[MGSA-L] Conference "Scrambling for Power: War and Political Transformation in the BALKANS in the 1940s"
Roland Moore
rolandmo at pacbell.net
Fri Apr 27 16:11:41 PDT 2012
From: Apostolis <apostpap at gmail.com>
> Dear Friends,
> please find attached the program of the Conference "Scrambling for Power: War and Political Transformation
> in the BALKANS in the 1940s" which will be organized between May 31st, and June 3rd at Thessaloniki,
> University of Macedonia building ( Hall 14) by the " Network for the Study of Civil Wars (Greece) ".
>
> With Friendly Regards,
>
> Elias Skoulidas
> Member of the organising Commitee
> E-mail: iskoulid at uoi.gr
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>
> PROGRAM
> Scrambling for Power: War and Political Transformation in the Balkans,1940s
>
> Thessaloniki, May 31st – June 3rd, 2012
>
> University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki (Hall 14)
>
> Thursday, May 31st
>
> 17.15: Opening Marantzidis Nikos (Chairman of Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia)
>
> 17.30 – 18.30: Key Note Speaker
> Veremis Thanos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
>
> 18.30 – 19.00 Coffee Break
>
> 19.00 – 21.00:
> Chairman: Kalyvas Stathis (Yale University)
>
> Foreign Policy and International Relations (1)
> 1. Bojinov Voin (Institute of History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Between the Understanding and the War. Bulgaria and Yugoslavia 1937-1941
> 2. Chourchoulis Dionysios (Queen Mary University of London), Great Power Involvement as a Factor in Political Transformation: Soviet Interest in the Hinterland and the Coastal Areas of the Balkans, 1939-1944
> 3. Klapsis Antonis (Panteion University), Resistance and Civil War in Occupied Greece: British Priorities and Strategic Dilemmas
> 4. Dragomir Elena (University of Helsinki), Constructing Romania’s Pro-Soviet State Security Strategy, 1944-1947
>
>
> Friday, June 1st
>
> 09.00 – 11.00:
> Chairman: Marushiokova Elena (Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies and Ethnographic Museum at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
>
> Civil wars and the communist takeover (1)
> 1. Pappas Takis (University of Macedonia), Preventing Communism but Failing to Deter Civil War: Greece, April-December 1944
> 2. Sfetas Spyridon (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), From Kingdom of Bulgaria to People’s Republic of Bulgaria (1944-1948): The Communist Takeover in Bulgaria, the Concept of ‘’People’s Republic’’ and the Personality of Georgi Dimitrov in the Contemporary Bulgarian Historiography
> 3. Fuček Marko (University of Zagreb), Peoples Youth of Croatia and the Consolidation of Power: Postwar Elections and Main Opposition Parties
> 4. Hatzivassiliou Evanthis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Political Transformation in Civil War Greece, 1943-49: A Deviation from Western European Model
>
>
> 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
>
> 11.30 – 13.30
> Chairman: Pettifer James (Oxford University)
>
> Civil wars and the communist takeover (2)
> 1. Sokolovic Dzemal (Institute for Strengthening Democracy in Bosnia), Yugoslavia and Bosnia: Countries Between Two Curtains and Two Aspirations
> 2. Michailidis Iakovos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Aspects of the Civil Conflicts in the People's Republic of Macedonia (1944-1949)
> 3. Strazimiri Zana (University of Tirana), Features of "Class Struggle" in Post War Albania
> 4. Marantzidis Nikos (University of Macedonia), The Greek Civil War and the International Communist System
>
> 17.00 – 19.00
> Chairman: Michailidis Iakovos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
>
> Minorities and ethnic groups (1)
> 1. Vrabiescu Ioana (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration/Bucharest), Early Communist Roma Assimilation Politics in Romania
> 2. Marushiokova Elena - Popov Vesselin (Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies and Ethnographic Museum at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Gypsy/ Roma Organisations and State Policy towards Gypsies/Roma in Bulgaria 1945-1950
> 3. Ionescu Magdalena (, The Romanian Discourse on Hungarian Minority from Romania in the Relationships between the People's Republic of Romanian and Hungarian People's Republic
> 4. Tsoutsoumbis Spyros (University of Manchester), Ethnic Collaboration and Violence: Reappraising the Case of the Muslim Chams of Thesprotia 1940-1945
>
>
> 19.00 – 19.30 Coffee Break
>
>
> 19.30 – 21.30
> Chairman: Sokolovic Dzemal (Institute for Strengthening Democracy in Bosnia)
>
> Minorities and ethnic groups (2)
> 1. Boci Sonila (Institute of History, Center for Albanological Studies, Tirana), Efforts to Establish the Balkan Joint Staff and Greek Minority in Albania
> 2. Sage Steven (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center), Ethnic Policy and the Jews in 1940s Bulgaria
> 3. Mamarelis Argyris (London School of Economics) – Papadimitriou Dimitris (University of Manchester), The “Battallion of Ottomans” of DSE
> 4. Tsivos Kostas (Charles University), The Slav-Macedonians Refugees in Eastern and Central Europe after the Greek Civil War
>
> Saturday, June 2nd
>
> 09.00 – 11.00
> Chairman: Hatzivassiliou Evanthis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
>
> Resistance and Collaboration
> 1. Kalogrias Vaios (University of Mainz), Mihailović - Zervas: A Comparative Study of Resistance and Collaboration in Serbia and Greece (1941-1944)
> 2. Bitunjac Martina (Humboldt University of Berlin), War Tactic and Propaganda of the Resistance Movement in the Independent State of Croatia
> 3. Muraru Andrei (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University), Collaboration on Trial. Romanian Nationalists vs. Communists in the Post War Justice
> 4. Gogas Themistoklis (Epirus Institute of Technology), Linguistic Variety and Collaboration
>
> 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
>
> 11.30 – 13.30
> Chairman: Veremis Thanos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
>
> Foreign policy and International relations (2)
> 1. Makris-Staikos Petros St. (lawer-author), The Post-War Greek Frontiers in the Balkans and the Foreign Office (1943-1945). An Approach
> 2. Dordanas Stratos N. (University of Western Macedonia), Policy and War in the Post-War Balkans. Germany and the Greco-Yugoslavian Issue at the Beginning of the 1950s
> 3. Djordjević Jovanović Jovanka (Institute for Balkan Studies of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts), The Ideological Brotherhood of Greeks and Yugoslavs (1948-1950)
> 4. Ploumidis Spyros (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), The ‘New Megali Idea’ in Greece (1943-46):Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and ‘Peasantist Nationalism’
>
> 17.00 – 18.30
> Chairman: Botsiou Konstantina (University of Peloponnese)
>
> Parties and Political institutions (1)
>
> 1. Pettifer James (Oxford University), Hoxha's Partisans after 1944 - A Guerilla Army versus a Governing Party?
> 2. Kazamias Alexander (Coventry University), The ‘Papagos Solution’, 1948-1951: The Specter of Far Right Dictatorship over the Greek Civil War
> 3. Kaba Hamit (Institute of History, Center for Albanological Studies, Tirana), The Fate of Albanian Monarchy at the End of World War Two
>
> 18.30 – 19.00 Coffee Break
>
>
> 19.00 – 20.30
> Chairman: Sage Steven (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center)
>
> Parties and Political institutions (2)
> 1. Botsiou Konstantina (University of Peloponnese), A New Lease of Life: The Impact of War and Civil War on the Greek Monarchy, 1941-1949
> 2. Baltsiotis Lambros (Panteion University), Expulsions and Deprivations of Citizenship during the 1940s Greece: The Reduction of the “Internal Enemy”
> 3. Pupuleku Nertila (University of Tirana), The Communist Party of Albania
>
> Sunday, June 3rd
>
> 09.00 – 11.30
> Chairman: Bojinov Voin (Institute of History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
>
> Churches
> 1. Tsironis Theodosis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), The Church of Greece and the National Intentions for the Operation of the Theological School of Thessaloniki (1942)
> 2. Ognyanova Irina (Institute of Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Catholic Church and the Croatian Nationalism during the World War II and the First Post-war Years (1941-1953)
> 3. Naxidou Eleonora (Democritus University of Thrace), Ecclesiastical Organization and National Ideology under a Communist Regime: the Case of the Peoples Republic of Macedonia (1945-1967)
> 4. Skura Gentiana (University of Tirana), The Role of Religious Institutions during the Reign of King Zog and World War II
> 5. Skoulidas Elias (Epirus Institute of Technology), Bishops in Exile: Orthodox Church of Albania and Greek Irredentism
>
> 11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break
>
> 12.00 – 14.00 Round Table: «Greek Policies regarding the Balkans in the 1940s»
>
> Chairman: Marantzidis Nikos (University of Macedonia)
>
> Kondis Basil (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
> Hatzivassiliou Evanthis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
> Michailidis Iakovos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
>
> Organizers:
>
> Civil Wars Study Group.
> Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia
> Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence, Yale University
>
>
> Scientific Committee:
>
> Iatrides John O. (Southern Connecticut State University)
> Kalyvas Stathis (Yale University)
> Kondis Basil (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
> Marantzidis Nikos (University of Macedonia)
> Michailidis Iakovos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
>
>
> Organizing Committee:
>
> Kalyvas Stathis
> Marantzidis Nikos
> Paschaloudi Eleni
> Skoulidas Elias G.
> Tsekou Katerina
>
>
> Sponsors:
>
> John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation
> University of Macedonia
> Epikentro Editions
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