SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES AT OXFORD
European Studies Centre, St Antony's College

SEESOX SEMINAR SERIES
HILARY 2010
Changing Identities in South East Europe
Convenors: Othon Anastasakis and Renée Hirschon
The seminar explores the various ways in which changing identities have been affected by political, economic and social
pressures in the Balkan peninsula, and seeks to assess the responses at regional, national and local levels. The aim is to
contribute towards a better understanding of the diverse forces which shape identities in a period of accelerating change.
This multidisciplinary series addresses the topics of language, education, teaching of history, religion, popular culture,
immigration and Europeanisation, and how these shape and affect regional, national, local and/or individual identities in
Balkan societies. The seminar series combines case studies with conceptual approaches.

Week 1
Monday 18 January
Neighbours become enemies: The break up of a Bosnian village
Film and panel discussion
Renée Hirschon (St Peter’s, Oxford) Eleanor Pritchard (St Cross, Oxford)
Cristian Romocea (Evandeoski Teoloski Facultet, Osijek, Croatia)

Week 2
Monday 25 January
Language and identity among the Greeks and South Slavs, 1800 to 2000
Peter Mackridge (St Cross, Oxford)

Week 3
Monday 1 February
The multiple identities of refugees in transit: the Kurds in Greece
Aspasia Papadopoulou (DPhil Oxon)

Week 4
Monday 8 February
Confronting selves, recognising others: Europeanisation in the post-Ottoman
world
Nora Fisher Onar (Bahcesehir University, Istanbul)

Week 5
Monday 15 February
State- and identity-building in modern Greece
Thanos Veremis (University of Athens)

Week 6
Monday 22 February
Cartographies of nationalist desire: Territory and nation-building in the post-Ottoman era
Spyros Sofos (Kingston University)

Week 7
Monday 1 March
Myth, nation, and some history too: Who still remembers interwar Yugoslavia?
Dejan Djokic (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Week 8
Monday 8 March
Religion, violence, and nationalism in Ottoman Macedonia
Dimitris Livanios (Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki)

All seminars will take place at 5 p.m. in the Seminar Room at the European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road.
South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
European Studies Centre ▪ St Antony’s College ▪ University of Oxford ▪ OX2 6JF

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