Preliminary Program
Secularities. Freethinkers in the Context of National Movements and the Rise of Nation
States in Europe, 1789−1920s
German Historical Institute, Rome (place of venue)
German Historical Institute, Warsaw
Wednesday, 21 March 2018
14:00

Welcome: Martin Baumeister (GHI Rome)
Carolin Kosuch (GHI Rome):
Introduction "Secularism and Freethought from a European Perspective"

Section I: Freethought in European National Movements
Chair: Viviana Mellone
14:30‒17:45
Presentations
14:30

Anton Jansson (University of Göteborg)
Tracing the Genealogy of Modern Secular Sweden: Late 19th Century
Secularists on the Nation and the State

14:55

Yuval Jobani (Tel-Aviv University)
Jewish Secularisms and the Building of the Hebrew Nation (1904−1922)

15:20

Barbara Wagner (University of Warsaw)
New Country. Poland for and against Freethinkers

15:45

Daniela Haarmann (University of Vienna)
The Hungarian Republic of Letters –The Magyarization of Hungary in the Early 1800's

16:15

Coffee Break

16:45‒17:45

Todd Weir (University of Groningen): Commentary; Discussion

18:00

Keynote Lecture
Detlef Pollack (WWU Münster)Secularization − A Contentious Concept in the Historical and Social Sciences

Reception

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Thursday, 22 March 2018
Section II: Networks and Organizations of Freethought: National and Transnational
Chair: Árpád von Klimó
9:30‒12:45
Presentations
9:30

Daniel Laqua (Northumbria University, Newcastle)"The Most Advanced Nation on the Road to Liberty": Nationalism and theInternational Freethought Federation

9:55

Johannes Gleixner (Collegium Carolinum, Munich)Diverging Secularities between the Nation and the Movement: The"International of Proletarian Free-Thinkers" in Central and Eastern Europe
during the 1920s in a National and International Framework

10:20

Katharina Neef (University of Leipzig/TU of Chemnitz)
The Komitee Konfessionslos. The Politicization of Leaving Church in theearly 20th Century

10:45

Jessica R. Strom (University of Connecticut)
Nationalists Abroad: Adriano Lemmi, Giuseppe Mazzini, and Lajos Kossuth

11:15

Coffee Break

11:45‒12:45

Fulvio Conti (University of Florence): Commentary; Discussion

12:45

Lunch Break

14:00

Midday-Lectures:
Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (University of Leipzig)
Multiple Secularities: A Comparative Perspective on the Study of Religion
and its Other.
Todd Weir (University of Groningen)
Two Cultures Debate: Secularism and Socialism in Germany 1870 to 1933

15:00

Short Coffee BreakSection III: Identities and Practices of Freethought
Chair: Costanza D'Elia
15:15‒18:00
Presentations215:15

Laura Fournier Finocchiaro (University of Paris 8)
Garibaldi and Mazzini: Anticlericalism, Laicism, and the Concept of aNational Religion

15:40

Agnieszka Jagodzińska (University of Wrocław)
From "Civil Christians" to Secular Jews: Modern Identities of Jews in Poland
in the 19th and early 20th Centuries

16:05

Antoine Mandret-Degeilh (University of Toulouse/Sciences Po Paris)
A Secular Avant-Garde? About the Unknown Freethinker Roots of Today's
French Civil Baptism

16:30

Christhardt Henschel (GHI Warsaw)
Cultures of Reading. Self-Images of Polish Freethinkers

17:00

Coffee Break

17:15−18:00

Jakub Basista (University of Kraków): Commentary; Discussion

20:00

Dinner for all Participants

Friday, 23 March 2018
Section IV: Projects. Freethought, Science and Politics
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Chair: Thomas Blanck
9:15‒11:00
Presentations
9:15

Carolin Kosuch (GHI Rome)Cremation and the Material Culture of 19th Century European Freethought

9:40

Claus Spenninger (LMU Munich)
Vestiges of a Secular Movement: Scientific Materialism in the 1850s
between Emancipation and Technocracy

10:05

Christoffer Leber (LMU Munich)Integration through Science? The Monist Movement in Imperial Germany
between Nationalism and Internationalism (1910−1915)

10:30

Katalin Straner (EUI Florence/University of Southampton)
Evolution and Nation in the Press: The Hungarian Reception of Darwinism
before and after the Ausgleich (1859−1875)

11:00

Coffee Break

11:30‒12:30

Rebekka Habermas (University of Göttingen): Commentary; Discussion

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Final Roundtable with Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

14:00

End of Conference4