Gentry Heritage in East-Central Europe

A Workshop of the research project
“The Impact of Gentry Heritage on the Formation of East-Central European Citizenship”
of the Polish and Hungarian Academies of Sciences

3rd October 2016, 14:00 – 18:00
Venue: “Pepita Room” of the Institute of Philosophy in the Research Centre of the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Országház u. 30., 1014 Budapest

14:00 – 14:15: Opening remarks
Ferenc Hörcher

14:15 – 15:45: Section I
Rafał Smoczyński: The role of the nobility and its traditions in the contemporary Polish society
Gábor Gángó: G. W. Leibniz on Polish nobility
Ferenc Hörcher: Nobleman and burgher: a contradiction in terms in early 19th century Hungary

15:45 – 16:15: Coffee break

16:15 – 17:45 Section II
Béla Mester: A 19th-century nation as a philosophical project and the model of Gentry politics in the Hungarian nation building
Gábor Kovács: The clerical, the intellectual and the gentry – the history of European regions from the perspectives of structuralism and 'psychohistory' in the theories of István Hajnal and István Bibó
Éva Sztáray Kézdy: The Descendants of Former Aristocratic Families in Hungary in the 21st century

17:45 – 18:00: Closing remarks
Rafał Smoczyński