Month: December 2020

Balkanologie 2020

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Nous avons le grand plaisir de vous annoncer que Balkanologie. Revue d’études pluridisciplinaires est de retour !

 Les deux numéros de 2020, vol. 15 n°1 et vol. 15 n°2 sont maintenant en ligne et en accès libre sur la plateforme OpenEdition.

Au nom du Comité de rédaction, nous tenons à vous remercier chaleureusement de votre collaboration

It is a great pleasure to announce that Balkanologie. Revue d’études pluridisciplinaires is back!

The two issues for 2020, vol.15 n°1 and vol.15 n°2 are now available online and free access on the platform OpenEdition.

On behalf of the Editorial Board, we thank you warmly for your collaboration.



The Border Crossings Network

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Since 2003, academics and students from various university departments in the Balkans have established the BORDER CROSSINGS Network. The Network encourages the development of university cooperation mainly in the areas of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Folklore, Balkan Studies and History. It aims at promoting closer relationships between Universities, academics and students in the region by regularly organizing various forms of academic exchange.

Such cooperation is an important missing element in the process of cross-cultural and cross-border understanding, inter-ethnic tolerance and economic and political prosperity in the region. The BORDER CROSSINGS network’s activities counter fears, mistrust and prejudices. Students come out of these activities with a better understanding of their common heritage and the benefits, and how to use it to the advantage of the region. In addition, they build capacity within the participating Higher Education Institutions and enable further common research activities.

The Network has, since 2003, institutionalized
– An annual student conference based on round tables with a common agenda where students present their papers in English.
– The annual “Konitsa International Summer School in Anthropology, Ethnography and Comparative Folklore of the Balkans”.
– Three publication series entitled:
1.“Balkan Border Crossings: Proceedings from the Konitsa Summer School”
2.“Balkan Border Crossings: Contributions to Balkan Ethnography”
3.“Balkan Border Crossings: Ethnographic Research in Border Areas“

Website: https://www.border-crossings.eu/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBorderCrossingsNetwork/

The Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies has been a member of BCN since 2013 and is the co-organizer of:
– the International conferences organized by the network; and
– the Konitsa International Summer School in “Anthropology, Ethnography and
Comparative Folklore of the Balkans”

Website for student conferences: https://www.border-crossings.eu/student-conferences
Website for Konitsa Summer School: https://www.border-crossings.eu/konitsa

Call for Papers: Princeton / Columbia Conference on «The Greek War of Independence and the Americas»

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November 12-13, 2021 – Princeton University and Columbia University in the City of New York

Princeton University’s Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies and the Department of History at Columbia University invite scholars at all stages of their careers to submit proposals for individual papers to be given at a two-day international history conference scheduled for Friday to Saturday, November 12-13, 2021. The conference will explore the social, political, cultural, and economic interconnections between the Greek War of Independence and the Americas.

The conference, which participates in global bicentennial celebrations of the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, is intended to further historical thinking connecting histories of an age of revolutions on multiple continents. It may lend itself to work in a comparative vein or comparisons may arise through discussion of intensive case studies. The organizers anticipate work that fuels rethinking sovereignty, peoplehood, and a world of nations and empires through actors and processes.

Themes to be explored include models of revolution in the Americas in rethinking the Greek Independence struggle; the liberal international moment of the 1820s in southern Europe and connections with the independence movements in South America; attitudes within Greece towards the Americas and the move to independence in the western hemisphere; questions of republics and slavery composed by African-Americans in 1820s; response to the slavery question in the Morea. Approaches to foreign and economic affairs including intervention and non-intervention policies developed in the Americas, such as the Monroe Doctrine and the policy of states in the Americas toward an independent Greece; the rise of an international market for sovereign debt and the debt boom/bust of the 1820s; economic and technological aspects of American involvement including steamship purchases; the suppression of piracy; the involvement of Protestant missions; the rescue of Greek orphans. Intellectual history and cultural and artistic responses, such as international Benthamism and radical constitutionalism; novel approaches to philhellenes of the Western Hemisphere, including classicizing political thought (e.g., Jefferson, Koraes); and the impact of philhellenism on American life, culture, and institutions (e.g., the cases of Francis Lieber and Samuel Gridley Howe); rethinking American philhellenes in Greece; the circulation of memoirs, journalism, captive and travel literature and the literary representation of the Greek war in the United States; memories of 1821 and Greek-American life over the following century and a half.

The conference is intended to meet over two sequential days, one each at the respective campuses of the hosting institutions.  If the conference is held in person as planned, speakers selected will be provided four nights lodging (2 nights in Princeton, 2 nights in New York City, booked on their behalf) and reimbursement of a fixed amount toward travel expenses. Selected participants should however be prepared for possible changes in the modality of the conference if continuing public health and safety concerns prevail against or limit physical assembly. Health and safety concerns might even dictate a change in the dates of the conference. The organizers commit to making a decision in good time regarding modality.  Speakers should not purchase tickets for travel that are not fully refundable until they are notified by the organizers to do so.  Should the conference be held virtually or in hybrid mode, there will be no reimbursements towards unexecuted travel expenses, and should the conference be held in person on different dates, there be will no reimbursement for travel arrangements made with respect to the original dates.

Deadline for proposals is Monday, February 8, 2021. Applicants should submit an abstract of no longer than 300 words and a one-page summary curriculum vitae to Sara Brooks (sbrooks@princeton.edu), Secretary to the Program Committee.

Program Committee: Dimitri Gondicas (Princeton University); Jeremy Adelman (Princeton University); Natasha Wheatley (Princeton University); Peter Wirzbicki (Princeton University); Mark Mazower (Columbia University); Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University); Kostas Kostis (University of Athens)

2nd International Seminar for PhD candidates

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“Culture, borders, gender: Interpretive understanding, creative practices and historical journeys in the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Eastern Mediterranean, and the Middle East “

26-28 February 2021

Organization: Laboratory for the Study of Culture, Borders, and Gender, Department of Balkan Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia
On the occasion of the completion of 5 years since the establishment of Culture – Borders – Gender / LΑB

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND PRESENTATION OF ANNOUNCEMENT

The combination of theoretical, epistemological, and methodological traditions and approaches between different scientific fields, aiming at the cultivation of Area Studies, is the basis on which the Laboratory for the Study of Culture, Borders, and Gender of the Department of Department of Balkan Slavic and Oriental Studies operates. According to the premises of its founding act and its scientific goals, the Laboratory studies complex processes of culture and gender experiences, as well as processes of creating boundaries and boundaries, similarities and differences, on a cultural and symbolic level.

At the core of the Laboratory’s approach is the study of cultures as a historical, social, and interpretive process in the SE and AN. Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Middle East. Populations living in border areas between nation-states, and/or moving through them, and the ways in which gender is constructed and gender experience are also examined comparatively.

On the occasion of the five years since its establishment, and in the context of the fulfillment of the above objectives, the Culture – Borders – Gender / LΑB  organizes the 2nd Seminar for Ph.D. candidates, in order to highlight the work done by early-stage researchers.

The call for participation in the seminar is addressed to early-stage researchers in the social sciences and humanities and concerns case studies that focus indicatively, and not exclusively, on the following thematic areas but also on their possible combinations:

• Cultural practices, rituals, symbols, institutions, reasons
• Borders and border areas, identities and diversity, cross-border mobility
• Minority, immigration, and refugee experiences
• Gender, gender relations, body
• Literature, arts, language and translation
• Material culture, space, architecture, monuments
• Digital technologies, digital and audiovisual culture

About the program

• This year’s 2nd Seminar will be held online with the possibility of connection and attendance by any interested party (after registration).
• It will include panels with guest speakers / three and sessions with researchers’ announcements.
• A certificate of attendance will be issued.
• Details of the program, the participants, and other organizational information will be announced in due course.
• Working languages ​​will be Greek and English.

Send abstracts for an announcement

Deadline: January 20, 2021

Contact email: anna@uom.edu.gr , Information: Anna Moumtzoglou

• Summary of 250 words (in Greek or English) with the title of the announcement
• 5-8 keywords relevant to the case study
• Contact details: name, scientific status, email address

INVITATION TO SUBMIT AN ARTICLE FOR PUBLICATION

ELECTRONIC MINUTES OF THE MEETING (e-book)

The Culture – Borders – Gender / LΑB  and the organizing committee will edit the publication of the electronic minutes of the meeting, which will include the elaborated texts of the presentation. Writing language can be Greek or English.

Deadline  for the Submission  of  paper: May 15, 2021

Educational Seminar “Museum and Education”

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Friday, December 11, 2020, from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Organization: Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab of the Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia (https://cbg-lab.uom.gr), as part of the graduate course “Art, Culture, and Politics in Eastern and Southeastern Europe.”

Organization – Coordination
Stavroula Mavrogeni, Associate Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Director of the Center for Macedonian History Research and Documentation, IMMA

Maria Tsantsanoglou, Deputy General Director of MOMus & Director of MOMus-Museum of Modern Art – Kostakis Collection.

To join, follow the link: https://zoom.us/my/bsas12

Language of the event: Greek

Attached is the seminar program:

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