WEAST 2025 LJUBLJANA WORKSHOP – 19–20 June 2025. Economics, Nationalism and Politics in Central, East and South-East Europe
WEAST 2025 LJUBLJANA WORKSHOP
19-20 June 2025
Economics, Nationalism and Politics in Central, East and South-East Europe
The workshop examines the role of economic nationalism in the processes of nation-building in Central, East, and South-East Europe. Economic nationalism played a central role in shaping the national cultures of these regions and served as an alternative path to modernisation. Before World War I, economic nationalism primarily operated below the state level, but it was sometimes transformed into official state policy after the war.
This workshop aims to foster a discussion on the evolving dynamics of economic nationalism as a long-term development strategy and to explore economic nationalism in historical context. We are particularly interested in the interactions between economic, political and cultural factors underpinning economic nationalism, as well as the impact of economic nationalism on labour, financial and other markets.
We welcome contributions with different approaches and methodologies from various disciplines, including economic and business history, political and financial history, economics, and encourage papers that study the regional context of Central, East, and South-East Europe.
PhD candidates and early career researchers are particularly encouraged to apply.
Workshop
The two-day workshop will take place at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana from June 19th to 20th, 2025. The organisers will cover the costs of the venue, along with refreshments such as coffee and tea breaks, as well as meals, including lunch and dinner. There is no participation fee.
Clemens Jobst (University of Vienna) and Žarko Lazarević (INZ Ljubljana) will deliver keynote lectures.
Submission
We invite researchers to submit their paper or abstract (300 words) and CV by 31 January 2025 to natasa.henig@inz.si. Notification of the outcome will be emailed by the end of February 2025.
Organisers
Nataša Henig Miščič, Institute of Contemporary History Ljubljana
Stefan Nikolić, Loughborough University and WEast
The workshop is held as part of the project Financial Networks in the Shadow of Economic Nationalism: A Comparative Study of the Territories of Slovenia and Vojvodina from 1867 to 1929, supported by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency and it is organised in collaboration with WEast: The Eastern European Economic History Initiative.
