Conference: Modern Marriages. European Perspectives on Policies, Discourses, Economies and Emotions in the long 20th century, 16.-17.09.2021, virtual space

Maren Röger, University of Augsburg: Conference in memoriam of Lisa Dittrich
Time: 16.-17.09.2021
Venue: virtual space, via Augsburg
The conference will ask how marriage as an institution and as a way of life has changed in Europe in the long 20th century, in the context and under the influence of different legal and state systems as well as economic and civil society conditions.
On the one hand, interest is particularly directed at comparative approaches to identify joint legal and societal developments in Europe, such as the facilitation of divorces or the tendency towards gender equality. On the other hand, the aim is to discuss differences and long-term cultural influences. By bringing together experts on different European regions, the organizers want to request the typical division in research regarding Eastern and Western Europe.
Programm
Thu., 16.09.2021
9:00 Welcome and Introduction Maren Röger (Augsburg)
9:15 The Secularization of Marriage: Comparative Perspectives on the Early 20th Century

  • Sofía Rodríguez Serrador and Rafael Serrano García (Valladolid): Marriage and Divorce in the Second Spanish Republic
  • Péter Techet (Freiburg i. Breisgau): Marriage Law between Law, Politics and Culture in Austria in the Interwar Period
  • Maren Röger (Augsburg): Romanian Marriage Laws: A Transnational History of Secularization?

11:15 Coffee Break
11:45 Seeking for Modernity in Marriage

  • Judit Belantonyi (Pécs): Ethnographic Sources for Historical Research: Deconstruction and Reconstruction of 20th “Traditional” and “Modern” Marriages in Hungary
  • Katarzyna Sierakowska and Natalia Jarska (Warsaw): Ideas of Reform and Modernization of Marriage in Poland 1918–1989

13:15 Lunch Break
14:00 Transnational Mobility and National Principles: Intermarriages

  • Laura Frey (Basel): “A Woman Without a Country” – Marriage, Derivative Citizenship and the Inter/National Fight for Equal Citizenship Rights in the Weimar Republic
  • Christoph Lorke (Münster): Undesired border crossings: Muslim Marriage Partners in Britain and Germany in the first third of the 20th Century

Fri., 17.09.2021
9:00 Between Eugenics and Psychologization: Marriage Counselling

  • Isabel Heinemann (Münster): Marriage Counselling as a Transatlantic Project? Expert Knowledge, Client’s Agency and Eugenic Legacies in the Course of the 20th Century
  • Lu Seegers (Hamburg): “Life Coach for Millions”: Walther von Hollander as an Adviser on Marriage from the early 1930s until the early 1970s in Germany and Austria

10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Law and Politics in Post-45 Europe: Socialist and Capitalist Societies

  • Iulia-Elena Hossu (Cluj-Napoca): Looking back for the Future. Marriage in Romania
  • Martin Löhning (Regensburg): German Marriage Law in the Post-War period
  • Ivana Dobrivojevic Tomic (Belgrade): Marriage and Family in Socialist Yugoslavia

13:00 Last Break
13:15 Final Discussion
Kontakt
If you wish to attend, please contact: eiden@bukowina-institut.de
A link to the zoom-sessions will be sent to you shortly before the event.
Quelle: https://www.hsozkult.de