FRIDAY 22 MAY (Room 104)
8:15 – 8:45 Registration
8:45 Welcome
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1: Disaster Nationalism, Society of Control and Moral Violence
- Martin Procházka, “Demise of Liberal Democracy? Avoiding the Disaster of the Society of Control”
- Martin Štefl, “‘Neither Authentic nor Naturally Evolved’: Argumentation Strategies in Contemporary Central-European (Disaster) Nationalist Discourse”
- Noemi Bravená, “Moral Violence and Catastrophic Nationalism”
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 Keynote 1:
- Murray Pittock, “The Natures of European Nationalism: Simple Questions, Complex Problems and Disastrous Answers”
12:15-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:30 Session 2: Varieties of Nationalism
Diasporic Identifications, Repressive Marginalization, Millennialist Conspiracies, Sacralised Nationhood
- Zdeněk Uherek, “Diasporic Identifications with the Nation and State: Czech Citizens Leaving the Country of Origin and Their Returns”
- Svetluša Surová, “’We Were Like Dogs Locked in Here’: Dissenting Voices from the Quarantined Roma Settlements during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Slovakia”
- Zuzana Marie Kostićová, “New Age Spirituality, Millennialism and Conspiracism: From Progressive to Apocalyptic”
- Zdenko Širka, “Religious Nationalism in Serbia”
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Session 3: Brexit Legacies – Migration Myths and Agonism
- Cornel Borit, “Albion under Invasion: Debunking Migration Myths in Brexit Literature”
- Mirka Horová, “Swings and Roundabouts? The Rise of the Greens and Reform”
17:15-18:15 Session 4: Minority Languages, Nationalism and Interculturalism
- Radvan Markus, “The Inclusive Aspect of the Irish Language”
- Petra Johana Poncarová, “Resistance Potential of Creative Language Activism: A Case Study in Scottish Gaelic and Esperanto”
18:15-19:30 Conference Drinks
SATURDAY 23 MAY (Room 104)
9:00 – 10:30 Session 5: Nationalism in Kitch, Videogames and Pop-culture – Propaganda, Nostalgia, Stereotyping
- Lina Vekeman, “From Soviet Kitsch to Pro-Russian Kitsch: An Aesthetics of Propaganda”
- Zoheb Mashiur, “Fascist and Communist Fantasies of Nostalgic Nationalism in the Video Game
- Philippe Brillet, “Could Dracula Really Be Back in Ireland? Unionist Nationalism and Anti-Balkan Rage”
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 Keynote 2:
- Luba Jurgenson, “The Discourse of Disaster and Its Contemporary Metamorphoses: From Cultural Construction to Weapon of War”
12:15-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:30 Session 6: Imperialism and Nationalism – Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Georgia and Abkhazia
- Denys Sultanhaliiev, “The Irony and Tragedy of Falsified Internationalism”
- Kamila Veverková, “The National Question of SubCarpathian Rus: Historical Narratives in Contemporary Hungarian Discourse”
- Ketevan Epadze, “Negotiating Imperial Past: Competing Russian and Abkhaz National Narratives over the Russian-Caucasian War (1817-1864)”
- Ana Tivadze, “Ethnopolitical Conflict and Cultural Elites: Georgian and Abkhazian Mass Mobilization in the Late Soviet Period (1970–1992)”
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Panel: Nationalisms and Literary Exiles
- Pavel Drábek, “The ‘Duodomy’ of Exiled Literature: Literary Politics in Heterotopic Europe”
- Táňa Dluhošová, “When Exiles Rule: A Taiwanese Intervention in Exile Theory”
- Thomas Loy, “‘Dancing with the Devils’ – Hamid Ismailov’s Novels”
- Adéla Provazníková, “The Politics of Literary Prizes and ‘The Making of a Successful Author’”
- Hana Pavelková, “Exiled in ‘The North’: Hassan Blasim’s Sololand”
17:30 End of the Conference
