Following the rewarding congresses held in Leipzig, Dresden, London, and Paris, the next ENIUGH Congress will take place in Budapest, hosted by both the Central European University (Department of History) and Corvinus University (Karl Polanyi Research Centre at the Institute of Sociology and Social Policy), supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Research Centre for Humanities.
Under the overall theme “Ruptures, Empires, Revolutions” and on the occasion of the centennial of the Russian Revolution, we will discuss the global context and repercussions of the revolution in particular while debating the role of revolutions in global history in general. Added to that we will explore empires and imperial forms of organisation, especially in view of how they changed and ended, and which legacies they left. Violent transformations of societies, ruptures in world orders, and wars, as well as changing international relations are addressed from transnational and transregional angles.
Again the location of the congress is a step in mobilising a pan-European community of scholars: We are glad that our call for contributions to comparative and global perspectives on South Eastern Europe and the Middle East has resonated with the research interest of many colleagues who will come to Budapest. And of course, we are looking forward to discover the connected histories of the Hungarian capital and the wider region.
Thanks to the lively response to our Call for Panels/Papers the programme offers a wider range of presentations exploring revolutionary upheaval across areas and times, comparing and connecting them, with a special emphasis on the relationship between global processes and revolution in order to overcome the focus on isolated case studies still prevailing within comparative revolutionary history. The respective debates will highlight revolutionary times as crucial eras for transborder communication and cooperation.
An aspect which is given increasing attention in transnational and world historical research concerns the history of empire and imperial organisation. Taking up on that the second focus of the programme addresses the stabilisation and reform, as well as the dissolution and legacies of empires across the world, especially in regard to their large-scale repercussions. Inter-imperial forms of cooperation and competition come up for discussion, colonial and post-colonial settings will be addressed and compared.
A third main line of inquiry concerns transnational, region-wide, and global crises, conflicts and ruptures – especially wars, violent transformation, and radical interventions in the political, social and economic order, resulting in complex processes of respatialization and new orders.
As was the case at previous congresses a wider range of processes are discussed in terms of cross-border entanglements, circulations and transfers, including the production of knowledge, the development of international law, the reconfiguration of the international state order towards global governance structures, labour relations and historiography itself. Throughout the programme, actor-centered perspectives range prominently.
Themes of the congress:
- Actors: biographies and mobilities
- After empire: complicating colonialism and decolonization
- Concepts and approaches
- Economy and development
- Endings of empires: collapse and legacies
- Global governance and international affairs
- Knowledge: production and circulation
- People, labor and demography
- Respatializations
- Revolutions and revolutionaries: comparisons and connections
- The making of regions: transregional encounters and dynamics
- The Russian Revolution: global connections and legacies
- Transformations of empires: state formation and society
- Wars, ruptures, and violent transformations
A main feature of the conference (for those who signed up for tickets as space is limited) is
the two planned roundtables. The first, “Socialism and Global History”, organized by Attila
Melegh (Corvinus University, Budapest), will discuss the historical typologies of socialisms. The
second, “Revolution and Religion”, prepared by Nadia Al-Bagdadi (Central European University,
Budapest), will address the religious aspect of the major theme at a time of significant worldwide
developments that signal the end of a century associated with the consequences of the Russian
Revolution.
One panel, titled "Imperial languages: Language as a tool of governance in the Middle Ages in a
comparative perspective" and held on Friday, is organized by our faculty members Katalin Szende and Balázs Nagy, with contributions of our alumni Nada Zecevic, Anna Adamska and Márta Kondor, among others. The panel is supported by the Department of Medieval Studies at Central European University, the Medieval Central Europe Research Network, Utrecht University and Radboud University Nijmegen.
See the attached file for the full program.
Register here: http://research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/congress/registration/
Please note that conference fees are applicable for all groups of participants: speakers, visitors and representatives of publishing houses and bookstores.
For the fees, see: http://research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/congress/registration/