43rd Annual Berkeley-Stanford Conference

43rd Annual Berkeley-Stanford Conference

"From Liberalism to Neoliberalism: the New Europe at 100"

March 15, 2019

Heyns Room, The Faculty Club
University of California, Berkeley

Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:00–10:15 a.m.
John Connelly, Director, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

Panel One
10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Chair: John Connelly, Director, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

“The New Europe: Alexander I’s Campaign for a Liberal Constitutional Order”
Victoria Frede, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

“A Reflection on Liberalism, Nationalism, and Democracy in Serbia during the Long 19th Century”
Jovana Knezevic, Associate Director, Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University

LUNCH BREAK
11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Panel Two
1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Chair: Jeffrey Pennington, Executive Director, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

“Istanbul, 1919: Changing of the Guard in Real Time”
Christine Philliou, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

“The Complicated Role and Fate of Minority-Rights Treaties Imposed on Newly Created States: The Case of Upper Silesia 1919-1937”
Richard Buxbaum, Jackson H. Ralston Professor Emeritus of International Law, University of California, Berkeley

“The ‘New Europe’ of the Postwar, 1944-1949”
Norman Naimark, Professor of History; Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor in East European Studies, Stanford University

COFFEE BREAK
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Panel Three
3:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Chair: Jason Wittenberg, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

“The Religious Legacies of Empire”
Robert Crews, Professor of History, Stanford University

“What Happened? The Woman Question from Chernyshevsky to Putin”
Katherine Jolluck, Senior Lecturer of History, Stanford University

“Democratic Success as a Cause of Democratic Backsliding”
Anna Grzymala-Busse, Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies; Senior Fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Closing Remarks
5:15–5:30 p.m.
Pavle Levi, Director, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies; Associate Professor of Art & Art History, Film & Media Studies, Stanford University.

Conference Program