Program for the upcoming conference, "Pan-Movements, Regeneration and Modernity", which will be held at Ghent University on Tuesday 29 October 2024. It is possible to attend the event online.
Registration is compulsory: https://event.ugent.be/registration/event/89430443-ec0a-4dd1-8d2c-d3dfb82ad014
Pan-Movements, Regeneration and Modernity
This conference investigates the global development of pan-movements from the late nineteenth century to the interwar period, including pan-Africanism, pan-Asianism, pan-Europeanism, pan-Islamism, pan-Latinism, and pan-Slavism. These movements aimed to shape communities beyond the borders of individual nation-states, comprising individuals of different nationalities who allegedly shared a common history, race, religion, and needed to engage in a common historical mission. Building on recent scholarship across various pan-ideologies, the conference will examine how localized pan-movements contributed to a global discourse on regeneration and identity in modernity. Scholars from diverse disciplines will discuss the intersections between (trans)nationalism, (anti-)imperialism, and globalization, investigating how pan-movements attempted to redefine identities in a rapidly changing world.
Provisional program. All times are in CET.
9:00 - Welcome
9:15-9:30 - Introduction
9:30-11:00 - Session 1
- Wim Coudenys (KU Leuven) - Religious Universalism + Linguistic Nationalism = Pan-***ism? The Case of the ‘Comité catholique de propaganda française’ During and After the First World War
- Orsolya Sild (Eötvös Loránd University) - The Influence of Pan-Finno-Ugrism and Pan-Turanism on Contemporary Education: Teaching Practices and Beliefs of Hungarian Educators Regarding the Origin of the Hungarian Language
- Francesca Zantedeschi (University of Amsterdam) - Latinity and Pan-Germanism: National Stereotypes in French Scholarly Discourse During WWI
11:00-11:30 - Coffee break
11:30-13:00 - Session 2
- Paride Stortini (Ghent University) - Bridging Asianisms Through Hindu Mythology: Rash Behari Bose’s Ramayana in Wartime Japan
- Francesco Campagnola (University of Lisbon) - Renaissance, fukkō and Pan-Asianism in Japan
- Andreas Niehaus (Ghent University) - Pan-Asianism in Japanese Martial Arts
13:00-14:00 - Lunch break
14:00-15:30 - Session 3
- Emanuele Cutinelli-Rendina (Université de Strasbourg) - Benedetto Croce: the Republic of Letters as the Soul of European Identity
- Guylian Nemegeer (Ghent University) - Latinity, Modernity and Cultural Imperialism
- Derek Robbins (University of East London) - On Otaka, Verdross and ‘World Association’15:30-16:00 - Coffee break
16:00-17:30 - Session 4
- Felicitas Maria Becker (Ghent University) - The Changing Scales of the ‘Umma’ for East African Muslims
- Mattias Gori Olesen (Aarhus University) - Bohras in Fezzes: Dawoodi Bohras, the Indian Ocean and Egyptian Pan-Movements, 1880s-1980s
- Cedric Van Dijck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) - Black Internationalism in the Magazines, 1918-39
For more information, please contact: guylian.nemegeer@ugent.be and francesco.campagnola@edu.ulisboa.pt