ERC Project “Negotiating Sovereignty. Challenges of Secularism and Nation Building in Central Eastern Europe since 1780”

Open seminar*

24 April 2024

Institute of History PAS (IH PAN), Rynek Starego Miasta 31, Kościuszko Room

Time: 13:30-17:30

Programme

Presentations of approx. 25 minutes will be followed by a 15 minutes remarks by commentators and 10 minutes questions/remarks from the audience.

András Fejérdy 13:30-14:20

„We don’t pledge allegiance out of fear, but because we would be loyal anyway” – The first Hungarian People’s Republic and the oath of allegiance of the Catholic clergy (1918-1919)

Željko Oset 14:20-15:10

Yugoslav Catholic bishops at crossroad: Yugoslav bishops’ conference sessions in November 1918 and September 1945

Coffee break 15:10-15:30

Anca Şincan 15:30-16:20

The year of living dangerously: from swearing the oath of allegiance to the dismemberment of the Greek Catholic Church the 1948 in Romania

Przemysław Pazik 16:20-17:10

What a State wants, what a state needs? The texts of the oath of loyalty of the clergy in Poland in the short XX century (1918-1989)

Round-up session of comments/questions 17:10-17:30

Commentators: prof. Paweł Skibiński (UW), Fr dr Albert Warso (KUL), dr Tomáš Pavliček (IH PAN)

* The language of the event is English, if needed a non-professional, ad-hoc translation from and to Polish can be provided