Map of Sevastopol located on the Crimean Peninsula, 1854 Eine Veranstaltung des Exzellenzclusters „Religion und Conference of the Cluster of Excellence and the Herder Institute > Organisation Politik“ der Universität Münster in Kooperation mit dem Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung – for Historical Research on East Central Europe Project B2-4 of the Cluster of Excellence: Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. Dem Forschungsverbund “The Ukrainian Bastion” – the Bulwark of Europe and gehören 200 Wissen schaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler antemurale christianitatis. The Nationalisation of a Myth aus 20 geistes- und sozial wissenschaftlichen Fächern und > Bulwarks in a “Religious Triangle” 14 Ländern an. Sie untersuchen das komplexe Verhältnis Dr. Liliya Berezhnaya Borderland Myths in East European Multicon- Tel. +49 251 83-23537 | [email protected] von Religion und Politik quer durch die Epochen und Kulturen: von der antiken Götterwelt über Judentum, Chris- fessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism Herder-Institute for Historical Research on East Central tentum und Islam in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit bis hin Europe – Institute of the Leibniz-Association zur heutigen Situation in Europa, Amerika, Asien und Afrika. 15. and 16.05.2014 Es ist der bundesweit größte Forschungsverbund dieser Dr. Heidi Hein-Kircher Art und von den 43 Exzellenzclustern in Deutschland der Tel. +49 6421 184110 | [email protected] einzige zum Thema Religion. Bund und Länder fördern das In Cooperation with: Vorhaben in der zweiten Förderphase der Exzellenz initiative Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, and von 2012 bis 2017 mit 33,7 Millionen Euro. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Exzellenzcluster „Religion und Politik“ Johannisstraße 1 > Venue 48143 Münster Tel. +49 251 83-23376 Hörsaalgebäude des Exzellenzclusters | Raum JO 101 Fax +49 251 83-23246 Johannisstraße 4, 48143 Münster [email protected] „Strachopud“, Journal in Galicia“, Fight the Polish-Russian of Theater the from „The Report Bildnachweise: wikipedia gettyimages; HarvardCollection; Map Berezhnaya; Liliya Photo: Lecture venue: Hörsaalgebäude des Exzellenzclusters | Raum JO 1 Johannisstraße 4, 48143 Münster > Registration till 02.05.2014 Dr. Liliya Berezhnaya | [email protected] www.religion-und-politik.de > Bulwarks in a “Religious Triangle” > Programme The concept of antemurale christianitatis (bulwark of Thursday, 15.05.2014 Friday, 16.05.2014 Christianity) was born in the 15th century and reached its 09:15–09:30 Opening remarks 09:00–10:15 Bastions of faith. Christian churches in the peak during the anti-Osmanic wars in the 16th and 17th Liliya Berezhnaya, Münster, and borderland societies. Part I centuries. East European frontier zones are typical regions of Heidi Hein-Kircher, Marburg Moderation: Volodymyr Kravchenko the spread of antemurale myths. One of it is situated along the southern, south-western and western borders of the 09:30–10:45 Antemurale Topos: ‘historical and political back- Bullwarks of Anti-Bolshevism: The Roman Catholic Church in grounds’ (European and religious applications) East Central Europe and the Antemurale Propaganda of the late Russian Empire, encompassing the lands of the modern Moderation: Heidi Hein-Kircher Interwar Years | Paul Srodecki,� Gießen Ukraine and the Black Sea region which had been contested since the antiquity and contributed to the growth of the Antemurale Concepts in Vatican Politics till the End of the 18th Bastions of Faith in the Oceans of Ambiguities. Monasteries Byzantine, Ottoman, Habsburg, and Russian Empires as Century | Kerstin Weiand, Frankfurt a. M. in the East European Borderlands (late 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries) | Liliya Berezhnaya, Münster multi-ethnic and multi-confessional communities. There, the The Function of the “Antemurale”-Notion in the Polish-Lithuanian logic of antemurale worked on both sides. Commonwealth at the Turn of the 16th-17th Centuries 10:35–11:50 Bastions of faith. Christian churches in the Edward Opalinski,� Warsaw borderland societies. Part II Since the 19th century, the mythic narration on „bulwarks“ has undergone considerable changes, due to the rise of 11:00–13:00 Frontier mythology in Ukrainian historical and The Uniate Church in Transylvania, the “true” Eastern Church political discourses in the times of nationalism and the Promoter of the “true” National Values nationalism and the transformations of political borders. The Moderation: Liliya Berezhnaya Ciprian Ghisa and Mihai Olaru, Cluj antemurale myths experienced a revival: Old topoi of „chosen people“ and the civilization/barbarism divide have remained Borderland into Heartland? Antemurale Mythology in Ukrainian Knowing “the Other”: Ukrainian Greek Catholics’ Views on the intact, but the anti-Islamic was replaced sharply by an anti- historical Writing of the first half of the 19th century Russian Orthodoxy in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Natalia Shlichta, Kyiv Russian rhetoric. Political myths of antemurale, due to its Volodymyr Kravchenko, Edmonton semantic flexibility, turned to be essential elements of local Religion and Nation in Frontier Mythology: Re-reading the History 12:15–14:15 Frontier mythology in conflict and counteraction national ideologies. of the Rus | Serhii Plokhii, Boston with the Islamic and Jewish “other” Moderation: Alfred Sproede, Münster Some Remarks on the Antemurale Myth from a Galician The conference of the Cluster of Excellence (Project B2-4 Per spective. Polish and Ukrainian Schoolbooks from 1848 Holy Ground. The (Re)Construction of an Orthodox Crimea in the “The Ukrainian Bastion” – the Bulwark of Europe and to 1918 | Philipp Hofender, Wien 19th Century | Kerstin Jobst, Wien antemurale christianitatis. The Nationalisation of a Myth) and the Herder Institute aims at discovering the peculiarities of 14:30–16:45 “Mental mapping” in arts and music, cartography From Baku and Crimea to the Bosporus. Emigrés’ Role in the and travel guides. Russian-Turkish intellectual Entanglement about Borderlands the antemurale rhetoric’s application upon various national Moderation: Serhii Plokhii Zaur Gasimov, Istanbul ideologies and respective “mental mapping.” But it seems more important to ask how the antemurale myth contributed The Bulwark Mission: Polish Travel Guides on Galicia and Lviv at The Walls of the Ghetto. Debates on Exclusion, Integration and to the coherence of the given local community. Thus, one the End of the 19th - the First Decades of 20th Century Identity in Central Europe in the 19th and early 20th century Jürgen Heyde, Halle/Saale focus rests upon the longue durée processes in the national Heidi Hein-Kircher, Marburg consciousness, from the end of the 18th century until the in- Speaking in Maps: Spatially Rethinking East Central Europe’s 14:15 Lunch Snack terwar period. A second one lies on a synchronic perspective, National Geographers | Steven Seegel, Greeley, Colorado which allows tracing mutual transfers as well as multi-sided 15:00 Concluding remarks Canvas Bulwarks: Art, Religion, and Nationhood in Late 19th Liliya Berezhnaya, Münster national ideological competitions and the intertwining of century Eastern Europe | Stephen Norris, Upham Hall, Ohio mythical narrations. 18:15–19:45 Public lecture Die Funktion des politischen Mythos in der Demokratie Yves Bizeul, Rostock 20:00 Dinner.