U utorak, 13. studenog 2018. godine na Srednjoeuropskom sveu\u010dili\u0161tu u Budimpe\u0161ti (CEU) odr\u017ean je okrugli stol povodom knjige Diane Mishkove \u201eBeyond Balkanism\u201c.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n —<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Rethinking Balkanism<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 – 6:30pm to 8:00pm<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n We invite you to the round table co-organized by the Karl Polanyi Center for Global Social Studies, CEU History Department and Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n During the discussion, Diana Mishkova\u2019s\u00a0Beyond Balkanism<\/em>\u00a0will be presented and discussed in a wider context.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n Diana Mishkova:\u00a0Rethinking Balkanism<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n About Diana Mishkova\u2019s\u00a0Beyond Balkanism<\/em>: In recent years, western discourse about the Balkans, or \u201cBalkanism,\u201d has risen in prominence. Characteristically, this strand of research sidelines the academic input in the production of western representations and Balkan self-understanding. Looking at the Balkans from the vantage point of \u201cBalkanism\u201d has therefore contributed to its further marginalization as an object of research and the evisceration of its agency. This book reverses the perspective and looks at the Balkans primarily inside-out, from within the Balkans towards its \u201cself\u201d and the outside world, where the west is important but not the sole referent.<\/p>\n The book unravels attempts at regional identity-building and construction of regional discourses across various generations and academic subcultures, with the aim of reconstructing the conceptualizations of the Balkans that have emerged from academically embedded discursive practices and political usages. It thus seeks to reinstate the subjectivity of \u201cthe Balkans\u201d and the responsibility of the Balkan intellectual elites for the concept and the images it conveys. The book then looks beyond the Balkans, inviting us to rethink the relationship between national and transnational (self-)representation and the communication between local and exogenous \u2013 Western, Central and Eastern European \u2013 concepts and definitions more generally. It thus contributes to the ongoing debates related to the creation of space and historical regions, which feed into rethinking the premises of the \u201cnew area studies.\u201d\u00a0Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making<\/em>\u00a0will interest researchers and students of transnationalism, intellectual history,\u00a0politics, historical geography, border and area studies.<\/p>\n Bio:<\/strong>\u00a0Mishkova has been the Academic Director, since 2000, of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia. She has published extensively on comparative Balkan history, intellectual history, and historiography. Her recent publications include\u00a0Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Routledge, 2018),\u00a0European Regions and Boundaries. A Conceptual History<\/em>, co-edited with Bal\u00e1zs Trencs\u00e9nyi (London: Berghahn Books, 2017), and\u00a0Entangled Histories of the Balkans. Vol. 2: Transfer of Political Ideologies and Institutions,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Vol. 4: Concepts, Approaches, and (Self-) Representations<\/em>, co-edited with Roumen Daskalov et al. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013, 2017).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Orlanda Obad:\u00a0On Illiberal Avant-garde: Balkanism and the 1990s in Croatia<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Obad will argue that, in order to understand some of the current \u201cilliberal\u201c tendencies in both Croatian and broader, regional contexts, one needs to re-examine the 1990s, the decade in which critique of Balkanism was established. Beneath the discursively simplified centering of the Europe\/Balkan opposition, there was a plethora of social processes in Croatia which remained underresearched and misevaluated. As those begin to be recognized as roots of current \u201ctroubles\u201c, Obad revisits some of the blind spots of Balkanist critique, while examining the (remaining) political potential of strategic essentialism in this body of work. Obad will focus on (dis)continuities between 1990s and 2010s, such as the social role of the Catholic Church and the present conservative tendencies among the young; the fulfillment of former president Tudjman’s political ideas in Croatian politics and society; the process of privatization and the country’s current economic illnesses, topics which are thematized in the latest wave of research on the 1990s.<\/p>\n Bio:<\/strong>\u00a0Orlanda Obad is a senior assistant at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research (IEF). She draws upon several disciplines \u2013 sociology, cultural anthropology and political science. She participated in several international research projects, including INFORM (Horizon 2020), in which she co-develops the concept of caring (female) entrepreneurship. She is the founder of Ruralije, an informal research group concerned with rural development, and she also directs a series of public lectures and discussions \u2013 Tribina IEF-a \u2013 at the Institute. Her topics of interest include rural development, emotional capital, critique of Balkanism, European Union and the Western Balkans, and 1990s in Croatia.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Discussants:<\/strong><\/p>\n Bal\u00e1zs Trencs\u00e9nyi<\/strong><\/p>\n Bio:<\/strong>\u00a0Bal\u00e1zs Trencs\u00e9nyi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University, Budapest. His main field of interest is the history of modern political thought in East-Central Europe. Between 2008 and 2013, he was Principal Investigator of the ERC project, \u201cNegotiating Modernity: History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe.\u201d Among his recent publications are\u00a0The Politics of \u2018National Character\u2019: A Study in Interwar East European Thought<\/em>\u00a0(Routledge, 2012), and\u00a0A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, Vol. 1: Negotiating Modernity in the \u201cLong Nineteenth Century\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford UP, 2016).<\/p>\n Zolt\u00e1n Ginelli<\/strong><\/p>\n Bio:<\/strong>\u00a0Zolt\u00e1n Ginelli is a PhD Candidate in human geography, an assistant researcher at the Institute of History at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, a member of the Working Group for Public Sociology \u201cHelyzet\u201d, and an assistant in the research project \u201c1989 after 1989: Rethinking the Fall of State Socialism in Global Perspective\u201d at Exeter University. His dissertation unravels the geographical history of Cold War geography and spatial planning, the globalization of geography\u2019s \u201cquantitative revolution\u201d between the 1950s and 1970s, and the transnational history of Walter Christaller\u2019s central place theory. His current research focuses on socialist globalization and foreign policy in Hungary during the Cold War, the connections between socialist Eastern Bloc and the \u201cThird World\u201d, and Hungary\u2019s semiperipheral relation to colonialism and decolonization. In his research and teaching he engages with the geographies of scientific knowledge, policy mobilities, actor-network theory, postcolonial and decolonial theory, and transnational or global history.<\/p>\n