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Contemporary approaches to Cold War and Post-Cold War Balkans: “main themes, open questions, unresolved debates” – Belgrade, Serbia, 7- 9 December 2012 – Venue: Palace Hotel
Friday, 7 December Arrival of the participants 20:30 Reception – Belgrade Panorama Restaurant (Palace Hotel 6th floor) Key note adresses Susan Fritz, USAID/Serbia’s Mission Director Costa Carras, Board of Directors CDRSEE Halil Berktay, Sabanci University
Saturday, 8 December 09:00-09:30 Welcome speeches Nenad Sebek, Executive Director, CDRSEE Christina Koulouri, Chair of the CDRSEE History Education Committee 09:30-12:00
Session I: The Cold War in the Balkans Chair: Dubravka Stojanovic Tvrtko Jakovina, Enver, Todor and Tito: Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania in 1970' and 1980' Valentina Duka, The Cold War in Albania Martin Ivanov, Reformism without Reforms: The Political Economy of Bulgarian Perestroyka, 1960s-1989 Discussion
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break Cătălina Mihalache, Romanian education in the 80s: Crisis, utopia, and propaganda Dimitar Grigorov, The Personality Cults in the Balkans after the Second World War I. Stefanidis, Nationalism vs Atlanticism or Why the Cold War Ended for Greece in 1974 Discussion 12:00-13:30 Round table: Nationalism under communism Stefano Bianchini, Cătălina Mihalache, Serhat Güvenç, Niyazi Kizilyurek Coordinator: Alexei Kalionski 14:00-15:00 Lunch break
15:30-17:30
Session II: Collapse and reconstruction after 1989 Chair: Neven Budak Dubravka Stojanovic, Ideological preparation of the Yugoslav wars in Serbia Bozo Repe, Slovenians and Yugoslavia: historical necessity or historical mistake? Dora Komnenovic, Anti-War Activism in Yugoslavia in the Early Nineties: An Example of Direct Engagement in a Conflict Environment Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos, In search of democracy in South East Europe: comparing postsocialist South East European democracies with post-authoritarian Greece Discussion 17:30-17:45 Coffee Break 17:45-19:30 Round table: Collapse, reconstruction and transition after 1989 Rudolf M. Rizman, Vesna Terselic, Borka Pavicevic Coordinator: Bozo Repe 20:00 Dinner
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Sunday, 9 December 9:00-11:00
Session III: History and Myths on Cold War and Post-Cold War Balkans Chair: Christina Koulouri Falk Pingel, "Post-Cold War" means "Hot War": The Post-Cold War Balkan Wars in Western European textbooks. Barbara Christophe, Negotiating the Meaning of the Cold War in the International Classroom - an Outline for a New Research Project Serhat Güvenç, War, memory and reconstruction: the Cyprus War of 1974 in Turkish military historiography Darko Stojanov, The Rise of Pseudo-Historical Approaches to Antiquity in post-socialist Macedonia: from the margins to the mainstream Mihail Gruev, The Bulgarian Post-communist Historiography about Communism - Continuity and Changes. Discussion 11:00-11:15 Coffee Break 11:15-13:00 Round table: How do we write the History of Post-War Southeast Europe? Marie-Janine Calic, John Cox, Alexei Kalionski Coordinator: Halil Berktay 13:00-14:00 Conclusions 14:00 – 15:30 Lunch
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