[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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