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Dear colleagues
please find pasted below the updated version of the conference
Conflicting Memories and Mutual Reprsentations: Italy and the Balkans
from WWII to the Present (5-6 June)
(please note that the morning session on Saturday has been moved to
Thursday)
All the best, Ilaria Favretto
Conflicting Memories and Mutual
Representations:
Italy and the Balkans from World War II to
the Present
A two days International Conference at
Kingston University
5-6 June 2003
Organized by
Dr Ilaria Favretto, Kingston University (London) and Dr Dejan
Jovic, University of Stirling
Sponsored by
European Commission, DG for Education and Culture (EU Support of
European Integration Activities Organised by the Academic World)
British Academy Joint Projects with South East Europe Grant
British Academy Conference Grant
Italian Cultural Institute
European Research Centre University of Kingston
Department of Politics University of Stirling
Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy)
The Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans (Taylor&Francis)
Programme and participants
9.30-10.00 registration
10.00-10.15 Introduction
I PART (5 June)
10.15-10.45 Opening remarks: Prof. Stevan Pavlowitch (Southampton
University, UK (Emeritus))
SESSION: Italy and the ‘rediscovery’ of the Balkans
10.45-11.30
Dr. Mary Wood (Birkbeck College, Univ. London): ‘The intrusion of
conflicts in the Balkans into Italian cinematic discourse’
11.30-12.00 coffee break
SESSION: Italy and the ‘oblivion’ of her Balkan wars
12.00-13.30
Ms Luisa Chiodi (European University Institute, Florence-Italy):
‘Conflicting memories and mutual representations: Italy and Albania since
1989’ (co-authored with Rando Devole)
Dr. Davide Rodogno (Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research,
Switzerland and London School of Economics, London): ‘Italian Soldiers in
the Balkans: the experience of Occupation, 1941-1943’
CHAIR: DR. ILARIA FAVRETTO
13.30-14.30 lunch
SESSION: The haunting past: post-1991 relations between Italy and
the core Yugoslav successor states
14.30-16.00
Dr. Nebojsa Bjelakovic (Canadian Ministry of Defence, in private
capacity): ‘Foreign policy metaphors of the post-1991 relations between
Italy and the core Yugoslav successor states’
Mr Antonio Dal Borgo (Organisation for European Security and
Cooperation, in private capacity): ‘A unique experiment. Italians and the
United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo 1999-2001’
CHAIR: DR DEJAN JOVIC
16.00-16.30 coffee/tea break
SESSION: ‘From Persecutors to Saviours’: The Image of Italy in
Serbian discourse after 1989
16.30-18.00
Dr. Predrag Markovic (University of Belgrade): ‘The image of Italy in
Serbian popular culture and media (Italy as the Near West)’
Mr Milos Kovic (University of Belgrade): ‘From Persecutors to Saviours:
The Italian Occupation Forces of World War Two in Serbian
Historiography (since 1989)’
CHAIR: MR DEJAN DJOKIC
18.30-19.30 Gina Landor’s performance (see attached information)
II PART (6 June)
9.30-10.00 registration
SESSION: Italy, the Eastern border and the building of the ‘other’
10.00-11.30
Prof. Roberto Finzi, Prof. Loredana Panariti and Dr. Daniele
Andreozzi (University of Trieste, Italy): ‘The Looking-Glass Border.
Economy, Identity and Use of History in Friuli – Venezia Giulia (1990 –
2003)’.
Dr. Pamela Ballinger (Bowdoin College, US): ‘Exhumed Histories: Trieste
and the Politics of (Exclusive) Victimhood’
CHAIR: DR VESNA GOLDSWORTHY
11-30-12.00 coffee break
12.00-12.45
Prof. Joze Pirjevec (University of Trieste, Italy): ‘The Slovenian minority in
Italy’.
CHAIR: DR ILARIA FAVRETTO
13.00-14.30 lunch
SESSION: Istria and Dalmatia: Memory and Identity shaping in
Slovenia and Croatia
I PART
14.30-16.00
Ms Ksenija Sabec (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): ‘Slovenia and Italy:
the burden of history’ (co-authored with Prof. Ales Debeljak, University of
Ljubljana, Slovenia )
Dr. Vjekoslav Perica (University of Minnesota, US): ‘The New
Regionalism On the Adriatic Eastern Shore’
CHAIR: PROF. DONALD SASSOON
16.00-16.30 coffee break
II PART
16.30-17.15
Mr Aljosa Puzar (University of Rijeka, Croatia): ‘Liminal memories of
madrepatria: East-Adriatic Italians in between communitas and minoritas’
17.15-18.00
Round up discussion
CHAIR: PROF. ANDREW WACHTEL
CONCLUSIVE REMARKS: Dr. Dejan Jovic
Convenors: Dr. Ilaria Favretto and Dr. Dejan Jovic
European Research Centre, Faculty of Arts and Social
Sciences, Kingston University, Penrhyn Rd, Surrey KT1
2EE (nearest BR station from London Waterloo/Vauxall:
Surbiton or Kingston; approx 20 minutes).
Further information:
Mrs Penny Tribe, Tel: 0208 547 7884,
Email:{ HYPERLINK mailto:[log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]
www.kingston.ac.uk/memories
Dr. Ilaria Favretto
Reviews Editor of Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Senior Research Fellow
European Research Centre
Faculty of Human Sciences
Kingston University
Kingston Upon Thames
Surrey KT1 2EE
United Kingdom
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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