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THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM CENTRE FOR BYZANTINE,
OTTOMAN &
MODERN GREEK STUDIES

ANNOUNCEMENT OF AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON


GREECE AND THE BALKANS: CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS SINCE THE
ENLIGHTENMENT

The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek
Studies is organising an
international conference on "Greece and the Balkans:
Cultural encounters
since the
Enlightenment" to be held in Birmingham from 28th to
30th June, 2001. The
conference will focus  on cultural interaction between
Greece and other
Balkan countries in recent centuries
and scholars from Greece, Europe and USA have already
agreed to
participate. It will cover
cultural contact and exchanges in the fields of
literature, language,
religion, music, folk
culture, architecture, thought and film from the
eighteenth century
onwards. Papers
on earlier  periods will also be considered. The aim
is to explore and
compare patterns
of cultural exchange over the years and to address the
wider question as to
whether
Greece can best be described as a European, Balkan or
East Mediterranean
country. The
conference will also seek to explore perceptions of
Greece and Greek
culture by other Balkan peoples and the use of Greek
history and culture in
Balkan literature and the other arts. The conference
aims  to highlight the
Balkans as an area of rich cultural interaction and to
 counteract the
image of  its inhabitants as the troublemakers of
Europe.

Those who are interested in presenting a paper to the
conference should
submit a topic and an abstract of 300 words by the end
of April 2000. The
papers will be in
English and should  not exceed 30 minutes. The
organisers of the conference
will provide
accommodation and subsistence to the speakers during
the conference, but
they are encouraged to approach their own institutions
for travel expenses.
In the case of speakers with no institutional
affiliation, efforts will be
made by the conference organisers to cover at least
part of those expenses.

Topics and abstracts should be sent to: Professor
Dimitris Tziovas, Centre
for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies,
University of Birmingham,
Birmingham B15
2TT.
U.K. Fax: 0044-121-4146866, Tel: 0044-121-4145769,
E-mail:
d.p.tziova- at bham.ac.uk.
Enquiries concerning the conference should also be
addressed to him.

Professor Dimitris Tziovas
Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies
University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT
U.K.
Tel: 0044-121-4145769
Fax: 0044-121-4146866
E-mail: D.p. tziova- at bham.ac.uk

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