[Bilimsel Haber] Conference: "Homogenizing Southeastern Europe: Balkan Wars, Ethnic Cleansing and Postwar Ethnic Engineering since 1912" Vienna: 08-10 November, 2012

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Alexander Korb <ak368 at leicester.ac.uk>


Conference and Seminar at the Institute for East European History:
"Homogenizing Southeastern Europe: Balkan Wars, Ethnic Cleansing and 
Postwar Ethnic Engineering since 1912", Vienna: 08-10 November, 2012
Thursday, November 08, 2012

13:30-14:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Alexander Korb (University of Leicester/Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena)
Philipp Ther (Universität Wien)

Panel I: Ethnicised Warfare
Chair: Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia)

14:00-15:30   Tamara Scheer (Universität Wien): Why can the Conflicts in 
the Balkans
(1912-1918) be called an Ethnicized Warfare?

John Paul Newman (NUI Maynooth): Nationalizing Wars and Paramilitarism in
the Balkans 1914-1939

Alexander Korb (University of Leicester/Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena):
Peculiarities of the Southeastern European Warzone During WWII and Beyond
(1941-1948)

15:30-16:00    Coffee break
16:00-16:20
Tomislav Dulić (University of Uppsala): Ethnic Violence in Bosnia and
Herzegovina: Control, Security and Civilian Deaths in the 1990s

16:20-17:30    Comment and Discussion Philipp Ther (Universität Wien)

17:30-18:00    Coffee break

18:00               Key Note Lecture
Theodora Dragostinova (Ohio State University): Politics and Limits of
Nationalization: A View From Below


Friday, November 09, 2012

Panel II: Unmixing Peoples: National Policies and International Context
Chair: Ulf Brunnbauer (Universität Regensburg)

9:30-10:30
Hakem Rustom (University of Michigan): Balkan Wars, Anatolian Echoes, and
the Predicament of the Armenian Population

Viorel Achim (Nicolae Iorga Institute of History in Bucharest/Imre Kertész
Kolleg Jena): International Aspects of Romanian Population Policies,
1940-1944

Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia): The International Community,
Local Actors and Ethnic Homogenization in the Western Balkans in the 1990s

10:30-11:00    Coffee break

11:00-12:00 Comment and Discussion Constantin Iordachi (CEU/Imre Kertész
Kolleg Jena)

Panel III/1: Postwar Ethnic Engineering
Chair: Carolin Leutloff Grandits (HU Berlin/Universität Graz)

13:30-14:15    Interwar Yugoslavia and Turkey
Thomas Schad (FU Berlin): Demographic Engineering in Interwar Yugoslavia and
Turkey

Ulf Brunnbauer (Universität Regensburg): Excluding 'Alien Elements',
including 'our Emigrants': Migration Policies and National Homogenization in
Interwar Yugoslavia

14:15-14:30 Coffee break

14:30-15:10    Macedonia, 1912-1940
Elisabeth Kontogiorgi (Academy of Athens): The Policies of Ethnic
Homogenization and Settlement of Greek Orthodox Refugees in Northern Greece,
1912-1940

Nada Boskovska (Universität Zürich): Ethnic Homogenization of Yugoslav
Macedonia in the 1920s

15:10-16:00    Comment and Discussion Uğur Ümit Üngör (Utrecht University)

16:00-16:30     Coffee break

16:30-19:00 Young Scholars Forum: Roundtable and Project presentation


Saturday, November 10, 2012

Panel III/2: Postwar Ethnic Engineering (2)
Chair: Adamantios Skordos (Universität Wien)

9:30-10:15      Fascism, National Communism and Beyond, 1945-50
Vladan Jovanović (Institute for Modern History of Serbia, Belgrade):
Comparative Perspectives on Muslim Emigration from Monarchist and Socialist
Yugoslavia (1938/1953)

Michael Portmann (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Wien): Flight, Internment,
and Colonization: Migrations and Migration Policy in the Yugoslav Vojvodina
1944-1950

10:15-10:30    Coffee break

10:30-10:50    Homogenization from Below? The 1990s
Carolin Leutloff Grandits (HU Berlin/Universität Graz): Post-Dayton 
Ethnic Engineering

10:50-11:30 Comment and Discussion Josip Glaurdić (University of Cambridge)

12:00-13:00 Final Discussion

Organized by:

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Philipp Ther
Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte der Universität Wien

Dr. Alexander Korb
Lecturer in Modern European History and Director (acting) of the Stanley
Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Leicester

Mag. Sarah Lemmen
Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte der Universität Wien

This conference is supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation.

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Dr Alexander Korb
Lecturer in Modern European History
School of Historical Studies
University of Leicester
LE1 7RH - UK

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