Russian, East European and Eurasian Center
University of Illinois
Annual Conference
Building the Balkans Anew: From Metaphor to Market
21 September–22 September 2007
http://www.reec. uiuc.edu/ events/annual. html
Keynote Address
“Highways, Roadblocks and Empires”
Robert Hayden (Professor of Anthropology, Law, and Public & International Affairs; Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh)
Closing Address
"Back to the Future? Kosovo's Uncertain Prospects and Its Implications for the Balkans"
Louis Sell (Executive Director, American University in Kosovo Foundation)
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Friday, 21 September
126 Library and Information Science
2:00–3:45 pm
Welcoming Remarks
Richard Tempest (Director, REEEC; Slavic, University of Illinois)
Panel 1: Tradition and Globalization in Daily Life, Family, Religion Milica Bakic-Hayden (Religion, University of Pittsburgh): “Religious Dialogue in the Balkans”
Ana Croegaert (Anthropology, Northwestern University): “Making Home and
Making Family: Work, Credit, and Gender among the New Bosnian Diaspora”
Ljudmila Popovic-Labudovic( Comparative Literature, University of Colorado):
“Unpacking Independence: Women Authors and Fictional Females in the
Recently-Declared Independent Montenegro”
Chair: Maria Todorova (History, University of Illinois)
Discussant: Tomislav Longinovic (Slavic, University of Wisconsin)
4:00–5:30 pm
Keynote Address
“Highways, Roadblocks and Empires”
Robert Hayden (Professor of Anthropology, Law, and Public & International
Affairs; Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies,
University of Pittsburgh)
Introduction by William Brustein (Associate Provost of International
Affairs, University of Illinois)
Saturday, 22 September
Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080), Foreign Languages Building
9:00–10:45 am
Panel 2: Wealth, Private Enterprise, Marketing: Redefining the Region in an
European Framework
Svitozar Omelko (Eastern European and Russian Studies, Carleton
University): “European Energy Security Framework: Critical Role of the
Balkan Region”
Larisa Puslenghea (Advertising, University of Illinois): “Does Ecotourism
Work? Community, Environment and Sustainable Development in Romania”
Yuson Jung (CEERES, University of Chicago): “Reshaping Inter-Balkan
Relations in the ‘New’ Europe”
Chair: Robert Whiting (Geography, University of Illinois)
Discussant: Zsuzsa Gille (European Union Center, Sociology, University of
Illinois)
11:00–12:45pm
Panel 3: Creating New National and International Self-definitions
Andrew Gilbert (Anthropology, University of Chicago): “The Past in
Parentheses: International Intervention and (non)Post-Socialism in Post-War
Bosnia–Herzegovina”
Ralitsa Konstantinova (Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh): “Building
Peace in Kosovo: The Social Impact of the International Peacemaking in
Kosovo, 2003-2006”
Evguenia Davidova (University Studies, Portland State University): “The New
Tour-ist: Bulgaria's Intra-Balkan Tourism since 1990s”
Chair: Keith Hitchins (History, U of Illinois)
Discussant: Yana Hashamova (Slavic, Ohio State University)
3:00–4:45pm
Panel 4: Communications and Image-Making
Andrew Graan (Anthropology, University of Chicago): “‘We Need Marketing’:
The Politics of Imidz in Macedonia”
Elza Ibroscheva (Mass Communications, Southern Illinois University,
Edwardsville) : “The New Face of Bulgarian Television: A Case Study of bTV
and the Role of Foreign Investment in the Bulgarian Media”
Oana Popescu-Sandu (Comparative Literature, University of Illinois): "'The
Afternoon of a Torturer': Film and Historical Image-making in
Post-communist Romania"
Chair: Kate Meehan Pedrotty (History, University of Illinois)
Discussant: Diana Mincyte (Advertising, University of Illinois)
5:00–6:00pm
Closing Address
"Back to the Future? Kosovo's Uncertain Prospects and Its Implications for
the Balkans"
Louis Sell (Executive Director, American University in Kosovo Foundation)
Introduction by Richard Tempest (REEEC, University of Illinois)
Lynda Y. Park, Associate Director
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
University of Illinois
104 International Studies Building, MC-487
910 South Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 333-6022, 333-1244; fax (217) 333-1582
lypark@uiuc. edu
http://www.reec. uiuc.edu
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