International workshop in Vienna, organised by Kakanien revisited
(www.kakanien.ac.at), BM.WF, and IDM
Concept: Maximilian Hartmuth (www.kakanien.ac.at/weblogs/balkancities)
HS Inst. Slawistik / Campus AAKH
April 25, 2009 (10 a.m. to 7 p.m.)
Is there a crisis in Balkan Studies? Most recent commentators did not put it as drastically but have still noted a number of problems, among which being:
1) the limited impact of professional history-writing on more popular renderings and understandings of history;
2) the seeming reluctance of scholars to take up theoretical and methodological innovations and approaches as pioneered and adopted in the historical writing on other regions, as well as in related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities;
3) a sustained conservatism with regard to nation/identity as the principal object of
historical study in the region.
4) A mandate for the deconstruction of nationalist myths cultured by the regional historiographies by Western Balkan Studies; and
5) the question in how far researchers' self-limitation to a European geography in approaching things Balkan is sound or, to the contrary, precisely a limitation
The international workshop Balkan Studies – quo vadis? (Vienna; April 25, 2009) will take stock of this debate and put forward new questions for a continued discourse on the state of the discipline as practiced both within and outside the region.
Participants:
Zrinka Blažević (Zagreb/Budapest)
Wladimir Fischer (Wien)
Rositza Gradeva (Sofia)
Edin Hajdarpašić (Chicago)
Maximilian Hartmuth (Istanbul)
Karl Kaser (Graz)
Peter Mario Kreuter (Regensburg)
Christian Marchetti (Tübingen)
Tatjana Marković (Belgrade)
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