[MGSA-L] Balkan worlds: Ottoman past and Balkan nationalism

ds at uom.gr ds at uom.gr
Wed Mar 7 13:25:11 PST 2012


Call for papers

Balkan Worlds: Ottoman Past and Balkan Nationalism


The Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia
will organize a Conference entitled “Balkan worlds: Ottoman Past and
Balkan nationalism”. It will be held on October 5-7, 2012 in the University of
Macedonia, Thessaloniki. The Conference will be dedicated on the centenary of
the outbreak of the Balkan wars, which signified the beginning of the
dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, however it aims at broadening the scope and
topics including the rise of Balkan nationalisms and the State transformation
during the Ottoman “long nineteenth century” (1789-1914) as well as the
reconstruction of the memory through the emergence of historiographical schemes
dealt with the problem of the Ottoman past. Consequently the Conference
Scientific Committee encourages the submission of papers concentrated on the
comparative analysis of the emerging national movements in the Ottoman Balkans
as well as on the treament of different aspects of the Ottoman  past on the
part of the Balkan historiographies .
Exactly because the definition of the Balkan History is impossible to ignore the
Ottoman history and the Ottoman legacy in the peninsula the main perspective of
the Conference deals with the epistemological fields of the Ottoman and Balkan
studies as intersecting and overlapping. The basic aim of the Conference should
be summarized as an endeavour of the convergence of both epistemological fields
through the study of imperial structures and practices, the comparative study
of the dissolution of the continental empires (Ottomans, Romanovs, Habsburgs)
as well as the emergence of nation-states. This conference aims at bringing
together a representative sample of  scholars and, especially young,
researchers of the Late Ottoman as well as the Balkan History. The papers will
be pre-prepared and circulated in advance to other presenters, discussants and
chairs
Possible Topics:
-	Historiography and national discourses
-	Comparative approaches to the national movements in the Balkans
-	Comparative aprroaches to the dissolution of the Continental Empires
-	Comparative approaches to the imperial and national discourses
-	Religion and Nationalism in the ottoman context
-	Social/Power Networks and State Reformation
-	Violence and Memory
-	Modernization and Revolution

The Conference Scientific Committee consists of the following:
Nathalie Clayer (CNRS, Paris)
Raymond Detrez (University of Gent)
Sόkrό Hanioπlu (Princeton University)
Miroslav Hroch (University of Prague)
Karl Kδser (University of Graz)
Dimitris Stamatopoulos (University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki)

The working language of the Conference will be English. We welcome individual
proposals for a 20-minute presentations:
Deadline for abstracts – May 31st 2012
Notification of acceptance – June 30th 2012
Deadline for papers – August 31st 2012
Please include the following information with your proposal: i)full title of
paper, ii)abstract (ca.200-300 words),  iii) name, iv) institutional
affiliation, v) short CV, vi) telephone, fax, e-mail. The proposals must be sent
to:ds at uom.gr
The Conference Organizing Committee will do
the best for covering accommodation and travel expenses. However if there is a
possibility the travel expenses to be covered by the affiliation institution it
would be really helpful.

Best regards

Dimitris Stamatopoulos
Assist. Professor in Balkan and Late Ottoman History
Dept. of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies
University of Macedonia
156 Egnatia Str.
54006 Thessaloniki
Greece




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