[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: Lasting impacts of the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913

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From: M Hakan Yavuz [hakan.yavuz at poli-sci.utah.edu]
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 7:37 PM

Lasting Socio-Political Impacts of the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913

May 5-8, 2011

The University of Utah
Salt Lake City

The Turkish Studies Project at the University of Utah is organizing a
two-day long conference to examine the causes and short and long-term
social and political impacts of the Balkans Wars on the late Ottoman
period and on the formation of the modern Balkan nation-states. This
conference is part of the conference series initiated by the Turkish
Studies Project at the University of Utah. The first conference, with
a thematic focus on the Berlin Treaty of 1878, was held successfully
in early April of 2010 and an edited volume is under preparation as
originally planned (see the following for further information:
http://www.poli-sci.utah.edu/turkish_berlin1878.html).

The papers presented and discussed in this conference will be compiled
in an edited volume following a strict peer-review process. The
conference addresses four major questions: What were the causes of the
Balkan Wars? What were the short and long-term consequences of the
Balkan Wars?  Did these wars set the pattern of ethnic and/or
religious cleansing in the region?  How should one approach to study
the wars that shaped the collective memory at play in nation-state
building projects in the Balkans? Why is there such a consistent
neglect of certain groups’ suffering cause by the wars? Thematically,
the panels will focus on the following four areas:

1.  Arguments and Historical Methods: What are the main arguments of
the Ottoman and Balkan scholars on the causes and consequences of the
Balkan Wars? What types of questions are raised? What is the hegemonic
methodology and discourse in these works?  Which methods have been
effective and ineffective in studying these wars? Which new
methodologies can be applied to the study of the Balkan Wars?

2.  Memory in Literature, Art, and Music: How does imagery in
literature, art, and music portray these wars?  How do Turkish and
Balkan societies try to preserve the memories of these wars?  Is there
a shared collective memory about the impact of the Balkan Wars that is
reflected in various genres of art?  For which audience is the art
made and does this have an impact on what is remembered? What is
remembered and what is forgotten, and how does selective memory come
to dominate? Is there too much reference to Muslim brutality in the
war and too little to the suffering of Muslims? What are the main
themes in these memoirs? What are the drawbacks and benefits of such
sources?

3.  Social and Diplomatic History: What is the connection between
diplomatic and social history in theorizing about and understanding
the Balkan Wars? Is there a tendency for scholars to focus mainly on
diplomatic history instead of social history?  Does the social and
diplomatic history exclude or include each other? What are some of the
lacunae on scholarship dealing with the Balkan Wars?  What type of
questions do we need to ask when we are reading documents or memoirs
of the Balkan wars?

4.  Trauma and Imprints on Modern Turkey: What were the short and
long-term effects of the Balkan wars?  What was the impact of the
Balkan Wars on the decision of the CUP to enter the First World War?
What were the effects of these wars on the emergence of modern Turkey?
What were the impacts of the Balkan Wars on the way Turkish identity
and Turkish nationalism came to evolve?

The organizers will provide accommodation and meals for the duration
of the conference, but we would be grateful if you first contact your
own institution to cover the expenses of travel to and from Salt Lake
City, UT.

Participants should arrive at Salt Lake City airport by 6 pm on the
evening of Thursday May 5. The conference will begin on the morning of
May 6, and end in the late afternoon of May 7. Accommodation will be
available for those participants for whom it is more convenient to
leave on the morning of May 8.

We would be most grateful if you could reply to this e-mail as soon as
possible informing us whether or not you will be able to attend,
preferably by November 15th, 2010 the latest. We wish to receive the
title of your paper and a 200-300 word abstract by December 15th,
2010, and a first draft by March 15th, 2011. The planned edited volume
that will feature the papers presented in this conference is set for
publication in the course of the year 2012.

We very much hope that you will be able to participate.

Organizers and Editors:
 M. Hakan Yavuz (hakan.yavuz at poli-sci.utah.edu)
 Isa Blumi (hisibb at langate.gsu.edu)

Contact Person:
 Ramazan Hakkı Öztan (ramazan.oztan at utah.edu)


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M. Hakan Yavuz
260 S. Central Campus Drive Rm 252
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Office (801) 585-7986
Cell (801) 864 6337
http://www.poli-sci.utah.edu/turkish_index.html
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