Online lecture series “The Balkan Circle” – Spring ’22 Series

9. veljače 2022. Leave a comment

The Balkan Circle is a weekly seminar where lectures, presentations, exhibits, or open interactive dialogues will focus on any (and all) aspects of historical, political, economic, social and cultural phenomena in the (so-called) Balkans. The seminar is free and open to the public and will be held every Friday during the semester from 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm.

We are very pleased that our online format led to greater engagement from the international community. Keeping this in mind, we’ve decided to continue our online presentations rather than regroup in our tiny second-floor conference room (as charming as it is). We will have occasional “in-person” speakers, but they will also be live-streamed to the international audience to allow for continued participation among The Circle.

Spring 2022 Schedule

February 4 | Citizens Without Borders: Yugoslavia and its Migrant Workers in Western Europe • Brigitte Le Normand

February 11 | North Macedonia: From Region to Nation • Alexander Maxwell

February 18 | Architects, Archaeologists, and the Search for History in Bucharest’s Old Town • Emanuela Grama

February 25 | The Feminist Challenge to the State in Yugoslavia • Zsofia Lorand

March 4 | Addressing the Rule of Law in the Western Balkans • Marko Kmezic

March 11 | Russian, French, English: The Stories Language Books Tell • Elidor Mëhilli

March 25 | Discourses on EU enlargement in Bulgaria, Serbia and North Macedonia • Antoaneta Dimitrova

April 1 | The Road to Socialism: The Vicious Circle of Highway Building and Infrastructure in Postwar Bulgaria (1945-1989) • Lyubomir Pozharliev

April 8 | The Left-Wing Populism of SYRIZA: Successes and Limitations During the 2010s • Lazaros Karavasilis

April 15 | Ottoman Borderlands: Islamic Modernism and The Making of Muslim Identities in Nineteenth-Century Dobruca • Catalina Hunt

April 22 | Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist Romania • Jill Massino