Anglophilia and the British Constitution in Central Europe 1750-2000
October 11-13, 2013
Organized by Dr. John Deak, University of Notre Dame
Prof. Dr. Ferenc Hörcher, Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Dr. Kálmán Pocza, Department of Political Science of Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences and the Department of Political Science of Pázmány Péter Catholic University.
Friday, OctOber 11, 2013
18:00 - 18:30
18:30
19:00
Gather in the lobby of the hotel
Travel to the Embassy of Hungary
Welcome and reception at the Embassy of Hungary 35 Eaton Place, London SW1X 8BY
Saturday, OctOber 12, 2013
8:30 Coffee and tea available - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)
9:00 Welcome and opening of the conference
9:15 - 10:15 Session 1 - UK and USA - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)
Angus Hawkins (University of Oxford) ‘The Mother of Parilaments’?: The British Constitution 1780-1918
Michael Zuckert (University of Notre Dame) Anglophilia and the American Founding
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30 Session 2 - Austria - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)
John Deak (University of Notre Dame) England and the Idea of Reform: A View from the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Jonathan Kwan (University of Nottingham) Austro-German Liberalism and the English Example, 1861-1914
11:30 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 13:30 Session 3 - Germany - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)
Regina Portner (Swansea University) Anglophilia and its Other: Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism and the Origins of Romantic Nationalism in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany
Richard Bourke (Queen Mary, University of London) Burke and Kant on Revolution and Resistance
William O’Reilly (University of Cambridge) Title TBA
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch - Senior Common Room (Ground Floor)
15:00 - 16:00 Session 4 - Poland - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)
Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (University College London) Poland-Lithuania and Great Britain in the Eighteenth Century
Iwona Barwicka-Tylek (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) English Freedom vs. Polish Freedom: Areas of Similarities and Discord in the Polish Enlightenment Debate
Bogdan Szlachta (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) Two Traditions from the English Political Thought in Political Thinking of the “Stanczyks”
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 18:00 Session 5 - Czech and Slovak Region - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)
Milan Hlavačka (Charles University in Prague) Anglophilia in Bohemia in the Nineteenth Century: Phrenology, Self-government, Social Question, and Darwinism
Dušan Kováč (Slovak Academy of Sciences) Slovak Political Thought in the Long Nineteenth Century and the Great War: From Anglophobia to Anglophilia
Adéla Gjuričová (Charles University in Prague) Vague, but Useful: Anglophilia in Czech Dissident Movement and Post-Communist Politics (1970-1990s)
19:15 Dinner: Portrait Restaurant at the National Portrait Gallery (invitation only)
Sunday, OctOber 13, 2013
8:30 Coffee and tea available - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)
9:00 - 10:00 Session 6 - Hungary - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)
Ferenc Hörcher (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) A Hungarian Burke or a Hungarian de Maistre: The Case of Count Ferenc Széchényi
Kálmán Pócza (Pázmány Péter Catholic University) Constitutional Crises in Comparison: Hungary and the United Kingdom
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30 Session 7 - Hungary - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)
Eric Beckett Weaver (University of Debrecen) The End of Official Anglophilia
Gábor Bátonyi (University of Bradford) British Diplomacy and the ‘Lingering Trace’ of Anglophilia in Post-War Hungary
11:30 - 12:00 Lunch will be available
12:00 - 13:45 Round table on future cooperation and an edited volume
Map: University of Notre Dame London | National Poitrait Gallery | Trafalgar Square | Guoman Hotel at Charing Cross London, United Kingdom
Map: Guoman Hotel at Charing Cross to the Embassy of HungaryWalking distance: 1.6 miles | Aproximately 33 minutes