[ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [balkans] Conference: First Conference of the Southeast European Studies Association, 20-21.4.2002, Chapel Hill, NC

[Agron Alibali]

  Florian Bieber <fbieber at yahoo.com> wrote: From Florian Bieber Tue Feb 12 08:40:59 2002
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From: Florian Bieber 
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:40:59 +0100
Subject: [balkans] Conference: First Conference of the Southeast European Studies
Association, 20-21.4.2002, Chapel Hill, NC

Preliminary Program
First Conference of the Southeast European Studies Association


SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2002
8:30  Welcoming Remarks, Toy Lounge, University of North Carolina-Chapel 
Hill9:00- 10:30    Plenary Session 1: Roundtable
The Successes And Failures Of Liberalism In South
Eastern Europe, 1800-1948

Chair:TBA
Participants:
Philip Shashko, University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Bulgaria)
Kurt W. Treptow, Center For Romanian Studies (Albania)
Paul E. Michelson, Huntington College (Romania)

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

Panel 1A: Gender Issues
10:45  12:45, Dey 404

10:45  Albena Hristeva, Bulgaria, “The Social Identity of Women in Balkan 
Countries”

11:15  Emanuela Grama, University of Michigan, “Workers Between Narratives 
and Strikes: Gender, Kin, Individuality on and  Outside the Shop Floor”

11:45  Vasiliki Neofotistos, Harvard University:  On Constructing The Body, 
On Constructing The State: Between Tradition And Modernity In Macedonia.

Panel 1B: Historical Perspectives and New Interpretations

10:45  12:45, Toy Lounge

10:45  Ulf Brunnbauer, University of Graz, “Continuities and Changes. 
Southeast European Historiographies after 1989”

11:15  Tania Ivanova, Ohio State University and Mariana Stefanova, Sofia 
University, “Knowledge and Faith: Slavic Historical Experience And Its New 
Relevance In Education And Religion in The Balkans”

12:15  Karl Kaser, University of Graz, “Historical Anthropology In 
Southeastern Europe: Towards A New Paradigm?”


Panel 2A:  Issues of Security and Integration

2:00  4:00, Dey 404

2:00  Tarik Oguzlu, Bilkent University-Ankara, “Security in Southeastern 
Europe Coming Through EU Involvement in Cyprus”

2:30  Emilian Kavalski, Loughborough University--UK, “A Possible Order for 
the Balkans: Back to the Future of Regional Unity”

3:00  Leeda Demetropoulou, Panteion University-Athens, “The Europeanisation 
of South-Eastern Europe: the Prospect of EU Membership and Domestic 
Transformation
in the Balkans”

3:30  Ali Sarikayahist, University of Salford-Mancester, 
“Trans-Civilizational Perceptions and Imaginations: the Possibility of 
European Integration for Turkey
and Eastern European Countries”


Panel 2B:  Folklore and Culture: Joint Session with BSS ’13 Conference

2:00  4:00, Toy Lounge

2:00  Ardian Ahmedaja, University Of Music And Performing 
Arts  Vienna:  Multipart Folk Songs With Instrumental Accompaniment Of 
Southern Albania And Northern Greece

2:30 Ana Chelariu, Bergenfield, NJ, “The Myth Of The Hero Killing The 
Dragon As Reflected In The Romanian Ballad Iovan Iorgovan”

3:00  Marina Cap Bun, University Of Washington, “Attitudes  Towards Death 
In Eastern European Folklore”) “


3:30 Mihaela Albu, Columbia University, “Cultural Identity Vs. Geographic 
Diversity: Romanians Inside and Outside of the Border”

4:00 4:15  Coffee Break

Panel 3A:  The Politics of Identity

4:15  6:15, Dey 404

4:15  Mihaela Czobor-Lupp, University of Bucharest, “Perceptions of 

‘Otherness’ and Identity Construction in Eastern Europe”

4:45  Viorel Stanila, Romanian Academy-Bucharest, “Some Paradoxes of Balkan 
Identity”

5:15  Bahar Rumelili, University of Minnesota, “Politics of Identity and 
Enduring Conflicts: Turkey and Greece in Cyprus”


5:45 TBA.
Panel 3B:  Minority Issues

4:15  6:15, Toy Lounge

4:15 Eben Friedman, University of California-San Diego, “Political 
Integration of the Romani Minority in Post-communist Macedonia”

4:45  Maria Koinova, Harvard University, “Minority Self-Government: the 
Cases of the Turks of Bulgaria, the Albanians of Macedonia and the 
Albanians of Kosovo
(1989-1999)”

5:15  Zhidas Daskalovski, Central European University, “Language and 
Identity: the Ohrid Framework Agreement and Liberal Notions of Citizenship 
and Nationality
in Macedonia”

5:45 Toni Petkovic, Novi Sad Humanitarian Center (Yugoslavia), 
“Self-Determination and the Dissolution of Former Yugoslavia”


SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2002

8:45  Snacks

Panel 4a:  Modern Politics I
9:00  10:30, Dey 402

9:00  Ramazan Kilinc, Boðaziçi University-Istanbul, “The Place of 
Westernization and Nationalism in Turkish Foreign Policy”

9:30  Ekrem Karakoc, Indiana University, and Seda Unsar, Claremont Graduate 
University, “The Psychology/Ideology of 
‘Nation Under Siege:’ Political 
Culture in Turkey”

10:00  Alexandru Gussi, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, “Political 
Usage of the Communist Past in Romania After 1990”


Panel 4b:  Russia and Its Balkan Connections

9:00  10:30, Dey 402

9:00  David Mackenzie, University Of North Carolina-Greensboro, “Jovan 
Ristic And Russia”

9:30  Theophilus C. Prousis, University Of North Florida, "Desolate 
Environs: A Russian Traveler In Jerusalem, 1820"

10:00  Stefan Detchev, South-West University-Blagoevgrad, “Mother” Or “She 
- Bear”: Russia In  The Bulgarian And Serbian  Press:Public  Opinion 
And  Popular Political Culture In The 1880s AND 1890s”

10:30  10:45  Coffee Break
10:45  12:00  SEESA Business Meeting, Toy Lounge

Panel 5a:  Modern Politics II
1:30  3:00, Dey 402

1:30  Thalia Magioglou, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, “Democracy 
in Greece: Ideal Versus Reality”

2:00  Odette Tomescu-Hatto, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, ”The 
Development and Consolidation of Democracy in Romania: the Communist Legacy”

2:30  Nebojsa Bjelakovic, Carleton University-Ottawa, “Reconciliation, 
Truth, and Justice in the Post-Yugoslav States”



Panel 5b:  Historical Perspectives 1

1:30  3:00, Toy Lounge

1:30  Adina Ciugureanu, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, 
“(Mis)representations of Transylvania and the Romanian Principalities in 
the 1850s-1860s English and American
Periodicals”

2:00  Jan Rychlik, Charles University-Prague, “The National Consciousness 
of the Slavonic Orthodox Population in Macedonia”

2:30  Onur Yildirim, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, “The 
Turco-Greek Exchange of Populations of 1923: a Reassessment”
3:00  3:15 Coffee Break

Panel 6a:  Historical Perspectives 2

3:15  4:15, Dey 402


3:15  Llloyd A. Cohen, Boston College, “The Rights of Ethnic Minorities in 
a Host Country According to International Law; the Nineteenth Century 
Balkans--An Overview”

3:45  James Verinis, New School University, “Whither Neo Olympism?”


Panel 6b:  Linguistics/Language and Society

3:15  4:15
3:15  Victor A. Friedman, University of Chicago, “Romani as a Minority 
Language“
3:45  Christian Voss, University of Freiburg, “The Development of the 
Aegean Macedonian Dialects: Prospects for the Slavic Minority in Greece in 
the 21st Century”

Closing Plenary Session, Roundtable 2:  The Southwestern Balkans: Current 
Situation and Prospects for the Future

4:15  5:30, Toy Lounge
Chair: Robert Greenberg, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Panelists:
Susan Woodward, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Steven Burg, Brandeis University
Victor A. Friedman, University of Chicago



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