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Third Joint PhD Symposium on South East Europe
13 June 2014, 9:30 am鈥�5:00 pm
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Location
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SSEES building, 16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW
In cooperation with the Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths, and LSEE-Research on South East Europe, European Institute, LSE
Following the success of the first two joint PhD symposia on South East Europe, held at the LSE in June 2010 and Goldsmiths in June 2012, the organisers invite submissions for the Third Joint PhD Symposium, to be hosted by the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) on Friday 13 June 2014.
The main objective of the symposium is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas between scholars currently undertaking doctoral research on the Balkan region in UK or elsewhere. Doctoral researchers will have the chance to engage with the wider academic community, including academic members of staff at the three institutions, and also a number of other distinguished scholars on the region who will be involved with the symposium.
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Programme |
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09:30 Panel I Room 345 |
Empires and Cultural Legacies (Chair: Dr Bojan Aleksov)Kristina Nikolovska (Kent): 鈥楲et it be known鈥� 鈥� Waiting for the End of Times in the Church Slavonic Paratexts of South-Eastern Europe (1371-1711) Yasin Arslanta艧 (LSE): Ottoman Imperial Seizure of Wealth, or Musadere, (1453 鈥� 1839): Why did it persist so long? Verica Grmu拧a (Goldsmiths): Circulation of Konjovi膰鈥檚 and Milojevi膰鈥檚 Songs in Early 20th Century: The Double Life of an Artwork and a Symbol of National identity |
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09:30 Panel II Room 346听 |
Security and Foreign Policy (Chair: Dr Adam Fagan)Madalina Dobrescu (LSE): The EU Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM); contributing听the conflict resolution or perpetuating the status quo? Julia Himmrich (LSE): The Western Balkans 鈥� Deflating Germany鈥檚 foreign policy identity? Blaise Nkfunkoh Ndamnsah (Ljubljana): Cultural Awareness Training in the EU鈥檚 Common Security and听Defence Policy |
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11:15 Panel III Room 345听 |
New Research in History of Yugoslavia (Chair: Dr Dejan 膼oki膰)Leonard Kuki膰 (LSE): Economic Development in Yugoslavia, 1945-1990 Stefan Nikoli膰 (York): The Determinants of Industrial Location in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the听Interwar Period of the 20th Century Vlatka Jakir (Essex): The Decontestation of Yugoslavia鈥檚 1974 Constitutional Identity: Unity through听Hierarchy |
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11:15 Panel IV Room 431听 |
Postwar Institutions and Justice (Chair: Dr Jasna Dragovi膰 Soso, Goldsmiths)Jessie Hronesova (Oxford): Obsessed with Legalism: Post-1995 Transitional Justice and Community听Reconstruction in Bosnia and Herzegovina Seb Byty莽i (York): Post-war institution building in Kosovo: Picking favorites D啪eneta Karabegovi膰 (Warwick): Local Matters and Transitional Justice: Disaspora Mobilization for听Education and Youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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11:15 Panel V Room 346听 |
Southeast Europe and EU institutions (Chair: Dr James Ker-Lindsay)Viktorija Mano (Roehampton): 鈥楾he vulnerability of a small, open economy in a situation of global fiscal听crisis: the impact of the Greek debt crisis on the foreign direct investments to Macedonia Aleksandra Dragojlov (Cardiff): Serbia, the EU and the dynamics of elite opinion: a rational institutionalist听perspective Natasha Wunsch (UCL SSEES): Lesson-drawing in EU Accession: Civil society organisations in Croatia and听Serbia |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch in Masaryk Senior Common Room on the 4th Floor |
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14:00 Panel VI Room 431 |
Social Capital, Representations and Identities (Chair: Dr Eric Gordy)Maja Kova膷 (Lancashire): The Nature of Social Capital in Established and Emerging Sports in Serbia Piotr Goldstein (Novi Sad): Novi Sad鈥檚 Bookshop-cafes as Discreet Civil Society Actors: Preliminary Research Findings Nikolina Jozanc (Zagreb): Surrogate political representation: bridging the gap between descriptive and substational political representation Irena Myzeqari (Tirana): Are there women, really? Tracing the feminist identity in the literary work of Ismail Kadare |
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14:00 Panel VII Room 345 |
Postwar Institutions and Change (Chair: Dr Neven Andjeli膰)Marika Djolai (Sussex): Who cooperates and why in the post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina? Violence and communal change Sean Parramore (QMUL): Public sector reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina: when politics and the constitution get in the way Aleksandra Zdeb (Krakow): Prud and Butmir Processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina: informal institutions from perspective of game theory |
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14:00 Panel VIII Room 346 |
Cultures, Ethnicities and Communication (Chair: Dr Armanda Hysa)Irena Shehu (Tirana): Intercultural communication: A comparison between Albanians and Americans Slobodan Vasi膰 (Novi Sad): Contextualization of ethnic identity: Banat Bulgarians (Paulicians) in the Intercultural and Interreligious Rural Contexts of Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria Sebahattin Abdurrahman (SOAS): Why minority education: The case of Western Thrace Turks Chelsi West (Austin): Concepts and categories: On questions of race and belonging in post-communist Tirana, Albania |
| 16:00 | Concluding Remarks and Reception |
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For information regarding the venue and other practical issues, please contact Michael Kelly (History Programme Administrator, SSEES) (michael.kelly@ucl.ac.uk).