{"id":26743,"date":"2021-06-25T22:04:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T22:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=26743"},"modified":"2021-06-25T22:04:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T22:04:49","slug":"elife-krasniqi-locating-the-black-presence-in-the-balkans-family-histories-and-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=26743","title":{"rendered":"Elife Krasniqi &#8211; &#8220;Locating the Black presence in the Balkans: Family Histories and Memories&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The history of Ottoman Empire in the Balkans is often discussed in monolithic way and the domestic nature of Ottoman slavery (Ferguson &amp; Toledano, 2017), different from the trans-Atlantic slavery, received little (or not at all) attention. My research at this early-stage deals with locating the Black presence in the Balkans since 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, and with the issue of race and national identity. I am interested to see how race was discussed or mattered in everyday life in relation to different regimes of power. I am particularly interested to look how individuals, of mainly African descent, trace their family histories and memories. At this point in my research, it is difficult to speak about cases of slavery. Black communities or members of this community in 20<sup>th<\/sup> century in Ulqin (Montenegro), Shkodra (Albania), Prishtina (Kosovo), Sarajevo (Bosnia) performed different types of work, including (or perhaps mainly) household one as servants and as nannies. In this presentation, I will attempt to present individual stories and biographies which feel like Ariadne threads that lead to history in the Ottoman Balkans. Due to scarce archive sources, I significantly rely on a mixed methodology of visual analysis, namely photography, and collected oral histories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join Zoom Meeting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/88408941379?pwd=S2VpcDc2bm9Bc2NVTktEcGhLYUFiQT09\">https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/88408941379?pwd=S2VpcDc2bm9Bc2NVTktEcGhLYUFiQT09<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meeting ID: 884 0894 1379<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Passcode: 7fJuVb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">29.06.2021 13:00 &#8211; 14:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zentrum f\u00fcr S\u00fcdosteuropastudien &amp; SOEGA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/suedosteuropa.uni-graz.at\/de\/veranstaltungen\/detail\/article\/brownbag-locating-the-black-presence-in-the-balkans-family-histories-and-memories\/\">https:\/\/suedosteuropa.uni-graz.at\/de\/veranstaltungen\/detail\/article\/brownbag-locating-the-black-presence-in-the-balkans-family-histories-and-memories\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Family_of_Riza_Fresku_Foto_Geg_Marubi.jpeg?fit=444%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52688,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52688","url_meta":{"origin":26743,"position":0},"title":"Eleonora Naxidou and Yura Konstantinova \u201eBalkan Perspectives of Europe: Between East and West\u201c","author":"Filip \u0160imunjak","date":"28. travnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Through the lens of the Balkan nations, this volume makes a valuable and significant contribution to the fields of European and Southeast European studies by reconsidering the East\/West dichotomy \u2013 both in terms of the Orient\u2013Occident divide and the Eastern\u2013Western Europe binary. 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