Epistemologies of In‐Betweenness

 Workshop Ep
pistemologgies of In‐B
Betweenn
ness:
Eaast Centraal Europe aand the W
World Histo
ory of Soccial Science, 1890‐19
945
29‐30 May 20
015 Venue
In
nstitute for EEast and So
outheast Eurropean Stud
dies, Room 017
(Landsshuter Str. 4
4, 93047 Reggensburg, Germany) Convveners Katherine Leebow (Vienna Wiesenthal Institutee for Holocaaust Studiess) K
M
Małgorzata Departmentt of History, Columbia U
University, N
N.Y.) Mazurek (D
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Joanna Waw
wrzyniak (In
nstitute of So
ociology, W
Warsaw Univeersity) U
Ulf Brunnba
auer (Graduate School ffor East and
d Southeast European SStudies, Reggensburg) Orga
anizers Columbia University (N
C
New York Citty) G
Graduate Sc
chool for East and Souttheast Europ
pean Studiees (Munich/Regensburgg)
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Institute for
r East and So
outheast Eu
uropean Stu
udies (Regen
nsburg) PROGRAM
May 29, Friday
18:00‐19:30
Keynote session
Welcome and introductory remarks: Ulf BRUNNBAUER (IOS, Regensburg), Katherine LEBOW (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies)
Balázs TRENCSÉNYI (CEU, Budapest): Sciences of the Nation: Positivist, Post‐Positivist and Anti‐Positivist Discourses
20:00 Dinner
May 30, Saturday
9:00‐11:00
Session I: Cataloguing the Social: Modernity and International Social
Science before World War I
Chair: Małgorzata MAZUREK (Columbia University)
Mikhail ANTONOV (Higher School of Economics, Moscow): The Beginnings of a Socio‐
Psychological Approach to Law: Russian Legal Realism?
Christian PROMITZER (University of Graz): Studying Society with the Eyes of a Physician: Health, Hygiene and Society in Bulgaria (1878‐1912)
Eszter GANTNER (Herder Institut, Marburg): Sensing the Crisis: The Sociological Society in Budapest 1900‐1914
Commentators: Emese LAFFERTON (CEU, Budapest), Krzysztof JASIEWICZ (Washington and Lee University)
11:00‐11:30 Coffee Break 11:30‐13:30
Session II: Place, Space and Scale: Locating the Vernacular in Post‐
Imperial Central Europe
Chair: Joanna WAWRZYNIAK (Warsaw University)
Quinn SLOBODIAN (Wellesley College, Wellesley): The Habsburg Empire as a Model for the World Economy: Mises in Vienna and the Origins of Neoliberalism
Vedran DUANČIĆ (European University Institute, Florence): A Yugoslav Method for Geography of Yugoslavia: Geographical Position of the Land and Methodological Issues in Interwar Yugoslavia
Roland CLARK (Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic): God Meets Man: Liminal Spaces in Romanian Orthodoxy and the Interwar Sociology of Religion
Commentator: Jan SURMAN (Herder‐Institut, Marburg)
13:30‐14:15 Buffet Lunch
14:1
15‐16:15
SSession III: Reconfiguri
R
ing Populations: Race, Ethnicity and the Rise of
tthe Global P
Peasant in tthe Interwaar Era
ocaust Studies)
Chair: Katherinee LEBOW (Vieenna Wieseenthal Institu
ute for Holo
Polish Acadeemy of Sciences, Warsaaw): Soul, Skkull and Mo
odernity: Ra
acial Macciej GÓRNY (P
Anth
hropology in
n East Centrral Europe, 1
1912 to mid
d‐1920s
Olgaa LINKIEWICZ (Polish Acad
demy of Sciences, Warssaw): The P
Principle of O
Objectivity: Scientific Idealss and Utilitarian Projectts in Polish SSocial Sciencces between
n the Wars uca MUȘAT (SSt. Mary’s U
University, LLondon): Thee Peasant in
n Question: The Bucharrest Ralu
Scho
ool of Sociollogy and Intternational Networks of
of Knowledg
ge
Com
mmentators: Claudia KRRAFT (Universsity of Siegeen), Quinn SSLOBODIAN (W
Wellesley Co
ollege)
16:1
15‐16:45 B
Break
45‐18:15
16:4
R
Roundtablee and Final D
Discussion
Disccussants:
Kath
herine LEBOW
W (Vienna), Joanna WAW
WRZYNIAK (W
Warsaw), Maałgorzata MAZUREK (New
w Yorkk), Balazs TRRENCSÉNYI (Bu
udapest)
19:0
00 D
Dinner The w
workshop iss generouslyy supported
d by the Hans Vielberth Univeersitätsstiftu
ung and Polish Studies at Columbiaa Universityy