[ALBSA-Info] Interesting Conference on Hasluck in UK

[Agron Alibali]

Sponsored by the University of Wales Centre for the Study of South Eastern
Europe and supported also by the
British Academy, a conference on archaeology and
heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia will be held at
the University of Wales Gregynog on 3rd-6th November
2001. There are still a few places left, so please do
send any queries to the organisers (via
DShankland1 at yahoo.co.uk). The 'call for papers' is
pasted in below.


CALL FOR PAPERS

Anthropology, Archaeology and Heritage
in the Balkans and Anatolia
or

The Life and Times of
F.W. Hasluck (1878-1920)

University of Wales, Gregynog, 3rd-6th November 2001

The Balkans and Anatolia are fascinating areas to
study heritage, religion and nationalism. Yet, they
can hardly be understood without taking into account
the role of foreign researchers, who possessed their
own distinctive, overlapping interests in the
ethnography and archaeology of the region, and have
often set up their own research institutes in order to
pursue this study. Ideologically, albeit
controversially, these interests have often been
pre-occupied by contrasts between Islam and
Christianity, or the Classical and the Modern, often
with the intent to prove long-term cultural
continuities.

F.W. Hasluck lived in the midst of these events
through being the Assistant Director and the Acting
Director of the British School at Athens during the
decades leading up to the First World War. Though he
died young, of consumption, his critical and
meticulous work was largely published after his death
by his widow, Margaret Hasluck (nee Hardie). In dozens
of papers and five monographs, he covered theoretical
and practical topics that are still of the greatest
relevance to this day.

 From this work, it is clear that far from accepting
such continuities in folk or religious tradition, he
rejected them almost entirely, causing him to reach a
quite opposite position to Ramsay, or the dominant
cultural evolutionists of his time. He also made major
contributions in other areas of archaeology,
epigraphy, ethnography (he specialised in the
Bektashis), religion, history, travellers accounts,
folklore, nationalism, cultural change, and even
numismatics. His posthumous editor, Margaret Hasluck,
herself went on to become a distinguished ethnographer
of the Balkan region, particularly Albania.

In November, a group of international and national
scholars will gather together to discuss the themes to
which he devoted his efforts, to illustrate the
context of his research, and to further our
understanding of his insights in a major conference.
In itself, it will provide topical subjects (such as
the interaction between Islam and Christianity, or the
origins of modern anthropological research) for
discussion, and provide a further impulse for research
into heritage, archaeology, and nationalism in the
Balkans and Anatolia.

Plenary speakers:
Professor Giovanni Salmeri (University of Pisa, Italy)
  'Hasluck and Smyrna: an unknown manuscript study in
pre-Braudelian 'long durée' '.

Professor Irene Mélikoff (University of Strasbourg),
'Hasluck's study of the Bektashis and its contemporary
significance'.

Professor Michael Meeker (UCSD)  "Who are the Oflus?:
Nationalist and Counter-Nationalist Discourse in 19th
century Trabzon"

Mr Keith Hopwood (UW Lampeter) 'The Beginnings of
Christian-Muslim Symbiosis in Anatolia'.


There will, in addition, be panels devoted to 'Life
and Times of F.W. and M. Hasluck', 'Archaeological
travellers and Foreign Schools', 'Ethnographic
studies', 'Religious Transitions', 'Cultural
Interaction and collective memory', 'Archaeology,
Nationalism and Heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia'.


Isis Books, who will be publishing the conference
proceedings, will launch a reprint of Hasluck's
seminal work Christianity and Islam under the Sultans
at the conference. Copies will be made available at
reduced rates for delegates. We also hope to mount an
appropriate exhibition illustrating conditions in
Greece and at the school at that time.

Costs: Delegates who offer a paper will not be charged
a conference fee. In addition, there will be a very
substantial accommodation subsidy, the exact figure
will be known nearer the time.

For delegates who would rather not present a paper,
the conference fee is likely to be set at £75 for the
three days, and full board and accommodation at £51 a
day.

Deadline. Abstracts and titles should be submitted
whenever convenient, but certainly by the end of July.
This is so that the organisers can begin to circulate
a preliminary programme, and the paper givers begin to
prepare their talks. The publication of the conference
will proceed as quickly as possible after the event.

Conference committee: the conference committee
consists of Dr David Shankland (Lampeter), Professor
Stephen Mitchell (Swansea), and Mr Keith Hopwood
(Lampeter).

Please address enquiries (all welcome) in the first
instance to David Shankland, e-mail
DShankland1 at yahoo.co.uk.

Yours

David




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