Speakers
Johann ArnasonInterpreting Europe from East of Centre
Johann P. Arnason is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for European Studies, Monash University. His main research areas are social theory and comparative historical sociology. He has published in English, German, French, Italian and Czech, and his many books include Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions (2003), Social Theory andJapanese Experience: The Dual Civilisation (1997), The Future that Failed: Origins and Destinies of the Soviet Model (1993), and Praxis und Interpretation: Sozialphilosophische Studien (1988).
Miroslav HrochConstructing Regions in the Central European Past
Miroslav Hroch is Professor Emeritus of History at Charles University, Prague. He is widely known for his comparative research on nation formation, especially the book Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe (English 1985, 2000). His most recent book is Das Europa der Nationen (2005).
Hartmut KaelbleConvergences and Divergences of European Societies since 1945
Hartmut Kaelble is Professor of History at Humboldt University, Berlin, and director of the Zentrum fr vergleichende Geschichte Europas. His numerous books include Auf dem Weg zu einer europischen Gesellschaft: Sozialgeschichte Westeuropas 1880-1980 (1987; translated into various languages), Europer ber Europa: Die Entstehung des modernen europischen Selbstverstndnisses in 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (2001) and Wege zur Demokratie: Von der Franzsischen Revolution zur europischenUnion (2001).
Bo Strth'Norden' as a European Region
Bo Strth is Professor of History and Civilisation at the European University Institute, Fiesole. He has published widely in English and Swedish. His books include Organisation of Labour Markets: Governance, Culture and Modernity in German y, Sweden, Britainand Japan (1996), Europe and the Other andEurope as the Other (edited, 2000) and Union och demokrati: De Frenade rikena Sverige-Norge 1814-1905 (Union and Democracy: On the Norwegian-Swedish Union 1815-1905, 2005).
Stefan TroebstMesoRegions as Historical Constructs
Stefan Troebst is Professor of Hisoty at Leipzig University and vice-director of the Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum fr Kultur und Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas. He is the author, among other books, of Das makedonische Jahrhundert. Von den Anfngen nationalrevolutionrer Bewegung zum Abkommen von Ohrid 1893-2001 (2004), Sdosteuropa: Gesellschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur (with Magarditsch Hatschikjan, 1999) and Conflict in Kosovo: Failure of Prevention? An Analytical Documentation, 1992-1998 (1998).
Peter WagnerIs There a European Cultural Identity?
Peter Wagner is Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute, Fiesole, and author of numerous publications on social theory and the sociology of modernity. His publications include Europa politica: Ragioni di una necessit (edited with Heidrun Friese and Antonio Negri, 2002), A History and Theory of the Social Sciences: Not All that is Solid Melts Into Air (2001), Theorizing Modernity: Inescapability and Attainability in Social Theory (2001) and A Sociology of Modernity: Liberty and Discipline (1994).