Wladimir Fischer, the colleague from the Wien-Weblog, organizes a session at the IXth International Conference on Urban History (headed "Comparative History of European Cities"; Lyon, 27th – 30th August 2008), entitled Self-Representation and Public Culture of the Balkan Urban Classes.
This session is open to contributions that discuss the ways in which Balkan elites established a new social hegemony under the pretext of Ottoman legacies in the urban environment, putting an emphasis on lived ways of self-representation: rituals, consumption, networks, societies, communication, media, cultural life, and the built environment.