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<DIV><STRONG><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Thursday (May 6)</SPAN></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>15.00-16.00 (N11,004) Arrival and registration of participants at CEU</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>16.00-17.15 (N11, TIGY) Keynote </STRONG><A href="http://www.hist.ceu.hu/?q=node/55" target=_blank><FONT color=#da1071>István Rév</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>17.45-19.45 Session I.1. Fabricating Identities: Biographo-politics vs. the State (N11, Hanák); Chair: </STRONG><A href="http://www.travellingconcepts.net/BiljanaBio.htm" target=_blank><FONT color=#da1071>Biljana Kašić</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV>Franko Dota (University of Zagreb): A life in a sentence: telling gay stories in a Croatian court of law (1947-1952)</DIV>
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<DIV>Andrei Muraru (Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile, University of Iaşi): The Biography in the Courtroom: Romanian War Criminals</DIV>
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<DIV>annis Panagiotidis (EUI, Florence): Bureaucracy and Identity: On the Construction of Biographic Identity by Jewish Immigrants in Germany in the Postwar Period</DIV>
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<DIV>Marco Rovinello (Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Florence): Creating the past. Writing autobiographies and identity negotiations in Restoration Naples</DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>17.45-19.45 Session I.2. Biography lost in Translation? Identity in(to) Scientific Discourse (N11, TIGY); Chair: </STRONG><A href="http://web.ceu.hu/gend/Peto/" target=_blank><FONT color=#da1071>Andrea Pető</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV>Dan Cȋrjan (CEU, Budapest): Bourdieu’s Illusion: Local Autobiographical Practices and Scientific Rationality</DIV>
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<DIV>Alexander Dölecke (University of Münster): I, Me, and the Others – Reflections upon the Development of Identity and Social Control as a Basis for the Literary Processing of (auto)Biographical Experiences</DIV>
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<DIV>Marcin Jarząbek (Jagiellonian University, Kraków): Categories to Describe the Scope of Life–Oral History: Private Identity in the Public Historiographical Discourse</DIV>
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<DIV>Elisa A. G. Arfini and Elisabetta Ruspini (University of Ferrara): Narrating Transgender Subjectivities</DIV>
<DIV><EM>20.00 Welcome reception at CEU</EM></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Friday (May 7)</SPAN></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>9.30-10.30 Session II.1. “Who am I and if yes, how many?”: Strategies of ‘Identification’ Reconsidered (N11, Hanák); Chair: </STRONG><A href="http://www.let.vu.nl/en/about-the-faculty/academic-staff/staff-listed-alphabetically/staff-e-k/prof-dr-w-t-frijhoff/index.asp" target=_blank><FONT color=#da1071>Willem Frijhoff</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV>Adrian Grama (CEU, Budapest): Peneş Curcanul: the Textual Life of a War Hero – Nickname vs. Name as Identity Markers</DIV>
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<DIV>Pierre Monot (Humboldt University, Berlin): Against Epistemological Reductionism in Life-Writing Studies</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>11.00-12.30 Session III.1. Egodocuments: Subverting Official Narratives (N11, Hanák); Chair: </STRONG><A href="http://www.ceu.hu/profiles/faculty/markian_prokopovych" target=_blank><FONT color=#da1071>Markian Prokopovych</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV>Stefan Bosomitu (University of Iasi): Myth-biography, autobiography and the “Siguranţa” files – a reconstruction of the biographies of the Romanian underground communists (case study – Miron Constantinescu)</DIV>
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<DIV>Bahar Gökpınar (Bilgi University, Istanbul): Fictionalizing an Ambassadress‟ Life and Female Identity through a Private Archive: Ayşe Leman Karaosmanoğlu</DIV>
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<DIV>Zsofia Lorand (CEU, Budapest): Historical Museums and Biography, Memoir, Fiction – Alaine Polcz in the House of Terror Museum, Budapest</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>11.00-12.30 Session III.2. Life Trajectories in the Face of Radical Change: Comparisons (N11, TIGY); Chair: </STRONG><A href="http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/HistoryAndCivilization/People/Professors/Profiles/Ther.aspx" target=_blank><FONT color=#da1071>Philipp Ther</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV>Raili Nugin (Tallinn University): Mobilizing Capitals during Transitions:The Stories of Toomas and Nikolai</DIV>
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<DIV>Mitja Sunèiè (Institute for Cotemporary History, Ljubljana): Biography and Social Change: Industrialists and the Communist Revolution in Yugoslavia</DIV>
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<DIV>Aron Szele (CEU, Budapest): The Lure of Fascism in 1930.s Hungary: Three Disparate Trajectories</DIV>
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<DIV>Daria Bocharnikova (EUI, Florence): Second Generation Soviet Architects: Shared Lives, Different careers?</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>13.45 -15.00 (N11, TIGY) Keynote Lecture by </STRONG><A href="http://www.travellingconcepts.net/BiljanaBio.htm" target=_blank><FONT color=#da1071>Biljana Kašić</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>15.30-17.30 Session IV.1.Canonizing Biographies: The Biographo-Politics of Memory (N11, Hanák); Chair: </STRONG><A href="http://www.hist.ceu.hu/?q=node/36" target=_blank><FONT color=#da1071>László Kontler</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV>Anastasia Felcher (CEU, Budapest): Biography as a Tool in the Making of National Poets – Alexander Pushkin and Mihai Eminescu</DIV>
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<DIV>George Greskovits (University College London): Re-presenting Moral Ambivalence: Narratives of Political Monologue Regarding András Hegedűs and Pál Teleki</DIV>
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<DIV>Octavian Silvestru (CEU, Budapest): Biography as politics. The use and abuse of the biographies of Mircea Eliade.</DIV>
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<DIV>Mauve Carbonell (Robert Schuman Centre for European Studies and Research, Luxembourg): The European Union’s Search for Legitimacy. The Myth of the “Perfect European High Official”: a Biographical Reconstructution (1952-1967)</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>15.30-17.30 Session IV.2. Biography in Literary Discourse / (Auto)Biographical Rhetoric (N11, TIGY); Chair: </STRONG><A href="http://web.ceu.hu/nation/miller.html" target=_blank><FONT color=#da1071>Michael Miller</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV>Jonas Christensen (University of Copenhagen): Aspects of the Autobiographical Elements of Michael Psellos’ Chronography: Insinuation and the Usurpation of Narrative</DIV>
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<DIV>Catalina Botez (University of Konstanz): Contiguous Spaces of Remembrance in Identity Writing. Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table and the Concept of Techné</DIV>
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<DIV>Mare van den Eeden (CEU, Budapest): Biography, Identity and Text: A Study of their Interrelationship in the Literature of Imre Kertész</DIV>
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<DIV>Ilse Lazaroms (EUI, Florence): Speaking from a Jewish Void. Joseph Roth and the Idea of Exilic Performance</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>18.00-19.15 (N11, TIGY) Keynote Lecture by </STRONG><A href="http://www.let.vu.nl/en/about-the-faculty/academic-staff/staff-listed-alphabetically/staff-e-k/prof-dr-w-t-frijhoff/index.asp" target=_blank><FONT color=#da1071>Willem Frijhoff</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><EM>Hungarian Wine Tasting</EM></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>10.30-12.30 Session V.1. Biographies Subsumed?Biography vis-à-vis Social Classifications (N11, Hanák); Chair: </STRONG><A href="http://www.hist.ceu.hu/?q=node/24" target=_blank><FONT color=#da1071>Nadia Al-Bagdadi</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV>My Hellsing (University of Örebro): Revisiting Classification through Biography: Friendship and Hierarchy According to a Duchess at the Royal Court of Sweden in the Eighteenth Century</DIV>
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<DIV>Pascale Falek (EUI, Florence): Biography as a Research Tool to Interrogate Identity. Reflections on Educated East European Women’s Jewish Identity in Interwar Belgium</DIV>
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<DIV>Tünde Cserpes (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): Analyzing fragments from the diary of Sándor Károlyi with social network analysis</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>1</STRONG><STRONG>0.30-12.30 Session V.2. Identities Abroad: Collective Memories and Activity in Transnational Contexts (N11, TIGY); Chair: </STRONG><A href="http://www.hist.ceu.hu/?q=node/35" target=_blank><FONT color=#da1071>Constantin Iordachi</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV>Lars Fredrik Stöcker (EUI, Florence): Refugee Biographies and their Impact on Political Activity in Exile: Estonians and Poles in Cold War Sweden and the Generational Shift of the 1960s</DIV>
<DIV>Alexandra Wangler (Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences): The Dynamics of National Identity Formation of the Ukrainian Minority in Poland: Mapping the Meaning of Home of the Third Generation</DIV>
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<DIV>Victoria Harms (University of Pittsburgh): Living Central Europe: Intellectuals from West Germany and Hungary</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>13.00-14.15 (N11, TIGY): Keynote Lecture by </STRONG><A href="http://medievalstudies.ceu.hu/profiles/faculty/niels_gaul" target=_blank><FONT color=#da1071>Niels Gaul</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>15.30-17.00 Session VI.1. Shedding new light „from below‟? Collective Biographies and Microhistory (N11, Hanák); Chair: </STRONG><A href="http://www.ceu.hu/profiles/faculty/marsha_seifert" target=_blank><FONT color=#da1071>Marsha Siefert</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV>Daryl Leeworthy (University of Swansea): The Secret Life of Us: 1984, the Miners‟ Strike, and the Challenge of Writing Biography “From Below”</DIV>
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<DIV>Jorge Luengo (EUI, Florence): Through a new social crystallization: Valladolid’s social elite in a comparative perspective (c. 1750-1850)</DIV>
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<DIV>Yana Yancheva (Ethnographic Institute and Museum of the BAS, Sofia): Self-identification through Narrative. A Case Study of Biography Interviews in Ethnological Perspective</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>15.30-17.00 Session VI.2. Shaping Scholarly Lives: Across the Borders of Region and Religion (N11, TIGY); Chair: </STRONG><A href="http://medievalstudies.ceu.hu/profiles/faculty/niels_gaul" target=_blank><FONT color=#da1071>Niels Gaul</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV>Luka Špoljarić (CEU, Budapest): Nicholas of Modruš (ca. 1427–1480): A “Barbarian” in Renaissance Rome</DIV>
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<DIV>Valentina Georgiana Istrate (University of Florida): Marco Antonio De Dominis: Apostate or Believer: The Spiritual Journey of a Catholic Prelate at the Court of James I during the Counter-Reformation</DIV>
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<DIV>Oxana Zemtsova (EUI, Florence): Formation of a Group Biography: Non-Russians into </DIV>
<DIV>Orthodox Priests and Teachers (Middle Volga Region, 2nd half of the 19th century)</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>1</STRONG><STRONG>7.30-18.30 (N11, TIGY) Conclusive Plenary Session</STRONG></DIV>
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