In addition to the meeting, we also organized a workshop “Writing the history of political thought in a transnational framework: The Baltics and East Central Europe.” (see below)
In the meeting, we agreed on the following:
· We need external experts to fill specific gaps in the chapters: both thematically and geographically. Each one should identify the missing geographical contexts and themes that are missing in his/her chapters. A list should be compiled by January the latest.
· Zsofia Lorand and Ostap Stepaniuk were invited as new associate researchers of the project
· Individual tasks (as we did it for the Drežnica meeting) should become a regularity: in individual interaction, those who are writing the chapters should ask others to write short paragraphs into the text (especially for textual analysis).
· Until January, however, the priority is drafting the chapters; cross-writing should be limited to specific questions (the tasks delegated but not completed in Drežnica should however be finished by the Budapest meeting the latest).
· We started organizing the copying of books, with the help of contracted assistants, from Serbia and Croatia, Poland, Romania.
· In the coming months we will work on the integration of Estonian, Latvian and Ukrainian material provided by the research associates
· When writing the text, the most important thinkers should be written in bold when first mentioned (not en passé, but as part of the analysis). Whenever a new name is introduced, dates of birth & death should be mentioned, except when there’s a list of names.
· We should keep to the sub-chapter titles established as it makes reading the text more transparent
· The participants are asked to identify first translations into local languages of paradigmatic texts that had a role in shaping East Central European political thinking.
· Montesquieu, De l'esprit des lois 1743
· Rousseau, Du Contrat social 1762
· Herder, Essay on the Origin of Languages 1772
· Smith, Wealth of Nations 1776
· Tocqueville, De la Democratie en Amerique 1835-1840
· Marx –Engels, Communist manifesto 1848
· Spencer, Social statics 1851
· JS Mill, On Liberty 1859
· Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution 1902
· Spengler, Untergang des Abendlandes 1918-20
· Benda, Trahison des clercs 1927
· Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism 1951
· Rawls, Theory of Justice 1971
· Foucault, Surveiller et punir 1975
· By January, all sub-chapters should be drafted; by March, the whole Enlightenment and Interwar chapters should be ready to be shown to potential publishers.
Next meetings:
· Budapest, January 13th – 16th (with a special focus on Russian Empire context and Soviet/post-Soviet cases)
· Sarajevo, March 29th – April 1st, 2012
· Tirana, May 31st – June 4th/5th
· Lviv, early September 2012
· Florence - Fiesole, late November 2012
· Budapest/or Bratislava January 2013
· Sofia, March 2013;
· Kiev, May 2013
· Warsaw Autumn 2013
Writing the history of political thought in a transnational framework:
The Baltics and East Central Europe.
A workshop organized by the Negotiating Modernity and the Nordic Spaces: Formation of States, Societies and Regions, Cultural Encounters and Idea- and Identity Production in Northern Europe after 1800 projects.
7-8 October, Tartu
7 October
12.00-12.50 Welcome, short introduction of the participants, presentation of the Negotiating Modernity and Baltic regionalism projects
Lunch Break
14.10 -14.30 Kaspars Kļaviņš (Daugavpils), The Role of G. F. Parrot’s Ideas in the Genesis of Stereotypes of Baltic History.
14.30-15.10 Discussion; discussant and moderator Monika Baar (Groningen)
15.10-15.30 Mart Kuldkepp (Tartu) The Activist Construction of the Baltic Sea Region During WW I
15.30-16.10 Discussion; discussant and moderator Partel Piirimae (Tartu)
Coffee Break
16.25-16.45 Juris Prikulis (Riga) Social and Liberal tendencies of Latvian Political Thought of the Late 19th/Early 20th Century
16.45-17.25 Discussion; discussant and moderator Maciej Janowski (Warsaw/Budapest)
17.25-17.45 Ivars Ijabs, The Nation of Socialist Intelligentsia: the National Issue in the Political Thought of Early Latvian Socialism
17.45-18.25 Discussion; discussant and moderator Michal Kopecek (Prague)
18.25-18.45 Kaarel Piirimae (Tartu), Estonian interpretations of sovereignty and self-determination, 1900-1945
18.45-19.25 Discussion; discussant and moderator Maria Falina (Budapest)
Dinner
8 October
9.30-9.50 Margo Roasto (Tartu) The reception of Western authors by Konstantin Päts from 1900 to 1917
9.50-10.30 Discussion; discussant and moderator Kaarel Piirimae (Tartu)
10.30-10.50 Vytautas Petronis (Marburg) Origins and Dynamics of Right-Wing Radicalism in Interwar Lithuania
10.50-11.30 Discussion; discussant and moderator Balazs Trencsenyi (Budapest)
Coffee Break
11.50-12.10 Eero Medijainen (Tartu), Baltic identity: Reality or a Phantom?
12.10-12.50 Discussion; discussant and moderator Monika Baar (Groningen)
12.50-13.10 Aija Priedite-Kleinhofa (Riga), Edvart Virza's civil religion project within the context of Latvian nationalism
13.10-13.50 Discussion; discussant and moderator Maria Falina (CEU Budapest)
Lunch Break
15.00-15.20 Aurimas Svedas (Vilnius), Historical Memory in Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania. Alternatives in the Politics of History and Transformations of Lithuanian Identity.
15.20-16.00 Discussion; discussant and moderator Luka Lisjak Gabrijelcic (Budapest)
16.00-16.20 Justinas Dementavicus (Vilnius), Honeycombs of Political Thought in Post-Soviet Lithuania
16.20-17.00 Discussion; discussant and moderator Michal Kopecek (Prague)
17.00-17.45 Final discussion, closing words
