Radical Modernity as Challenge to the Well-Known Debate on the Enlightenment

Intervention dans le cadre de l'atelier Nordic Exploratory Workshop I organisé par l'université de Jyväskylä, Finlande.

Programme

17 october

19h : Welcoming Reception

18 october

9h-10h:30 : “Notions of Modernity, Faith, and Nationhood in the Ottoman Imperial Space”

1. Levent YILMAZ (İstanbul Bilgi University), "Radical Modernity‘ as Challenge to the Well-Known Debate on the Enlightenment”
2. Paul LEVIN (Stockholm University Institute of Turkish Studies), “Millets, Nations, and States: Challenges in the Study of Shifting Community Boundaries in the Ottoman World”

10h30-11h : Coffee Break

II.  “Public Space and Forms of Belonging in the Late Ottoman, Romanov and Meiji Empires”

1. Ayşe OZIL (Istanbul Bilgi University), “Property Ownership, the Practice of Law and the Late Ottoman Imperial Space”

2. Alexander SEMYONOV (National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg), “Imperial Subjecthood, the Redefinition of Political Belonging, and Constitutional Reform in the Romanov Empire in the Early 20th Century”

3. Bee YUN (Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea), “Conformist Intellectuals in Korea during the Japanese Colonial Rule (1910-1945)”

13h-14h : Lunch break

III. “Small States and Empires in the Nordic Region and Beyond”

1. Baldur THORHALLSSON (University of Iceland, Reykjavik), “Small States and Empires: Has Iceland Always Enjoyed Political, Economic and Societal Shelter from Its Larger Neighbors?”

2. Pertti HAAPALA (University of Tampere), “The Rise of Borderland Nationalism and Social Mechanisms in Finland”

3. Antti RÄIHÄ (Universirty of Jyväskylä), “The ‘Nationalization’ of Interest and the Representation of Solidarity in Late Early Modern Karelian Borderlands.”

16h-16h30 : Coffee Break

IV. “Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Re-Alignments in the Levant and the Balkans”

1. Eva Johanna HOLMBERG (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies), “British Encounters with the Levant: Ethnic and Religious Identities, 1500-1700”

2. Joanna INNES (University of Oxford), “The Clash of Empires and the Evolution of Mediterranean Cultures: 1780-1830”

3. Ulf BRUNNBAUER (University of Regensburg), “Mobile Lives, Reconfiguration of Space, and the Twilight of Empire in 19th/20th-Century Southeastern Europe”

19h30 : Conference Dinner

19 october

10h-12h : Roundtable: “The Dichotomy – Public Space/Public Sphere and Frontiers in the Nordic Region and Beyond”