Workshops / Tagungen
"Yugoslav History in a Global Perspective"
Workshop
12.03.2020, Dorotheenstraße 65, Raum 5.57
Programm PDF hier
GRENZ\RAUM ‒ GRÆNSE\REGION Dänisch-deutsche Geschichte(n)
Berlin, 29.–31. Januar 2020
Tagung am Nordeuropa Institut der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Zusammenfassung:
Im Jahr 1920 wurde, wie im Versailler Vertrag verfügt, nach einer Volksabstimmung der Grenzverlauf zwischen Deutschland und Dänemark neu gezogen. Vorangegangen war dieser Grenzrevision eine lange und heftige Auseinandersetzung, in deren Zentrum die historische Begründung von Gebietsansprüchen sowie Fragen von nationaler und kultureller Zugehörigkeit standen. Das 100jährige Jubiläum bietet im Jahr 2020 einen willkommenen Anlass, die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Prozesse rund um die Volksabstimmung genauer in den Blick zu nehmen sowie die Folgen und den Umgang mit den getroffenen Entscheidungen näher zu beleuchten.
Die international und interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Tagung nähert sich der Thematik mit drei Schwerpunkten. Zum einen sollen die historischen Hintergründe beleuchtet werden, die zur Volksabstimmung von 1920 und der damit verbundenen Grenzziehung führten. Zweitens sollen die Geschehnisse und Akteure rund um die Volksabstimmung eingehender untersucht werden. Schließlich sollen die Folgen der Grenzrevision bis heute beleuchtet werden, hierbei liegt der Schwerpunkt auf der sogenannten Minderheitenpolitik beidseits der Grenze.
Gemeinsam ist allen Beiträgen, dass statt der Grenzlinie der Grenzraum in den Mittelpunkt der wissenschaftlichen Analyse rückt. Als hybride Übergangszone, in dem neben nationalen Gegensätzen vor allem vielfältige politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Verflechtungen das Bild bestimmen, kann die Grenzregion zu einem besseren Verständnis dänisch-deutscher Geschichte(n) beitragen.
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Conference: Borders and Spaces in South East Europe – Historical and Contemporary Imaginations and Practices of B/ordering
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Berlin, 14./15. November 2019
The overall experience of the post-Yugoslav societies since now nearly three decades is dominated by delineations of every kind and mostly by the attempt to create through such delineations ethnic- homogenous communities. Thus, it can be said that b/ordering processes are a crucial feature of societal development within the post-Yugoslav context. Before this background, the most important aim of this conference is to discuss, if it is possible to better understand the deep societal transformations, which in many cases were accompanied by violence, by focusing on the ways how borders were established and how the individuals, societal groups coped with such barriers, obstacles, how they adapted and internalized delineations. The aimis to examine, to which extent we can better grasp the ambiguous transformation, by looking onissues of territoriality and borders. The conference examines such processes of bordering in a historical perspective, since the
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Transgressing Boundaries in North Macedonia
Historical narratives, identity constructs, and political interventions in times of change
Foto: © Agata Rogoś
27th of June 2019 (Thursday), 10.00 AM-8.00 PM
Humboldt University of Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
Lichthof Ost (Room 1007), Main Building
In 2017, a bilateral agreement was signed with neighboring Bulgaria. In 2018, another agreement signed with Greece prompted the name change, once again raising concerns and even rage among Macedonian nationalists. Both agreements, the Agreement for Good Neighborly Relations with Bulgaria and the Treaty of Prespa with Greece stipulated the establishment of two separate bilateral commissions that would be charged with examining historical textbooks, establishing a mutual understanding of offensive and provoking content and suggesting more acceptable interpretations of the past in order to ensure relaxed and amiable neighborly relations in the future.
What would be the academic assessment of these divisive processes in the Republic of North Macedonia: these are the questions, we will discuss. And what are the reactions of neighboring Greece and Bulgaria to these new developments? Is there a potential to overcome the ethnonational founded narratives of closed communities that prevail in the media-mediated public sphere? What are the possibilities of engaging in a debate about common yet conflicting pasts that transcend the boundaries of ethnic communities?
PROGRAM
10:00-10:15
Welcoming words
Christian Voss (Humboldt University of Berlin)
10:15-12:15
Transgressing boundaries of narratives between Macedonia and Bulgaria
Miladina Monova (Bulgarian Academy of Science)
Čavdar Marinov (Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv)
Ljupčo Risteski (Ss. Cyril & Methodius University in Skopje)
Petar Todorov (Institute of National History, Skopje)
12:30-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-16:30
Transgressing boundaries of narratives between Macedonia and-Greece
Tasos Kostopoulos (independent researcher, Athens )
Athena Skoulariki (University of Crete)
Irena Stefoska (Institute of National History, Skopje)
Ana Čupeska (Sts Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje)
18:00-20:00
Podium discussion: Communication Unbound?
Perspectives for Northern Macedonia and its neighbors
Key note: Florian Bieber (Universität Graz)
Ambiguous Agreements: Addressing Nationalism through International Diplomacy
Goran Janev (Sts Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje/ HU Berlin)
Agata Rogoś (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Ioannis Zelepos (LMU München)
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Lecture and Workshop with Didier Fassin (Princeton/Paris)
Lecture: Forced Exile as a Form of Life
Opening with a tragic episode on the Mediterranean, the lecture will first address two questions in reference to Arendt’s reflection on human rights: first, the shift from humanitarian reason to securitarian order in the recent period; second, the response of civil society, including via civil disobedience but also more mundane actions. Offering then a broader perspective on forced exile, it will analyze it as a form of life, combining a theoretical discussion of Wittgenstein, Canguilhem and Agamben, and an ethnographic research conducted in France and South Africa. From these various perspectives, the fate of these transnational nomads and the way they are treated shed a crude light on the contemporary world.
Donnerstag/Thursday, 10.1.2019, 18-20h
Hausvogteiplatz 5-7, 10117 Berlin, Room 0007
Institutskolloquium, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, HU Berlin
Workshop: Borders of Humanitarianism
Workshop Freitag/Friday, 11.1.2019, 9:30-16:00
Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, HU Berlin
Please consult the whole programme of the lecture series „Ethnographies of the Contemporary: Perspektiven und Positionen einer Anthropologie des Politischen“ by following this link: https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/veranstaltungen/institutskolloquium/wintersemester-2018-19/institutskolloquium-wintersemester-2018-19
Vortrag und Workshop mit Elizabeth Cullen Dunn (Indiana University, Bloomington)
How do we define political events and the subjects who carry them out? These are fundamental questions taken up by the philosopher Alain Badiou, who has developed a complex theory to explain both "the normal situation" and "the Event" which ruptures it to create a radically different world. Badiou's vision is of a heroic political subject and of an Event that constitutes revolution. But the recent movement of millions of refugees and the "crisis" of forced migration challenges Badiou's notion of both the Event and what it means to be a political subject. Using the lived experiences of forced migrants, I retheorize the Event as an explosion, trace the crisis of coherence and meaning it creates for displaced people, and argue for a rich conception of "the political" as the process of constituting a coherent and actionable world in the wake of cataclysm. In doing so, I seek to reframe who counts as a political actor and rethink what kind of action counts as politics.