Annual Junior Scholars' Workshops
organised by
the CDRSEE's Academic Committee

Introduction
Members of the Academic Committee
Annual Junior Scholars Workshops
Workshop 4, June 2004

Introduction

The Academic Committee is a group of scholars who are specialised in the Southeast European region and who are recognised in the academic community and beyond for their original and influential research and publications. This group of active citizens aims to extend the networks already established by the Joint History Project.

The Academic Committee organises an annual workshop in the Southeast European region for young scholars to present and defend their doctoral research. If you would like to apply to participate in the next Junior Scholars' Workshop, see below.

Member states of the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe at their Geneva meeting in October 1999 cited education as an essential component of the peace process of the region. The network of scholars in the region brought together through the Joint History Project was identified by the Council of Europe and the member states of the Stability Pact as a solid and appropriate base which the Board of Eminent Scholars could benefit from and expand. Stability Pact members called for a comprehensive History Teaching Initiative for the region to include the establishment of a Board of Eminent Scholars to provide guidance, visibility and political support to the Initiative. The first meeting of this Board was held in Thessaloniki in May 2000, with members of the Center's Joint History Project serving as the core of the Board.

Academic Committee Members (as of July 2004)

1. Prof. Fikret Adanir, Chair, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
2. Prof. Ivo Bicanic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
3. Prof. Lucian Boja, University of Bucharest, Romania
4. Prof. Richard Crampton, Oxford University, UK
5. Prof. Marco Dogo, University of Trieste, Italy
6. Prof. Karl Kaser, Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria
7. Prof. Olga Katsiardi-Hering, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
8. Prof. Paschalis Kitromilidis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
9. Prof. Ioannis Koliopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
10. Prof. Lazlo Kontlar, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
11. Prof. John Lampe, University of Maryland, USA
12. Prof. Diana Mishkova, University of Sofia St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria
13. Prof. Maria Todorova, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
14. Prof. Zafer Toprak, Bosphorus University (Bogazici), Istanbul, Turkey
15. Prof. Lubnicka Trgoucevic, University of Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro
16. Prof. Peter Vodopivec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

The Board of Eminent Scholars benefits from the generous support of the United States Government.

JUNIOR SCHOLARS' WORKSHOPS
NEW DOCTORAL RESEARCH ON THE HISTORY OF SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE

Programme description
Workshop 1, October 2000
Workshop 2, June 2001
Workshop 3, June 2003
Workshop 4, June 2004

Programme Description

The Annual Junior Scholars' Workshops are a forum to present, compare and discuss new doctoral research relevant to the history of Southeastern Europe . These workshops seek to bring together younger scholars who have undertaken the primary research for their doctoral dissertations or who have completed their dissertations within the recent past (typically 3-4 years). In addition to dissertations from History Departments, those that deal primarily with the history of any part of the region but are being done or completed in departments other than History are also welcome.

Younger scholars from Albania , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Greece , Croatia , Cyprus , FY Republic of Macedonia, Romania , Serbia & Montenegro , Slovenia , and Turkey are invited to apply. A limited number of spaces are also available for students who originate from other countries but who are working on Balkan issues. There will be approximately an equal balance between numbers of participants who are studying at Universities in the region and those at Universities in Western Europe and North America , so as to achieve a diversity of perspectives and experiences. The call for papers should be posted by the end January each year.

After the participants have been selected, they submit a 5-page summary of their dissertations' findings, methods and sources. These summaries are circulated to all participants, including the 6 senior historians drawn from the Center's Academic Committee, at least one month prior to the workshop. At the workshop, Junior Scholars are asked to make a 15-20 minute oral presentation on their work, as well as a 10-minute discussion on somebody else's pre-circulated presentation. The majority of the workshop's time is devoted to a joint discussion of papers and presentations. Also included in the program is time for individual meetings between senior and junior scholars.

Junior Scholars’ Workshop 1

Junior Scholars’ Workshop 1 took place on 6-8 October 2000 in Halkidiki, Greece. 16 Juniors Scholars and 4 Senior Scholars from the CDRSEE Board of Eminent Scholars came together for 3 days to discuss new and current historical research in SEE.

List of Participants and Dissertation Titles

• Isa Blumi, Precarious Identities: Kosovars, Albanians in an Ottoman Balkans.

• Roxana Lucia Cheschebec, The 'Unholy Marriage' of Feminism with Nationalism in Interwar Romania.

• Zidas Daskalovski, Development of Macedonian Nationalism 1804-1913.

• Evguenia Davidova, Economic and Social Activity of the 19th Century Bulgarian Merchants during the Ottoman Period-The Case of Khristo Tapchilestov (1808-1875).

• Stefan Dorondel, The Water and the Death. Excursions into the peasant imaginary.

• Loukianos Hassiotis, Five Years of Diplomatic Dilemmas: Greco-Serbian Relations, 1913-1918.

• Svetlana Ianeva, Craftsmen and guilds in the central part of the Balkans in the first half of the 19th century.

• Constantin Iordachi, Citizenship and the Public Sphere: A study on Social Change in Romania, 1859-1932.

• Vangelis Kechriotis, The experience of a Greek-Orthodox population in a shifting urban landscape: Smyrna 1904-1914.

• Markos Koumaditis, Reconstructing the past of a peasant community in Thessaly, c. 1910-1940: continuity and change in everyday life.

• Bulent Ozdemir, Ottoman Reforms and Social Life: Reflections from Salonica 1830-1850.

• Parveva Teodora, The politics of the Judiciary in Interwar Bulgaria.

• Dusan Pavlovic, Sultanism in Serbia: 1987-2001.

• Balazs Trencsenyi, Patria, Natio, Status-Conceptualizing collective identity in the Hungarian political literature of the 17th century.

• Maria Tsikaloudaki, Administration and Management of the Urban Area in the Ottoman Empire: the Case of the Christian Community of Philippoupoli (18th-beginning of the 19th century).

• Elpida Voglie, 'Hellenes by descent': Citizenship and Identity in Modern Greece, 1821-1864.

Participating Professors:
Prof. Fikret Adanir
Prof. Richard Crampton
Prof. John Lampe
Prof. Maria Todorova

Junior Scholars' Workshop 2

Junior Scholars' Workshop 2 was held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on 29 June to 1 July 2001. 15 outstanding young scholars presented their doctoral theses for comment and feedback from their peers and from senior scholars.

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List of Participants and Dissertation Titles

• Nada Alaica, The question of national 'identity' on the Croatian Military Frontier in the 19th century.

• Giorgos Antoniou, The Ethnic Dimension of the Greek Civil War
  John Ashbrook, Politicization of Identity: Regionalism in Istrian in the 1990s

• Stefan Detchev, "Mother" of "She-Bear", Russia in Bulgarian Press, Public Opinion and Popular Political Culture 1886-1894.

• Rozita Dimova, Negotiating Subjectivities: Arts, Aesthetics and Ethnicity in Contemporary Macedonia

• Theodora Dragostinova, Between two Motherlands: Changing Memories of the Past within the Greek-Bulgarian Minority and Refugee Communities, 1906-1939.

• Ranka Gasic, British and German Influence on the Belgrade Elite 1936-1941

• Etleva Lala, Papal Policy toward South-Eastern Adriatic Coast

• Marina Liakova-Nedialkova, The Official Discourse of the Bulgarian Historiography concerning Turkey and the Turks

• Mila Mancheva, Nationalism and Muslim Minorities in Inter-War Bulgaria 1918-1945

• Maja Miljkovic, The Serbian Elite in Vardar Macedonia, 1918-1941

• Natasa Miskovic-Weiss, Belgrade "life worlds" in the 19th century

• Ines A. Murzaku, The Activity and the Role of the Jesuits in the Albanian History and Culture 1841-1946

• Simona Stefanescu, Mass Media Coverage of the Yugoslav Conflict (1991-1995): a Comparative Approach. Introduction to an Analytic Framework

• Onur Yildirim, Scholars, Diplomats and Refugees: A Historical Study of the Turco-Greek Population Exchange, 1922-1923

Participating Professors:
Prof. Fikret Adanir
Prof. Iva D. Bicanic
Prof. Marco Dogo
Prof. Karl Kaser
Prof. John Lampe
Prof. Diana Mishkova
Prof. Peter Vodopivec

Juniors Scholars’ Workshop 3

The third Junior Scholars’ Workshop was held on 26-28 June 2003, in Sofia, Bulgaria, and was co-organised by the Centre for Advanced Studies in Sofia. 20 Juniors Scholars met with 6 members of the CDRSEE’s Board of Eminent Historians for 3 intense days of discussion.

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List of Participants and Dissertation Titles

• Angelov Angel, Sofia - The impact of NATO conditionality on the international relations in the Balkans (case of Bulgaria and Romania)

• Dimitrova Anna Georgieva, Sofia - The Debate about Globalization in Eastern Europe in the 1989-2000 period

• Dimou Augustina, Athens/Braunschweig - Paths towards modernity: Intellectuals and the contextualization of socialism in the Balkans. A comparative approach.

• Fisher Omer, Milan/Glasgow - The Dynamics of Violent Collapse: Party Structure and Centre-Periphery Elite Interaction in Yugoslavia

• Georgieva Miroslava, Sofia - Intellectuals and Power: Politics of Public Representations

• Gigova Irina Dimitrova, Sofia - Writers of the Nation: The Politics of Intellectual Identity in Bulgaria, 1939-1953

• Hirt Sonia Anguelova, Sofia - Democracy or Technocracy: A History of Urban Planning in the City of Sofia, Bulgaria

• Leanka Gabriel, Bucharest - French-Romanian Relation between 1829-1848

• Lozovanu Dorin, Bucharest - Romanic Population of the Balkan Peninsula

• Miloradovic Goran, Belgrade - Soviet influence on the Arts of Socialist Yugoslavia (from 1945 to 1955)

• Nastasache Cristina, Bucharest - Center-Periphery in the Romanian Urban Space at the End of the XIXth Century.

• Petric Hrvoje, Zagreb - Koprivnica in 17th century-demographic, social and economic changes

• Plamen Petrov, Sofia - The Bulgarian Administration in Vardar Macedonia in 1941-1944

• Rachieru Silvana, Bucharest - Romanian-Ottoman Relationships (1878-1914)

• Sistek Frantisek, Prague - Czech Images of Montenegro and Their Transformations

• Sotirovic Vladislav, Vilnius - The linguistic model of the definition of the Serbian nation by Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic and the project of the creation of a linguistically determined Serbian national state by Ilija Garasanin

• Stancu, Eugen, Bucharest - Engineering the Human Soul. Science Fiction in Communist Romania (1955-1989)

• Vucetic-Mladenovic, Radina, Belgrade - Americanization of Cultural Life in Belgrade 1945-1980

• Vuletic Aleksandra, Belgrade - Marriage in the 19th century Serbia

• Wien Markus, Florence/Munich - Conceptual Strategies and Practices of German Economic Commitment in Bulgaria 1918-1944 within the framework of the Bulgarian Modernization Problem

Professors:
John Lampe
Diana Mishkova, CAS Executive Director
Zarko Puhovski, CDRSEE Board Member
Maria Todorova, Chair of the CDRSEE Academic Committee
Peter Vodopivec
Alexandru Zub

Juniors Scholars' Workshop 4

The Fourth Junior Scholars' Workshop was held in Thessaloniki, Greece between 17 th and 20 th of June 2004. 15 participants from the Balkans presented and discussed their PhD theses with 5 senior scholars, experts in the field of Southeast European history.

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List of Participants and Dissertation Titles

• Aleksov, Bojan (Belgrade), Religious Dissent in Times of Modernisation and Nationalism: The Nazarenes in the 19 th century Hungary

• Demirtas-Coskun , Birgul (Izmir-Kocaeli), A Comparative Study of Turkish and German Foreign Policies toward the Conflicts in Yugoslavia: A search for Reconstruction of State Identities.

• Hajdarpasic, Edin (Sarajevo), Political Aspirations, Social Movements, and the Search for a Viable Polity in Tanzimat-era Bosnia (1850-1878).

• Kaytchev, Naoum (Sofia), Macedonia in Serbian and Bulgarian Public Consciousness: Images and Notions Cultivated by the Army and the School (1878-1912).

• Kera, Gentiana (Tirana), Urban Development of Tirana in the First Half of the 20th Century.

• Kyurkchieva-Philipova, Iva (Sofia), The World of the Bulgarian Muslims from Teteven Region-Transition to Modernity.

• Mitrovic, Bojan (Belgrade), The Founding of the Modern Historical Discipline in Serbia and Bulgaria (1878-1918).

• Ognyanova-Lyubomirova Irina (Sofia), Nationalism and National Policy in Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945).

• Papa, Enriketa (Tirana), The Urban Development of Shkodra: First Half of the 20th Century.

• Petrovic, Tanja (Belgrade), Linguistic Ideology and Language Shift: The Case of Orthodox Minority in the Slovenian Region of Bela Krajina.

• Skenderovic, Robert (Zagreb), Population Policy of Maria Teresa in Civilian Slavonia 1745-1780.

• Slavkova, Magdalena (Sandanski), Roma Protestant Church in Bulgaria.

• Miroslav, Svircevic (Belgrade), Local Self-government in Serbia and Bulgaria 1878-1914.

• Sygkelos Ioannis (Thessaloniki), Nationalism and Bulgarian Communist Party Ideology in Second World War and Early Post War Years.

• Vezenkov , Alexander (Sofia), Urbanisation and Demographic Changes in Bulgaria (1944-1989).

Professors:
Fikret Adanir (Ruhr University-Bochum)
John Lampe (University of Maryland)
Karl Kaser (University of Graz)
Marco Dogo (University of Trieste)
Maria Todorova (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)