00-17.30

From the Ottoman Empire to the Kemalist Republic: the Journey of Modern Turkey

Chair and Discussant: Fabio L. Grassi


Mónika F. Molnár
The Crisis of the Ottoman Empire Seen by 17-18th-century Italians

Sara Barbieri
Managing Diversities in a Multinational Empire: the Millet System

Manuela Borraccino
The Tanzimat and the Struggle of Non-Muslim Minorities for Citizenship: the Short Season of the Reformism Within the Decline of the Ottoman Empire

Vangelis Kechriotis
What Histories did Balkan States and the Ottoman Empire Narrate to Each Other During the Long 19th Century?

Ion Josan
Becoming a Turk: Turkishness Between the Empire and the Nation State

Cecilia Alina Sava, Mihaela Mehedinti
Myth or Reality? The Presumptive Romanian-Turkish Military Convention and the International Public Opinion





AULA II, June 20, 2013
17.30-19.00

Constructing National Identity in late Ottoman Empire

Chair and Discussant: Alberto Becherelli



Maria Mandamadiotou
The Greek Orthodox Community of Mytilene: From the Multi-ethnic Symbiosis in the Ottoman Empire to the Greek State, 1908-1912

Uğur  Zekeriya Peçe
Fighting for the Fatherland: Conscription of the non-Muslim Ottomans (1908-1912)

Fabio L. Grassi
An Anti-nationalistic Dream: Ottomanism

Güldeniz Kıbrıs

A Late Ottoman/Early Republican Construction of Turkish Identity: Neo-Hellenism Movement






AULA III, June 20, 2013
 16.00-17.30

Hapsburg Empire and Nationalities

Chair and Discussant: Andrea Carteny


Vlad Popovici
Culture, Science and the Political Culture of the Romanians in Transylvania and Hungary (1848-1918)

Mirela Popa-Andrei
The Ecclesiastical Elite Involved in the National Movement of the Transylvanian Romanians During the Period of Austrian “Semi-Liberalism” 1860-1865

Giordano Altarozzi, Cornel Sigmirean
The National Question in Transylvania on the Ausgleich’s Eve

Emil Ovidiu Iudean, Oana Valentina Sorescu
From Protest Petitions to Parliamentary Action – The Attitude of the Leadership of the Nationalities in Hungary in Regards to the Minister Ágoston Trefort’s Magyarization Policy

Alexandru Onojescu
Politics and Parliamentarism. The Romanian Political Elite from Transylvania between Vienna and Pest






AULA III, 20.6.2013
17.30-19.00

The Role of Minorities in Late Hapsburg Empire

Chair and Discussant: Giuseppe Motta


Norbert Tóth
The Very First Law on Minorities in the World: the Hungarian Law on Minorities of 1849 and its Impact on the Hungarian Legislative Ideas on Minority Issues and Nation Politics

Ferenc Laczó
The Jewish Issue and the Redefinitions of the Hungarian Nation. An Analysis of Major Debates of the 19th Century

Anida Sokol
The Austro-Hungarian Language Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sokol Pacukaj
The Role of Italy and Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Independence of Albania






AULA IV, June 20, 2013
16.00-17.30

National Identity in Tsarist Russia

Chair and Discussant: Elena Dundovich


Antonio Stango
The Building of the Empire  in the 18th Century’s Russia

Oxana Zemtsova
Civil Freedoms and Discussion on Russianness in the Late Romanov Empire

Elena Pavleeva
Russian nationalism(s) and the notion of empire at the turn of the 20th century




AULA IV, June 20, 2013
17.30-19.00

Tsarist Russia and the Others: Essays on Identity and Foreign Policy

Chair and Discussant:  Alexey Gromyko


Iulia Malitska
Arm-wrestling over Authority: German Colonists’marriage in the nineteenth-century Southern Russian Empire

Francesco Randazzo
Italian Foreign Policy and Diplomatic Activity of Giulio Melegari (1901-1912)

Emilio Cassese
The Russian Secret Mission to the Vatican. Historical Dynamics and new European Alliances

Oleg N. Misko
Does it makes sense to save an Empire? Reforms, reaction and revolution. Rome vs Russia





AULA A  Storia moderna, June 20, 2013

16.00-17.30


The Religion of Nations

Chair and Discussant: Martin Arndt


Ana Victoria Sima
The Reception of the Italian Risorgimento in the Public Conscience of the Romanian Ecclesiastical Intellectuals from Transylvania

Fabio Di Giannatale
Catholicism and the Idea of Nation in the Italian Risorgimento

Marta Turkot
Religion in the post imperial state – the case of Poland

Jacek Maj
Byzantine Tradition in the East-Central Europe in the 19th Century:
the Case of Poland

Manuela Pellegrino
Totalitarian Soviet Regime in Russia and the Persecution of the Catholics in the Twenties and Thirties






AULA A Storia moderna,  June 20, 2013
17.30-19.00

The Main Characteristics of China and the Meaning of National Identity (18th-20th centuries) 

Chair and Discussant: Federico Masini


Federico Masini
Introduction - The Process of “Sinicization” of the Qing Dinasty

Davor Antonucci
The Multinational Qing Empire in the XVIII Century: Legitimacy and Innovation in the Chinese Imperial Tradition

Marina Miranda
A Comparison Between the Chinese and the Imperial Concept with Regard to the Modernization Process During the XIX Century

Li Zhiwei
Headsman, Spectres and Monsters: History and Violence of the Fall of Chinese Empire in Mo Yan's Sandalwood Death

Monica Gheorghita
Soft Power Etiquette Facing the Honest Shadows of Realpolitik: New Perspectives on Sino-European Relations and their Impact on Foreign Policy





AULA  B Storia medievale, June 20, 2013
16.00-17.30

Economy of Inequality: Colonialism and Economic Development

Chair and Discussant: Donatella Strangio


Damian Panaitescu
The Ottoman Fiscal and Commercial Policies over Wallachia During 1700-1830

Revaz Gvelesiani, Nana Maisuradze
German Capital in Georgia at the End of the 19th and at the Beginning of the 20th Centuries and its Importance

Francesca Romana Lenzi
The Italian Internationalization and the Balkans: the experience of Italian and Romanian Commercial Bank (1920-1942)

Eka Lekashvili, Giorgi Gaprindashvili
Socialist Integration in the Context of Regional Economic Integration (On the Example of the South Caucasian States)

Mara Marginean
Reconfiguring the Romanian Architectural Practice by the late 1950s – Soviet Models and Local Economic Programming





AULA A Storia medievale, June 20, 2013

17.30-19.00

The Economy of Nationalisms

Chair and Discussant: Roberto Pasca Di Magliano


Fernanda Rollo, Ana Paula Pires
War and Empire: Portuguese Africa and the War Economy (1914-1919)

Milan Balaban
Economic Nationalism Between Two World Wars

José Antonio Sánchez Román
Living in an Imperial World. The ‘Periphery’ and the Shaping of the Economic International Community in the Inter-war Period

Donatella Strangio
Companies and firms in the "Italian Somalia" (1960-1970)





AULA  B Storia moderna, June 20, 2013

16.00-19.00

Gender and Empires

Chair and Discussant: Mariam Chkhartishvili


Pallavi Baruah
Role of Women in the Nation Building Process During the Ahom Period in the 18th Century Assam

Giovanna Motta
Marie Louise Habsburg: an Austrian Empress of France

Claire Delahaye
Wilsonianism and woman suffrage: influences, connections and crosscurrents in democratic discourses (1912-1920)

Enrique Bengochea Tirado
The Sección Femenina in the Spanish Sahara: Colonial project, national framing and gender building

Natalia Dmitrievna Krjuchkova
Female involvement in building of the British Empire (the end of the XIX-th – the beginning of the XX-th c.)

Jennifer Griffiths
Aeroaesthetics and the Male Gaze

Diana Shendrikova
The Comfort Women: The Comfort System of the Japanese Imperial Armed Forces