Program of the international scientific conference ANNALES PILAR / AIESEE Annual Conference 2013 The Image(s) of South-Eastern and East-Central Europe throughout History - Zagreb, October 25-26, 2013 - Organizers: Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences (Zagreb, Croatia) conference venue Croatian National Committee of AIESEE (Zagreb, Croatia) With the financial support from the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia
Friday, October 25th 9.00 REGISTRATION OF THE PARTICIPANTS 9.30- OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE WELCOME REMARKS - Castilia Manea-Grgin, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences/President of the Croatian National Committee of AIESEE/Coordinator of the Organizing Committee - Official representative of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia - Răzvan Theodorescu, Secretary General of AIESEE - Vlado Šakić, Director of the Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences 10.30 - COFFEE BREAK 11.00 KEYNOTE LECTURES - Răzvan Theodorescu (Bucharest) The Two Europes - Nicolae Şerban Tanaşoca (Bucharest) - Péninsule balkanique, Sud-Est européen ou Europe Centrale? 12.00 - MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY MODERN PERIOD Moderation: Rebeka Mesarić Žabčić - Davor Dukić, Borislav Grgin (Zagreb) - "Juraj Šižgorić and the Ottomans: the Image of the Other in a Late Medieval Dalmatian Commune" - Wojciech Sajkowski (Poznan) - "The Image of Croatian Soldiers in the 18th- Century French Press - Castilia Manea-Grgin (Zagreb) - Romanians and Their Lands in the Travel Writings of Two Croatian Authors, Ruđer Bošković and Stjepan Rajčević (18th Century)
13.00 BUFFET LUNCH 14.00 NINETEENTH CENTURY - 1st part Moderation: Bardh Rugova - Pedro Bádenas (Madrid) - Greek Perceptions of Their Albanian, Macedonian and Turkish Neighbours - Filip Tomić, Vlatka Tomić (Zagreb) The Representation of the Croatian Military Border in the First Half of the 19th Century Based Upon Austrian Encyclopedias and Lexicons - Gábor Demeter (Budapest) Do Ancient Stereotypes Prevail and What Political Ideas Do They Serve? The Image of Balkan Peoples through the Eyes of Hungarian Politicians (Thallóczy Lajos) and Travellers (19th Century) - Persida Lazarević Di Giacomo (Chieti-Pescara) The Historical Antinomy of Valussi's Thought on Southern Slavs - Ljiljana Dobrovšak (Zagreb) - The Image of Galician Jews in Croatian Satirical Journals from the End of the 19th Century 15.30 COFFEE BREAK 16.00 -NINETEENTH CENTURY - 2nd part Moderation: Areti Demosthenous - Jolanta Sujecka (Warsaw) The Image of the Balkans and Macedonia in the Writings of Gòrgìja Pulevski (1822/23-1893) - Tatjana Krizman Malev (Trieste) Le substrat mythologique-populaire de la tragédie de l histoire: l activité de Stjepan Verković en Macédoine (1862-1876) - Zdravka Zlodi (Zagreb) The Pan-Slavic Idea and the Croatian Quest in the 19th Century - Natalia Golant (St. Petersburg) Ethnic Stereotypes of Romanians: Images of the Neighbours in Romanian Folklore
17.15 SHORT BREAK 17.30 Special session THE IMAGE(S) OF THE WEST IN SOUTH-EASTERN AND EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE THROUGHOUT HISTORY Moderation: Borislav Grgin - Klaus Roth (Munich) - "Looking West: <Europe> in the Eyes of Southeast Europeans " Jacek Raszewski (Warsaw) - The Image of the British Empire in Ottonian/Othonian Greece (1835-1862) - Ines Sabotič (Zagreb) - Paris dans le récits de voyage de A.G. Matoš autour de 1900 "Elena Uzeneva (Moscow) - "<Western> in the History and Culture of the Muslim Slavs in the Balkans" 18.45 - END OF THE FIRST CONFERENCE DAY
Saturday, October 26th 9.00 TWENTIETH CENTURY - 1st part Moderation: Ivana Žebec Šilj - Bardh Rugova (Prishtina) - "The Images of Albania in New York Times Articles (1911-1913) - Dinko Sokcsevits (Budapest) The Respective Images of the Hungarians and Croats in Hungary, Croatia, and Serbia in the Early 20th Century - Rexhep Ismajli (Prishtina) - The Image of Albanians and Albania in the Travel Writings of Lovro Mihačević - Veljko Stanić (Belgrade) French Intellectuals and Serbo-Croatian Elites 1914-1939: the Images of South-Eastern Europe in an Intellectual Dialogue? - Árpád Hornyák (Budapest) The Image of Hungary and the Hungarians in the Yugoslav Foreign Policy 1918-1945 - Danijel Vojak (Zagreb) The <Others>: the Social Position of the Jewish and Roma Minorities in the Banovina of Croatia, 1939 1941 10.45 - COFFEE BREAK 11.15 - TWENTIETH CENTURY 2nd part Moderation: Gábor Demeter - Nobuhiro Shiba (Tokyo) - The Image of Yugoslavia in a Japanese Novel between the Two World Wars - Ivana Žebec Šilj (Zagreb) The Image of the City in South-Eastern and East- Central Europe in the Period between the Two World Wars A Case Study of Zagreb - Vojislav Pavlović (Belgrade) - The Perception of Tito s Regime in the West 1943 1961 - Guido Franzinetti (Alessandria) The Strange Death of South-Eastern and East- Central Europe during the Cold War: A Southern European Perspective
- Isak Shema (Prishtina) L image de Kosovo dans les romans modernes de Ismail Kadare - Magdalena Najbar-Agičić (Zagreb) Communist Party Historiography in Yugoslavia vs. Communist Party Historiographies in the Eastern Block: How Did They View Each Other? 13.00 - BUFFET LUNCH 14.00 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES - 1st part Moderation: Castilia Manea-Grgin - Dušan T. Bataković (Belgrade) Revisionism into Stereotypes? Post-1991 Historiography on Serbs and Serbia - Shinichi Ishida (Tokyo) - The Image of the Balkans in the Japanese School Textbooks Today - Rebeka Mesarić Žabčić (Zagreb) The Image of Croatia through the Eyes of Younger Croatian Immigrants - Miloš Ković (Belgrade) The Image of the 19th-Century Serbs in Recent Historiography 15.15 - COFFEE BREAK 15.45 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES - 2nd part Moderation: Ines Sabotič - Irena Sawicka (Warsaw)- "A Crossroads of the West, East and Orient the Case of the Albanian Culture" - Areti Demosthenous (Nicosia) Commerce Means Stability: Russian Investments in Turkey and the Image of Turks and Russians
- Aleksandr Novik (St. Petersburg) Albanians in Albania, Kosova, F.Y.R.O.M., Montenegro, Serbia, and Greece: A View of the Western Balkans - Caroline Hornstein-Tomić (Zagreb) How Imageries of <Home> and <Destination> Frame (Re-)migration Processes Examples from Fictional and Biographic Narratives in East/West European Migration Contexts 17.00 CLOSING / CLOSING REMARKS