Friday (Sept 23) Auditorium
10:30 Opening: Laszlo Kontler, Pro-Rector and Professor of History, CEU and organizers
11:00 - 12:30 Session 1
Chair: Viktor Karady, CEU
Andreas Glaeser, University of Chicago
Sociotheology: Political Imaginaries and Fantasies in the Hebrew Bible
Constantin Iordachi, CEU
Toward a Social History of Concepts: Citizenship, Legal Models, and Socio-Political Change
Discussant: Jean-Louis Fabiani, CEU
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 2
Chair: Alfred Rieber, CEU
Sigurdur Magnusson, Center for Microhistorical Research, Reykjavik Academy
Culture v. ‘the Social’ – An Approach in Microhistory
Don Kalb, CEU
Marx, Gramsci and Polanyi: Un-disciplined observations on the return of the social at the end of a ‘belle epoque’
Discussant: Karl Hall, CEU
15:30 – 16:00 break
16:30 – 18:00 Session 3
Chair: Daniel Monterescu, CEU
Micol Seigel, Indiana University
Violence as the Crisis of the Social
Tolga Esmer, CEU
Economies of Violence: The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Banditry in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1793 to 1808
Discussant: Dorit Geva, CEU
Saturday (Sept 24) Auditorium
11:00 – 13:00 Session 4
Chair: Prem Kumar Rajaram, CEU
Manu Goswami, New York University
Debating Comparison: the social as a comparative question
George Steinmetz, University of Michigan
Against Comparison: German Historicism in the Human Sciences
Judit Bodnar, CEU
Between Disciplines, Cases and Strategies: Globalization, Urban Forms and Comparisons
Discussant: Shalini Randeria, University of Zurich
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Session 5
Chair: Vlad Naumescu, CEU
Jane Gray, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Re-visiting ‘Experience’
Martha Lampland, University of California, San Diego
Betwixt and Between
Discussant: Alexandra Kowalski, CEU
16:00 – 16:30 break
16:30 – 18:00
Inter-disciplinarity, multi-disciplinarity, non-disciplinarity, or lost in translation: short provocations and roundtable discussion
Moderator: Shalini Randeria, University of Zurich