Session M10 - Another City: Émigré Intellectuals and Transnational Intellectual Communities in Early Modern and Modern Cities (1500-1950)
Coordinators: Nicholas Mithen (nicholas.mithen@eui.eu), Katalin Straner (k.straner@soton.ac.uk)
Read Session abstractThe session will explore the urban dynamics and metropolitan cultures of émigré intellectuals and migrant intellectual communities in early modern and modern cities (16th to 20th century). The city is not only conceived as a space of transnational intellectual encounter, but also a connective node in transnational intellectual network. Thus, the session is also concerned with ways in which urban space fosters the movement, transmission and translation of knowledge and ideas in and between cities. The nature and role of migrant groups in urban space, of course, is not a new question for urban historians. However, in light of the recent interest of historians of knowledge and science in the city as more than just a location for intellectual exchange, the panel aims to extend these discussions by viewing exiled intellectuals and displaced intellectual groups through the lens of the social and political frame of intellectual activity: the establishment of new networks and the maintenance of old ones through the navigation of a new and complex urban environment. The organisers are particularly interested in the urban intellectual agency of exile and migration: both in the role of the city and urban space in the way intellectual communities form and function in exile, as well as how intellectual displacement, encounters, and the exchange of knowledge influences the city.
The session organisers welcome paper proposals relating to the exile and migration of intellectuals from and to cities across Europe and beyond, incorporating for instance transatlantic and colonial perspectives, in the period c.1500-1950. We are particularly keen on interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, as well as case studies of particular towns, cities, individuals and networks. We especially invite papers dealing with with (but not necessarily limited to) the following topics:
- Transnational encounters and movements in and between European cities
- Forms and structures of intellectual life in cities
- Influence of city on intellectuals, and intellectuals on city
- (Inter-)Urban approach to intellectual and cultural history
- Movement and transmission of knowledge and ideas in and across cities
- Power/political relationship between metropole/metropolis and provenance of intellectuals (especially in colonial context, but also outside of this)
- Institutions and organisations in the city, and between cities – international organisations which facilitate establishment of international intellectual culture/mobilityKeywords: knowledge; science; intellectuals; networks; mobility; migration; encounter; transnational; exile; émigré
Saturday 1st September 2018
Room 03 09.30-11.00, 11.30-13.00
PAPERS
"Berlin does not titillate or tempt like Paris": Hungarian émigrés in Wilhelmine and Weimar Berlin, 1890-1933
Michael Miller
Just the Highpoints: Berthold Lubetkin and London, c. 1938
Deborah Lewittes
Gathering in Paris, 1830-1848: three venues of exile sociability compared
Camille Creyghton
From Movement to Networks. The Romanian Iron Guard in Exile in Rome, 1945-1950
Francesco Zavatti
Papal Politics, Pasquinades and Patronage: Nicolò Franco between Venice, Mantua and Rome, 1536-1570
Thomas Goodwin
Medical Appropriation of Urban Space: Ludwig Kleinwächter’s professional and social networks throughout the Habsburg Monarchy (1839-1906)
Marina Hilber
