6th InASEA Conference

 

Southeast European (Post) Modernities

 

 

 

28 April – 1 May 2011

 

University of Regensburg

 

 

 

 

 

 

Program

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA)

 

www.inasea.eu

 

 

 


 

Thursday, April 28

 

18.00–20.00          Plenary Session I

Room: H 10

 

Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid (Vice-Rector of the University of Regensburg for International Affairs):

Greetings

 

Brunnbauer, Ulf (University of Regensburg, President of InASEA):
Welcome and Aims of the Conference

Silverman, Carol (University of Oregon, Eugene, USA):
Gypsy Music, Hybridity and Appropriation: Balkan Dilemmas of Post-modernity

 

Friday, April 29

 

9.00–10.30            Plenary Session II

Room: H 10

 

Naumović, Slobodan (University of Belgrade, Serbia):
Can Reflection on Modernity be Modern again in Post-Postmodern Southeast Europe?

 

Nitsiakos, Vassilis (University of Ioannina, Greece):
From Pre-modern Kurbet to Post-modern Transnationalism. Theoretical and Methodological Reflections

Chair: Klaus Roth (University of Munich)

 

11.00–13.00          SESSION 1

1.1 Labor, Time, and Calculation: Coping with Capitalism in Southeast Europe

Room: ZH 1

Cash, Jennifer R.:
Managing Time in Moldova: Transformations of the Ritual Cycle under Post-socialism

Monova, Miladina:
House Economy and Ritual Life in a Macedonian Town: the Case of Tobacco Growers

Tocheva, Detelina:
Postsocialist Capitalism and the Rural Domestic Economy: Domains and Limits of Calculation

Vasile, Monica:
Does Crisis Increase Calculation? Timber Trade, Risks and Work in the Highlands of Romania

Discussant: Nevena Dimova (Sofia)

Chair: Vesna Vučinić-Nešković (Belgrade)

1.2 Political and Social Identities

Room: ZH 2

Moisa, Daniela:
Maisons de rêve à Certeze. (Re)construction des identités sociales à travers le bâti dans la Roumanie socialiste et postsocialiste

Petre, Raluca:
What Does "Communist" Mean in the Post-Communist Time?

Lauth Bacas, Jutta:
National Identity and Every Day Life after the Debt Crisis in Greece

Chair: Sabine Rutar (Regensburg)

1.3 From “Rural” to “Plural”: Reinventing Locality via Tourism

Room: ZH 5

Iancu, Bogdan:
Fishing in Muddy Waters: Tourism and Access to Resources in the Danube Delta

Nagy, Raluca:
From "Leopard" to "Waffle" Fence: Local Comparative Aesthetics in Maramureș and Bucovina

Stroe Monica:
Tourism, Food and Landscape in the Fortified Villages of Transylvania. Exploring Global Patrimonialization practices in local contexts

Stojanović, Marko:
Ethno Village: Desirable, Irreal and Functional Construct of Identity

Chair: Manuel Trummer (Regensburg)

1.4 Photography and (Post)Modernity, Part I

Room: ZH 6

Radić, Nenad:
The Hegemony of Vision: Josip Broz Tito, Photography and Issues of Modernity in Former Yugoslavia

Kassabova, Anelia:
Visualisierungen als Strategie zum (Un-)Sichtbarmachen von sozialen Ausgrenzungen. Das Beispiel der staatlichen Kinderfürsorge im (post-)sozialistischem Bulgarien

Chair: Friederike Kind-Kovács (Regensburg)

1.5 Religion, the State and National Identity

Room: ZH 7

Staab, Nicolai:
Problems in Applying Theories of Religion in (Post-)Modernity to Southeast Europe

Kijewska, Anna:
"When the Religion is not the Corn Value". Local and National Variety of Islam in North-Eastern Bulgaria (categories and metaphors in ethnic studies)

Ciolcă, Alina-Carmen:
Séparation Eglise-Etat en Roumanie postcommuniste? Rapports politico-sociaux autour de la question de la présence des symboles religieux dans l’espace public roumain

Chair: Ioannis Manos (Florina)

1.6 Negotiating (Post)Modernities: the Western Balkans in the process of EU-enlargement

Room: ZH 8

Erdei, Ildiko:
IKEA in Serbia: Debates on Modernity, Culture and Democracy in Pre-Accession Period

Petrović, Tanja:
Mourning the Lost Modernity: Workers, Europe, and (post)Yugoslav Post-socialism

Hofman, Ana:
(Re)Balkanization of Europe: Balkan Music Awards 2010

Chair: Gunther Hirschfelder (Regensburg)

14.30–16.30          SESSION 2

2.1 Imagining, Shaping, and Tagging: Changing Spatial Practices in South East European Land- and Cityscapes

Room: ZH 1

Aceska, Ana:
The City and the “Duša (Soul)”: Imagining the Spatial Changes in Post-war Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Schäuble, Michaela:
“The Land Where East meets West”. Dalmatia as a Geographical and Geopolitical Niche

Šuber, Daniel:
Politics of Walls. Reading Images in Contemporary Serbia

Vetters, Larissa:
Mastering the Politics of Scale. Elite Place-Making Projects in Contemporary Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Chair: Petruta Teampau (Cluj-Napoca)

2.2 New Power Configurations and Resistance

Room: ZH 2

Dokuzović, Lina/Tatlić, Šefik:
Transition as a Void: Integration, Complicity and Resistance

Lafazanovski, Ermis:
Rebuilding the Institutional Ruins: “Attacks”, “Resistances”, and Post-socialist Institutional Changes in Nation Building Processes in the Republic of Macedonia

Rozakou, Katerina:
Crafting the "Volunteer" in Greece: New Forms of Governmentality and Subversive Socialities

Tamminen, Tanja:
Re-establishing Cross-border Cooperation in the Rugova, Theth and Prokletija Mountain Areas. Adaptation, Appropriation, Resistance

Chair: Calin Cotoi (Bucharest)

2.3 Migration, Identity, Politics

Room: ZH 5

Athanasopoulou, Angeliki:
Constructs and Uses of a "Western" Identity: the Case of Albanian Immigrants in Greece

Gavrilović, Ljiljana:
MMORPG: Entering the World Without Borders

Hemming, Andreas:
Home Away from Home: Creating Mirdita

Thoma, Dimitra:
Immigrant Students' Contribution to the Shaping of a Positive Professional Identity of Greek Teachers in Secondary Education

Chair: Asker Kartari (Istanbul)

2.4 Photography and (Post-) Modernity, Part II

Room: ZH 6

Robert, Pichler:
The Transformative Force of the Visual in Architecture and Ritual. A Study of Style and Performance in Albanian Transmigrant Communities in Macedonia

Rohringer, Margit:
R
epresentations on Memory and the Revision of History in the Balkan Documentary Filmmaking After the Collapse of Communism

Cupić, Simona:
Fashion (in) Photography: Fashion, Visual Culture and Identity in Serbia Between the World Wars

Chair: Friederike Kind-Kovács (Regensburg)

2.5 Revival of Religious Festivities in Southeastern Europe since the Early 1990s

Room: ZH 7

Vusheva, Marinella:
Pilgrimage and Ritual Practices in Post-socialist Bulgaria

Primorac, Jakša:
Holy Week Processions in Croatia

Seraïdari, Katerina:
Religious Processions in the Aegean (Greece): When Continuity is Defined by Change

Vučinić-Nešković, Vesna:
Litija of Kuti: Sabor of the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro

Chair: Aleksandra Pavičević (Belgrade)

17.00–19.00          SESSION 3

3.1 Imagening “Europe”

Room: ZH 1

Ehrlich, Kornelia:
"Creative City" Ljubljana? Europeanization in Southeastern Europe

Malešević, Branka:
"It Seems that We Could Speak of Different Europes": Temporal Tropes, Memory-Work, and Ethical Public History in the Future of the Danube Region

Telbizova-Sack, Jordanka:
„Europa“ in den Debatten muslimischer Bevölkerungsgruppen Bulgariens: Konstruktionen und Wandel

Chair: Klaus Roth (Munich)

3.2 Migration and Social Processes

Room: ZH 2

Markov, Ivaylo:
Labour Mobility among Albanians from Macedonia: Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Dimension and Socio-Cultural Dynamic

Radojičić, Dragana:
Migrations of Russians as a Global/Local Social Phenomenon

Shkreli, Inis:
Narrations on Migration and Adaptation Processes Among Vlachs of Korça in Albania.

Chair: Mila Maeva (Sofia)

3.3 Common Law Traditions

Room: ZH 5

Bardoshi, Nebi:
The Kanun of Land and Social Relations in Post-Communism: The Case of Northern Albania

Djordjević, Crnobrnja Jadranka:
Customary Law: an Instrument of Cultural Petrification

Voell, Stéphane:
Kulla and Koshki: Identity and Traditional Law in Albania and Georgia

Chair: Tanja Tamminen (Helsinki)

3.4 Consumption

Room: ZH 6

Krasteva-Blagoeva, Evgenia:
"Old" and "New" Collective Consumptions in Bulgaria (or why it is not Good to Eat out Alone)

Hande, Bilsel Engin:
Buying Things as Rituals of Interaction among Young College Istanbulite Women

Oteanu, Ana Maria:
Social Remittances Based Initiatives: Conspicuous Consumption and Social Recognition

Simić, Marina:
The Deceit of Goods: Consumption and Reconstruction of "Normality" in Post-socialist Serbia

Chair: Ildiko Erdei (Belgrade)

3.5 New and Traditional Forms of Religiosity

Room: ZH 7

Iliescu, Laura Jiga:
New Forms of Religious Practices Performed in the Cyberspace

Djurić-Milovanović, Aleksandra:
How Long Have you been in the Truth? Expressing New Forms of Religiosity: Romanian Neo-Protestants in Serbia

Benga, Leana:
Bonfires for not Just any Dead. Experiential Meaning and Ceremonial Expression for a Long-concealed Trauma

Chair: Katharina Eisch-Angus (Regensburg)

3.6 Narrating and Remembering Change

Room: ZH 8

Vučković Juros, Tanja:
The Communist Past in the Capitalist Present. The Experiences of Two Croatian post-Yugoslav Generations

Branda, Aline Ioana:
Narratives of Change. A Case Study

Métrich, Louise:
Remembering, Reconstructing, Imagining the Past. Taking over memories of December 1989 in Romania

Chair: Alina Branda (Cluj-Napoca)

 

Saturday, April 30

 

9.00–11.00            SESSION 4

4.1 Capitalist Transformation(s)

Room: ZH 1

Orhon, Goze:
“Has not Been that Easy”: Transition to Neoliberalism and the 1980 Coup d’Etat in Turkey

Prato, Giuliana B.:
Free Market and Liberal Democracy in Albania: An Anthropological Approach to Regime Change

Trifunović, Vesna:
"Winners" and "Losers" of Transition as New Social Groups in Serbian Society

Smith, Erin
Getting your Foot in the Door: miq dhe lekë

Chair: Ioannis Manos (Florina)

4.2 Mediascapes and Community

Room: ZH 2

Gehl, Katerina:
Helden, Räuber, Heilige. Folklore-Elemente der massenmedialen Politikvermittlung im heutigen Bulgarien

Maeva, Mila:
Internet and Emigration of Bulgarian Citizens to the United Kingdom

Zahova, Sofiya:
Up-grading the Tradition: Incorporation of Mobile and Internet Telephony into Traditional Customs and Practices in Montenegro

Bielenin-Lenczowska, Karolina:
Ethnographic Fieldwork in Reality and On-line. Methodological and Ethical Dilemmas

Chair: Asker Kartari (Istanbul)

4.3 Marriage and Beyond

Room: ZH 5

Banta, Ionela Carmen:
Marriage Ritual in a Block of Flats in a Neighbourhood in the Periphery of the City of Craiova (Romania)

Dohotariu, Anca:
Les relations familiales chez les jeunes couples non mariés en Roumanie. Pratiques, représentations, valeurs: une enquête comparative Roumanie – France

Marjanović, Vesna:
Wedding Customs as a Marker of Challenges Among Young Couples in Serbia. Adopting the "Western" Model as a Status Symbol

Chair: Evgeniia Krasteva-Blagoeva (Sofia)

4.4 Reconfiguration of the Urban Space

Room: ZH 6

Murtezani, Izaim:
The Space (the Center of Town) as Locus and Focus. The Project Skopje 2014

Smigiel, Christian:
A Formation of a New Powerful Elite? A Look Behind Newly Produced Post-socialist Urban Landscapes. The Case of Gated and Guarded Neighbourhoods in Sofia

Vaetisi, Şerban:
New Urban Spaces and Materialities in Post-socialist Cluj, Romania

Ranković, Daniela:
New Belgrade Post-war Identity – Sustainable Modern City – Social Transformation

Chair: Carol Silverman (Eugene, OR)

4.5 Development of Religiosity

Room: ZH 7

Hristov, Petko:
New Local Identities and “Returning” Religiousness on the Post-socialist Balkans

Stefanović-Banović, Milesa:
Religious Material Culture as a Source of "(Post-) modern" Orthodox Christian Identity in Serbia

Pavićević, Aleksandra:
New Religiosity and Relations towards Death. Serbia at the Beginning of Third Millennium

Chair: Katharina Eisch-Angus (Regensburg)

11.30–13.30          SESSION 5

5.1 Re-defining National Identities

Room: ZH 1

Bealcovschi, Simona:
Le Nous fragmenté et le Je cosmopolite.
Les nouvelles dynamiques identitaires roumaines

Sorescu, Andrei-Dan:
Modernity and the Picturesque: A Romanian Understanding of Identity and Alterity

Márton, Mihai:
Ethnic Denotations: The Hungarian Case

Chair: Alina Branda (Cluj-Napoca)

5.2 Gender Relations and Identities

Room: ZH 2

Papa-Pandelejmoni, Enriketa:
Religion and Gender between Public and Private in post-socialist Albania

Ristovska-Josifovska, Biljana:
Gender Relations in Macedonia After Socialism From Declaration to Legislation)

Stoicescu, Adrian:
(Be-)Gendering the Existence. Towards a New Type of Pattern: The Retrosexual

Petrova, Velislava:
Les femmes d'un marché urbain

Chair: Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg)

5.3 Family Forms and Relations

Room: ZH 5

Zlatanović, Sanja:
Family and Kinship in a Post-War Context: A Serbian Community in Southeast Kosovo

Yancheva, Yana & Pimpireva, Zhenia:
The Changing Family Among the Bessarabian Bulgarians in the Post-Soviet Space

Ullmann, Katrin:
Familienbilder in den Selbstbeschreibungen junger Erwachsener aus Südosteuropa

Dimova, Nevena:
C
hanging Models of Parenting in Contemporary Urban Families in Bulgaria

Chair: Klaus Roth (Munich)

5.4 Youth Cultures and Life Styles

Room: ZH 6

Ceausescu, Ania:
The Influence of Social groups in Lifestyles Choices Made by Romanian Teenagers

Koleva, Daniela:
Has the "Lost Generation" Found its Way? Youth Cultures, Communities and Causes in Present-day Bulgaria

Nazarska, Georgeta:
Youth Cultures, the Orthodox Church and Nationalist Formations in Bulgaria: Coexistence in the Postmodern Situation

Petrović, Duško:
Student resistance

Chair: Marina Simić (Belgrade)

5.5 Minorities

Room: ZH 7

Pavlović, Mirjana:
Serbian Community of Romania in the Process of Transition

Şerban, Stelu:
Hidden Identity or National Minority? The Case of Bulgarians in Romania

Simeunović Bajić, Natasa:
Social Exclusion in Post-Socialist Context: The Representations of Roma in Serbian Print Media

Anovska, Kleanti:
Influence of the Recent Changes in the Life Styles of Vlachs on Their Folklore

Chair: Petruta Teampau (Cluj-Napoca)

15.00–17.00          SESSION 6

6.1 Music, Festivity and Performance

Room: ZH 1

Erol, Ayhan:
Changing Modes of the Alevi Musical Culture: Traditionalism, Avant-gardism, and Consumerism

Neagota, Bogdan:
Ceremonial Expressions of Local Popular Cultures in Post-socialist Romania. The "Făşanc/Fasching" From Mountain Banat (Paper and Anthropological Film)

Mellish, Liz:
Life in a 21st Century Romanian Folk Ensemble: Continuity in tradition – Transformations in Live

Ivanova, Miglena:
New Political Elites as Patrons of Hip-hop Graffiti Writing

Chair: Marina Simić (Belgrade)

6.2 Representing Gender

Room: ZH 2

Oancea Costin, Valentin:
Language and Men's Place in 21st century Romania

Mitrović, Marijana:
Negotiating Europeaness and a Memory Surplus in Post-Yugoslavian Feminist Genealogies

Mojsieva-Gusheva, Jasmina:
Gender Identity in Modernism and Postmodernism

Vartolomei, Adelina:
The Modern Aeneas: Romanian Women Abroad

Chair: Natali Stegmann (Regensburg)

6.3 Labour Relations and Entrepreneurs

Room: ZH 5

Knight, Daniel:
The relocation of Greek Businesses in the Balkans: a Capitalist Diaspora

Niculae, Simona:
From “the Pride of the Nation” to “All Corrupted”: the Professional Group of Foresters in Romania

Petrova, Ivanka:
Orthodoxe Praxen in bulgarischen Kleinunternehmen

Dinca, Melinda/Bulgaru, Teodora:
History of Changes in Work Opportunities. Case Study of the Commune of Coronini

Chair: Stefan Dorondel (Bucharest)

6.4 New Nationalisms

Room: ZH 6

Efremova, Georgia:
Integralist Life-styles, Nationalist Politics and the Constructions of Cultural Difference as Part and a Response to the (Post) Modern European Project

Uzun, Emel:
“I am a Nationalist Person”: Meaning of Nationalism(s) in Discourse of Ordinary People

Valič, Urša:
The "Latin Origins" of Romanians: Modern Concepts of National Ideology in Post-modernism?

Janev, Goran:
What Happened to the Macedonian Salad: Establishment of Modern Ethnocracy

Chair: Raluca Petre (Constanta)

6.5 Urban Heritages

Room: ZH 7

Depner, Anamaria:
Aus alt mach Erbe. Der Umgang mit historischer Bausubstanz in Timişoara im Spannungsfeld zwischen „postmodernem Liberalismus“ und „normativer Europäisierung“

Hysa, Armanda:
The Charshija: Between Pre-modern Fame, Modern Exotism and Nostalgia, and Global "Chinese" Marketplace

Radović, Srdjan:
(Un-)changed Biography of a Town: History, Memory and Usage of Jajce’s Heritage

Stahl, Irina:
Une acculturation désirée. Le cas de la ville de Bucarest au XIXe siècle

Chair: Damiana Otoiu (Bucharest)

17.30-19.30
InASEA GENERAL ASSEMBLEY

Room: H 10

 

 

Sunday, May 1

 

9.00–11.00            SESSION 7

7.1 (Mis-) Uses of Cultural Heritage

Room: ZH 1

Broilo, Federica:
Islamic Cultural Heritage Policies in Albania: some examples

Habit, Daniel:
Becoming „European“? Forms of Interpretation of Cultural Heritage in Patras and Sibiu, European Capitals of Culture 2006/2007

Hajdu, Ada:
The Creation of Romanian National Cultural Heritage. White Spots and "European" Approaches

Marinov Tchavdar:
“Welcome to the Land of Orpheus”: Politics of Heritage and Tourism in Post-communist Bulgaria

Chair: Damiana Otoiu (Bucharest)

7.2 Remembering Communism

Room: ZH 2

Halili, Rigels:
When the War Ended? Historical Debates regarding WWII, Politics of Memory and Rituals of Remembrance in Post-communist Albania

Luleva, Ana:
Remembering and Justice. Post-socialist discourses in Bulgaria

Lungu, Corina:
Coping with the Absurdity of Communism in Matei Visniec's "How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients"

Habinc, Mateja:
Folklore Events: an Ethnological Heritage, a Heritage Unwanted or a Socialist Tradition?

Chair: Klaus Roth (Munich)

7.3 Rural Communities in and after Socialism

Room: ZH 5

Catrina, Sonia:
Functional Interdependences Within the Romanian Rural Communities

Lelaj, Olsi:
The Proletarianization of Peasantry: A Narrative of Socialist Modernity in Albania

Pusceddu, Antonio Maria:
“Albanians Made Us Lazy”: Rural Developments Along the Greek-Albanian Border

Dorondel, Stefan:
Food for the Dead: Reinforcing Social Ties, Work-Exchange and Post-socialist Agriculture in Romania

Chair: Mihai Márton (Regensburg)

7.4 Emotions, Language and the Body

Room: ZH 6

Petrov, Martin:
Love in Post-socialist Society (the Case of Bulgaria)

Teampau, Petruta:
Beauty, Body and Social Change in Post-communist Romania

Ilić, Marija:
“How Old do You Think I Am?” Pronouns of Power and Solidarity in Serbian Today

Chair: Natali Stegmann (Regensburg)

7.5 "Balkanism", Modernity and Beyond

Room: ZH 7

Voicu, Cristina-Georgiana:
From Colonial Power to Neo-liberal Eastern Europe

Cotoi, Calin:
Social Sciences and East European (Mis-) Representations of Modernity

Tosić, Jelena:
Diversity and Modernity in the Balkans: A discursive-historical retrospective of the present

Chair: Heike Karge (Regensburg)

11.30–13.30          SESSION 8

Roundtable Discussion: The State of Affairs in Anthropology, Ethnology, and Folkloristics in Southeastern Europe

Room: H 10

Participants:

Jasna Čapo-Žmegać (Zagreb)

Stefan Dorondel (Bucharest)

Armanda Hysa (Tirana)

Asker Kartarı (Istanbul)

Vlado Kotnik (Koper)

Evgenia Krăsteva-Blagoeva (Sofia)

Ioannis Manos (Florina)

Aleksandra Pavičević (Belrgade)

 

Chairs: Vesna Vučinić Nešković (Belgrade) / Klaus Roth (Munich)

 

 


 

Program Committee

 

Evgenia Krasteva-Blagoeva (Anthropology, New Bulgarian University, Sofia)

Ulf Brunnbauer (Chair of Southeastern and Eastern European History, University of Regensburg)

Asker Kartari (Faculty of Communication, Kadir Has University, Istanbul)

Ioannis Manos (Department of Balkan Studies, University of West Macedonia, Florina)

Damiana Gabriela Otoiu (Institute of Political Studies, University of Bucharest)

Klaus Roth (Institute for German and Comparative Ethnology, University of Munich)

Vesna Vučinić-Nešković (Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Belgrade)

 

 

 

Sponsors

 

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

University of Regensburg

Universitätsstiftung Hans Vielberth

 

 

 

 

Contact

 

Mr Bastian Vergnon (Bastian1.Vergnon@stud.uni-regensburg.de)