Papers should address any of the following themes, ideally comparing the two periods with each other or pointing to research implications from one period for the other:
• Can the vast body of research into the transition economies help us beter understand the interwar economic experience of the region – and vice versa?
• What are positive and negative legacies and path dependencies of the former empires for economic development of the post-1914 and post-1989 nation states?
• In what ways, and why, do the successor states of former empires retain economic clout in the region?
• How do/did countries in the region frame discussions about economic policy and development and their envisioned place on the world market?
• How do theories of economic backwardness, alternative paths of development etc. compare between periods? How did local experts explain different development trajectories?
• Do/did countries in the region see their developmental aspirations as part of a regional effort (and, if so, which region?), as part of something bigger or as confined to their nation state?
• How did economic (and political) cooperation in the region fare between regional, international and isolationist approaches? What are the paterns of trade (dis)integration atier the end of Empire?
• What are concrete channels and factors of persistence (resource endowment, location, infrastructures, migration, etc.)?
Keynote speakers
Prof. Dr. Tamás Vonyó (Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan)
Hon.-Prof. Dr. János Mátyás Kovács (Research Center for the History of Transformations, University of Vienna)
Conveners
Dr. Gábor Egry (Institute of Political History, Budapest)
Dr. Elżbieta Kwiecińska (European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder)
Dr. Mathias Morys (University of York)
Applications have to be sent to AnnualConference@ios-regensburg.de in one PDF file until Dec. 15th, 2024. The file name must include the name of the author. The application must include: an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short CV (max. 2 pages) including your institutional affiliation, contact details and most important publications.
Important dates
The conference language is English. IOS Regensburg will cover accommodation costs of presenters and support their travel costs (in case of co-authored papers of one speaker).
The conference takes place in cooperation with the University of York (United Kingdom) and the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Europe and America in the Modern World” (Regensburg).
Contact: AnnualConference@ios-regensburg.de
