John Paul Newman
I am interested in the modern history of the Balkans and East-Central Europe, with a particular focus on Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. I have published on veterans of the First World War, paramilitary violence, and the larger legacies left by war in the region. Recently, I have been working on a large research project on victorious societies and cultures of war victory in twentieth century Europe. I am also interested in the history of disability and disabled war veterans in Central Europe and the Balkans, and the comparative histories and historical trajectories of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1993.
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Published in 'Journal of Genocide Research' Vol 18, Issue 4 (October 2016) [Special Issue: 'Ethnic homogenizing in southeastern Europe'], pp.503-513. With an author's response to the discussion, pp.515-517.
All talks from our conference (Ljubljana, April 2017) * Organizers: Tamara Scheer, Rok Stergar, Kaja Sirok, Marko Zajc *
Contributions:
Stefan Donecker: Identity and Identification in Premodernity: The State of the Debate 35 years after John Armstrong’ s Nations before Nationalism
Ümit Eser: Before Becoming Bulgarians: Pre-National Identities of the Orthodox Christian Communities in Eastern Rumelia, 1878-1908
Jernej Kosi: When the Slovenes Encountered the Slovenes: Ethnic Boundaries and the Process of Nationalisation in Prekmurje after the Dissolution of Austria-Hungary
Daniel Heler: Ethno-Genesis of Gorani People and ‘Deviant’ Contemporary Histories of Kosovo
Before the Nations, Beyond the Nations - Panel 1 Discussion
Tamara Scheer / John Paul Newman: Donations Requested: The Imperial, National, and Transnational Identities of The Ban Jelačić Association for Disabled Veterans and their Families in Vienna and Zagreb
Robert Shields Mevissen: Identification in the Danube Empire: Shaping Riverine Transformations in the Late Habsburg State
Igor Vranić: Political Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Empire: The Case of Izidor Kršnjavi
Imperial, National, Non-National - Panel 2 Discussion
Karin Almasy: Postcarding Identities in Lower Styria (1890–1920): The Linguistic and Visual Portrayal of Identities on Picture Postcards
Susanne Korbel: Staging Similarities, Staging Differences: (Jewish) Volkssänger and Their Performance of Habsburg Identities
Clemens Ruthner: Colonial Habsburg: The Bosnian Foreigner in Literary Texts of Imperial Austria, ca 1900
Anita Buhin: “Naše malo misto” (Our Small Town): Yugoslav Mediterranean Dream
Defining, Performing, and Staging Identities - Panel 3 discussion
Pieter M. Judson: People and their Categories: Creating Difference from Below and from Above in the Context of Empire
Daniel Brett: It’ s Not About the Nation or Ethnicity: Identity, Politics, and Society in the Romanian and Irish Countryside 1900-1947
Ivan Jeličić: The Typographers’ Community of Fiume: Between Spirit of Category, Class Identity, Local Patriotism, Socialism, and Nationalism(s)
Martin Jemelka / Jakub Štofaník: Being Modern Christian and Worker in the Czechoslovak National State 1918-1938
Peasants, Professionals, Workers - Panel 4 discussion
Marta Verginella / Irena Selišnik: The First Publicly Active Slovene Women on the Intersection of National Identities and Multinational Space
Martina Salvante: Renegotiating Identity: Disabled Veterans in Trentino and South Tyrol
Marco Bresciani: Country for Nationalists? State- and Nation-Building in Post-Habsburg Interwar Istria
Identities in Transition - Panel 5 discussion
Etienne Boisserie: Family Networks and “Generation Key” in the Renewed Approaches of Social Questioning of the Slovak Elite at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Nikola Tomašegović: Statistical Nation-Building in Civil Croatia and Slavonia during the Second Half of 19th Century
Filip Tomić: Serbs in Croatia and Slavonia 1908 – 1914: The Contested Construction of an Ethnic Category, Conditions of its Deployment and the Issue of Its Reception
Luka Lisjak: “Changing the Nation’s Character”: The Slovenian Tradition of Critical National Characterology and Its Role in the Intellectual Definitions of National Identity in the 20th Century
Panel 6 discussion
Tomasz Kamusella: Concluding remarks
*Access to published version: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/austrian-history-yearbook/article/ban-jelacic-trust-for-disabled-soldiers-and-their-families-habsburg-dynastic-loyalty-beyond-national-boundaries-184951/4F3C14560BEB32E86993E25515D93AE7
*Abstract: It is fitting that a story about charitable donations and their provenance should begin with a gesture of gift giving. In 1849 a group of Habsburg subjects came together with the intention of raising money to purchase a gift for Josip Jelačić, general of the Habsburg army and Ban (Governor) of Civil Croatia. Jelačić was identified as one of the notional “saviors” of the Habsburg Empire, whose actions in the field had helped quell the revolutionary and military perils of the previous months. The proposed gift was a suitable symbol of imperial honor and military prowess: a ceremonial sabre designed especially for the Ban. Jelačić was apparently moved by the gesture but had a more practical idea: better to use the money raised for his gift to help those less fortunate (and less celebrated) than himself, it should be put toward a fund to support soldiers who had served in his units and militias and who had been injured in fighting—and also to the families of those that had been killed. To this end, a committee was already operating, based in Vienna, but collecting funds through the Ban's Council (Bansko Vijeće) in Zagreb. This would become a mobilization of Habsburg society whose impetus rested on precisely the same values of dynastic loyalty and respect for the Habsburg military as the ceremonial sabre, except that many more people would have a chance to show their devotion and support to the “heroes” of 1848–49.