We have the following announcement, about an upcoming conference at Princeton University:
Law and Legality in Modern Eastern Europe
Princeton University
Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
October 4-5, 2019
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4
1:15 p.m. Welcome and Introductions
Emily Greble (Vanderbilt University)
Iryna Vushko (Princeton University)
1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Politics of Punishment in the Habsburg and
Russian Empires
Chair: Emily Greble
Commentator: Ekaterina Pravilova (Princeton University)
Alison Frank (Harvard University), “The Emperor and the
Executioner: Justice, Mercy, and Capital Punishment in
the Habsburg Monarchy”
Iryna Vushko (Princeton University), “Imperial Golgotha:
Spielberg Prison in the Habsburg Empire”
Daniel Beer (Royal Holloway), “Rituals of Civil Death:
Sovereignty and Subversion in the Reign of Alexander II”
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Overlapping and Contested Sovereignties
Chair: Iryna Vushko
Commentator: Lauren Benton (Vanderbilt University)
Natasha Wheatley (Princeton University), “Sovereignty as
a Knowledge Problem”
Aimee Genell (Western Georgia University), “From the
Legalist Empire to the Sovereign State”
Emily Greble (Vanderbilt University), “Debating Concepts
of Sovereignty: Muslims in Post-Ottoman Europe”
Dominique Reill (University of Miami), “Eeeny, Meeny,
Miny, Law: Law-Making and Self-Determination in
Absence of a State”
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5
9 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. International Law and Regional Implications
Chair: Emily Greble
Commentator: Eric Weitz (The City College of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY)
Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania), “Testing the
New ‘Laws of War’: Imperial Russia and the 1877-78
Russo-Turkish War”
Jared Manasek (Pace University), “Occupation, Sovereignty,
and the Presumption of Legality: the “Forgotten” Ottoman Exclave of Ada Kale in the Danube International Waterway”
Kent Schull (State University of New York, Binghamton),
“Repatriating POWs in Post-Great War Eastern Europe:
Negotiating Citizenship & Belonging in the Wake of
Dismantled Empires, New Nation States & Imperial
Ambitions”
10:45 a.m. - 11 a.m. Coffee Break
11 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. The Transformation of the East European Legal Order in the 20th Century
Chair: Iryna Vushko
Commentator: Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania)
Gábor Egry (Institute of Political History, Budapest), “The
Law of the State, the State of the Nation: the Idea of the
Nation and the Transformation of Legal Categories in
Interwar Eastern Europe”
Melissa Feinberg (Rutgers University), “The Dilemmas of
De-Austrianization: Family and Marriage Law in the First
Czechoslovak Republic”
Rebecca Reich (Cambridge University), “Journalism and
Judgment in the Post-Stalin Period”
-- Karen Tani
