Translatio et Renovatio Imperii

Legitimitätskonstruktion durch imperiale Nachfolge und Erneuerung von der Antike bis ins 21. Jh.

Konstruowanie legitymizacji poprzez sukcesję i odnowę imperialną od starożytności do XXI wieku

Legitimacy construction through imperial succession and renewal from antiquity to the 21st century.

18.-20.7.2022, Instytut Zachodni, Poznań

Preliminary Programme

Introduction

1. Dr. Justyna Schulz (Poznań): Empires and Imperial Traditions – Yesterday and Tomorrow.

Panel I

2. Prof. Dr. Thomas Zimmermann (Ankara): “I reinforced the realms of my father and grandfather” – conjuring lost Hittite imperial glory in post-Hittite perilous times.

3. Prof. Dr. Altay Coşkun (Waterloo ON): Four Empire Allegories in the Book of Daniel.

4. Rabbi Dr. Ben Scolnic (Hamden CT): Porphyry, Antiochus/Antichrist and the Silence of Rabbi Eliezer: Neoplatonic, Early Christian and Jewish Responses to Daniel’s Vision of the Succession of Empires.

5. Dr. Germain Payen (Lille): The Aspurgian Dynasty in the Bosporan History: Mithradatism, Thracian identity, Graeco-Scythian past and Sarmatian influence.

6. Loic Borgies MA (Namur): The Augustan “Renovatio” and the Ideology of the Early Han Empire - a Comparison.

7. Augustine Dickinson MA (Toronto / Hamburg): Holy Men and the Holy Ark: The Church, the State, and the Legitimization of the Solomonic Dynasty of Ethiopia.

8. Stone Chen BA (Waterloo ON): Imperial Concepts of China: from Confucius to Mao.

Panel II

9. Prof. Zdzisław Krasnodębski (Bremen): Imperial Theories in the Context of Polish-German Relations during the 19th and 20th Century (to be confirmed).

10. Dr. Grzegorz Lewicki (independent / Gdańsk): The Jagiellonian and Ottoman Empires.

11. Prof. Dr. Henrieke Stahl (Trier): Imperial Conflicts and Historical Traumas in Eastern European Poetry

12. Prof. Grzegorz Kucharczyk (Gorzów / Warszawa): How to Build an Empire? The Mitteleuropa-Plan of Friedrich Naumann.

13. Prof. Dr. Misia Doms (Mannheim / Pädagogische Hochschule Niederösterreich): Ashes without Phoenix. The End of the Habsburg Empire in the Works by Alexander Lernet-Holenia and Joseph Roth.

14. Prof. Dr. Jörg Baberowski (Berlin): The Revival of Russian Imperialism from Stalin to Putin.

15. Prof. Dr. Magdalena Bainczyk (Kraków): Fall and Rise of the European Union. Disputes over the legal character of the EU.

16. Prof. Dr. Gerd Morgenthaler (Siegen): The European Union – yet another European Empire or an Institution “sui generis”?

Conclusion

17. Prof. Dr. David Engels (Poznań / Bruxelles): Poznań’s “Kaiserschloss”: The Strange Fate of Imperial Self-Legitimation in the 20th Century.

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