{"id":37855,"date":"2023-11-03T20:59:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T20:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=37855"},"modified":"2023-11-03T20:59:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T20:59:27","slug":"cfp-towards-a-social-history-of-albanians-in-socialist-yugoslavia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=37855","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Towards a social history of Albanians in socialist Yugoslavia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz,<\/strong> 9-10 February 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This workshop, jointly organised by the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, and the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, seeks to assess the state of the art regarding the social history of Albanians in Yugoslav socialism (1945-1991). Despite advances in the social and cultural historiography of Yugoslavia in the last two decades (e.g., on diverse topics such as everyday life, gender, labour, childhood, consumerism etc\u2026) little of this scholarship takes into account Albanian experiences of Yugoslav socialism or meaningfully engages with sources from Albanian inhabited parts of Yugoslavia, namely Kosovo and Macedonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organised as the concluding event for a research project investigating the intra-Yugoslav labour migration of Albanians to Croatia and Slovenia, we invite contributions that engage with the social history of Albanian citizens of Yugoslavia and are informed by original, empirical research conducted by the author(s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While there are justified and self-evident reasons for the scholarly focus on political history and social memory \u2013 above all on mutually exclusive ethnonational claims along the Prishtina-Belgrade axis \u2013 we are of the view that focused and empirically informed examination of state-society relations in the domain of the everyday <\/em>can lead to better understandings of the varied Albanian experiences of participation in a socialist Yugoslav state across time and space. Conversely, Albanian perspectives can also reveal much about the Yugoslav state itself and the limits of the Titoist project and perhaps serve as a corrective to some of the \u201cmethodologically Yugonostalgic\u201d approaches to the social history of Yugoslavia. The focus on \u201cthe social\u201d is not meant to negate or ignore the dominant frames in the historiography (national, political, military) but rather to offer complementary lines of historical inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We invite researchers working on topics that could fit under the rubric of the theme \u2013 the social history of Albanians in Yugoslavia \u2013 to send an abstract (max 400 words) and a short bio (max 150 words) to mladen.zobec@uni-graz.at<\/strong><\/a>by 01.12.2023<\/strong>. Selected participants will be expected to circulate draft papers three weeks in advance of the workshop. Some limited funding for travel and accommodation is available \u2013 scholars living and working outside the EU and those without institutional funding will be prioritised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n