[MGSA-L] Fwd: The Jews in southeast Europe, 19th-20th c: an opportunity for junior scholars

[Paris Papamichos Chronakis]

Με τις ευχές μου για μια καλή χρονιά, προωθώ προς ενημέρωση δική σας και
των υποψήφιων διδακτόρων (σας).

With my wishes for a Happy New Year, I forward the following conference
announcement that might of interest to you or your graduate students.

With best regards,

Paris Papamichos Chronakis


 Dear Colleague,


Αn international Conference on “The Jews and the nation-states of southeast
Europe from 1848 to the Great Depression” (provisional title) is being
organized by the Department of Humanities, University of Trieste, on 12-13
May 2014.


The program provides for an introductory speech by Karen Barkey (Columbia
University), and then papers by Tullia Catalan, Marco Dogo, Annalisa Di
Fant, Bojan Mitrović (University of Trieste), Paris Papamichos Chronakis
(Brown University), Gianluca Volpi (University of Udine), Emanuela
Costantini (University of Perugia), Ilaria Pavan, Elena Mazzini (Scuola
Normale Superiore di Pisa), Björn Siegel (Institut für die Geschichte der
Deutschen Juden, Hamburg). Papers will be discussed by Aron Rodrigue
(Stanford University), Catherine Horel (CNRS, UMR IRICE Université Paris
I), and Milan Ristović (University of Belgrade).


*The participation is open for a maximum of 6 PhD students whose field of
interest is at present related (in a wide sense) to the Conference’s topics
(see below*). They will be required to submit a short presentation (max 10
minutes) of their current research to the Conference; they will enjoy board
and lodging, and their travel expenses will be reimbursed. Applications
must be sent to M. Dogo and T. Catalan (deadline March 15, 2014), and they
must include a short abstract (ca. 200 words), an academic CV and a letter
of presentation.*


 I would kindly beg you to have this message circulate and reach *junior
scholars* who may be interested in the Conference.


With best regards,


Marco Dogo


For applications and infos write to: dogo at units.it, catalant at units.it


*Some examples of the topics to be dealt with in the Conference:


   - reactions of the communities to the construction of the nation states
   and subsequent political changes, whether general or characteristic only of
   certain states;
   - characteristics of the processes of emancipation: the right to
   equality, i.e. what was meant by “civil rights” and “political rights” in
   the various national contexts; the right to diversity, i.e. the community
   organisation of the Jews and its juridical recognition in the different
   nation states;
   - processes of integration and Jewish socio-economic conduct, with
   particular reference to: the professional articulation of the middle
   classes; success as the model for a new professionally qualified
   immigration;
   - obstacles to integration: significance of traditional anti-Jewishness,
   political and economic anti-Semitism;
   - patriotic participation as a means to national integration;
   - self-identification of the Jews with the liberal middle class and its
   cultural and political values;
   - the Jews between state education and private / community education;
   - articulation of the old and new Jewish presence in the individual
   states (possible regional differences, between urban and village Jewish
   communities, capital cities and minor centres);
   - significance of belonging to the Ashkenazi or Sephardic circle in the
   various Jewish communities;
   - the appeals of the Jews to the outside world: to the consuls of the
   European Powers, in particular in the ex-Ottoman states; to the AIU; to the
   international press; to the great Jewish families of central-western
   Europe; to international congresses, with a consequent gradual formation of
   a juridical system of international protection;
   - action and influence exerted by western philanthropic organisations in
   the processes of modernisation;
   - reception in the western Jewish press of the fortunes of south-east
   European Jewry;
   - models of self-portrayal in western Jewry in comparison with those of
   eastern Europe;
   - reactions of the Jewish communities to the dramatic and radical
   changes in the state context: the Jews of Salonika, from dominant minority
   to barely tolerated minority; the Jews of Hungary after the Trianon, from
   inclusion to discrimination; the Jews of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and
   Slovenes, adaptation to a new supranational identity; the Jews in Greater
   Rumania, from discrimination to inclusion, and vice versa; the Jews during
   the “green dictatorship” in Bulgaria, namely, patriotism punished;
   - difficulties of liberalism and the re-launching of exclusion policies
   in the post-war period;
   - growth and peculiar characteristics of the Zionist movement in the
   individual states; Zionism as local retort to majority nationalism;
   - Great Depression, autonomy, authoritarianism: prospects for the Jews
   in south-eastern Europe?

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Marco Dogo
Università di Trieste
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
sede di via Economo 4
34123 Trieste
tel. 040 5587520




-- 
Paris Papamichos Chronakis
Visiting Assistant Professor
Brown University
152 Elmgrove Avenue
02906 Providence, RI
USA
mob. +1 310 560 2732
skype name: pchronakis
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