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<div><b>From:</b> Δημήτρης Σταματόπουλος <<a href="mailto:ds@uom.gr">ds@uom.gr</a>></div>
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<p><span lang="EN-US">Dear colleague<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">please see below the Call for Papers for the third "Balkan Worlds" International Conference which will be held by the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki at the beginning of October
2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Dimitris Stamatopoulos<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span lang="EN-US">Call for papers</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span lang="EN-US">Balkan Worlds III: Power Networks in the Imperial and Post-Imperial Balkans (18th - 20th c.)</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">The communicative origins of the concept of "networks" and th<a name="_GoBack" id="_GoBack"></a>e fact that they often act as a
<em>vacant signifier</em> in historical analysis, replacing terms and semantic tools of earlier theoretical approaches, albeit without this necessarily being a prerequisite, created the conditions for a critical approach to the overuse of this concept. As David
Bell correctly observed when commenting on the growth of global history as the result of a methodological insistence on the issue of communication networks that the latter didn’t play a bigger role in a globalized perception of history than, for example, the
growth and spread of socialist internationalist ideas in the 19th century. Nevertheless, a question remains: if precisely the meaning of the political that supposedly transcends the meaning of the communication aspect, could also be defined on the growth or
transformation of the social networks creating the conditions for concentrating social and cultural capital and thus the reconstruction of the dominant political sphere. The conference will insist precisely on the manner, preconditions, and process according
to which social networks can be transformed into power networks in the framework of an empire or within the framework of a nation state in the Balkans from the 18th through the 20th century. More specifically, the scientific committee would select the research
of relationships with political power in the following types of social networks:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">- intellectual or scholarly networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">- commercial or merchant networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">- diaspora networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">- clerical networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">- patronage or clientelistic networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">- political networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">- scientific or academic networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">The working language of the Conference will be English. The conference will be held in Thessaloniki on October 6-9, 2016 by the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia. The deadline for submitted proposals
is May 31, 2016. Please include there the following information: i) name and surname ii) full title of paper, iii) abstract (200-300 words), iv) institutional affiliation, v) short CV, vi) telephone, fax, e-mail. We welcome individual proposals for 20-minute
presentations. Proposals should be sent to: </span><a href="mailto:ds@uom.gr"><span lang="EN-US">ds@uom.gr</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">The Conference Scientific Committee members and plenary speakers are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Karen Barkey (Columbia University/University of California, Berkeley)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Edhem Eldem (</span>Βο<span lang="EN-US">ğazici University, Istanbul)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Benjamin C. Fortna (The University of Arizona)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Hannes Grandits (Humboldt University, Berlin)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Olga Katsiardi (University of Athens)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Dimitris Stamatopoulos (University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">The committee will announce its final choices by June 30, 2016. Speakers will be asked to submit their final papers by September 15, 2016, to allow sufficient time for them to be distributed and ready by conference participants. The University
of Macedonia will cover speakers’ accommodation expenses during the conference; It is expected that travel costs will be covered by speakers’s affiliated institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Dimitris Stamatopoulos<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Associate Professor in Balkan and Late Ottoman History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Dept. of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">University of Macedonia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">156 Egnatia Str.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p>54006 Thessaloniki<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Greece<o:p></o:p></p>
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