Carpatho-Ukraine: long controversies over the shortest lived state in the world. A case study of conflicting master narratives

• 09:00, 16 листопада

• Nyíregyháza, Hungary

International conference in the frame of the ENRS project

Venue: East and Central European Research Centre, College of Nyíregyháza
4400 Nyíregyháza, Sóstói út 31/B



PROGRAM

9.00-9.30 Opening (Zoltán JÁNOSI, rector, College of Nyíregyháza; Attila PÓK, deputy director of the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities of HAS and member of the Steering Committee of ENRS; a representative of ENRS)

9.30-10.00 Press Conference

10.00-12.00 Panel 1. Polish, romanian and slovakian points of view
Chair: Attila PÓK

10.00-10.30 Dariusz DABROWSKI – Piotr CICHORACKI (Institute of History, University of Wrocław): The 1939 events in Subcarpathian Rus – the Polish viewpoint

10.30-11.00 Cornel Grad (“Vasile Goldis” Western University of Arad): Romanian views on the annexation of Carpatho-Ukraine (March 1939). Political, diplomatic, military and humanitarian aspects

11.00-11.30 Ottmar TRAŞCĂ (Institute of History “George Bariţiu” in Cluj-Napoca of the Romanian Academy): The question of Carpatho-Ukraine in Romanian documents, 1938–1939

11.30-12.00 István JANEK (Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities of HAS, Budapest): The interpretation of the Slovak-Hungarian “Little War” in national historiographies

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00-15.00 Panel 2. Hungarian and German approaches
Chair: Michael MOSER

13.00-13.30 Miklós ZEIDLER (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): Hungarian revisionism and Ruthenia

13.30-14.00 Csaba B. STENGE (Tatabánya City Archives): Hungarian military operations in Subcarpathia in March 1939

14.00-14.30 László RITTER (Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities of HAS, Budapest): The activities of the German and Hungarian intelligence and security services concerning Carpathian Ruthenia, 1938–1939 (The sabotage and intelligence activity of the Abwehr and of the Hungarian military intelligence service)

14.30-15.00 Olekszandr BOGIV (Transcarpathian State University, Uzhhorod): The influence of the Carpatho-Ukrainian question on Hungarian–German relations in 1938–1939

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-18.00 Panel 3.The Ukrainian factor
Chair: Ottmar TRAŞCĂ

15.30-16.00 Román OFICINSZKIJ (Uzhhorod National University, Uzhhorod): The Ukrainian starting point of the Second World War: national-patriotic interpretations of the history of Carpatho-Ukraine in contemporary studies

16.00-16.30 Olekszandr PAHIRYA (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv): Carpathian Sitch: from the military organization to the armed forces of an independent state

16.30-17.00 Michael MOSER (Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Vienna): What language was spoken in Carpatho-Ukraine (a political or a linguistic issue?)

17.00-17.30 Csilla FEDINEC (Institute for Minority Studies, Centre for Social Sciences of HAS, Budapest): “…it would mean self-confidence…” Carpatho-Ukraine in the Hungarian political discourses of 1938–1939

17.30-18.00 Discussion

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