GRACEH 2026, 15-17 APRIL   

9:00 Welcome refreshments

Please join us for some light refreshments in the History Hub

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9:30-11:15

Panel 3 - Making Sense in Rupture, Making Sense of Rupture (L1 Lecture Theatre)

Chair: Dr Norman Aselmeyer (University of Oxford)

 

Anil Atilgan (Central European Institute), Overproduction and the Politics of Rupture in Early Nineteenth-Century Political Economy

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Pia Paul (University of California, Berkeley), Rupture Without Event: Chronic Instability and the Limits of Historical Turning Points

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Thomas Glasman (University of Oxford), Mathematical Crisis as Social Crisis

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Denys Tereshchenko (European University Institute), Relying on Rupture to Reform: Demography in the Academy of Sciences in Kyiv (1918-1919)

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Panel 4- Remembering Rupture (Room 20.402)

Chair: Dr Katherine Lebow (University of Oxford)

 

Karolina Cholewa (Jagiellonian University), Executed, Yet Remembered: Jacobite Scaffold Writings and the Making of Rupture after 1746

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Emyleigh Simoes (University of Toronto), Narrating the Russian Revolution of 1905: Contemporary Perspectives and Retrospective Understandings

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Theresa Langer (University of Bielefeld and Trinity College Dublin), Maintaining the Rupture: The Pedagogical Construction of the GDR in German as a Foreign Language

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11:15-11:30 Break

Please join us for some light refreshments in Room 10.302 (behind the L1 Lecture Theatre)​​

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11:30-13:00

Panel 6- Voicing Rupture: Literature and the Underground (L1 Lecture Theatre)

Chair: Ioana Zamfir (University of Oxford)

 

Rashel Zemlinskaya (University of Oxford), What it Means to Have Had a Renaissance: Soviet Historical Imagination in 1970s Underground Fiction

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Alexander Beard (University of Oxford), East German Literati and the Epistemic Rupture of 1989

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Julia Boechat Machado (Central European University), Liberation as Collapse: Tamizdat Publishers During the Glasnost' Era​

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13:00-14:00 Lunch

Please note that lunch is self-catered. If you would like any suggestions, feel free to ask any one of the organisers and we will be happy to help.​

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14:00-15:30

Panel 7 - Recasting Legal Traditions: Rupture in the History of Civil Law (Room 20.402)

Chair: Dr Teresa Witcombe (University of Oxford)

 

Stephanie Rieder-Zagkla (University of Vienna), A Legal Rupture? The Austrian General Civil Code of 1811 and its Consequences for Spouses Seeking Divorce in the 19th and early 20th Centuries

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Caleb Silvergleid (University of Oxford), Making a Different Civil Law: Ruptures Rather than Rediscovery of Roman Law in the Twelfth Century

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Gunhyuk Lee (Central European Institute), From Christian to Muslim Society: Monastic Responses and the Role of Donation in Late Antique Egypt

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Panel 8- Media and the Tools of Constructing National Identities (L1 Lecture Theatre)

Chair: Yevhen Yashchuk (University of Oxford)

 

Aimée Dion (University of Laval), From Continuity to Crisis: Visualizing Ruptures in Irish Great War Propaganda, 1914-1919

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Wren Potter (McGill University), Choral Institutions and Cultural Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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Yuliia Kishchuk (Södertörn University), Methodological "Ruptures" in "doing History" in Ukraine and Qazakhstan

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15:30-15:45 Break

Please join us for some light refreshments in Room 10.302 (behind the L1 Lecture Theatre)

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15:45-17:15

Panel 9 - Climates of Uncertainty: Rethinking and Regeneration in the Face of Change (Room 20.402)

Chair: Professor Glenda Sluga (European University Institute)

 

Sarah Evison (University of Basel), Ruptures in the Artic Ice: Soviet Climate Futures During the Cold War

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Roberto Larrañaga Domínguez (European University Institute), The End of a Four-Century-Old Decadence: Spanish Regenerationism and History at the Fin-de-Siècle Crisis (1890-1914)

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Matej Vodopivec (University of Ljubljana) and Tamara Logar (Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana), From Vienna to Belgrade: Imperial Collapse and the Birth of the Yugoslav Monarchy

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Panel 10- Ruptured Belongings: Displacement and Identity Across Borders  (L1 Lecture Theatre)

Chair: Professor Elena Bacchin (University of Vienna)

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Élisabeth Heid (École Pratique des Hautes Études), Experiencing Ruptures away from Home: The French Actors and Actresses in Russia (1789-1918)

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Hanna Sinclair (University of Oxford), The Nuptial Journey of Maria de’ Medici: A Rupture in Identity

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Jessica Varela (Central European University) and Sun Parker Schuette (University of Edinburgh), Tensioning Belonging in Europe: Una Marson, Claudia Jones, and Audre Lorde in the UK and Germany (1932 – 1992)

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Katharina Langolf (University of Leipzig), Between Gulag and Shoah: Mark Zhitnitskii's Art and the Experiece of Overlapping Ruptures

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NOTE: Following the final panels of the day, we will be organising a small pub trip. If you would like to join, please write to graceh2026@history.ox.ac.uk, so we can have a sense of numbers. All are welcome to join!