WPS 1.3

Borders and Conflicts in the Mediterranean

Conférence

Imperial Legacies and Constructing Boundaries in the Mediterranean
 

October 13-14, 2006

Organized by University of Ljubljana

Friday, October 13

Morning session, 10.00 − 13.00

Chair: Rajko Muršič

 

Bojan Baskar (University of Ljubljana), Introduction

Dimitar Bechev (University of Oxford), The Uses of Imperial Past in South East Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean

Coffee break, 11.15 − 11.30

Dimitri Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford), Impossible Imperial Legacies

Emilio Cocco (University of Teramo), Local, National and Multi-cultural: Imperial Legacies and the Troubled Imagination of the Adriatic Sea

Lunch, 13.00 − 14.30

Afternoon session, 14.30 − 17.30

Chair: Dimitri Nicolaïdis

 

Maria Couroucli (University of Paris X – Nanterre), The Venetian-Ottoman Border: Oral History and Local Identity in Corfu

Fatma Ben Slimane (University of Tunis), L'héritage ottoman et la construction nationale dans l'historiographie tunisienne et chez les élites politiques du XIX° et XX°siècles

Coffee break, 15.45 − 16.00

Božidar Jezernik (University of Ljubljana), National Consciousness as Imperial Legacy: Slovenian Nation-Building and the Habsburg Empire

Alenka Bartulović (University of Ljubljana), Ambivalence of Ottoman Legacy in Bosnia-Herzegovina: the case of Ivo Andrić

Saturday, October 14

Morning session, 10.00 − 13.00

Chair: Maria Coroucli

 

Pamela Ballinger (Bowdoin College), Forgotten Legacies, Foreclosed Mediterraneanism: The End of Italian Empire and the Reshaping of Italian Identity after 1945

Sabina Mihelj (Loughborough University), The Use of Imperial Myths in the Construction of the Self and the Other in Post-World-War-II Istr(i)a and the Julian March (1947-1954)

Coffee break, 11.15 − 11.30

Lidija Nikočević (EMI, Pazin), The Istrian 'Mixture': Austrian Stereotypes about Istria and their Impact on the Perception and Self-Perception of the Region

Katja Kobolt (University of Ljubljana), Deconstructing (Mono)National Origin Myth / Constructing Regional Identity through Multiethnic Imperial Myth

Lunch, 13.00 − 14.30

Afternoon session, 14.30 − 16.30

Chair: Dimitar Bechev

 

Kerem Öktem (University of Oxford), Negation of Legacy − Legacy of Negation: Approaches to the Material Heritage of the 'Other'

Rajko Muršič (University of Ljubljana), Post-Socialism and Post-Imperial Legacies in Eastern Europe: Some Examples from Popular Music

General discussion (16.00 − 16.30)