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

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