[alst-l] Conference at Harvard University

[Agron Alibali]

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        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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

            

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