[MGSA-L] H-TURK:CfP: Lasting impacts of the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913

Tue Nov 2 01:50:49 PDT 2010

From: M Hakan Yavuz [hakan.yavuz at poli-sci.utah.edu]
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 7:37 PM

Lasting Socio-Political Impacts of the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913

May 5-8, 2011

The University of Utah
Salt Lake City

The Turkish Studies Project at the University of Utah is organizing a
two-day long conference to examine the causes and short and long-term social
and political impacts of the Balkans Wars on the late Ottoman period and on
the formation of the modern Balkan nation-states. This conference is part of
the conference series initiated by the Turkish Studies Project at the
University of Utah. The first conference, with a thematic focus on the
Berlin Treaty of 1878, was held successfully in early April of 2010 and an
edited volume is under preparation as originally planned (see the following
for further information:
http://www.poli-sci.utah.edu/turkish_berlin1878.html).

The papers presented and discussed in this conference will be compiled in an
edited volume following a strict peer-review process. The conference
addresses four major questions: What were the causes of the Balkan Wars?
What were the short and long-term consequences of the Balkan Wars?  Did
these wars set the pattern of ethnic and/or religious cleansing in the
region?  How should one approach to study the wars that shaped the
collective memory at play in nation-state building projects in the Balkans?
Why is there such a consistent neglect of certain groups’ suffering cause by
the wars? Thematically, the panels will focus on the following four areas:

1.  Arguments and Historical Methods: What are the main arguments of the
Ottoman and Balkan scholars on the causes and consequences of the Balkan
Wars? What types of questions are raised? What is the hegemonic methodology
and discourse in these works?  Which methods have been effective and
ineffective in studying these wars? Which new methodologies can be applied
to the study of the Balkan Wars?

2.  Memory in Literature, Art, and Music: How does imagery in literature,
art, and music portray these wars?  How do Turkish and Balkan societies try
to preserve the memories of these wars?  Is there a shared collective memory
about the impact of the Balkan Wars that is reflected in various genres of
art?  For which audience is the art made and does this have an impact on
what is remembered? What is remembered and what is forgotten, and how does
selective memory come to dominate? Is there too much reference to Muslim
brutality in the war and too little to the suffering of Muslims? What are
the main themes in these memoirs? What are the drawbacks and benefits of
such sources?

3.  Social and Diplomatic History: What is the connection between diplomatic
and social history in theorizing about and understanding the Balkan Wars? Is
there a tendency for scholars to focus mainly on diplomatic history instead
of social history?  Does the social and diplomatic history exclude or
include each other? What are some of the lacunae on scholarship dealing with
the Balkan Wars?  What type of questions do we need to ask when we are
reading documents or memoirs of the Balkan wars?

4.  Trauma and Imprints on Modern Turkey: What were the short and long-term
effects of the Balkan wars?  What was the impact of the Balkan Wars on the
decision of the CUP to enter the First World War?  What were the effects of
these wars on the emergence of modern Turkey? What were the impacts of the
Balkan Wars on the way Turkish identity and Turkish nationalism came to
evolve?

The organizers will provide accommodation and meals for the duration of the
conference, but we would be grateful if you first contact your own
institution to cover the expenses of travel to and from Salt Lake City, UT.

Participants should arrive at Salt Lake City airport by 6 pm on the evening
of Thursday May 5. The conference will begin on the morning of May 6, and
end in the late afternoon of May 7. Accommodation will be available for
those participants for whom it is more convenient to leave on the morning of
May 8.

We would be most grateful if you could reply to this e-mail as soon as
possible informing us whether or not you will be able to attend, preferably
by November 15th, 2010 the latest. We wish to receive the title of your
paper and a 200-300 word abstract by December 15th, 2010, and a first draft
by March 15th, 2011. The planned edited volume that will feature the papers
presented in this conference is set for publication in the course of the
year 2012.

We very much hope that you will be able to participate.

Organizers and Editors:
 M. Hakan Yavuz (hakan.yavuz at poli-sci.utah.edu)
 Isa Blumi (hisibb at langate.gsu.edu)

Contact Person:
 Ramazan Hakkı Öztan (ramazan.oztan at utah.edu)

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M. Hakan Yavuz
260 S. Central Campus Drive Rm 252
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Office (801) 585-7986
Cell (801) 864 6337
http://www.poli-sci.utah.edu/turkish_index.html
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