4^th InASEA Conference

“Region, Regional Identity and Regionalism in Southeastern Europe”

Timişoara, Romania, 24–27 May 2007

Venue: West-University of Timişoara

schedule

Registration:

Thursday, May 24: 15:00 – 19:00

Friday, May 25: 08:00 – 19:00

Saturday, May 26: 09:00 – 16:00

Friday, May 25

09.30 – 12:00 Plenary session: Keynote speeches

14:00 – 16:00 SESSION 1 (panels 1.1., 1.2., 1.3., 1.4., 1.5.)

16:30 – 18:30 SESSION 2 (panels 2.1., 2.2., 2.3., 2.4., 2.5.)

20:00 Reception

Saturday, May 26

09:00 – 11:00 SESSION 3 (panels 3.1., 3.2., 3.3., 3.4., 3.5., 3.6.)

11:30 – 13:30 SESSION 4 (panels 4.1., 4.2., 4.3., 4.4., 4.5., 4.6.)

15:00 – 17:00 SESSION 5 (panels 5.1., 5.2., 5.3., 5.4., 5.5., 5.6.)

17:30 – 19:30 InASEA General Assembly

Sunday, May 27

08:30 – 10:15 SESSION 6 (panels 6.1., 6.2., 6.3., 6.4., 6.5.)

10:45 – 12:30 SESSION 7 (panels 7.1., 7.2., 7.3., 7.4., 7.5.)

13:00 – 14:00 Plenary session: Concluding keynote speech

PROGRAMME

Friday, May 25

9:30 – 12:00: Plenary Session

Room:

Chair: Vučinić-Nešković Vesna

Speakers:

Ballinger Pamela (Chair of Sociology and Anthropology, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, USA):

Between Region and Nation: The Space of Anthropology

Roth Klaus (Institut für Volkskunde/European Ethnology, University of Munich, Germany):

What's in a Region? Southeast European Regions between Marginalization, Globalization and EU Integration

Neumann Victor (Institute of History, West University Timişoara, Romania):

Theoretical Reflections about Regions Such as Banat and Transylvania

14:00 – 16:00 SESSION 1

1.1. Symbolic Constructions of Transborder Regions: Visions From Below

Room:

Chair: Dimova Nevena

Speakers:

Ekaterina Anastassova (Institute of Folklore, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria):

Bulgarians in Bessarabia: between national definitions, regional cultures, and geopolitical choices

Valtchinova Galia (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria):

Speaking local, thinking transnational: Negotiating ‘regionalism’ in Bulgarian and Turkish Strandzha

Hristov Petko (Ethnographic Institute with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria):

Transborder Exchange of Seasonal Workers (Pechalbari) in the Central Part of the Balkans

1.2. Language, Religion and Regionalism in the Former Habsburg and Ottoman Balkans

Room:

Chair: Voss Christian

Speakers:

Voss Christian (Institut für Slawistik, HU Berlin, Germany):

Sprachideologien bei den slawischsprachigen Balkanmuslimen: Die Pomaken in West-Thrakien

Sikimić Biljana (Institute for Balkan studies SANU, Belgrade, Serbia):

Orthodoxe Religion bei den Rumänen im serbischen Banat

Vučković Marija (Institute for the Serbian Language, Belgrade, Serbia):

Language and religion among Bulgarian and Croatian Catholics in the West Banat

Pesić Dimitrije (Belgrade, Serbia):

Magazines as a way of inter-ethnic communication – Case study of Balkan Jews` periodicals

1.3. Regional Identities (1)

Room:

Chair: Cotoi Calin

Speakers:

Bardoshi, Nebi (Tirana):

The Region Identity and Political Border (the Has region between Albania and Kosovo)

Vasiluta Stefanescu Marius (West University of Timişoara, Romania):

Regional Identity in Banat: Multiculturality vs. Interculturality

Özkan Özgür Dirim (Yeditepe University, Department of Anthropology, Istanbul, Turkey):

Football Fandom as a Source of Identity Formation in post-Yugoslavia: The Case of Football Fans in Sarajevo

Zane Rodica (Université de Bucarest, Faculté des Lettres, Roumanie):

Histoire de famille et identité régionale en Muscel, Roumanie – étude de cas

1.4. Historical Dimensions (1)

Room:

Chair: Stefanov Nenad

Speakers:

Cotoi Calin (University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Romania):

Cultural regionalism and nationalism in interwar Romania. Geography, ethnology and the imagining of national space(s)

Lukanović Jovica (Frankfurt/Main, Germany):

Das Banat – eine Region und ihre Grenzen

Maxwell Alexander (New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania):

The Regional Basis of Macedonian Ethnic Identity: Slavic Macedonia, 1903–1943

1.5. Theory and Methodology

Room:

Chair: Roth Klaus

Speakers:

Benovska-Sabkova Milena (New Bulgarian University / Ethnographic Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria):

“Ethnographic Groups”: Regionalism or Ideological Construction?

Friedman Jack R. (University of Chicago, USA.):

Regions and Exclusions: On Statementality and the Analytics of Abjection

Loer Thomas (Universität Dortmund, Deutschland):

Zum Begriff der Region

Wiederhold, Uta (Technische Universität Dresden, Deutschland):

Regionale Identität – eine sozialpsychologische Perspektive (Regional Identity – a social-psychological perspective)

16:30 – 18:30 SESSION 2

2.1. Border Regions / Transcending Borders

Room:

Chair: Ruegg Francois

Speakers:

Patrikios George (Democritus University of Thrace, Athens, Greece) & Vatavali Fereniki (National Technical University of Athens, Greece):

Between global, national and regional. Institutions in Greek-Albanian border regions

Aschauer Wolfgang (TU Chemnitz, Germany):

Ethnizität und grenzüberschreitende Beziehungen in Nordost-Ungarn

Radu Cosmin-Gabriel (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary):

Enduring commodities, border tricksters, and the predatory state: Contraband at the Romania-Serbia border during the embargo upon former Yugoslavia

Nadolu Ioana Delia & Nadolu Bogdan (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, West University of Timişoara, Romania):

From the Anthropology of Borders to the Borders of Anthropology

2.2. Language, Literature and Identity

Room:

Chair: Maxwell Alexander

Speakers:

Corković Mirjana (Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, Serbia):

Standard language ideology and local varieties in Serbian Banat in Radu Flora's novels

Zlatanović Sanja (Ethnographic Institute, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia):

The literary work of Bora Stanković and the construction of the local identity

Fruntelată Ioana-Ruxandra (Department of Ethnology and Folklore, University of Bucharest, Romania):

Media Building of a Regional Emblem

Kotska Olha (Development of MA Programmes in Sociology and Cultural Studies at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine):

Constructing the region in literary tradition. Galicia as field of Austro-Hungarian “fictitious” reality.

2.3. Regional Identities (2)

Room:

Chair: ştefanescu Atalia

Speakers:

Samokhvalov Vsevolod (Odessa National University, Ukraine):

Forgetting and Reviving the Balkans: Changing Identities in the Ukrainian Bessarabia. The Case of the Reni District

Stefanov Nenad (Institute for East European Studies, Free University of Berlin, Germany):

Ethnic Homogeneity vs. the Perception of Difference: The Disappearance of the šopluk in the 20^th Century

Dincă Melinda, Ţîru Laurenţiu (West University of Timişoara, România):

Aspects of Regional and Ethnic Identity in Rural Areas of Timiş County, Romania

Vučinić-Nešković Vesna (Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, School of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia):

State, Local Institutions and Regional Identities in Montenegro

2.4. Historical Dimensions (2)

Room:

Chair: Brunnbauer Ulf

Speakers:

Frantz Eva Anne (Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Universität Wien, Austria):

Regionale Identitäten in Kosovo in spätosmanischer Zeit (1870 bis 1913)

Havadi-Nagy Kinga Xenia (Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany):

Freier Bauer und Soldat: Identität und Bewusstsein der Grenzergesellschaft in der Österreichischen Militärgrenze im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert

Norton Claire (St Mary’s University College, Strawberry Hill, London, England):

Contested Identities in Narratives of the Ottoman-Hungarian Marches

Suveica Svetlana (The State University of Moldova, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova):

Regional Tendencies in Interwar Bessarabia: a Case Study

2.5. The Balkans as a Region

Room:

Chair: Cotoi Calin

Speakers:

Kimm Chantelle-Marie (University of Athens, Athens, Greece):

Bosnia-Herzegovina: Identities, Politics, and the Nation

Jovičić Svetlana (Faculty of Drama, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia):

The SEE region - sold/ consumed through European films

Lehti Marko (University of Tampere, Finland):

The De-Balkanization of the Balkans: Searching for Unity after the Ottomans

Bošković Aleksandar (Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia)

Political Actors, Anthropologists and NGOs Representing Former Yugoslavia: telling it like it "is"

20:00

Reception

Saturday, May 26

9:00 – 11:00 SESSION 3

3.1. Regional Disparities

Room:

Chair: Fruntelata Ioana

Speakers:

Maričić Tamara & Petrić Jasna (Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia):

Physical expansion and sub-regional disparities in the growing metropolitan region of Belgrade

Popescu Raluca (Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy) & Virdol Amalia (Department for Social Affairs, Health, Education, Culture and Cults, Prime Minister Chancellery, Romania):

Oltenia - a surviving region in romanian regional development

Selimi Yllka (Institute of Folk Culture, Albanian Academy of Sciences, Tirana, Albania):

Albania, One Country, Two Realities

Teampau Petruta (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania):

Sulina – “the dying city” in a vital region

3.2. Religion and Region

Room:

Chair: Aschauer Wolfgang

Speakers:

Djurić Aleksandra (Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, Serbia):

The cross with four pillars –- the center of spiritual gathering trough history

Lubanska Magdalena (School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland):

Three Narrations about the Dissenter Neighbors in the Muslim-Christian Local Communities of the Western Rhodopes (Bulgaria)

ştefănescu, Atalia (Sociology-Anthropology Department, Faculty of Sociology and Psychology, West University of Timişoara):

Religious Identities in the Intercultural Region of Romanian Banat

3.3. Arts, Media and the Representation of Space

Room:

Chair: de Rapper Gilles

Speakers:

Levytska Maryana (Department of Art Studies, Ethnology Institute UNAS, L’viv, Ukraine):

19th c. Galicia and its People. Region Indentity Characteristics in the Artistic Context

Malešević Branka (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada):

Aesthetics, Politics of Identity and Regionalism in Southeastern Europe

Rautenberg Michel (Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France) & Krastanova Krassimira (Université Paissii Hilendarski, Plovdiv, Bulgarie):

Images et stéréotypes de Plovdiv à travers la peinture

Petre Raluca (“Ovidius” University in Constanta, Romania):

Regional Narratives as shaped by Media Goods Circulation in the Previous Regime

3.4. Interethnic Relations and Minorities (1)

Room:

Chair: Roth Klaus

Speakers:

Florea George-Tudor (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary):

The Impact of the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities on Domestic Administrative Practices in the Central and Eastern European Region

Babau Alexandra, Andreica Luminita (West University of Timişoara, Romania):

Serbian-Romanian Relationships Between Conflict and Cohabitation. Case Study: Felnac Village, Arad County

Bloch Avital H. (Center for Social Research, University of Colima, Mexico):

Macedonians, Macedonia and Its Neighbors: Nation, State, and Ethnicity

3.5. Mental Mapping and Stereotypes

Room:

Chair: Zerilli Filippo

Speakers:

Kanygina Antonina (National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Ukraine):

Cultural Landscape vs. Regionalism: Established Borders or Imagined Areas?

Engin Bilsel Hande (Faculty of Communication, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul Turkey):

“Lazutlar”: The Eastern Black Sea Turks and the commodification and appropriation of the “Tea Land” folks

Nagy Raluca (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium / "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) & Colotelo Cristina (National School of Political Science and Administration, Romania):

Regional Images and Stereotypes in Maramures, Romania

Stoicescu Adrian (Chair of Ethnology and Folklore, University of Bucharest, Romania):

Creating Regional Identity through Laughter. Regions and Regionalism in Romanian Contemporary Jokes

3.6. Europe of and in Regions

Room:

Chair: Lukanović Jovica

Speakers:

Svyetlov Oleksandr (NBB Civil Organisation, Kyiv, Ukraine):

Europe of Regions: theory and practice

Tamminen Tanja (Institut des Etudes Politiques, Paris / Turku University, Finland):

Euroregion, micro-region, INTERREG-project region. Europeanizing the Southern Balkan border regions?

Sideri Eleni (Faculty of Communications, University of New York, Skopje, Macedonia):

Borders and Orders: constructing regions and selves in shifting European lands

Tunc Aybak (Middlesex University in London, Great Britain):

Regionalism in the Black Sea Periphery and EU’s New Neighbourhood Policy: Thick Regionalization and Thin Regionalism

11:30 – 13:30 SESSION 4

4.1. Decentralisation vs. Centralism (1)

Room:

Chair: Lafazanovski Ermis

Speakers:

Misev Vladimir (Centre for Political System and Local Government, Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis”; Skopje, Republic of Macedonia):

Defining regions?

Morcov Dora Alexa (Université de Bucarest, Faculté de Sociologie et Université Bordeaux 2, Roumanie):

Les jeux de construction d’une région métropolitaine dans la Roumanie après le 1989. Le cas de la zone métropolitaine de Bucarest

Nevenić Marija (Faculty of Geography, University of Belgrade, Serbia) & Krunić Nikola (Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia):

Macro regional centers as decentralization instruments in the Serbian regional integration into South East Europe

Yusufi Islam (Department of Politics/Southeast European Research Center, Skopje, Macedonia):

Regional governance in the western Balkans

4.2. Music and Identity

Room:

Chair: Zerilli Filippo

Speakers:

Marković Aleksandra (Codarts Research, Rotterdam, The Netherlands):

“The Balkans for Dummies”? Balkan music as perceived in Western Europe

Pistrick Eckehard (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany):

Migration memories in Epirus borderlands – Regional constructions of identity and memory through place and sound

Theodosiou Aspasia (Department of Music, Epirus Institute of Technology, Greece / Social Anthropology, Manchester University, UK):

“Tradition” in a marginal margin: reviving polyphonic singing on the Greek-Albanian border

4.3. Social Relations and Networks (2)

Room:

Chair: Brunnbauer Ulf

Speakers:

Dalipaj Gerda (Institute of Folk Culture, Albanian Academy of Sciences, Tirana, Albania):

Similar and differing patterns of exchange in / of the Region of Shpati

De Rapper Gilles (Institut d’ethnologie méditerranéenne et comparative, Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme, Aix-en-Provence, France):

“We give and take inside”: Defining the region through kinship and marriage?

Hysa Armanda (Institute of Folk Culture, Albanian Academy of Sciences, Tirana, Albania):

Regional-based Networks in the Metropolis – The Case of Tirana

Kartari Asker (Faculty of Communication, Hacettepe University, Ankara)

Regionale Identitäten und Alltagsleben in türkischen Großstädten

4.4. Interethnic Relations and Minorities (2)

Room:

Chair: Pamporov Alexey

Speakers:

Blomqvist Anders (Södertörn University College / Stockholm University, Sweden):

Ethnic Narratives and Regional Identity of the Hungarian, Romanian and Jewish City of Satu Mare / Szatmárnémeti / Satmar.

Crînguş-Balaci Mariana (West University of Timişoara, Romania):

Minorités et majoritaires dans le Pays Almaj (dép. Caraţ Severin)

Brunnbauer Ulf (Institute of East European Studies, Free University of Berlin, Germany):

Space, Ethnicity and Conflict in the Republic of Macedonia

Pavlović Mirjana (Ethnographic Institute, Serbian Academy of Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia)

Regional identity – Serbs in Timisoara

4.5. Memory and Narratives of Belonging (1)

Room:

Chair: Giordano Christian

Speakers:

Birt Danijela (Department for Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Zadar, Hrvatska):

Where all this people come from on the Day of Youth?

Branc Simona (West University of Timişoara, Romania):

The Construction of Banatian Regional Identity through Life-Story Interviews

Cojocari Ludmila (Laboratory of Cultural Anthropology and Ethno-Political Studies, Free International University of Moldova, Republic of Moldova):

Practices of Memory and Amnesia in the Borderland Society: the Case of the Republic of Moldova

Lafazanovska Stojanović Lidija (Institute of Folklore “Marko Cepenkov”, Skopje, Macedonia):

Erinnerte Symbole (Zur symbolischen Bedeutung des Geburtsorts in lebensgeschichtlichen Erzählungen)

4.6. Regional Identities, Ceremonies and Patrimonialism (1)

Room:

Chair: Vučinić-Nešković Vesna

Speakers:

Hedeşan, Otilia (West University, Timişoara, Romania):

The carnivals (făşancuri) from Mountainous Banat as Cine-rituals

Ştiucă Narcisa (University of Bucharest, Romania):

The ‘Căluş’ – an identity emblem

Bucin Mihaela (University of Szeged, Hungary) & Martin Emilia (Erkel Museum, Gyula, Hungary):

Ceremonies of identity, from feast to festival. Avatar of the folk dances of the Romanians from Hungary

Iliescu Laura Jiga (“Constantin Brailoiu” Institute of Ethnography and Folklore, Bucharest, Romania):

Maramures, what is this?

15:00 – 17:00 SESSION 5

5.1. Decentralisation vs. Centralism (2)

Room:

Chair: Otoiu Damina

Speakers:

Vlad Mihaela (Faculté de Sciences Politiques, Université de Bucharest, Roumanie):

Régions et régionalismes dans le discours politique roumain

Calindere Apostu Otilia (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, Université de Bucarest, Roumanie):

Raconter le régionalisme pour construire le nationalisme – du communisme au postcommunisme

Botea Bianca (ATER, Université Lyon 2, France):

Ethnicité et renouveau régional en Transylvanie

5.2. Material Culture

Room:

Chair: Dimova Rozita

Speakers:

Krasteva-Blagoeva Evgenia & Blagoev Goran (New Bulgarian University, Sofia):

Tasting the Balkans: Food and Identity

Ranković Daniela (Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, Serbia):

Regional Architecture. The Balkan Case – from Local to Global Perspective

Zheleva-Martins Dobrina (Center for Architectural Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria):

Migration as a factor for forming a common regional architectural picture on the Balkans

5.3. Social Relations and Networks (2)

Room:

Chair: Kartari Asker

Speakers:

Kaplan Melike (Department of Folklore, Ankara University, Turkey):

Regional Identity: from the Region to the City Centre

Totelecan Silviu G. (Department of Socio-Human Research, “G. Barit” History Institute of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania):

Trading the Local. Networks Colliding and Coalition

Alexiu Teodor Mircea (West University of Timisoara, Romania):

Processes of Change in the Lives of Persons with Intellectual Disability from the Romanian Western Region

5.4. Minorities and Identity (1)

Room:

Chair: Brunnbauer Ulf

Speakers:

Jankowski Wojciech (Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences Warszawa, Poland):

Romanians in the Czernowitz Region. Regional or national identity?

Vitkov David (University of Graz, Austria & Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis” Skopje, Macedonia):

Identity in the Region of West Macedonia (Greece)

Kilinc Seda (Faculty of Letters, Ankara University, Turkey):

Ethnographic Analysis of Pomak Turks’ Cultural Identity and Ethnic Structure

Bielenin Karolina & Paczóska Katarzyna (Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Warsaw University, Poland):

Construction of identity in multicultural communities: The case of the Torbeshi in the central Zhupa region in the Republic of Macedonia

5.5. Memory and Narratives of Belonging (2)

Room:

Chair: Lafazanovska-Stojanović Lidija

Speakers:

Lazea Andreea (University Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania):

Post-communist monuments of Bucharest and the (re)creation of a local identity

Ristovska-Josifovska Biljana (Institute of National History, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia):

Mijak’s Region in Macedonia through Memories and Narratives

Rüb Claudia (München, Deutschland):

Bessarabien – erinnerte Region

5.6. Regional Identities, Ceremonies and Patrimonialism (2)

Room:

Chair: Vučinić-Nešković Vesna

Speakers:

Neagota Bogdan (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania):

Spring ceremonials from Transylvania

Benga Ileana (The Folklore Archive of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania):

The Regional relevance of specific age-group controlled ceremonials. Ceata de tineri

Milošeska Eli (Institute for Old Slovenian Culture, Prilep, Republic of Macedonia):

Macedonia’s carnivals and the local, national and supranational identity

17:30 – 19:30

InASEA General Assembly

Room:

Sunday, May 27

8:30 – 10:15 SESSION 6

6.1. Tourism and Promoting the Region (1)

Room:

Chair: Roth Klaus

Speakers:

Spyridakis Manos (Dept. of Social and Educational Policy, University of Peloponnese, Korinthos, Greece):

Space and local development. A contested relation in Eastern Crete in the light of international “golf industry”.

Krneta Jelena (Faculty of Sport and Tourism – TIMS, Novi Sad, Serbia):

Tourist Farm Houses – a possible Way to Preserve the Cultural Identity of the Vojvodina Region

Chicos Alina (L'Institut National d'Urbanisme et Aménagement du Territoire de Roumanie):

Histoire de la propriété agricole et l’évolution du ménage paysan dans la région viticole Vrancea

Bačević Jana (Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade, Serbia):

Anthropology, Tourism and Transition: Concepts of Tourist Development in the Region of Knjaževac (Southeast Serbia)

6.2. Compassion and the Construction of Regions

Room:

Chair: Hristov Petko

Speakers:

Vukov Nikolai (Institute of Folklore, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria):

Food Labels, Meal Specialities and Regional Identities: the Case of Bulgaria

Velimirović Danijela (School of Philosophy, Belgrade, Serbia):

Region, Identity and Cultural Production: Yugoslav Fashion in the “National Style”

Stoimenov Ivaylo (Sofia University, Bulgaria):

Identity Building through the Football Rivalries in the Balkan Region

6.3. Regional Planning

Room:

Chair: Benovska-Săbkova Milena

Speakers:

Tošić Dragutin (Faculty of Geography, Belgrade University) & Maksin-Mičić Marija (Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management, "Singidunum" University, Belgrade, Serbia):

Problems and Possibilities for the Regionalization of Serbia

Stanculescu Cristina (Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bucharest, Romania):

Les fondements de la politique régionale en Roumanie

Đurđević Jasmina (Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia in Belgrade):

The regional aspect of peri-urban development of Niš

6.4. Minorities and Identity (2)

Room:

Chair: Blagoeva-Krasteva Evgeniia

Speakers:

Pimpireva Zhenia (Ethnographical Institute and Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences):

Regional Identity of the Bulgarians in Ukraine

Preda Sinziana (West University of Timişoara, Romania):

Regional Identity: The Pemi from South of Banat

Ilić Marija (Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia):

The Notion of Territory in the Identity Discourse of the Serbs from Szigetcsép

6.5. Migration, Exchange and Identity

Room:

Chair: Brunnbauer Ulf

Speakers:

Dimova Nevena (New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria):

Becoming Bulgarian the Macedonian Way: Changing Identities Among Recent Macedonian Immigrants in Bulgaria

Dimova Rozita (Osteuropa-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin):

Culture Recycling: Balkan-Beats-Berlin. Performing Balkan Cosmopolitanism in Berlin

Prato Giuliana B. (University of Kent, U.K.):

Albania at the Cross-Roads of Inter-Regional Exchange

10:45 – 12:30 SESSION 7

7.1. Tourism and Promoting the Region (2)

Room:

Chair: Vučinić-Nešković Vesna

Speakers:

Čuruvija Ivana (Faculty for Sport and Tourism, Novi Sad, Serbia):

Are Programes of Packige Tours based on Attractivities in the Vojvodina Region?

Zlatkova Meglena (University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarsky”, Bulgaria):

“Who owns the Orpheus?” Sacral mountain or the (re)-construction of the Central Southern Euro-region in Bulgaria

Prentovic Sonja (Faculty of sport and tourism, Novi Sad, Serbia):

Relations between cultural identity and cultural thematic routes in Voivodina

7.2. Bringing the Nation-state back in: Sovereignty, Identity, Private Property

Room:

Chair: Giordano Christian

Speakers:

Vassilev Ivaylo (University of Teeside, Middlesbrough, UK):

Sovereignties and Identities in the European Transformations

Nagore Calvo (Lancaster University, UK):

Contesting ‘Transitions’: Transitional Justice and Legitimacy

Otoiu Damiana Gabriela (Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bucharest, Romania):

‘Reconstructing the Nation’ by means of restitution policies? The case of the Jewish Community

7.3. National Integration

Room:

Chair: COJOCARI Ludmila

Speakers:

Bîrladeanu Virgiliu (Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Republic of Moldova):

Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine “between East and West”; Prolegomena to the Invention of a Region

Lafazanovski Ermis (Institute for Folklore, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia):

The new Macedonian regional identity between virtual narratives and academic discourse

Savkevych Oleksiy (Donetsk National University, Ukraine):

Regional differences in Ukraine – between the West and the East

7.4. Minorities and Identity (2)

Room:

Chair: Pimpireva Zheni

Speakers:

Krel Aleksandar (Ethnographical Institute, Serbian Academy of Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia):

Ethnic Identity (Re)Construction in Vojvodina: The Germans in Sombor

Pamporov Alexey (Institute of Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria):

Regional similarities and differences in the Romani kinship terminology in Bulgaria

Pribac Sorin (Sociology-Anthropology Department, West University of Timişoara, Romania):

French Communities in the Historical Banat Region.

7.5. Peasant Transformations

Room:

Chair: Fruntelata Ioana

Speakers:

Zerilli Filippo M. (University of Cagliari, Italy):

Rural Development and the Global Language of Rights: Transylvanian Peasants Entering EU

Radu Cerasela (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary):

Do Peasants disappear in Romania? Rent Regimes and Control over Land in South and Central Romania

13:00 – 14:00 Concluding Plenary Session

Room:

Chair: Alexiu Mircea

Giordano, Christian (Ethnological Seminar, University of Fribourg, Switzerland):

Cosmopolitan versus ethnic regionalism. Political-anthropological aspects

CONFERENCE SPONSORS

- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (USA)

- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG (Germany)

CONTACT

Atalia Stefanescu

West-University of Timişoara

E-mail: ataliastefanescu@yahoo.com

Fax: +40-256-592-148

Ulf Brunnbauer

Free University of Berlin

E-mail: ulf@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Fax: +49-30-838-54036

InASEA, Executive Committee (2005–2007)

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

Ulf Brunnbauer (Vice-president, Institute for East European Studies, Free University of Berlin)

Klaus Roth (Editor-in-chief of "Ethnologia Balkanica", European Ethnology, University of Munich)

Milena Benovska-Săbkova (Institute of Ethnology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; New Bulgarian University, Sofia)

Christian Giordano (Ethnological Seminar, University of Fribourg)

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

Lidija Stojanović-Lafazanovska (Marko Cepenkov Institute for Folklore, Skopje)