Anglophilia and the British Constitution in Central Europe 1750-2000

October 11-13, 2013

Organized by Dr. John Deak, University of Notre Dame

Prof. Dr. Ferenc Hörcher, Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Dr. Kálmán Pocza, Department of Political Science of Pázmány Péter Catholic University

Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of

Sciences and the Department of Political Science of Pázmány Péter Catholic University.

Friday, OctOber 11, 2013

18:00 - 18:30

18:30

19:00

Gather in the lobby of the hotel

Travel to the Embassy of Hungary

Welcome and reception at the Embassy of Hungary 35 Eaton Place, London SW1X 8BY

Saturday, OctOber 12, 2013

8:30 Coffee and tea available - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)

9:00 Welcome and opening of the conference

9:15 - 10:15 Session 1 - UK and USA - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)

Angus Hawkins (University of Oxford) ‘The Mother of Parilaments’?: The British Constitution 1780-1918

Michael Zuckert (University of Notre Dame) Anglophilia and the American Founding

10:15 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:30 Session 2 - Austria - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)

John Deak (University of Notre Dame) England and the Idea of Reform: A View from the Late Habsburg Monarchy

Jonathan Kwan (University of Nottingham) Austro-German Liberalism and the English Example, 1861-1914

11:30 - 12:00 Break

12:00 - 13:30 Session 3 - Germany - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)

Regina Portner (Swansea University) Anglophilia and its Other: Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism and the Origins of Romantic Nationalism in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany

Richard Bourke (Queen Mary, University of London) Burke and Kant on Revolution and Resistance

William O’Reilly (University of Cambridge) Title TBA

13:30 - 15:00 Lunch - Senior Common Room (Ground Floor)

15:00 - 16:00 Session 4 - Poland - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)

Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (University College London) Poland-Lithuania and Great Britain in the Eighteenth Century

Iwona Barwicka-Tylek (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) English Freedom vs. Polish Freedom: Areas of Similarities and Discord in the Polish Enlightenment Debate

Bogdan Szlachta (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) Two Traditions from the English Political Thought in Political Thinking of the “Stanczyks”

16:00 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 18:00 Session 5 - Czech and Slovak Region - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)

Milan Hlavačka (Charles University in Prague) Anglophilia in Bohemia in the Nineteenth Century: Phrenology, Self-government, Social Question, and Darwinism

Dušan Kováč (Slovak Academy of Sciences) Slovak Political Thought in the Long Nineteenth Century and the Great War: From Anglophobia to Anglophilia

Adéla Gjuričová (Charles University in Prague) Vague, but Useful: Anglophilia in Czech Dissident Movement and Post-Communist Politics (1970-1990s)

19:15 Dinner: Portrait Restaurant at the National Portrait Gallery (invitation only)

Sunday, OctOber 13, 2013

8:30 Coffee and tea available - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)

9:00 - 10:00 Session 6 - Hungary - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)

Ferenc Hörcher (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) A Hungarian Burke or a Hungarian de Maistre: The Case of Count Ferenc Széchényi

Kálmán Pócza (Pázmány Péter Catholic University) Constitutional Crises in Comparison: Hungary and the United Kingdom

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:30 Session 7 - Hungary - Trafalgar Hall ND Centre (1st floor)

Eric Beckett Weaver (University of Debrecen) The End of Official Anglophilia

Gábor Bátonyi (University of Bradford) British Diplomacy and the ‘Lingering Trace’ of Anglophilia in Post-War Hungary

11:30 - 12:00 Lunch will be available

12:00 - 13:45 Round table on future cooperation and an edited volume

Map: University of Notre Dame London | National Poitrait Gallery | Trafalgar Square | Guoman Hotel at Charing Cross London, United Kingdom

Map: Guoman Hotel at Charing Cross to the Embassy of HungaryWalking distance: 1.6 miles | Aproximately 33 minutes