Aufzeichnung der Tagung „Rethinking Liberal Europe: Ideas of Europe and Notions of Freedom between 1848 and 1945“ online
Vom 29. Juni bis 1. Juli 2022 veranstaltete die Stiftung Reichspräsident-Friedrich-Ebert Gedenkstätte gemeinsam mit dem italienischen Wissenschaftszentrum Fondazione Luigi Einaudi onlus sowie einem internationalen Forschungsnetzwerk zur Geschichte von Europaideen und in Kooperation mit der Villa Vigoni e. V. – Deutsch-italienisches Zentrum für den europäischen Dialog eine Konferenz unter dem Titel „Rethinking Liberal Europe: Ideas of Europe and Notions of Freedom between 1848 and 1945“ in Turin.
Ziel war es, neue Perspektiven auf die Blüte liberaldemokratischer Europavorstellungen im Zeitalter des Nationalismus zu werfen. Konkret wurde analysiert, wie Ideen von europäischer Kooperation und Einheit sowie Konzeptionen von Freiheit zusammenwirkten: ein hochaktuelles Thema mit langen historischen Wurzeln.
Die Mitschnitte der Tagung sind nun auf YouTube einsehbar.
Tagungsprogramm 29. Juni 2022
Introduction
Florian Greiner (Heidelberg): Ideas of Europe and Liberalism, 1848-2022: Past and Present of a Firm and Fragile Relationship
PANEL 1: 1848 | EUROPEAN IDEAS IN A LIBERAL REVOLUTION
Fernanda Gallo (Cambridge):Free Italy in a Free Europe: Ideas of Europe in Italian 1848 Revolutions
Carine Renoux (Paris): Francisque Bouvet: Republican and Promoter of Europe, 1848-1849
Bernd Braun (Heidelberg): Ernst Elsenhans (1815 – 1849): Lost Ideas about Social-Liberal State Building and an International State System in the Revolution of 1848/49
Chair: Matthew D’Auria (Norwich)
PANEL 2: FREEDOM, EUROPE, AND LIBERALISM IN NINETEENTH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, AND POLITICS
Anna di Bello (Naples): Between Literature and Politics: Victor Hugo’ s Ideas of Freedom and Europe
Arthur Ghins (Yale): How Liberalism Became European: The French Case
Alexander Zevin (New York): Inventing Liberal Socialism: John Stuart Mill’s “European Ideas” after 1848
Oded Steinberg (Jerusalem): ‘Racial Time’: Liberalism, Race and Historical Time in the Late Victorian Era
Giuseppe Grieco (Turin): Visions of Europe and the Principle of Nationality: Recasting International Order after 1848
Chair: Federico Trocini (Turin)
Keynote
Helena Rosenblatt (New York): Reflections on the Notion of Liberty, 1848–1945
Tagungsprogramm 30. Juni 2022
PANEL 3: THE QUEST FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM – IDEAS OF A LIBERAL EUROPE FROM THE FIN DE SIÈCLE TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH
Alessandro Dividus (Pisa): L. T. Hobhouse’s Idea of a European Federation
Ulrich Tiedau (London): TheFirst Congress for European Federation, Rome 1909
Spartaco Pupo (Cosenza): Free Government, Free Trade, and Europe: The Scottish Enlightenment
Heritage in the European Liberalism of the Early Twentieth Century
Georgios Giannakopoulos (Athens / London): Fighting for Freedom against German Militarism: Greece, Southeastern Europe and the Emergence of a “New Europe” during WWI
Chair: Fernanda Gallo (Cambridge)
PANEL 4: EUROPE FROM THE MARGINS? THINKING LIBERAL EUROPE IN THE PERIPHERY
Erkjad Kajo (Pavia / Athens): Notions of Europe and Freedom in the Albanian National Movements Discourse (1878–1914)
Domagoj Tomas (Osijek): Geopolitical visions of Central Europe in the Views of Croatian intellectuals in the First Half of the 20th Century
Zinovia Lialiouti (Athens) / Iason Zarikos (Athens): Images of Germany and Neglected Visions of Europe in First World War Greece
Carl Antonius Lemke Duque (Pamplona): Europe as the Teleology of Law Cultures: Ortega, Hegel and the Resurrection of the West
Chair: Cathie Carmichael (Norwich)
PANEL 5: THE STRUGGLE AGAINST ANTILIBERALISM I: CONCEPTUALIZING LIBERAL EUROPE IN THE INTERBELLUM
Margarete Tiessen (Chemnitz): No Freedom Without Unity: Germany’s Inter-War Liberal Left and the Vision of a Grand European Synthesis
Federico Trocini (Turin): Walther Rathenau between Capitalism, Socialist Planning, Popular Democracy and Europeanism
Patricia Chiantera-Stutte (Bari): Imperialism and Liberty: the British Liberal Internationalism and the Geopolitical Projects for the Consolidation of a World Order during the two World Wars
Vesa Vares (Turku): Finland, Czechoslovakia, and the New European Order after the First World War: A Comparison of Presidents K.J. Ståhlberg and Tomáš Masaryk
Chair: Florian Greiner (Heidelberg)
Keynote
Glenda Sluga (Sydney / Florence):Rethinking Liberal Europe? What shall we do with the Women?
Tagungsprogramm 1. Juli 2022
PANEL 6: THE STRUGGLE AGAINST ANTILIBERALISM II: INTERPRETING LIBERAL EUROPE IN THE INTERBELLUM
Paola Cattani (Rome): T. Mann, P. Valéry, J. Ortega y Gasset and Democratic Liberalism: from Criticism to Defence
Cristina Blanco Sío-Lopez (Venice): Salvador de Madariaga and the ‘Solidarity of Being’: Echoes of an Imagined ‘Free Movement of Persons’ from Interwar Europe
Aleksandra Tobiasz (Florence): Europe between Asian Past and Latin American Future? Retrospective and Utopian Ideas of Europe in Writings of Sándor Márai and Stefan Zweig
Matthew D’Auria (Norwich): European History and the Unfolding of Freedom? Some Thoughts on Benedetto Croce and Federico Chabod’s Ideas of Europe
Chair: Christiane Liermann (Villa Vigoni)
PANEL 7: BUILDING A NEW EUROPE – THE DIFFICULT REBIRTH OF LIBERAL EUROPEANISM IN AND AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Marcello Gisondi (Lugano): The Common Man’s Front: a Liberal-Populist Vision of the United States of Europe (1943–1948)
Andrea Pinazzi (Rome): Luigi Einaudi and European Unity: between Federalism and Functionalism
Chair: Georgios Giannakopoulos (Athens / London)
Final Round Table and Concluding Remarks
Christiane Liermann (Villa Vigoni)
Stefano Montaldo (Turin)
Giuseppe Sciara (Bologna)
Edoardo Tortarolo (Turin)
Alessandra Venturini (Turin)
Chair: Cathie Carmichael (Norwich)
