[ Sofia Events ]

Nations and National Identities: Construction, Contestation, Negotiation

Sofia, September 30 – October 2, 2006
September 30

16.00 – 16.10 Opening

16.10 – 16.40 Siegfried Weichlein: National Myths in Modern Europe: Typologies and Questions
16.40 – 17.10 Diana Mishkova: Methodological Issues of the Cross-Cultural Study of Nationalism: Some Contemporary Problems of Research and Education
17.10 – 17.40 Franziska Metzger: Histories of Nation and Religion in Germany and Switzerland: Overlapping Communities of Discourse and Memory

17.40 – 18.10 Discussion

October 1

10.00 – 10.30 Christian Giordano: Dealing with the Past: The Social Construction of Antagonistic Histories
10.30 – 11.00 Markus Furrer: The Swiss Master Narrative in Textbooks – Between “Memory” and “History”

11.00 – 11.20 Coffee break

11.20 – 11.50 Maria Falina: Orthodoxy(ism) and Serbian Nationalism in the Interwar Time

12.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 14.30 Bernhard Altermatt: Integrating Minorities and Accommodating Diversity: Religion and Language in Switzerland and Belgium (19th and 20th Centuries)
14.30 – 15.00 Tchavdar Marinov: “Switzerland on the Balkans” as a Trope of the Bulgarian and/or the Macedonian Nationalism

15.00 – 15.20 Coffee break

15.20 – 16.20 Discussion

October 2
9.00 – 10.00 Planning session

10.00 – 10.20 Coffee break

10.20 – 10.50 Bogdan Iacob: The Historical Encoding of the Socialist Nation in Romanian Communism
10.50 - 11.20 Vladimir Petrović: Ethnic Cleansing. The Term, its Dissemination – the Practice, its Visual Representation

11.20 - 11.50 Discussion