CONFERENCE
FEDERATION OF SLOVAKS OF GREAT BRITAIN
CZECH AND SLOVAK SOCIETY AT KING’S COLLEGE LONDON
BRITISH CHAPTER OF CZECH SLOVAK SOCIETY OF ARTS & SCIENCES
invite you to the international conference at anniversary 65 death of R. W. Seton -Watson
and 100. anniversary of School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Robert William Seton-Watson, historian, university professor, founder of SSEES and
civil society activist for the rights of oppressed small nations
Place: King’s College London – Campus Waterloo, Franklin Wilkins Building, Room 1.16,
150 Stamford St., SE1 9NH , Underground station Waterloo
Term : Friday, April 1, 2016, 9am-3pm
PROGRAMME
09. 00 – 9. 30 Registration
09. 30 Opening – Martin Brezina, President of Czech and Slovak Society at King’s College
Adresses – HE Mgr. Ľubomír Rehák, PhD., Ambassador of Slovak Republik in London
– Representative of Royal Historical Society
09. 45 – 10. 45
Robert William Seton-Watson many sided personality
PhDr. Vladimír Daniš, PhD.
Federation of Slovaks of Great Britain, London
Robert William Seton-Watson and the project ,,The New Europe“
Daniela Javorics, PhD Candidate
Andrassy University Budapest / University of Vienna
A different attitude of British officials and British intelligence to the solution of the national question in the Austria-Hungary
M. A. Ján Ježík
Federation of Slovaks of Great Britain, London
The Limits (and Contradictions) of ‘Liberal Internationalism’?: ‘Scotus Viator’ and the ’Southern Slavs’, 1906-1941.
Samuel Foster, PhD Candidate & Teaching Assistant
School of History, University of East Anglia, Norwich
10. 45 Coffee break
11.00 – 12. 45
Robert Seton-Watson and the Serbs
Associate Professor, Aleksandar Rastović, PhD.
Institute of History, Belgrade
R.W. Seton – Watson and the Wars in the Balkans 1912-1918
University Professor, PhDr. Jan Rychlík, DrSc., dr. h.c.
Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
R.W. Seton-Watson’s role in British – Romanian relations
Senior Lecturer Marusia Cirstea, PhD.
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Craiova, Craiova
Robert William Seton-Watson and Representations of Romania in Britain 1913-1916
Tessa Dunlop, PhD Candidate,
Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
Robert William Seton-Watson and the Slovak and the Czech Slovak question till 1918
PhDr. Vladimír Daniš, PhD.
Federation of Slovaks of Great Britain, London
Ernest Denis, Seton Watson and the Slovak question during the World War I.
PhDr. Bohumila Ferenčuhová, DrSc.
Institute of History of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava
R. W. Seton Watson´s visits to Slovakia in the inter war period, in regard to his Memorandum to president Tomáš G. Masaryk in 1928
University Professor Robert Letz, PhD.
Faculty of Education, Comenius University, Bratislava
12. 45 Lunch
13. 30 – 15. 00
Czechs and Slovaks in London at the outbreak of the WW1: Do we go home?
What would be R.W. Seton-Watson’s advice?
M. A, M.Soc. Sc. Milan Kocourek
British Chapter of Czech Slovak Society of Arts & Sciences, London
R. W. Seton-Watson’s colleague Bernard Pares
Becky Clare, PhD Candidate
University of Liverpool , Liverpool
Before the School of Slavonic Studies: Teaching of Russian at King’s College, 1892-1915 Dr Pavel Tribunskij Solzhenitsyn House for the Russian Diaspora, Moskow
Bjørstjerne Bjørnson, civil activist for the rights of the small oppressed nations of Austria-Hungary like his contemporary R.W. Seton-Watson.
Member of Bjørstjerne Bjørnson Museum, Aulestad
Fund of Robert William Seton-Watson in the UCL SSEES Library
Zuzana Pincikova, User Sevices Librarin
UCL SSEES Library, London
Disskusion
15. 00 End