From besnik at albanian.com Thu Feb 4 21:00:21 1999 From: besnik at albanian.com (Besnik Pula) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 21:00:21 -0500 Subject: [alst-l] Fwd: Informacion per Kosoven Message-ID: Jungjatjeta, nese dikush ka ndonje bibliografi te gatshme cfare kerkon zonja me poshte, ju lutem te kontaktoni me te direkt, por ta dergoni edhe ne kete liste, sepse mund te jete me interes per te tjeret. Falimnderit, Besniku --- begin forwarded text Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 20:26:00 -0500 (EST) From: Enkelea Gjoleka Subject: Informacion per Kosoven Une jam nje studente shqiptare te Columbia University dhe Ylli Panariti me ka rekomanduar t'u shkruaj juve. Une po marr nje klase per vendet e Evropes Lindore ne te cilen kam nje detyre per te hartuar nje bibliografi bashkekohore per Kosoven, ne shqip dhe anglisht. Do te doja qe te beja me te miren se instituti I Evropes Lindore ketu eshte shume aktiv dhe nje pjese e listes do te vihet ne dispozicion on-line per perdorim. Nese ju dini ndonje burim te vecante, website apo cfaredo tjeter qe te me rekomandonit une do te vleresoja shume. E di qe jeni i zene, po mendoj qe informacioni eshte nje gje shume e rendesishme dhe per me teper ne Universitete te tilla si Columbia. Une e shrfytezoj shume albanian.com, po do te desha te dija ku mund te shihja tjeter vec asaj. Faleminderit shume dhe me falni per kohen Gjithe te mirat Enkelea Gjoleka --- end forwarded text _________________________________________________________ * ALST-L at alb-net.com / Albanian Studies Discussion List * To contact the list owner: ALST-L-Approval at alb-net.com From bekteshi at ou.edu Thu Feb 4 22:09:54 1999 From: bekteshi at ou.edu (Venera Bekteshi) Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:09:54 Subject: [alst-l] Articles and Books over Kosova Message-ID: <3.0.5.16.19990204220954.3d1f2c50@pop.ou.edu> Vickers Miranda; Between Serb and Albanian, a history of Kosovo;Columbia Unviersity Press;New York, 1998 Malcom Noel, KOSOVO a short history; New York University Press; Washington Square, New York, 1998 Shekulli 21, Mendime dhe Opinione (For more information regarding this book, refer to www.albanian.com) As far as articles are concerned, these are few titles that I would reccomend. The journal's names are written as well and I'm pretty sure you may find them in your university's library. For articles written from Albanian authors, I would try subscribing to the International Journal of Albanian Studies published by Columbia University. http://www.albanian.com/IJAS/ AUTHOR: Berger, Rose Marie TITLE: Hope for Kosovo? JOURNAL NAME: Sojourners. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 28, Number 1 PAGES: pp. 13 PUB DATE: January 01 YEAR: 1999 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0364-2097 J ALT NAME: Post American AUTHOR: Caplan, Richard TITLE: CHRISTOPHER HILL'S ROAD SHOW - Kosovo JOURNAL NAME: The World today. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 55, Number 1 PAGES: pp. P13 YEAR: 1999 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0043-9134 J ALT NAME: Bulletin of international news AUTHOR: Ignatieff, Michael TITLE: The Diplomatic Life - The Dream of Albanians Can Richard Holbrooke improvise an American role in Kosovo? JOURNAL NAME: The New Yorker. VOL, ISSUE: PAGES: pp. 34 PUB DATE: January 11 YEAR: 1999 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0028-792X J ALT NAME: New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) AUTHOR: Fraser, John M TITLE: COMMENT & OPINION - The Kosovo quagmire: What are the issues? Should we care? JOURNAL NAME: International journal. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 53, Number 4 PAGES: pp. 601 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0020-7020 J ALT NAME: International journal (Toronto, Ont.) AUTHOR: Malcolm, Noel; Djilas, Aleksa TITLE: Reviews - Is Kosovo Real? - Aleksa Djilas claims that the ethnic hatreds in Kosovo are ancient, that an independent Kosovo would join Albania, and that Kosovars have no national identity. He is wrong on all counts. Plus, Djilas responds to Malcolm and others JOURNAL NAME: Foreign affairs. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 78, Number 1 PAGES: pp. 130 YEAR: 1999 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0015-7120 AUTHOR: Malcolm, Noel TITLE: ARTICLES - Kosovo: Only Independence Will Work JOURNAL NAME: The National interest. VOL, ISSUE: Number 54 PAGES: pp. 23 YEAR: 1999 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0884-9382 AUTHOR: Walker, Martin TITLE: THE BALKANS - Kosovo - Will the violence continue? JOURNAL NAME: Europe. VOL, ISSUE: Number 381 PAGES: pp. 22 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0191-4545 J ALT NAME: European Community AUTHOR: Rauch, Jonathan TITLE: Social Studies - As NATO intervenes in Kosovo, the Bush Doctrine-unlovely but underrated-breathes its last. JOURNAL NAME: National journal. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 30, Number 44 PAGES: pp. 2540 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0360-4217 J ALT NAME: National journal reports AUTHOR: Allin, Dana H; Roper, John TITLE: FACING REALITIES IN KOSOVO - Kosovo JOURNAL NAME: The World today. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 54, Number 11 PAGES: pp. 286 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0043-9134 J ALT NAME: Bulletin of international news AUTHOR: Borden, Anthony TITLE: THE KOSOVO CONUNDRUM JOURNAL NAME: The nation. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 267, Number 15 PAGES: pp. 7 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0027-8378 J ALT NAME: Nation (New York, N.Y. : 1865) AUTHOR: Caplan, Richard TITLE: International diplomacy and the crisis in Kosovo JOURNAL NAME: International affairs. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 74, Number 4 PAGES: pp. 745 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0020-5850 J ALT NAME: International affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs : 1944) International affairs review supplement TITLE: DIPLOMACY: Now Comes the Hard Part - Fresh from a deal in Kosovo, Holbrooke fights for his U.N. job JOURNAL NAME: Time. VOL, ISSUE: PAGES: pp. 59 PUB DATE: October 26 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0040-781X J ALT NAME: Literary digest (New York, N.Y. : 1937) TITLE: Kosovo: Locked and Loaded JOURNAL NAME: Newsweek. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 132, Number 16 PAGES: pp. 50 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0028-9604 J ALT NAME: Today (1933) TITLE: KOSOVO: A Balkan Bloodbath - "They'll be stacking frozen babies like cordwood"--warning from an AID worker pleading for action by the West JOURNAL NAME: Time. VOL, ISSUE: PAGES: pp. 42 PUB DATE: October 05 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0040-781X J ALT NAME: Literary digest (New York, N.Y. : 1937) TITLE: EUROPE - Ever more bloody Kosovo JOURNAL NAME: The economist. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 349, Number 8088 PAGES: pp. 63 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0013-0613 J ALT NAME: Economist (London, England : 1843) AUTHOR: Djilas, Aleksa TITLE: Imagining Kosovo JOURNAL NAME: Foreign affairs. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 77, Number 5 PAGES: pp. 124 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0015-7120 J ALT NAME: Foreign affairs (Council on Foreign Relations) Journal of international relations (Clark University (Worcester, Mass.)) Agenda (Council on Foreign Relations) TITLE: U.S., Europe seek Kosovo cease-fire. JOURNAL NAME: Facts on file. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 58, Number 3005 PAGES: pp. 477 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0014-6641 TITLE: EUROPE - War spreads in Kosovo JOURNAL NAME: The economist. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 348, Number 8077 PAGES: pp. 42 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0013-0613 J ALT NAME: Economist (London, England : 1843) TITLE: KOSOVO: Mission Impossible - TIME'S exclusive inside look at U.N. Ambassador Holbrooke's trip to the Yugoslav province in an attempt to stop all-out war JOURNAL NAME: Time. VOL, ISSUE: PAGES: pp. 68 PUB DATE: July 06 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0040-781X J ALT NAME: Literary digest (New York, N.Y. : 1937) TITLE: EUROPE - Kosovo close to the edge JOURNAL NAME: The economist. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 347, Number 8073 PAGES: pp. 57 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0013-0613 J ALT NAME: Economist (London, England : 1843) TITLE: Milosevic again, in Kosovo JOURNAL NAME: The economist. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 347, Number 8071 PAGES: pp. 19 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0013-0613 J ALT NAME: Economist (London, England : 1843) AUTHOR: Zimmermann, Wawen TITLE: The Demons of Kosovo JOURNAL NAME: The National interest. VOL, ISSUE: Number 52 PAGES: pp. 3 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0884-9382 TITLE: Lord Elgin and the Marbles, Serbs in Kosovo, Science-fiction stories, etc JOURNAL NAME: TLS, the Times literary supplement. VOL, ISSUE: Number 4970 PAGES: pp. 15 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0307-661X J ALT NAME: Times literary supplement AUTHOR: Kenney, George TITLE: HOLBROOKE: To End a War . MALCOLM: Kosovo: A Short History . VICKERS: Between Serb and Albanian: A History of Kosovo JOURNAL NAME: The nation. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 267, Number 1 PAGES: pp. 31 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0027-8378 J ALT NAME: Nation (New York, N.Y. : 1865) AUTHOR: Agovino, Theresa TITLE: KOSOVO DISPATCH: THE WARPATH - How the West's determination to avoid an Albanian revolt in the Balkans led to bloodshed of a different sort. JOURNAL NAME: The new republic. VOL, ISSUE: PAGES: pp. 14 PUB DATE: May 18 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0028-6583 J ALT NAME: New republic (New York, N.Y.) AUTHOR: Brisby, Liliana; Malcolm, Noel TITLE: Kosovo: A Short History JOURNAL NAME: The spectator. VOL, ISSUE: PAGES: pp. 39 PUB DATE: April 25 YEAR: 1998 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0038-6952 J ALT NAME: Spectator (London, England : 1828) AUTHOR: Athanassopoulou, Ekavi TITLE: HOPING FOR THE BEST, PLANNING FOR THE WORST: CONFLICT IN KOSOVO JOURNAL NAME: The World today. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 52, Number 8-9 PAGES: pp. 226 YEAR: 1996 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0043-9134 J ALT NAME: Bulletin of international news AUTHOR: Salla, Michael TITLE: Kosovo, Non-violence and the Break-up of Yugoslavia JOURNAL NAME: Security dialogue. VOL, ISSUE: Volume 26, Number 4 PAGES: pp. 427 YEAR: 1995 TYPE: Article ISSN: 0967-0106 J ALT NAME: Bulletin of peace proposals _________________________________________________________ * ALST-L at alb-net.com / Albanian Studies Discussion List * To contact the list owner: ALST-L-Approval at alb-net.com From kosova at mailcity.com Fri Feb 5 00:00:51 1999 From: kosova at mailcity.com (olsi) Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 05:00:51 -0000 Subject: [alst-l] Fwd: Informacion per Kosoven Message-ID: --- O.J. Te nderuar miq, besoj se nje informacion i mire dokumentuar per represionin serb per kosove mund te gjendet ne faqet islame shqiptare, ne http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/6875/ dhe perkatesisht ne librat e Nexhat Ibrahimit, ku trajtohen tema- kosovaro - islame ne http://www.iiu.edu.my/deed/quran/albanian/temanexhat1.html apo nje dokumentacion edhe me i qarte do te dilte ne librin e R. Zekes ne : http://members.xoom.com/IslamShqip/kultura.html pervec ketyre ne seksionin e Bibliotekes Islame ne; http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/6875/libra besoj se do te kete shume referenca te vyeshme shqiptare si psh njeri prej tyre do te ishte Sami Frasheri - Vepra IX Ju faleminderit juaji Olsi Malajzi On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 21:00:21 Besnik Pula wrote: >Jungjatjeta, > >nese dikush ka ndonje bibliografi te gatshme cfare kerkon zonja me poshte, >ju lutem te kontaktoni me te direkt, por ta dergoni edhe ne kete liste, >sepse mund te jete me interes per te tjeret. > >Falimnderit, >Besniku > >--- begin forwarded text > > >Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 20:26:00 -0500 (EST) >From: Enkelea Gjoleka >Subject: Informacion per Kosoven > >Une jam nje studente shqiptare te Columbia University dhe Ylli Panariti me >ka rekomanduar t'u shkruaj juve. Une po marr nje klase per vendet e >Evropes Lindore ne te cilen kam nje detyre per te hartuar nje bibliografi >bashkekohore per Kosoven, ne shqip dhe anglisht. Do te doja qe te beja me >te miren se instituti I Evropes Lindore ketu eshte shume aktiv dhe nje >pjese e listes do te vihet ne dispozicion on-line per perdorim. > >Nese ju dini ndonje burim te vecante, website apo cfaredo tjeter qe te >me rekomandonit une do te vleresoja shume. E di qe jeni i zene, po mendoj >qe informacioni eshte nje gje shume e rendesishme dhe per me teper ne >Universitete te tilla si Columbia. Une e shrfytezoj shume albanian.com, >po do te desha te dija ku mund te shihja tjeter vec asaj. > >Faleminderit shume dhe me falni per kohen > >Gjithe te mirat >Enkelea Gjoleka > Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://personal.lycos.com _________________________________________________________ * ALST-L at alb-net.com / Albanian Studies Discussion List * To contact the list owner: ALST-L-Approval at alb-net.com From Lanksch at t-online.de Fri Feb 5 03:26:06 1999 From: Lanksch at t-online.de (Lanksch at t-online.de) Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 09:26:06 +0100 Subject: [alst-l] Books on Kosova Message-ID: <2.2.32.19990205082606.006acd34@pop.btx.dtag.de> Do t? shtoja edhe disa tituj: * Robert Elsie (editor): Kosovo. In the Heart of the Powder Keg. East European Monographs, Boulder/Columbia University Press, New York 1997 Libri ?sht? nj? kompilacion tekstesh t? ndryshme t? p?rkthyera nga shqipja, gjermanishtja dhe serbishtja, nd?r t? cilat jan? p.sh. "Memorandumi" i Cubrilovic-it, "drafti" i Ivo Andric-it, ekstrata nga librat e Edith Durham and Leo freundlich, t?r? libri i gazetar?ve Christine von Kohl/Wolfgang Libal. Vler? t? ve?ant? ka BIBLIOGRAFIA e pasur e veprave n? gjuh?t "per?ndimore" dhe n? ato "ballkanase". * Shaban Braha: Gjenocidi serbomadh dhe Q?ndresa shqiptare (1844-1990). Sht?pia botuese "Lumi-T", Gjakov? 1991. Teksti i librit p?rfshin 577 faqe. Mir?po, me zell e durim lexuesi mund t? gjej? material mjaft t? dobish?m dokumentar. * Nik? Gjeloshi: Kosova n? udh?kryq '89. Humbja e subjektivitetit dhe p?rpjekjet p?r pavar?si. Editrice "Velar", Gorle (Itali) 1997 Libri ?sht? fort i dobish?m sepse i paraqet problemet e krijimit t? "institucioneve" kushtetuese nga pik?pamja e specialistit p?r t? drejt?n kushtetutare. P?rndryshe, autori jo vet?m se ?sht? politolog por jep edhe informata burimore sepse ka qen? i p?rfshir? n? proceset e p?rpjekjeve p?r pavar?simin e Kosov?s, deri sa dha dor?heqjen nga posti i n?nkryetarit t? "Qeveris?" n? m?rgim. I rekomanduesh?m ?sht? edhe nj? lib?r i natyr?s eseistike: * Blerim Shala: Thyerjet 1990-1993. Z?RI, Prishtin? 1994. T? fala, Hans-Joachim Lanksch _________________________________________________________ * ALST-L at alb-net.com / Albanian Studies Discussion List * To contact the list owner: ALST-L-Approval at alb-net.com From labova at JUNO.COM Mon Feb 8 20:12:54 1999 From: labova at JUNO.COM (Agron Alibali) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 20:12:54 -0500 Subject: [alst-l] Call for papers References: <2.2.32.19990205082606.006acd34@pop.btx.dtag.de> Message-ID: <19990208.202343.3118.2.labova@juno.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 01:19:29 -0500 (EST) Subject: call for papers I have got this message from a friend in Romania who works for "Altera" journal, and who asked me if I could distribute if further. Could you send to the list of people interested in Eastern Europe/FSU? Thanks a lot. Sincerely, Liviu Chelcea ___________________________________________________________________________ ____ Regionalism and Regionalisation ALTERA is a quarterly published by one of Romania's best known NGOs, Liga PRO EUROPA (the PRO EUROPE League), and it deals with alterity and minorities' problems, being at the moment the only Romanian publication on minorities and intercultural issues. It is distributed freely to the state authorities, MPs, to public and university libraries as well as to all those theoretically specialised or practically involved in these problems [you can find more about our publishing work on the PRO EUROPE League's homepage (www.proeuro.netsoft.ro)]. CALL FOR PAPERS We would like to publish in the next issue of ALTERA papers on Regionalism and Regionalisations and in this respect we expect any relevant contribution from researchers, students and any other specialists involved in this field. The papers should be sent by 15 February 1999 to Marius Cosmeanu at (marius at proeuro.netsoft.ro). In case you grant us a version, we would be grateful if you could provide us a short bio-bibliographical note as well as your contact address and phone number. The accepted languages for the papers are English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Hungarian and Romanian. We would also appreciate a quick answer, be it positive or negative. PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS. Thank you. ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] _________________________________________________________ * ALST-L at alb-net.com / Albanian Studies Discussion List * To contact the list owner: ALST-L-Approval at alb-net.com From labova at JUNO.COM Mon Feb 8 20:23:41 1999 From: labova at JUNO.COM (Agron Alibali) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 20:23:41 -0500 Subject: [alst-l] Conference at Harvard University References: <3.0.5.16.19990204220954.3d1f2c50@pop.ou.edu> Message-ID: <19990208.202343.3118.3.labova@juno.com> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:06:56 -0500 (EST) From: Ellen Elias-Bursac Add to Address Book To: bursac at fas.harvard.edu Subject: COME TO THE SE EUROPE GRAD STUDENT WORKSHOP Please join us on Friday, February 12th and Saturday, February 13th for the The Socrates Kokkalis GRADUATE STUDENT Workshop: NEW APPROACHES TO SOUTHEAST EUROPE at the Minda de Gunzburg CENTER FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES 27 Kirkland St. Cambridge, MA 02138 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH: The Workshop begins at 1:45 pm, Lower Auditorium Panel 1: Imagining the Balkans, 2:00-4:00 Dimiter G. Angelov, Harvard University The Making of Byzantinism Geoffrey Brown, University of Wisconsin at Madison Issues of Balkanism and Croatian Identity in Krleza's "Povratak Philipa Latinovicza": An Archaeological/Anthropological Excursion Through the Pannonian Mud Jessie Labov, New York University Balkan Revisions to the Myth of Central Europe Nicole Lindstrom, Syracuse U. and Maple Razsa, Independent Scholar Reimagining the Balkans: The Role of Balkanism in the Construction of Croatian National Identity Chair and discussant: Maria Todorova, Harvard University ************************************************************************ Panel 2: Nation and Identity, 4:15-5:45 Tanya Dunlap, Rice University Nations and Nationalisms: Autonomy and Power. Rural Nation-Building in Transylvania at the End of the Nineteenth Century Jon E. Fox, University of California, Los Angeles Identity Formation in Migration: The Case of Transylvanian-Hungarian Guest Workers Valsamis Mitsilegas, University of Edinburgh Of "Words and Guns": Security, Law, and Identity Formation in Contemporary Greece Chair and Discussant: Kalypso Nicolaidis, Harvard University **************************************************************************** Panel 3: The Borders of Cultures and Culture of Borders, 6:00 - 8:00 Liviu Chelcea, University of Michigan Why Did the Banat Region Become Multicultural? Social Transformations and Collective Memory in a Romanian Region David S. Frey, Columbia University Cultural Politics on the Silver Screen. Hungary Floods the Yugoslav Film Market, 1939-41 David Vernikov, University of Wisconsin at Madison Bosnian Cultural Identity: Towards Diachrony of the Semiosphere Chair and Discussant: Larry Wolff, Boston College ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH: Panel 4: Politics and History, 9:00- 10:30 George Gavrilis, Columbia University Democratization Processes and War in the Ottoman Empire and Greece Yonca Koksal, Columbia University State Building in the Ottoman Empire (1839-1878) Peter Stamatov, University of California at Los Angeles The Making of a "Bad" Public: Ethnonational Mobilization in Post-Communist Bulgaria Chair and Discussant: Dimitris Keridis, Harvard University ************************************************************************** Panel 5: Religion and Politics, 11:00-12:30 Xavier Bougarel, Institute for Political Studies of Paris Islam and Politics in the Post-Communist Balkans Constantin Iordachi, University of Pittsburgh and Central European University Politics and Inter-Confessional Strife in Post-1989 Romania. From Competition for Resources to Redefining National Ideology Aleksandar Panev, University of Toronto Orthodoxy and Nationality in Macedonia, 1800-1878 Chair and Discussant: Ana Siljak, Harvard University ************************************************************************** Panel 6: World War II and the Rise of Communism, 3:00-4:30 Jonathan Gumz, University of Chicago "Pacified Areas" vs. "Unheard of Bestialities": Wehrmacht Perceptions of Mass Violence in the Independent State of Croatia Daniel M. Pennell, Indiana University Maniu, the National Peasants, and the Communization of Romania, 1944-1947 Laurie West Van Hook, University of Virginia Ethnic Tensions and the Leadership Vacuum within the Yugoslav Government, 1939-1945 Chair and Discussant: Ellen Elias-Bursac, Harvard University ************************************************************************** Panel 7: Recent Politics, 4:45-6:15 Tatiana Kostadinova, Florida State University Electoral Reform in Southeastern Europe: Dynamics and Trends Melanie Ram, George Washington University Romania's Reform through European Integration: The Domestic Effects of European Union Law Shinasi A. Rama, Columbia University Elites and the Democratic Transition: Examining the Albanian Crisis Chair and Discussant: Nikos Alivizatos, Faculty of Law, University of Athens Dinner at the Charles Hotel, 7:00 PM ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] _________________________________________________________ * ALST-L at alb-net.com / Albanian Studies Discussion List * To contact the list owner: ALST-L-Approval at alb-net.com From labova at JUNO.COM Mon Feb 8 20:32:18 1999 From: labova at JUNO.COM (Agron Alibali) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 20:32:18 -0500 Subject: [alst-l] Another Harvard Event References: <3.0.5.16.19990204220954.3d1f2c50@pop.ou.edu> Message-ID: <19990208.203516.2990.0.labova@juno.com> Please be advised of the following event: Thursday February 18, 1999, at 4:00 pm Faculty Dining Room, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University A talk with Dimitri Mitropoulo, Political Correspondent TO VIMA and Nieman Fellow, Harvard University "Barbarians at the Gate: Covering Immigration in the Balkans" Organized by the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, Harvard University For more info please call Nick Gragoudas at 617-496-6111 ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] _________________________________________________________ * ALST-L at alb-net.com / Albanian Studies Discussion List * To contact the list owner: ALST-L-Approval at alb-net.com From labova at JUNO.COM Mon Feb 8 20:35:07 1999 From: labova at JUNO.COM (Agron Alibali) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 20:35:07 -0500 Subject: [alst-l] From Greek Helsinki Monitor References: <2.2.32.19990205082606.006acd34@pop.btx.dtag.de> Message-ID: <19990208.203516.2990.1.labova@juno.com> GREEK HELSINKI MONITOR ON VLACHS http://www.greekhelsinki.gr/english/reports/vlachs.html THE VLACHS General data on the language Vlachs are those whose mother tongue is Vlachika (name in Greek -???????- for both Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian)/ Arminesti (name in the Aromanian language) -we lack information on how Megleno-Romanians call their language in their language-; most linguists use the terms Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian for these two languages. Both languages belong to the linguistic family of East Romance languages, and, within it, to the linguistic group of Balkan Romance: the latter includes the Northern dialects Daco-Romanian (the base of modern Romanian) and Istro-Romanian; and the Southern dialects Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian. ?Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian are linguistically considerably different from standard Romanian: mutual intelligibility is not always simple? (Trudgill, 1994:12). There are two Vlach languages in Greece: Megleno-Romanian spoken by a population (calling itself Vlasi in their language) concentrated in an area in the North of Greece and across the border in Macedonia and Bulgaria; and Aromanian (spoken by people calling themselves Armini in their language) with many dialects spoken by Vlachs throughout Northern Greece but also in Albania and Macedonia. One such dialect is very influenced by Albanian: its speakers are known as Arvanitovlachoi (in Greek) or Farseriots. Otherwise Aromanian has a great dialectical variety, mainly according to the geographical area where it is spoken. Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian have evolved from the neo-Latin or Proto-Romance dialects spoken in the Balkans, mentioned since at least the VI century (Wace-Thompson, 1989:2; Katsanis et al., 1990:17-8). Along with Arvanites, Macedonians, and Roma, Vlachs argue whether they should write their language (?today all Kutzovlachs know their language is not written? -Katsanis, 1989:2), which does not have a rich written tradition; if written, they argue whether they should use the Greek or the Latin alphabet. Before the development of the Latin-based Romanian alphabet, the few Aromanian texts used the Greek alphabet, just as the Romanian texts used the Cyrillic one. Afterwards and through today, the large majority of texts that are available in Vlach use the Latin alphabet. Megleno-Romanians have traditionally lived in the Kilkis and Pella departments near the border with Macedonia and Bulgaria, and in the adjacent areas of these latter countries. Aromanians have traditionally lived throughout Northern Greece, in most departments of Macedonia, Thessaly and Epirus, as well as in the Etolia and Akarnania and the Fthiotida departments of Central Greece. The largest concentration of Vlach population has been in the Pindos mountain that separates Epirus from Thessaly and Macedonia. Aromanians have traditionally also lived in Albania and in (former Yugoslav) Macedonia, while some moved to Romania in the XX century, which has a -recognized- Aromanian minority. Like the rest of the population, since the 1950s, Vlachs have been emigrating from their villages to the cities and especially the capital, Athens. Many Vlachs return to the villages during the summer. It appears that urbanization has been leading to the loss of the use of the language, which has been surviving more in the traditional villages. Traditionally Vlachs had been shepherds and wood-workers. There have not been any official statistics on this as well as on any other minority group in Greece since 1951. Today, the best estimate for the people who speak the language and/or have a Vlach consciousness is that they number around 200,000. Hill 1990:135) estimates them at 150,000-200,000 and Dahmen (1994:3) at 200,000-300,000. Other estimates of people with some relation to the community range from 50,000-1,200,000, the higher figures coming from members of the community. The very nationalistic daily newspaper Eleftheros Typos, in presenting the 1994 Vlach festival, estimated the size of this ?very genuine part of Hellenism? at 500,000 (8 July 1994). The high figures may correspond to all Greeks who have some Vlach ancestry, but certainly not to the current speakers and those with a similar consciousness. As with all other minority languages except Turkish, Vlachika has no legal status in Greece and is not taught at any level of the educational system (except the study of the language in a course on neo-Latin languages at the University of Salonica). However, after the Balkan Wars, Greece officially recognized the Vlachs as a minority: certainly an ethnic, if not a national one. The recognition took the form of a formal exchange of letters between the Greek and the Romanian Prime Ministers, that were subsequently attached to the Treaty of Bucarest (1913). Greece had then committed itself to grant autonomy to the ?Kutzovlach? schools and churches and to allow the establishment of a special diocese for them; at the same time, it recognized the right of the Romanian government to subsidize the Vlach institutions (Averoff, 1992:66). In fact, only the functioning of the ?Romanian? schools was allowed in the interwar period. Nevertheless, in that period, the Greek Foreign Ministry considered the Vlachs without Greek consciousness as a non-Greek ethnic (??????????) minority, along with other such minorities; and so did the dictator Metaxas himself, when he wrote of ?foreign elements? that need be ?Hellenized? (Divani, 1995:107 &117-8). Through 1951, too, Vlach was acknowledged in Greek census statistics, but the figures vastly underestimated the number of speakers: they tended to reflect the number of minority speakers with a strong non-Greek identity (for the figures on Vlachs see Averoff, 1992:19-20). Since the 1950s, there is no official policy towards the language, except the discouraging of its use by many means. Moreover, there are no media in Vlachika, but only some Vlach songs and folk stories sometimes aired by radio stations. Vlachs are Orthodox Christians; their church services are nowadays all held in Greek. Their main cultural activity is an annual ?reunion? (????????) cultural festival since 1984, organized by the Panhellenic Union of Vlach Cultural Associations, with 29 regional associations. Moreover, local festivals and some congresses have been organized. History of the community and the language Although some have claimed that Vlachs have moved to what is today Greek territory from as far north as the Danube, or that they are the descendants of Roman settlers (views surveyed by Lazarou, 1986:135-148), most authors agree today that Vlachs are Latinized indigenous populations: the disagreement that persists concerns whether the Latinized populations were Greek or -perhaps and most likely-, as most authors argue, non-Greek (Lazarou, 1986:87; Wace & Thompson, 1989:272-6; Berard, 1987:292-295; Bickford-Smith, 1993:48; Padioti, 1991:vii; Katsanis et al., 1990:18; Nakratzas, 1988:69; Banac, 1992:42). The earlier known references to the Vlach language date from the VI century (Wace & Thomson, 1989:2). In the Middle Ages, Vlachs established their own states in Great Vallachia (in Thessaly and Southern Macedonia) and Little Vallachia (in Etolia-Akarnania and Southern Epirus), in the XI and XII centuries (Dahmen, 1994:3; Berard, 1987:296); later on, they formed the basis of and provided the rulers to the ?Second Bulgarian Kingdom? or ?Kingdom of Vlachs and Bulgarians? (1185-1260), which at one point incorporated Great Vallachia. The latter survived the kingdom?s collapse as an autonomous area through the XIV century; then, and for some four centuries, little is known about the Vlachs who, as Orthodox Christians, belonged to the Greek-dominated Orthodox millet (= nationality) in the Ottoman Empire. Modern Vlachs are sometimes called Kutzovlachs (= Vlachs from Little Vallachia) or Burtzovlachs (= Vlachs from Great Vallachia), terms which have acquired demeaning connotations (Papathanasiou, 1991:25; Lazarou, 1986:62). The above mainly refer to the Aromanians. Very little has been written about the Megleno-Romanians, who are supposed to be descendants of the Turkic Pechenegs (Nakratzas, 1988:85-6; Lazarou, 1986:133; Winnifrith, 1987:23); today, they are the only Vlachs who call themselves Vlasi in their own language. In the XIX century, Vlachs first rose against Turks, participating in the Greek War of Independence (1821-1828) and provided many of its leaders. Subsequently, the Greek state benefited from very generous donations of prominent Vlachs who had made fortunes in Europe. Until then, Vlachs were thought of as Vlachophone Greeks: when the first textbooks of Aromanian using the Latin alphabet appeared in early XIX century, they were practically ignored by Vlachs (Lazarou, 1986:200-3). Following the emergence of Romanian nationalism in the mid-XIX century, however, there was an effort to create a Romanian, or at least a distinct, non-Greek, national consciousness among Vlachs in the Southern Balkans. The movement started in the Pindos area in the 1860s, but was quickly recuperated by (then still autonomous) Romania. A multitude of Aromanian textbooks using the Latin alphabet were published (Lazarou, 1986:204-206). Romanian schools were created in the Vlach areas of the Ottoman Empire, but the most prosperous Vlach families continued to favor a Greek education and a Graecophile attitude, even despising those who did not follow their line; nevertheless, a considerable number of Vlachs, mostly among the transhumant shepherds, acquired a separate, if not Romanian, identity thanks to these efforts (Dahmen, 1994:8; Wace & Thompson, 1989:8; Averoff 1992:30 & 67; Poulton, 1995:61). Thessaly?s annexation by Greece in 1881 led to a serious crisis in many Vlach families which were henceforth prevented from freely crossing the new border, a move necessary for those of them who were shepherds. In the first years of the XX century, the Ottomans recognized the Vlachs as a separate millet (1905), allowing them to officially have their own churches which they had already created in the preceding twenty years. The conflict over the allegiance of the Vlachs became one aspect of the general ?Macedonian struggle? of the 1900?s. The irregular Greek military units in Macedonia and Epirus had orders to treat as hostile the Romanian schools and villages, just like the Bulgarian ones: schools were burned down, Romanophile Vlachs were murdered, and the strength of the Romanian influence among Vlachs was weakened as a result, as it was also clear that Romania had no chance of ever annexing Macedonian territories (Wace & Thompson, 1989:9; Averoff 1992:59-61 & 184-189; Dahmen, 1994:4; MRG, 1990:131). After the Balkan Wars, the Vlachs, like Macedonian Slavs and Pomaks, found themselves divided in four different states (Albania, Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria): an effort to create an autonomous Vlach state in the Italian-held Korce area of Albania was stillborn in 1918. Nevertheless, Greece recognized officially the Vlachs as a minority, by an exchange of letters between the Greek and the Romanian Prime Ministers which were appended to the Treaty of Bucarest (1913). On the basis of that Treaty, schools with Romanian subsidies operated in Greece through the end of World War II, when communist Romania lost its interest in the Vlachs. Nevertheless, very few Vlachs sent their children to these schools (a few hundreds -Averoff, 1992:70-1), because such choices were perceived as an indication of anti-Greek attitude by both the state (which subsequently banished many of their graduates during the World War II) and the leading Vlachs who consistently maintained a Graecophile posture and sometimes used even physical violence against the Romanophiles (Averoff, 1992:70-1, 79-81, & 185). In general, Balkan Vlachs have tended to be assimilated by the dominant national group in each country they lived in: most of those who resisted assimilation emigrated to Romania or other non-Balkan countries (MRG, 1990:130-1). Despite that, during the Metaxas dictatorship (1936-1941), the measures of mandatory attendance of Greek language night schools even by the elderly non-Greek native speakers, and of the banning of the public use of the language applied to all Vlachs as well, creating resentment as well as fertile ground for a conflict between ?Romanian-leaning? and ?Greek-leaning? Vlachs (Divani, 1995:116-8). During the Axis occupation of Greece, in World War II, some Vlachs with non-Greek identity attempted to create a Vlach principality in the Pindos Mountains, Thessaly and Epirus, with the tolerance of the Italian occupying forces and the opposition of other Graecophile Vlachs (Averoff, 1992; MRG, 1990:131). In the post-war era, Vlachs felt they had to be extremely careful, as the two secessionist attempts (in the turn of the century and in the 1940s) made Greece suspicious of a distinct Vlach ethnic identity: hence, Vlach assimilation was extensive and usually ?voluntary?, i.e. helped by the Vlach leadership. As a result, Vlachs today, with few exceptions, insist on their being ?the most genuine, the best Greeks? (Lazarou, 1986:158; Katsanis, 1989:xvii; Kahrimanis, 1994; Moutsopoulos, 1991:11-5; Papastergiou, 1994; Papathanasiou, 1991:18). Moreover, many prefer the use of the term Vlachophone Greeks to Vlachs: the latter is perceived as indicating a separate identity, hence the opposition by some to the creation of Vlach cultural associations in the 1980s, thought of as efforts to ?de-Hellenize? the Vlachs. Besides, the European Bureau of Lesser Used Languages (EBLUL)? contacts with the Vlachs are also strongly criticized; finally, it is claimed that the EEC-sponsored report on Greece?s minority languages (Siguan, 1990) was amended by the Greek authorities before its publication to be more consistent with the official Greek view on this community (Lazarou et al., 1993:192). Trudgill (1994) has shown that, in Greece, as minority languages are all alien (Abstand) to Greek, the use of different names for them (Arvanite rather than Albanian, Vlach rather than Romanian, Slav rather than Macedonian) has contributed to denying their heteronomy (their dependence on the corresponding standard language) and increasing their autonomy (by assigning them the status of autonomous languages). As a result, the minority language?s vulnerability grew significantly, as well as the dissociation of the speakers? ethnic (Arvanite, Vlach, Slavophone) identities from the corresponding national identities (Albanian, Romanian, Macedonian) which have developed in the respective modern nation-states. Today, Vlach ethnic identity is perceived by many members of the community as distinct from that of the other Greeks who have Greek as their mother tongue (called ?Grecos? in Aromanian) but as fully compatible with Greek national identity (likewise for many Arvanites and Macedonians). A similar phenomenon has helped weaken the links between Pomaks in Greece (speaking a Bulgarian-based language) and Bulgarians and the consequent Pomaks? assimilation into the Turkish ethnic and, by now, national identity in Western Thrace, an assimilation here detrimental to Greece?s homogenization and anti-minority policies. In another Balkan context, such attitude helped distance the literary Macedonian language standardized by Yugoslav authorities in the late 1940s from Bulgarian to which the previously spoken dialects in Yugoslav Macedonia were heteronomous. If Hellenization was a significant factor for the weakening of the use of Vlach languages, urbanization was another. Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian had survived until recently in many homogeneous villages where most people had been using the language regularly. Those, though, who moved to the cities soon abandoned the use of the language as it was unintelligible to most other city dwellers and was even perceived as a sign of backwardness, while, on the other hand, the children had no way of learning the language as neither was it taught at school nor was it used regularly by family members -often grand parents- at home. Current situation of the community and the language Almost all Vlach speakers are today bilingual, i.e. they also speak Greek, usually fluently for the younger and middle-aged generations. It is widely agreed that Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian, having for centuries evolved in a different environment from Daco-Romanian have acquired separate (Ausbau) status from standard Romanian, in fact with dialectical richness for Aromanian; nevertheless, at least partial mutual intelligibility between Vlach and Romanian exists, partly enhanced by the Romanian schools in the Vlach areas in the end of the XIX and the first half of the XX centuries. On the other hand, Vlach languages are threatened with extinction. There has been a rather widespread indifference among Vlachs, as well as Arvanite and Macedonian community members about the fate of their mother tongues, along with self-deprecation: they have been led by dominant unilingual Greek culture to -usually sincerely- believe that these languages are deficient, lack proper grammatical structure, and have a poor vocabulary (Trudgill, 1994:14; Tsitsipis, 1994:4). So, gradually, Vlachs have switched from bilingualism to a subordination of Aromanian or Megleno-Romanian to Greek. It is probably a correct estimate, although no detailed studies exist, that the language is used today by middle aged people (interchanged with Greek) and by elderly people (in most contexts) and much less by younger generations (usually when addressing older people). Since the 1980s, though, an interesting ?Vlach revival? has been noticed. An annual festival, with an increasing participation of Vlach cultural associations is regularly taking place in Northern Greece; these associations have created a national Panhellenic Union of Vlach Cultural Associations, numbering 29 members in 1994. In the latter year, too, people close to the associations launched a monthly newspaper, albeit only in Greek, Armanika Chronika. Records and cassettes with Vlach songs are now available, and books about them are being published. Aromanian is even a research subject at the University of Salonica. It should be noted, though, that most of the people involved in this revival are still hostile to a possible teaching of Vlach at schools -for example, Minister of Education George Papandreou mentioned, to an International Helsinki Federation delegation, such a negative attitude by the Metsovo mayor when he asked him the question in mid-May 1995. Such attitude is explained by the fact that this matter automatically reminds them of the Romanian schools of the past and, therefore, creates suspicions about the motivation behind such educational programs: Vlachs, having suffered so much by Romanian propaganda and Italian- and Romanian-inspired attempts to create a Vlach entity in Greece during the Axis occupation, cannot yet understand that such programs are henceforth standard in European countries and unrelated to irredentisms. One additional reason for such a slow and careful public reaffirmation of Vlach culture is the apparent hostility of the Greek state to such ?revivals? among Arvanites, Vlachs, and Macedonians, which is indicated by police disruption of festivals (in Macedonia), harassment of musicians who play and sing songs in minority languages; as well as by the tolerance by the state and particularly its judiciary of public calls, printed in the press, to use violence against those musicians; likewise, human and minority rights activists have been the object of similar threats (Stohos, 20/7/1994 and in previous issues, where even the Euromosaic project to prepare a new report on linguistic minorities in the European Union was attacked). Such hostile environment makes even the scholars? work look suspicious: for example, Vlachs react with incredulity and suspicion to assertions that their language can be written. Moreover, EBLUL?s interest in the community has been strongly criticized even by Vlach linguists for having ?created difficulties rather than helped promote the language? and ?divided the Vlachs, break their unity with, as a result, the shrinking of the language and the weakening of their wish to keep the language and their customs? (Katsanis, 1994). It has also been violently attacked in state-sponsored publications (Lazarou, 1993:191-193) and strongly criticized by the President of the Panhellenic Union of Vlach Cultural Associations in his address to the 1994 ?reunion?. Moreover, in the summer 1995 reunion, one Vlach activist, Sotiris Bletsas, who distributed copies of the EBLUL?s map with the EU?s lesser spoken languages (including the Vlach language) was harassed by bystanders, including the deputy of New Democracy (ND) Eugene Haitidis, who even had the local police officers take the activist into custody in order to bring charges against him: only when forced to state that he would reject any inaccuracies of the map was the activist allowed to walk free. In September 1995, Mr. Haitidis, in a television program, attacked our spokesperson Panayote Elias Dimitras for having ?ordered? Mr. Bletsas? actions, who had allegedly admitted that he had been deceived by Mr. Dimitras, a statement that Mr. Bletsas denied ever having made. When ND leader Miltiadis Evert was asked to disavow his deputy?s actions (as the deputy is in charge of human rights issues in the party), he declined. Likewise, the Vlach languages have never been included in the educational curricula of the modern Greek state. On the contrary, their use has been strongly discouraged at schools (and in the army) through physical punishment, humiliation, or, in recent years, simple incitation of the Vlach users. Such attitudes have led many Vlach (as well as Arvanite, and Macedonian) parents to discourage their children from learning their mother tongue so as to avoid similar discrimination and suffering. As mentioned above, there has been an annual Vlach reunion festival since 1984, in which Vlach songs and dances are performed. There is a, certainly limited, production of cassettes and records with Vlach songs, as well as a CD with traditional Thessaly Aromanian songs assorted with an annotated study showing that Aromanian songs have a number of common traits with Romanian songs (Baud-Body, 1990). A partly EU-funded project, MAPECH (Multimedia Application for the Preservation of Epirus? Cultural Heritage), of the Egnatia Foundation, aims in part at collecting Vlach songs and tales and will use the Latin alphabet for that purpose. All Vlach speakers are fluent in Greek; in fact, the use of Vlach is being subordinated to the use of Greek especially among the younger generations. The reasons have already been mentioned above: the monolingual policy of the Greek state along with the resulting self-deprecation of the language; modernization; influence of education; easier access to the major cities and to the electronic media where only Greek is used: so, the decrease of the isolation of the Vlach communities has severely affected language use. In fact, sometimes, young people discourage their parents from speaking the language (especially in public). Although there are no studies similar to the ones for the Arvanitika, one could say that, at least in the Vlach villages, in the 1990s, most people over 50 are fluent speakers, but most people under 50 and especially under 25 are at best terminal or passive speakers, with limited knowledge of vocabulary and grammar. So, young people today, when they know the language, they use it only in strict family context usually in conversations with the elderly people; sometimes, too, to make fun of non-speakers. Nevertheless, there are many variations of this age differential as reported in a traveler?s careful study (Winnifrith, 1987:9-25). Experts, therefore, agree that Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian in Greece are threatened with extinction, perhaps more than in the other Balkan countries which, after the collapse of communism, have tended to grant official recognition to Vlachs (Winnifrith, 1987:25; Trudgill, 1994:14-15). In fact, some argue that the gradual disappearance of Vlach languages is inevitable, because the historical role of the Vlachs ends with the conclusion of the XX century, as the social conditions which helped Vlach survive for centuries have been eclipsed: special working habits and social structure, geographical isolation; they in fact oppose all efforts to help Vlach languages survive into the next century or, even more, recognize it as a minority language as it has been done by European institutions (Katsanis et al., 1990:9 & 1989:xvii; Kilipiris, 1994). Finally, we should add a few words about the Vlachs? transnational exchanges. There are few ties with Romania today, as this country carefully avoids raising any claims on Vlachs in the 1990s. On the contrary, after the collapse of the communist regimes in the Balkans, links were established between Vlachs of Greece and Vlachs of Albania, especially those among the latter who claim a Greek identity: they are invited by Vlachs of Greece in their festivals, and receive help from them to rebuild churches or in the form of other necessary assistance to Vlach villages in Albania. On the contrary, no links exist with the Vlachs of Macedonia, as there do not appear to be many who claim the Greek identity there. [published in "Greek Monitor of Human & Minority Rights" Vol. 1 No. 3 December 1995 (May-June 1994)] ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. 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For further information call the Russian and East European Center at the University of Illionis at (217) 333-1244, or email to reec at uiuc.edu ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] _________________________________________________________ * ALST-L at alb-net.com / Albanian Studies Discussion List * To contact the list owner: ALST-L-Approval at alb-net.com From aprestre at ssees.ac.uk Tue Feb 16 14:10:38 1999 From: aprestre at ssees.ac.uk (Albert Prestreshi) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:10:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [alst-l] Information on Greek-Albanian relations In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I am a postgraduate student at SSEES - University of London and I am writing an essey on Greek - Albanian relations. I would need some information regarding the post - Ottoman Greek invasion of southern Albania (Chameria) as well as about the attrocities committed agaisnt the Albanian people in these lands after WWI and WWII. I would aslo need some information about the recent Greek - Albanian relations. I would be very grateful if someone would assist me with any written work or any reccomendation of any useful articles in prestigious journals or www. Thank you in advance and hoping to hear from you soon Best regards Albert Prestreshi _________________________________________________________ * ALST-L at alb-net.com / Albanian Studies Discussion List * To contact the list owner: ALST-L-Approval at alb-net.com From a9105506 at unet.univie.ac.at Tue Feb 16 15:30:01 1999 From: a9105506 at unet.univie.ac.at (Shkumbin Brestovci) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 21:30:01 +0100 Subject: [alst-l] Information on Greek-Albanian relations Message-ID: <001b01be59eb$20e640e0$e24811d4@bishapc.telekabel.at> > I am a postgraduate student at SSEES - University of London and I am >writing an essey on Greek - Albanian relations. I would need some >information regarding the post - Ottoman Greek invasion of southern >Albania (Chameria) as well as about the attrocities committed agaisnt the >Albanian people in these lands after WWI and WWII. I would aslo need >some information about the recent Greek - Albanian relations. >I would be very grateful if someone would assist me with any written >work or any reccomendation of any useful articles in prestigious >journals or www. >Thank you in advance and hoping to hear from you soon Me relacionet shqiptaro-greke prej historianvet shqiptar?, q? di un, ?sht marr? Shk?lzen Ra?a (punon n? Institutin Albanologjik - Prishtin?). Besoj q? ka edhe bibliografi t'mir?, q? mundet me Ju udh?zue m? tutje. Vet? nuk e posedoj asnji botim t'tijin, po besoj q? nuk do t'jet? v?shtir? me i ra n'fije, n?se keni far? kontaktesh n? Prishtin?. Bresta. _________________________________________________________ * ALST-L at alb-net.com / Albanian Studies Discussion List * To contact the list owner: ALST-L-Approval at alb-net.com From besnik at albanian.com Tue Feb 16 19:31:53 1999 From: besnik at albanian.com (Besnik Pula) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:31:53 -0500 Subject: [alst-l] Information on Greek-Albanian relations In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > I am a postgraduate student at SSEES - University of London and I am >writing an essey on Greek - Albanian relations. I would need some >information regarding the post - Ottoman Greek invasion of southern >Albania (Chameria) as well as about the attrocities committed agaisnt the >Albanian people in these lands after WWI and WWII. I would aslo need >some information about the recent Greek - Albanian relations. >I would be very grateful if someone would assist me with any written >work or any reccomendation of any useful articles in prestigious >journals or www. Hello, perhaps a useful article is one by Laurie Kain Hart and Kestrina Budina called "'Northern Epiros': The Greek Minority in Southern Albania", published in Cultural Survival Quarterly in the Summer 1995 issue (pp. 54-62). I haven't read the article so I can't summarize it, but it looks like it's a serious piece of work. I believe the Greek Helsinki Committee have collected some information regarding Cameria. You may want to get in touch with them for info. I also have a copy of several documents (historical and current) from the Tirana-based Cameria Association, which I can mail to you if you wish. Regards, Besnik _________________________________________________________ * ALST-L at alb-net.com / Albanian Studies Discussion List * To contact the list owner: ALST-L-Approval at alb-net.com From IPILIKA at WELLESLEY.EDU Wed Feb 17 21:56:45 1999 From: IPILIKA at WELLESLEY.EDU (IPILIKA at WELLESLEY.EDU) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:56:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: [alst-l] SE Europe SPRING TALKS Message-ID: <01J7V65P469U8XWL6V@WELLESLEY.EDU> ex From: IN%"bursac at fas.harvard.edu" "Ellen Elias-Bursac" 17-FEB-1999 16:29:13.68 To: IN%"bursac at fas.harvard.edu" CC: Subj: SE Europe SPRING TALKS Return-path: Received: from smtp2.fas.harvard.edu by WELLESLEY.EDU (PMDF V5.1-12 #D3126) with ESMTP id <01J7UURFK8PC8XWCI3 at WELLESLEY.EDU> for ipilika at WELLESLEY.EDU; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 16:29:02 EST Received: from login4.fas.harvard.edu (IDENT:bursac at login4.fas.harvard.edu [140.247.30.74]) by smtp2.fas.harvard.edu with ESMTP id QAA12362 Received: by login4.fas.harvard.edu with ESMTP id QAA19391 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 16:28:30 -0500 (EST) From: Ellen Elias-Bursac Subject: SE Europe SPRING TALKS To: bursac at fas.harvard.edu Message-id: X-Envelope-to: ipilika MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII We are pleased to announce our spring schedule! Please forward this to anyone who might be interested, and contact us with relevant e-mail addresses to add to our mailing list. THE SOUTHEAST EUROPE STUDY GROUP at the Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St., sponsored by the Kokkalis Program at the Kennedy School Thomas Cushman Sociology Department, Wellesley College "Trust, Confidence and Civil Society in Post-War Bosnia" Thursday, February 25, 4:15, Lower Auditorium ************************************************************************* George Perevelakis Department of Geography and Planning, University of Paris-Sorbonne "Greece at a Crossroads: Internal and External Issues - A Time of Change" Friday, March 5, 4:15, Cabot Room, co-sponsored with the Greek Study Group *************************************************************************** Steven Burg Political Science Department, Brandeis University "Recent Developments in Macedonian Politics" Friday, March 19, 4:30, Lower Auditorium **************************************************************************** Linda Mitrojorgji Fulbright Scholar in Urban Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne "Urbanism of a City Under the Pressure of Economic and Political Changes: a case study of Tirana, the capital city of Albania" Friday, April 16, 4:15, Lower Auditorium **************************************************************************** Katherine Verdery Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan "Reburying Transylvania's Uniate Bishop: Exhumation, Evangelization, and the Postsocialist Religious Market" Monday, April 26, 2:15 *************************************************************************** The Southeast European Study Group is hosted by the Center for European Studies and sponsored by the Kokkalis Program at the Kennedy School. It is designed to provide scholars and students from a wide variety of discplines (Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Government, History, Law, Literature, Sociology) with a forum to discuss topics relevant to the region of Southeastern Europe (defined here as Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia and Yugoslavia). Co-chairs: Ellen Elias-Bursac, Dimitris Keridis, Ana Siljak. **************** _________________________________________________________ * ALST-L at alb-net.com / Albanian Studies Discussion List * To contact the list owner: ALST-L-Approval at alb-net.com From labova at JUNO.COM Wed Feb 17 23:15:05 1999 From: labova at JUNO.COM (Agron Alibali) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:15:05 -0500 Subject: [alst-l] Events at Harvard University References: Message-ID: <19990217.231513.4798.0.labova@juno.com> Thursday February 18, 1999, 4:00 pm Faculty Dining Room, Kennedy School of Government A talk with Dimitri Mitropoulo, Political Correspondent, TO VIMA weekly, Athens and Nieman Fellow, Harvard University Barbarians at the Gate: Covering Immigration in the Balkans Organized by the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, For more info please call Nick Gragoudas at 617-496-6111 In addition, given the on-going negotiations on Kosovo in France the Kokkalis Program invites you to a a lecture and discussion this Friday, 19 February entitled: THE QUESTION OF KOSOVO: YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW by DUSAN BATAKOVIC, Professor of History at the University of Belgrade and Political Advisor to the Serbian Church concerning the issue of Kosovo and Metohija at 12:30 p.m. Malkin Penthouse, Littaeur Building, John F. Kennedy School of Government Please contact ana at mailcity.com for more information . The lecture is organized by the Kokkalis Program at JFK. ------------------------------------------------- We are pleased to announce our spring schedule! Please forward this to anyone who might be interested, and contact us with relevant e-mail addresses to add to our mailing list. THE SOUTHEAST EUROPE STUDY GROUP at the Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St., sponsored by the Kokkalis Program at the Kennedy School Thomas Cushman Sociology Department, Wellesley College "Trust, Confidence and Civil Society in Post-War Bosnia" Thursday, February 25, 4:15, Lower Auditorium ************************************************************************* George Perevelakis Department of Geography and Planning, University of Paris-Sorbonne "Greece at a Crossroads: Internal and External Issues - A Time of Change" Friday, March 5, 4:15, Cabot Room, co-sponsored with the Greek Study Group *************************************************************************** Steven Burg Political Science Department, Brandeis University "Recent Developments in Macedonian Politics" Friday, March 19, 4:30, Lower Auditorium **************************************************************************** Linda Mitrojorgji Fulbright Scholar in Urban Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne "Urbanism of a City Under the Pressure of Economic and Political Changes: a case study of Tirana, the capital city of Albania" Friday, April 16, 4:15, Lower Auditorium **************************************************************************** Katherine Verdery Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan "Reburying Transylvania's Uniate Bishop: Exhumation, Evangelization, and the Postsocialist Religious Market" Monday, April 26, 2:15 *************************************************************************** The Southeast European Study Group is hosted by the Center for European Studies and sponsored by the Kokkalis Program at the Kennedy School. It is designed to provide scholars and students from a wide variety of discplines (Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Government, History, Law, Literature, Sociology) with a forum to discuss topics relevant to the region of Southeastern Europe (defined here as Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia and Yugoslavia). Co-chairs: Ellen Elias-Bursac, Dimitris Keridis, Ana Siljak. **************** ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] _________________________________________________________ * ALST-L at alb-net.com / Albanian Studies Discussion List * To contact the list owner: ALST-L-Approval at alb-net.com From besnik at albanian.com Wed Feb 17 23:50:19 1999 From: besnik at albanian.com (Besnik Pula) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:50:19 -0500 Subject: [alst-l] Fwd: ALBANIAN CONFERENCE IN BOSTON Message-ID: --- begin forwarded text From: Albanian Orthodox Church Subject: ALBANIAN CONFERENCE IN BOSTON NAAC HOSTING A CONFERENCE ON ALBANIA IN BOSTON The National Albanian American Council is hosting a conference on Albania in Boston. Albania has suffered significant upheavals over the last few years. Given its strategic importance to the United States and the challenges facing Albania in the immediate future, we believe that a conference is both necessary and timely. The conference will be open to the public. WHERE: ANTHONY'S PIER 4 RESTAURANT WHEN: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 TIME: 2:00-4:30 PM SPEAKERS: STEVE FLANAGAN, NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL DOMENICK SCAGLIONE, ALB-AMER. ENTERPRISE FUND A MEMBER OF CONGRESS MR. ILIR ZHERKA, EXECUTIVE DIR., NAAC WASHINGTON ,D.C. --- end forwarded text _________________________________________________________ * ALST-L at alb-net.com / Albanian Studies Discussion List * To contact the list owner: ALST-L-Approval at alb-net.com From mentor at alb-net.com Sun Feb 28 09:21:44 1999 From: mentor at alb-net.com (Mentor Cana) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 09:21:44 -0500 (EST) Subject: [alst-l] "Economic Activities and Democratic Development of Kosova" (fwd) Message-ID: For the full report please visit: http://www.kosova.com/RIINVEST/indexa.htm INTRODUCTION The project "Economic Activities and Democratic Development of Kosova" by its complexity and dimensions represents an important event not only for Riinvest Institute but also for the development of research activities in the field of transition, market economy and entrepreneurship in Kosova. This project fulfills a vacuum of studies regarding the economic and social aspects in Kosova on the light of the unsettled problem of Kosova. The development of an open market economy and other democratic structures of the society in Kosova are considered a necessity in order to stimulate economic activities. The project aims to improve the information of the relevant both domestic and international factors on the economic aspects of the problem of Kosova, which are very important, but sometimes neglected. The objective of the project is also to recommend and suggest an institutional and new substantial structure of an open market economy system - the economic system of Kosova, which will meet the main aims of the people of Kosova to build a free democratic society. Taking into consideration the human resources, natural and other resources, this system should stimulate the creative potential for free initiative development and affirmation of entrepreneurship as a development philosophy. Therefore, the project recommends an independent development strategy within the regional and other integrations, based on the private initiative and development of small and medium-size private enterprises. The human resources and their quality represent the most important development factor, under the conditions of a contemporary training on entrepreneurship. In order to meet this need, a Program of Business Education has been suggested. The economic aspects of Kosova issue by its complexity and reflections request strong involving of international factors. The current situation is in contradiction not only with the will of the people of Kosova but also with relevant international acts and order. This situation represents a real hindrance for changing conditions in the Balkans. A troubled Balkan lacking deep economic and social transformations will be faced with internal tensions and continuation of tectonic processes. Besides the analysis of the situation, and future development concepts, some appropriate recommendations have also been given, addressed to the appropriate bodies in Kosova, and to other relevant factors involved in finding a solution for the problem of Kosova in order to overcome the existing situation. The project has reached its position in Kosova?s business community and it is expected to generate new initiatives and activities for increasing public understanding and appreciation of the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth and future developments of Kosova?s economy. For the full report please visit: http://www.kosova.com/RIINVEST/indexa.htm _________________________________________________________ * ALST-L at alb-net.com / Albanian Studies Discussion List * To contact the list owner: ALST-L-Approval at alb-net.com