Balkan Matters!

Gilles de Rapper (AFEBalk President, École française d’Athènes) Anne Faure (Mucem) Fabio Giomi (AFEBalk General Secretary, CETOBaC) Pierre Sintès, Aix-Marseille Université, Telemme, Olivier Givre, Université Lumière-Lyon2, EVS, Anne Madelain, editor-in-chief of Balkanologie, CREE, Detelina Tocheva, editor-in-chief of Balkanologie, Cyril Isnart, Director of MMSH, Aix-Marseille Université, GSRL, Naima Berkane, Eur’ORBEM, Sylvain Guyot, PASSAGES, Valérie Nivelon, Radio France Internationale.

Moderated by Gilles de Rapper (EFA), Melody Robine (CETOBaC, EHESS) and Juliette Ronsin (Mucem-EHESS, CETOBaC)

Béatrice von Hirschhausen (Géographie-Cités, CNRS)

Gruia Bădescu (University of Konstanz)

Marie-Charlotte Calafat (Mucem curator)

 

Salle Atelier 2, Fort Saint-Jean: Religious materials revisited

Chairwoman: Detelina Tocheva (GSRL, CNRS)

Bernard Lory (CREE, INALCO) The bell as an object of intercommunity dispute in the Balkans in the 19th century

Stamatis Zochios (Hellenic Folklore Research Center, Academy of Athens), Objects and exorcism rituals: Material culture as a vector of religious power in the Orthodox Balkans.

Detelina Tocheva (GSRL, CNRS, France), Between local economy and national politics: the double valence of Orthodox Christian materialities in the southern Bulgarian Rhodopes.

Néphélie Skarlatos (GSRL, EPHE, EFA), Material re-appropriations and ritual reconstructions in contemporary polytheism in Greece

Salle Khamsin: Books and publishing: political issues

Session chaired by Anne Madelain (CREE, INALCO)

Tijana Koprivica (Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Vienna), Yugoslav Avant-Garde in Print: Material Practices and Cultural Memory in Mоnny de Boully’s Work

Dimitra Douskos (CETOBaC), Unfinished, unfinishable or something else? On the partial publication of the material culture of the Sarakatsanes by folklorist Angeliki Hatzimikhali

Charlotte Villard (CETOBaC, EHESS), Production et diffusion à l’international des images du socialisme albanais : l’exemple d’une revue illustrée de propagande

Katja Kobolt (Institute of culture and memory studies, Academy of Science of Slovenia), “Where have all the books gone?”: Children’s books as mnemonic objects

Anne Madelain (CREE, INALCO), Technological and political challenges of post-Yugoslav publishing: material for thinking about the systemic transformation of the 1990s

Salle Meltem: Museums in the Balkans since the 1990s #1: The invisible, silence and loss

Coordinators: Ina Belcheva (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, LIRA) and Milica Popović (Institut für Kulturwissenschaften, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Discussant: Gruia Bădescu (University of Konstanz)

Ina Belcheva (LIRA, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Official Art in Times of Political Transitions: a case study from Bulgaria

Milica Popović (Institut für Kulturwissenschaften, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften), Ruptures of the war narratives: the case of Yugoslav wars

Tamara Banjeglav (Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, ZRC SAZU), Invisible peace: Absent memory in Croatian memorial museums

Natalia Tatarchuk (SIRICE, Sorbonne University), The exhibition at the National Museum of Kosovo (Muzeu Kombëtar i Kosovës) in Pristina as a reflection of the state ideology of the Republic of Kosovo (Republika e Kosovës / Republika Kosovo)

Fort Saint-Jean Workshop 2: Museums in the Balkans since the 1990s #2: Collections – Creation, circulation, disappearance

Leaders and discussants: Ina Belcheva (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, LIRA) & Milica Popović (Institut für Kulturwissenschaften, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Areti Kondylidou (Greek Ministry of Culture), Hidden Histories, Pushed Back Past at the Islahane of Thessaloniki

Fotini Tsibiridou (University of Macedonia, Humble basketry materialities and critical Roma studies: a decolonial anthropological reading of the Roma Basketry Museum in Greek Thrace

Ekin Akalin (CETOBaC), Establishing a material ecosystem in the Ottoman Balkans: a study of circulating typologies based on the collections of the Mucem and the musée du quai Branly.

Olivera Jokić (John Jay College, City University of New York), A Small Town Gathering: Collecting Material

Meltem Room: Commemorative sites and objects as tools for framing conflicts

Leaders: Ana Dević (TELEMMe, Aix-Marseille University), Peter Vermeersch (LINES, KU Leuven), Martina Ricci (Scuola Superiore Meridionale).

Chair: Elif Becan (GEO, University of Strasbourg)

Rimantė JaugaItė (MEPOST Project, Center for Research on Social Memory, University of Warsaw), Remembering the Srebrenica Genocide through Bosnian Traditions: “Let Ćilimi [and Fildžani] Bear Witness about Us”

Ermela Broci (Institute of Anthropology, Academy of Sciences of Albania), From Walls of Power to Walls of Remembrance: Shkodër Prison’s Transformation into a Memory Museum

Mladen Zobec (Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz), From Bunkers to Heritage: Remembering Socialist Lastovo’s Military Past through its abandoned military objects

Natalie Schwabl (SIRICE, Sorbonne University), Between Ustaša-nostalgia and revisionism: the example of Bleiburg as a Croatian lieu de mémoire, from 1990 until today

Salle Khamsin: Materiality and borders

Coordinators: Sabine Rutar (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg), Andreas Guidi (CREE, INALCO)

Session chairman: Fabio Giomi (CETOBaC, CNRS)

Thibault Bechini (École française de Rome): Materiality of globalization in the Western Balkans at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries: a history of cement, from Trieste to Cetinje

Andreas Guidi (CREE, INALCO): When Tangier’s “blondes” threatened Trieste. American cigarette smuggling and the construction of the border between Yugoslavia and Italy, 1947-1960

Sabine Rutar (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies) : Cross-Border Materialities: Postwar Infrastructures and Energy Supplies in the Northeastern Adriatic

Alina Popescu (University of Bucharest and InVisu): Fashion as a vector of economic and cultural exchange between Romania and France during the Cold War

Véronique André-Lamat (CNRS, PASSAGES) and Sylvain Guyot (CNRS, Université Bordeaux Montaigne).

Chairwoman: Juliette Ronsin (MUCEM-EHESS, CETOBaC)

Discussion: Ina Belcheva (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, LIRA)

Miljana Zekovic (University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning), Said, Unsaying, Resaid: On Narrative and Spatial Dramaturgy in Exhibition Architecture

Margaret Poppetrova (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Archives State Agency), The Unknown Voice of the Archives (the current process in Bulgaria)

Melody Robine (CETOBaC, EHESS), Déplacer l’oubli : les Depotgraphies de Jusuf Hadžifejzović face aux récits muséaux post-yougoslaves.

Luke Bacigalupo (independent researcher), Reflections on the Historical Museum of Serbia’s prospective permanent exhibition

Panayiota Andrianopoulou (Museum of Modern Greek Culture and University of Macedonia, Anthropology Laboratory), Delimitations and heritage perspectives in ethnological museums: the case of the ritual practice of the Naoussa Carnival in Northern Greece.

Fort Saint-Jean Workshop 2: Writing and documentary filming

Session chairman: Fabio Giomi (CETOBaC, CNRS)

Fabio Giomi (CETOBaC, CNRS), (Re)thinking the associative through its paperwork. Activists, bureaucrats and writing practices in Croatia (1870-1920)

Isidora Grubački (Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino Ljubljana), Materiality of Ideas: Archives, Letters, and the History of Women’s Political Thought in Yugoslavia

Melvin Bernard (CETOBaC, EHESS), The materiality of Yugoslav self-management: workers’ council reports, a symbolic object of the socialist enterprise

Oriane Girard (Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Aix-Marseille University & French School of Athens) Ethnographic visualities between power and resistance: looking at the photographic archives of Albanian ethnology (1944-1991)

Nicolas Moll (Independent researcher), Du cahier au livre, de l’intime au public: trajectoires de journaux personnels écrits pendant le siège de Sarajevo (From notebook to book, from intimate to public: trajectories of diaries written during the siege of Sarajevo)

Salle Khamsin: Sensorialities, sensitivities, emotions

Session chaired by Olivier Givre (Université Lumière-Lyon 2, UMR EVS)

Emina Zoletić (University of Warsaw), Intergenerational perspectives on extreme violence: vernacular memories through photographs and family stories

Jovana Stefanović (Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade), Audible cities: sound as a catalyst for urban design

Ksenija Djordjevic Léonard, Jean Léonard (Laboratoire de sociolinguistique, d’anthropologie des pratiques langagières et de didactique des langues-cultures, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), Phenomenology of life and embodiment of experience in the artistic praxis of Kovacica’s naive painters.

Aliki Angelidou (Panteion University, Athens), Olivier Givre (Université Lumière-Lyon2, UMR EVS CNRS 5600) and Valérie Nivelon (Radio France Internationale)

Room Meltem: Infrastructures and networks in crisis in the Balkans: between maintenance and reallocation Responsible: Aliki Angelidou (Panteion University), Sophie Chevalier (Université de Picardie), Clément Dillenseger (EVS), Raphaëlle Segond (Université de Pau-Adour)

Chairwoman: Detelina Tocheva (GSRL, CNRS)

Rositsa Kratunkova (Södertörn University), Sanitation and inequality in water infrastructure development in Sliven, Bulgaria

Miladina Monova (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Enchanted infrastructures: dispossession and mobilizations in a thermal town in Bulgaria

Ivana Djuric (Zagreb Institute for the Culture of Health) Infrastructures of Care and Risk: The Health Challenges of Foreign Workers in Contemporary Croatia

Nikola Venkov-Rose (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Flows of waste through a racialised urban area in Bulgaria

Salle Khamsin: Architecture and urbanity

Coordinators: Sanja Loncar and Jasna Galjer (University of Zagreb)

Chairwoman: Ina Belcheva (LIRA, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Dragana Konstantinović (Department of Architecture, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad), Networks of Houses for Cultural Diffusion: Development of Types and Institutions in the Case of Novi Sad

Meglena Zlatkova (Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv), When the children are gone… The transformations of the schools in a naturally protected and depopulated border region of Bulgaria. The case of Strandza Mountain

Sanja Loncar, Jasna Galjer (University of Zagreb), Innovative architecture and complex purpose. The role of workers’ and people’s universities in Croatia in education, art and culture

Jérôme Bazin (Université Paris-Est Créteil), На око – attention to building surface in the Rhodopes of the 1960s and 1970s.

Fort Saint-Jean Workshop 2: State techniques and technologies

Session chairman: Fabio Giomi (CETOBaC, CNRS)

Discussant : Andreas Guidi (CREE, INALCO)

Olivier Peyronnet (University of Paris 1): Material practices of espionage and the materiality of intelligence: the case of the k. u. k. Evidenzbureau in the Balkans

Zoé Peuch-Lestrade (IHMC and National and Capodistrian University of Athens) Financing, transporting, building up. Mapping the creation of the Physics Instrument Depository at the University of Athens (1830s-1870s)

Angeliki Drongiti (Cresppa-CSU, CNRS), Armed materialities: (re)production of the national male through firearms

Salle Meltem: (Re)composing Balkan radio landscapes: Materiality, mobility and circulation of sounds and radio archives

Co-ordinators: Aliki Angelidou (Panteion University, Athens), Alexandra Balandina (Ionian University, Corfu).

Session chaired by Olivier Givre (Université Lumière-Lyon2, EVS)

Aliki Angelidou (Panteion University) and Alexandra Balandina (Ionian University), Radioscapes from Exile: Sound Production, Transmission and Appropriation in Cold War Eastern Europe

Despina Pilou (Panteion University), Material traces of sound: Restoring the Greek Cities Police Radio Broadcasts (1954-1971)

Georgia Sarikoudi (Aristotle University), Bridging Borders: Listener Letters and the Construction of Community in Greek political refugees’ radio shows in Eastern Europe

Maria Adamopoulou (New Europe College) ‘Greece is in the air’: the transnational broadcast of the Greek Communist exiled radio in Bucharest (1960-1968)

Salle Khamsin: Challenges of tangible and intangible heritage for environmental protection

Coordinators: Orianne Crouteix (TELEMMe, AMU, CNRS), Sylvain Guyot (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), and François Lerin (AIDA Association)

Marie Bal (GEODE, University of Toulouse), Sinja-Support: Sinjajevina, between landscape heritage and support for the development of virtuous rural tourism in Montenegro

Véronique André-Lamat (PASSAGES, Université de Bordeaux Montaigne), What materialization of the interrelations between environmental protection and patrimonialization in the mountains of Northern Pindus (Greece)? The differentiated trajectories of the Zagori and Aoos river forests

Dessislava Dimitrova (Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Teodora Ivanova (Slow Food in Bulgaria), Meglena Zlatkova (Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria), Geography of food – do geographical indications support local knowledge and nature conservation?

Teodora Ivanova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Vanya Boneva (Agricultural Faculty, Trakia University), Neli Grozeva (Agricultural Faculty, Trakia University, Bulgaria), Meglena Zlatkova (University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria), Dessislava Dimitrova (Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Neglecting the intangible heritage of tangible resources – local plant resources and related traditions on a crossroads

Divna Soleil (Centre Paul-Albert Février), Tijana Matijevic (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Serbia), Meadows, flowers and plants from classical antiquity to Yugoslav fiction: materiality of the literary landscape from a diachronic perspective

Fort Saint-Jean Workshop 2: Fluid materials: the importance of water in the Balkans

Coordinators: Tibissai Guevara-Braun (Université de Haute-Alsace) and Aida Kapetanović (Scuola Normale Superiore)

Chair: Elif Becan (GEO, University of Strasbourg)

Azra Hromadžić (Syracuse University), The Una and its People: Riverine Politics and Multispecies Relationships in the Balkans

Nebi Bardhoshi (Institute of Anthropology, Academy of Science, Albania), Broken Rivers: On the Transformation of Riverine Materialities under Concessionary Regimes in the Balkans

Yvonne Zivković (Karl Franzens University Graz), Liminal River Narratives: the Sava and Drina in the (post-)Yugoslav Literary Imagination

Roberto Gómez Martínez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid Alma mater), International waters: a literary imaginary of the Albanian fluid borders

With Raphaël Bories (MUCEM) Oriane Girard (IDEAS, École française d’Athènes), Melody Robine (CETOBAC, EHESS), Juliette Ronsin (MUCEM-EHESS, CETOBaC)

Salle Meltem: Yugoslav Internationalism and the Material Politics of Memory

Coordinators: Milena Jokanović (University of Belgrade), Blanche Plaquevent (Aix-Marseille Université), Jelena Djureinović (University of Vienna)

Session chairman: Fabio Giomi (CETOBaC, CNRS)

Discussants: Milena Jokanović (University of Belgrade) and Blanche Plaquevent (Aix-Marseille University)

Jelica Jovanović (Technical University of Vienna) and Vladimir Kulić (Iowa State University), The Scaffolding of Solidarity: Yugoslav Building Technology as Material Infrastructure of Internationalism

Iva Kosmos (University of Zagreb), Yugoslav Travel Writing, Business and Construction Sites in the Non-Aligned World: Poetics of Infrastructure and Sites of Encounters

Blanche Plaquevent (Aix-Marseille Université), Material Traces of Emotions in Postwar French Travels to Non-Aligned Yugoslavia

Andrea Matosević (University of Pula), More than Mere Objects: Yugoslav Ships and Shipyards as Places of International Intersections

Monika Wulz (University of Zurich), The Gift of Minority Knowledge

Maja Jović (University of Zagreb), Monuments in Flux: story of Tito’s two busts and the Politics of Memory in Post-Yugoslav Spaces

Milena Jokanović (University of Belgrade) Non-Aligned Objects: New Perspectives on Old Exhibition Settings

Salle Khamsin: Balkan scenes: creativity and materiality in action

Session moderator: Oriane Girard (Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology (IDEAS, AMU, CNRS) and École française d’Athènes)

Velina Minkoff (CETOBaC, EHESS), Methodological challenges in studying the materiality of the Estrada song as part of the Bulgarian socialist soundscape

Alexandra Mourgou (Department of History, York University), Music Places and Transcultural Encounters in Toronto’s Greektown

Eva Fekonja (ZRC Sazu, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts), In Search of a “Balkan Voice”: Subjectivities, Materialities, and Ideologies of Vocal Production

Mélisande Leventopoulos (ESTCA, Université Paris 8), Reels in circulation in the Eastern Balkans. The materiality of the spectacle from the accounts of a Thracian cinema (1912-1923)

Elena Tagliani (SAGE, University of Strasbourg), Karaghiozis-Karagöz, the poor and power. Materiality and symbolism in Greek shadow theater

Fort Saint-Jean Workshop 2: Objects on the move: materials of circulation and migration

Chair: Elif Becan (GEO, University of Strasbourg)

Mišo Kapetanović (Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences). Nakit: Queer Balkan Diasporas, Nightlife Objects, and the Afterlives of Yugoslavia in Vienna

Juliette Ronsin (MUCEM-EHESS, CETOBaC), Collections on the move. Circulations of objects, people and knowledge between France and Yugoslavia, second 20th century

Marija Pavičević (Sorbonne Paris Nord University): The materiality of borders and migration in the Western Balkans

Giota Tourgeli (KENI, Panteion University), Material Aspects of the “American Dream” in the Greek Countryside

Nadège Ragaru (CERI, Sciences Po): Naming, excluding, persecuting in galalith: the journeys of the Jewish Star in Bulgaria (1942-1944)