[ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [balkans] CfP: Nationalism, society and culture in post-Ottoman Southeast Europe European Studies Centre OUBS Graduate Workshop 2004, Oxford, 28-29, 2004

[Agron Alibali]

> Subject: [balkans] CfP: Nationalism, society and
> culture in post-Ottoman
>   Southeast Europe European Studies Centre OUBS
> Graduate Workshop 2004,
>   Oxford, 28-29, 2004
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> The Oxford University Balkan Society
> 
> The Second OUBS Graduate Workshop 2004: Nationalism,
> society and culture in 
> post-Ottoman Southeast Europe
> 
> European Studies Centre, St Antony's College,
> Oxford, May 28-29, 2004
> 
> Call for papers
> 
> The decline of the multiethnic, multireligious and
> multilingual Ottoman 
> Empire set the scene for the emergence of successor
> states shaped and 
> dominated by their respective nation-building
> projects. The carving outof 
> homogeneous nation-states in most cases reflected
> the German romanticist 
> notion that saw nations as existing from time
> immemorial and deeply rooted 
> in their territory, language, architecture and folk
> idioms. In consequence, 
> larger minority groups were considered undesirable
> and had to be reduced 
> through population exchanges, forced migration or
> concerted massacres. 
> National myths and hegemonic historiographies
> emerged, which devalued the 
> ethnic or religious Other (the Turk, the Muslim,
> Greek, Armenian etc) and 
> exalted the Self. Languages were purified, while the
> material culture of 
> the Other (churches, mosques, public buildings and
> houses) was 
> (re-)appropriated either through destruction and
> neglect, or by re-writing 
> its history.
> 
> There has been some scholarly debate on the
> continuity or discontinuity of 
> a common Ottoman legacy in Southeast Europe, even up
> to our days*. This 
> workshop, however, aims to go a step further and
> explore the processes of 
> and the extent to which exclusionary nation-building
> projects have shaped 
> the historical discourses, the language and the
> material culture, in the 
> successor states we live in today.
> 
> The questions, which we would like to address in the
> workshop, are related 
> to historical and recent processes:
> 
> 1.       To what degree have the homogenizing
> projects in particular 
> countries produced histories, languages, cities,
> architecture and 
> geographies, devoid of the perceived Other? To which
> extent have they been 
> directed against the Other?
> 
> 2.       Are there trajectories of nation-building
> in the region, that were 
> more inclusive and accommodating of ethnic and
> religious difference?
> 
> 3.        How are the homogenization projects
> related to the politics of 
> democratization and ethnic conflict at present?
> 
> 4.       How do the processes of nationalist
> nation-building, as described 
> above, affect intra-regional co-operation in
> Southeast Europe today?
> 
> Looking at those questions, we hope to arrive at a
> more comprehensive 
> understanding of the workings of nationalism in
> wider Southeast Europe in 
> the 19th and 20th centuries. We wish to investigate
> the processes involved 
> in homogenising multicultural cities, geographies
> and histories. We are 
> also concerned with collective memory as it relates
> to conceptions of Self 
> and Other.
> 
> Proposals for the workshop will be accepted from
> post-graduate students and 
> scholars who work on Ottoman successor states in
> Southeast Europe, 
> including Turkey, in all fields of the social
> sciences, especially history, 
> anthropology, politics, geography, cultural studies,
> urban studies, 
> architecture and linguistics. Scholars in Armenian
> and Kurdish studies are 
> also encouraged to submit proposals.
> 
> The proposals should give an outline of the argument
> in not more than 300 
> words, and contain a detailed CV, affiliation of
> participant and full 
> contact information. Please send your applications
> to 
> dimitris.antoniou at sant.ox.ac.uk or
> kerem.oktem at sant.ox.ac.uk until January 
> 15, 2004.
> 
> Authors of the papers selected for the conference
> will be notified in 
> February 2004. Participants will be required to
> submit the full text of 
> their respective papers to the conference organisers
> by April 15, 2004. We 
> will be contributing to the travel expenses of the
> invited participants and 
> arrange for their accommodation.
> 
> Informal preliminary inquiries regarding paper
> submissions are welcomed, 
> and may be directed to the Organising committee at
> the e-mail address 
> indicated above.
> 
> Organising Committee: Dimitris Antoniou, Dimitar
> Bechev, Kerem Öktem (St 
> Antony's College)
> 
> Academic Advisory Committee: Othon Anastasakis
> (Southeast European Studies 
> Program, Centre for European Studies, St Antony's
> College), Renee Hirschon 
> (St Peter's College), Philip Robins (Program on
> Contemporary Turkey, Middle 
> East Centre, St Antony's College)
> 
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> * cf. Brown, Carl: Imperial Legacy. The Ottoman
> Imprint on the Balkans and 
> the Middle East (New York,1996).
> 
> 
> 

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