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International Seminar

Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Central and Southeast Europe, 1850-1950

The working language of the seminar will be English.

Time and venue: 5-7 July 2007, Institute of Balkan Studies (BAS)
DRAFT PROGRAMME

5 July, Thursday

• City and Press in Austrian Galicia
  Harald Binder, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine
• Public, Press, Town and Politics in the Bulgarian Late Nineteenth Century. What was the Bulgarian Public Sphere?
  Stefan Detchev, South West University, Blagoevgrad
• Teaching the Nation to be Civilised: The Magazine Halk [Populace]
  Nazan Cicek, Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University
• “They Are All Rotters!”: Political Culture and Political Caricature in the Balkans, Late 19th and Early 20th Century
  Dobrinka Parusheva, Institute of Balkan Studies, Sofia
• Heinrich Zille and the politics of caricature in Berlin 1900-1929
  Malcolm Gee, University of Northumbria

• Lemberg, 1772-1918: Architecture, Public Space and Cultural Politics
  Markian Prokopovych, Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies, CEU, Budapest
• State-Building and the Rise of Religious Nationalism in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Romania
  Silviu Hariton, CEU, Budapest
• Cultural Politics and Political Culture in Satu Mare 1919-1940
  Anders Blomqvist, Södertörn University College, Stockholm
• The ‚Age-Value’-Theory of Alois Riegl and the Cultural-Political Construction of a National Identity in the Habsburg-Monarchy around 1900
  Michael S. Falser, Vienna
• Art History and the 'National Question': the Case of the Vienna School 1891-1921
  Matthew Rampley, School of Arts and Media, University of Teesside
• Czechoslovakia and Czech art history between nationalism and internationalism
  Marta Filipova, History of Art, University of Glasgow
• “Through Savage Europe” The Balkan States Exhibition, London 1907
  Jill Steward, University of Northumbria
• The Austro-Hungarian Palace of Culture in Sofia: the right idea on the right place in the wrong time
  Rumiana Preshlenova, Institute of Balkan Studies, Sofia

• Political Culture and Cultural Politics in the Austrofascist State, 1934-1938
  Julie Thorpe, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Politics, Culture and the Demise of the Axis in the Balkans
  Tim Kirk, University of Newcastle
• Partisan Songs in the Balkans
  Yannis Sygkelos, Institute for Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki
• The Politics of Commemoration: National Days and National Heroes in the Balkans
  Aneta Mihaylova, Institute of Balkan Studies, Sofia.