Call for papers: Rethinking Liberal Europe. Ideas of Europe and Notions of Freedom between 1848 and 1945 (deadline: March 1, 2022)

The conference, whose aim is to shed new light on the ways in which concepts of freedom and ideas of Europe have interreacted between 1848 and 1945, is a joint project of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Turin and the Stiftung Reichspräsident-Friedrich-Ebert-Gedenkstätte, Heidelberg, as well as the Research Network on the History of the Idea of Europe based at the University of East Anglia. Scholars interested in participating are invited to consider their research with regards to how ideas of and discourses about freedom, however understood, (re)shaped notions such as ‘Europe’, ‘European’, ‘European civilization’ etc. within historical and philosophical works, novels, works of art, treatises, speeches, propaganda material, and so on. 

If you would like to present a paper (15 minutes) or organize a panel (3/4 speakers), please send a 300-word abstract (in case of a panel, this should be per paper) with a title and a short biography by March 1,  2022 to Matthew D’Auria (m.dauria@uea.ac.uk), Florian Greiner (florian.greiner@ebert-gedenkstaette.de) or Federico Trocini (federico.trocini@fondazioneeinaudi.it).

Please note that the working language of the conference is English. The conference has no registration fees.