A wide variety of terms is used today to describe the region that lies between the Baltic, Adriatic and Black Seas, such as Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Central-Eastern Europe, East Central Europe and Europe médiane. However, the absence of a clear definition of the region continues to challenge researchers.

Presentation

The Institute of Political Studies (ISP) of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and the Europes-Eurasia Research Centre (CREE) of the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco) organize the conference “What is Central Europe and what is Eastern Europe? The name of the region in the academic discourse in Poland and France”.

A wide variety of terms is used today to describe the region that lies between the Baltic, Adriatic and Black Seas, such as Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Central-Eastern Europe, East Central Europe and Europe médiane. However, the absence of a clear definition of the region continues to challenge researchers

Registration

Those wishing to attend are kindly requested to confirm by 17 March 2022 through email registration: zeswibp@isppan.waw.pl 

Programme

Panel I

10:00 – 12:00 : Moderator : Léa Xailly, Ph.D. student (Europes-Eurasia Research Centre, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco)

10:00 – 10:10 : Conference opening

Greetings from the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences authorities

• 10:10 – 10:25 : Wojciech Roszkowski, Professor (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences) – Central Europe or East Central Europe ?
• 10:25 – 10:40 : Agnieszka Orzelska-Stączek, Professor (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences) – From Eastern Europe through Central-Eastern Europe to Central Europe. What is Central Europe today ?
• 10:40 – 10:55 : Marek Więckowski, Professor (Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences), co-authors: Emmanuelle Boulineau, Professor (The École normale supérieure de Lyon) and Lydia Coudroy de Lille, Professor (University Lyon 2) – Central and Eastern Europe, Europe médiane: identity and borders of an in-between Europe in French and Polish geographies
• 10:55 – 11:10 : Jakub Olchowski Ph.D., Szczepan Czarnecki, Ph.D. student (Institute of Central Europe, Lublin) – Central Europe: theory and praxis – perspective of Institute of Central Europe in Lublin

11:10 – 12:00 : Discussion

Panel II

14:00 – 16:00 : Moderator : Agnieszka Cianciara, Professor (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences)

• 14:00 – 14:15 : Paweł Kowal, Professor (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences) –  The “Jagiellonian idea” as the source of the Polish tradition of thinking about Central Europe
• 14:15 – 14:30 : Étienne Boisserie, Professor (Europes-Eurasia Research Centre, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco) – Central or Eastern Europe? How to define the area in history teaching ?
• 14:30 – 14:45 : Paul Gradvohl, Professor (Research Centre for Contemporary Central European History, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) – Security as a key to cope with Central/Middle Europe in modern times
• 14:45 – 15:00 : Paweł Ukielski Ph.D. (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences) – East-Central Europe in the thought of Oskar Halecki and Jenő Szűcs as a reference point for contemporary academic discourse

15:00 – 16:00 : Discussion 

Organisation's committee

• Agnieszka Orzelska-Stączek, Professor (ISP PAN)
• Marzena Czernicka, Ph.D. (ISP PAN)
• Konrad Świder, Ph.D. (ISP PAN)
• Léa Xailly, Ph.D. student (CREE, Inalco)