Marcello Garzaniti

Gli slavi. Storia, culture e lingue dalle origini ai nostri giorni

Il volume presenta la storia culturale degli slavi, evidenziando sia le forze centrifughe che hanno portato alla formazione del più cospicuo numero di popoli che un’etnia europea abbia prodotto, sia gli sviluppi culturali del mondo slavo nei suoi diversi orientamenti verso l’Occidente latino e l’Oriente bizantino. Dopo una breve illustrazione della realtà contemporanea, si descrivono le comuni origini, seguendo le vicende degli slavi attraverso quel secolare processo di acculturazione che li ha elevati fra i protagonisti della storia degli ultimi due secoli. Il testo, arricchito da una serie di approfondimenti a cura di studiosi di diverse aree e competenze, offre una sintesi destinata a quanti studiano l’Europa orientale, e più in generale a quanti vogliono conoscere il mondo slavo e le sue culture e lingue soprattutto nelle loro radici medievali e moderne.

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Paul Bushkovitch

Breve storia della Russia. Dalle origini a Putin

Breve storia della Russia ricostruisce non solo la storia politica ma anche gli sviluppi nel campo della letteratura, dell’arte e della scienza della Russia; ritrae cosí protagonisti di grandezza assoluta – Tolstoj, Cechov e Mendeleev, per esempio – nei loro contesti storici e istituzionali. Benché la Rivoluzione del 1917, il successivo sistema sovietico e la guerra fredda siano stati momenti cruciali della storia russa e mondiale, merito specifico dell’autore è di presentare anche le epoche precedenti in tutta la loro complessità e ricchezza storica e culturale.

Accessibile a studenti, turisti e al pubblico in generale, questo libro offre un’ampia panoramica della storia della Russia dal IX secolo a oggi. Paul Bushkovitch sottolinea i fondamentali mutamenti di prospettiva nella comprensione della realtà russa che hanno avuto luogo con il crollo dell’Unione Sovietica del 1991. Da allora le enormi quantità di materiale documentale venuto alla luce, relativo alla storia dell’epoca sovietica, hanno consentito di elaborare nuove concezioni storico-critiche dello stesso passato della Russia pre-rivoluzionaria.

Giulio Einaudi Editore

La rubrica Sfogliando la Russia, Periodico di segnalazione delle novità editoriali russe a cura di Daniela Barsocchi, è consultabile online sul nostro sito.

Sfogliando la Russia è un progetto nato da circa un anno per volontà di Daniela Barsocchi (Coordinatrice nazionale delle associazioni Italia- Russia) di diffondere la letteratura russa, ancora oggi poco seguita in Italia, nonostante un progressivo aumento delle traduzioni letterarie.

Collaborano al periodico professori di Lingua e Letteratura Russa, di Scienze Politiche, storici e traduttori.

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Revolts and uprisings in the era of nationalism (1804-1908)

International conference, November 2013 at Panteion University,
Athens

Deadline:1 April 2013

Description
The chronological frame of the conference extends from the first Serbian uprising (1804) to the Young Turk Revolution (1908). During these hundred years, the map of Southeastern Europe was reshaped through a series of revolutionary movements, mainly national and liberal. Besides, this part of Europe, mostly under Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman rule, experienced the echo of the European revolutions in 1830 and 1848, and of the unification of Italy and of Germany. We may claim that the “Age of Revolutions” in the Balkans expanded until the early twentieth century. Starting from the main thematic axis of revolutionary movements in the Balkans, our objective is to revisit the existing literature in order to put new questions in a comparative and multiperspective way. We are interested in new empirical data that will support comparative thinking about various Balkan cases but also with reference to the Western paradigm. Fields of study could be the personnel involved in different ways in these movements (focusing particularly on the role of women), the diverse ways Europe and the West responded to these movements and how these movements mirrored European developments, the varied identities (pre-existing or under construction) and the ways these movements were commemorated in different national contexts during the nineteenth and the twentieth century. A specific emphasis is placed on the economic and social parameters of revolts as well as on reforms initiated in order to prevent social upheavals or as a result of the modernization project. Experiencing the Revolution at the local and everyday life level by ordinary people will also be an important field of study.

The main aim of the conference is to convey a multi-disciplinary analysis of the question what a “Revolution” in the Balkans was during the long nineteenth century in a broader semantic and social context: Is it possible to build a typology of revolutionary movements in the Balkans? What is the relation of these movements with the ones in Western Europe of that time? Is there a kind of “revolutionary recipe” travelling around Europe via cultural transfers? What are the local characteristics of revolts in different parts of South-East Europe? Who were the revolutionaries? Which is the relation between Revolution and Reform? Which is the historiography and which is the memory of these movements? It is also important to investigate the instances of what was opposite to Revolution, its conceptual ‘other’ under different faces: counter-revolution; reform; evolutionism/traditionalism; alternative loyalties etc.
Conference overview
In particular the conference will be organized around the following themes:
a. Nationalism and the creation of nation-states: different cases and processes of nation-building expressed through revolts and uprisings. Alternative forms of political loyalty and group identity that were competitors to nationalism.
b. People: Intellectuals, Military, Politicians, Women. We are particularly interested in “hybrid” cases and fluid identities -personalities participating in other than their national revolutionary movement or changing identity during their life.
c. Counter-revolutions: the fear of revolution; reactions to revolutions from the old political and social order.
d. Revolts and Violence: violence as part of traditional societies; violence as catalyst in historical change; revolutionary violence; the stereotype of a “Balkan” violence.
e. The everyday life during a revolution: City and country; how ordinary people experience a revolutionary movement; changes in people’s lives as long as a revolt lasts; the everyday life of revolutionaries.
f. Symbols and rituals of a revolution: Flags, songs, all forms of symbolic expression.
g. Europe and the Balkans: Responses to the Balkan revolutionary movements in the West and how the West perceived these events; cultural transfers between Western and Southeastern Europe (ideas, people, vocabulary); transfer of western ideologies in a Balkan context; the role of the “Great Powers”.
h. Tradition, Modernization and Reform: Traditional and modernizing elements in revolutionary movements; reforms as a result of revolutionary movements; reforms without revolts; reforms in order to avoid revolts.4
i. Historiography: National historiography on revolutionary movements; western historiography; alternative and revisionist approaches.
j. Art and Memory: Commemoration of revolts, uprisings and revolutions. How art represents these events then and how memory deals with them over time.
Scientific Committee
Prof. Halil Berktay, Sabanci University, Istanbul
Prof. Hannes Grandits, Humboldt University, Berlin
Assoc. Prof. Alexander Kitroeff, Haverford College, USA
Prof. Christina Koulouri, Panteion University, Athens
Prof. Diana Mishkova, Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia
Prof. Stefanos Papageorgiou, Panteion University, Athens
Dr Dubravka Stojanovic, University of Belgrade
Organizing Committee
Christina Koulouri (Panteion University)
Kostas Katsapis (KENI, Panteion University)
Alexandra Patrikiou (KENI, Panteion University) Evdoxia Papadopoulou (KENI, Panteion University) Chrissa Tzagaroulaki (KENI, Panteion University)
Secretariat: Alexandra Patrikiou (KENI, Panteion University)
We welcome proposals for papers of 15-20 minutes from established scholars, postdoctoral researchers, postgraduate students, independent researchers and educators from various backgrounds. Submission of 300-word proposals in English (abstract only; no full papers) along with short bios should be sent to keni.panteionuniversity@gmail.com by 1 April 2013. Since funding to cover the entire conference is not certified yet, guests are encouraged, if indeed they have this possibility, to acquire individual funding from their home Institution. We will notify for the approved papers by 15 May 2013.

L’AMBASCIATA DELLA REPUBBLICA SLOVACCA IN ITALIA, L’INTEGRUPPO PARLAMENTARE DI AMICIZIA ITALIA-SLOVACCHIA, IL CENTRO D’INFORMAZIONE LETTERARIA DI BRATISLAVA presentano

LE PAROLE DEGLI SLAVI Roma e la Grande Moravia: rapporti e interconnessioni storico-culturali

Giovedì 31 gennaio 2013, ore 16:00

Messaggio della missione cirillo-metodiana per le generazioni di oggi.

Camera dei Deputati – Palazzo Marini Sala delle Colonne, Via Poli 19, Roma

On. Beatrice Lorenzin (Coordinatore Intergruppo di Amicizia Italia-Slovacchia)

S.E. Mária Krasnohorská (Ambasciatore della Repubblica Slovacca in Italia)

ore 16:20 Introduzione Miroslava Vallová (Direttrice del Centro d´Informazione Letteraria di Bratislava)

Moderatore Francesco Leoncini

“Le orme di Cirillo e Metodio” Pavol Demeš (esperto per gli affari esteri)

“La dimensione spirituale e culturale delle opere di Cirillo e Metodio nella prospettiva attuale” Marta Keruľová (Università di Costantino il Filosofo di Nitra)

“I valori cirillo-metodiani e il loro significato nell´Europa d´oggi” Andrej Škoviera (Istituto Slavistico dell´Accademia delle Scienze di Bratislava)

Intervallo

„Il significato storico del messaggio cirillo-metodiano. Dalla Grande Moravia al Concilio Vaticano II“ Francesco Leoncini (Università Ca´ Foscari di Venezia)

„L‘attualità di Cirillo e Metodio nel contesto europeo“ Antonello Biagini (vicerettore dell‘Università “La Sapienza” di Roma)

ore 18:30 Conclusioni e discussione

L´Ambasciata della Repubblica Slovacca Via dei Colli della Farnesina 144, Roma ore 20:00

Serata letteraria PROGLAS

Intervengono i poeti slovacchi Dana Podracká, Ján Zambor, Daniel Pastirčák con le loro rielaborazioni del Proglas, il cantico introduttivo alla prima traduzione della Bibbia in lingua paleoslava, scritto da Costantino-Cirillo Moderatore della serata: Miroslava Vallová Lettura: Marco Belocchi

Si prega di confermare la partecipazione a: emb.roma@mzv.sk 0636715201

EARLY RUSSIAN ITINERARIES : MOVEMENT AND THE SPACE OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE

DEADLINE: November 30th, 2012

The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign has opened a call for papers to present at the Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum, to be held in Urbana, Illinois on Friday June 14th and Saturday June 15th, 2013.  This year’s conference, “Early Russian Itineraries” will focus on the production of Russian Imperial space by bringing to the fore the movement and circulation of material objects, peoples and ideas within and across the imperial domain. The chronological focus of this event will be on the long eighteenth century (1650-1825), but applications from scholars working on earlier periods are encouraged as well.

Though absolute properties of Russian geography—most notably, the constraints placed on human action by Russia’s size, climate, and position in global state systems—are frequently invoked in accounts of Russia’s history, relatively few studies have attempted to think through the communicative processes involved in the making of Russia as space.  As a result, to borrow the words of the 19th century human geographer Paul Vidal de la Blache, “one pictures the earth as ‘the stage upon which man’s [sic] activities take place,’ without reflecting that the stage itself is alive.”  This is perhaps especially true of the medieval and early modern formation of the Russian empire, whose communicative geography and system of human-made relations remain understudied.  This is particularly to be regretted, because without an understanding of movement, we lack a clear picture of the making of Russian imperial space: the genesis, reach, and footprint of imperial culture, politics, and society.  “We produce and reproduce space through our movements,” Richard White has argued: this conference seeks to situate our stories about the making imperial Russian life within such an expanded, process-oriented understanding of space.

Broadly synthetic papers as well as archival-based work grappling with the most basic questions of physical movement are encouraged for submission. Also welcome is work that attempts to illuminate simple empirical questions such as: What exactly was being moved? Where did it go? How was it moved, how often and by whom? Desired presentations include those considering such issues as: to what extent were new or existing patterns of movement bound up with the emergence of empire in Russian life? What influence did these patterns have on Russia’s political, social or cultural positions in the world?  To what extent can such spatial analysis help us rethink issues of continuity, change and difference in Russian history, across both international and chronological divides? Also requested are papers introducing sustained comparative and interdisciplinary dimensions to the discussion; situating Russia’s movement systems within broader histories and cultures of movement. Additionally, an objective of this conference is to create new frameworks for scholarship on medieval and early imperial Russian history.

Please submit paper abstracts (250 words in .doc or .pdf file format) to the conference organizer, Rachel Koroloff (rkorolo2@illinois.edu) by Friday, November 30th, 2012. Please include, “Fisher Forum 2013” in the subject heading. Conference participants will be notified of their acceptance by January 1st, 2013. Please note that discussion will be based on pre-circulated presentation materials or paper abstracts; potential presenters are advised to plan accordingly. Graduate students are strongly encouraged to apply.

Partial financial support for travel and housing expenses will be offered to eligible conference participants as funding permits. Supplementary funds may also be available for eligible applicants to the Russian, East-European, Eurasian Center’s Summer Research Lab. Certain restrictions do apply, please see the REEEC website (http://www.reeec.illinois.edu/srl/) for more information.

Please contact co-organizers Rachel Koroloff (rkorolo2@illinois.edu) or John Randolph (jwr@illinois.edu), with any questions about this event.

John Randolph (Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Rachel Koroloff (Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Convegno: I rapporti tra Italia e Ungheria dal Medioevo a oggi

7-8 NOVEMBRE 2012
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
PALAZZO GREPPI, SALA NAPOLEONICA, VIA SANT’ANTONIO 12

Programma

Ingresso Libero
Il convegno costituisce corso di formazione per insegnanti e personale docente.
A tutti i partecipanti che ne faranno richiesta – studenti e studiosi – saranno rilasciati attestati di partecipazione redatti al momento.
Per informazioni e comunicati stampa contattare:
Segreteria Scientifi ca e Uffi cio Stampa: dr.ssa Jennifer Radulović
tel. 347-4201190 – mail: jennifer.radulovic@unimi.it

Organizzatori:

CISUECO
Centro Interuniversitario  di Studi Ungheresi e sull’Europa Centro-Orientale

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
DIPARTIMENTO DI STUDI STORICI
Department of Historical Studies

Georges Castellan, Marie Vrinat-Nikolov

Scritto a quattro mani da Georges Castellan e Marie Vrinat-Nikolov, Storia della Bulgaria alza il sipario su uno dei paesi europei meno conosciuti, realizzando così una tappa decisiva del progetto di Argo di contribuire a far conoscere al pubblico italiano il ‘continente’ balcanico. Peculiarità del saggio, il sapiente ed equilibrato intreccio tra l’affresco delle vicende storiche e le varie, vivacissime fasi della cultura del popolo bulgaro. La narrazione si sviluppa in modo lineare: dopo le vicende antiche, in gran parte interne alla storia greca e romana, la Bulgaria comincia ad assumere – almeno linguisticamente – la fisionomia a noi nota con la colonizzazione dei popoli slavi nei secoli VI e VII. Ma è con i protobulgari e il mitico ‘zar’ Simeone (893- 927) che queste antiche popolazioni si guadagnano un posto di prestigio nella storia imponendosi perfino all’impero bizantino. Poi, a par tire dal 1396, si abbatterà il lunghissimo dominio ottomano, che si dissolverà solo con la guerra russo-turca (1877-1878). L’autonomia finalmente ritrovata non porterà tuttavia serenità al generoso popolo bulgaro: prima le disastrose guerre balcaniche, poi le infelici alleanze militari nella prima e soprattutto nella sconda guerra mondiale, infine il lungo periodo all’ombra dell’Unione Sovietica. Un’autonomia vera del paese delle rose ha date recenti e quindi il carattere della cronaca: dal 2007 la Bulgaria fa anche parte dell’Unione europea ricucendo così una storia troppo a lungo lacerata.

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Argo

During the early modern and modern age, significant political, economic, national or technological mutations completely transformed the structure, direction and organisation of European trade. The Mediterranean world faced the competition of the West on an emerging global market that challenged the traditional commercial ingredients, instruments and recipes that merchants employed. Nevertheless, the South–Eastern part of the continent remained in the periphery of this new economic map, with its links to the core strangulated and suffocated by the political and juridical status of the Lower Danubian area and the Black Sea region. This classical historiographic perspective has been refuted by scholars trying to prove that the closing of the Straits was rather relative and that the Ottoman economic control was not extremely restrictive. The maritime routes connecting the Romanian Principalities to the Eastern Mediterranean could be used in disguise, by Greek merchants or other Ottoman subjects who employed Constantinople as a relay in these exchanges on the East–West axis. In the same time, terrestrial routes across the Balkans or towards the Austrian Empire secured good and reliable links to the global market.

Aim: Starting from these theoretical premises, the conference aims to bring together scholars whose work relate to the economic history of South–Eastern Europe and its convergences to the world market across the whole of the early modern and modern period (16th–19th centuries).

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Frontière politique et identifications : Des populations entre Ottomans et Habsbourg au XVIIIe siècle

L’objectif de cette conférence est de réunir des chercheurs venus de différents pays – France, Serbie et Croatie – afin d’échanger sur la question des identifications aux frontières austro-ottomanes au XVIIIe siècle. Ce type de problématique a déjà été largement traité pour l’espace hexagonal et méditerranéen en France. Mais la situation de cette frontière terrestre qui passait, à l’époque, pour la limite orientale de l’Europe chrétienne puis de l’Europe policée ou éclairée, est beaucoup moins connue. Pourtant, l’histoire de la frontière en Europe centrale et balkanique s’appuie sur une tradition historiographique déjà longue et continue à faire l’objet de nombreux travaux portant sur des sources encore peu étudiées. Cette table ronde, qui se tiendra en anglais et en français, sera donc l’occasion de découvrir et de discuter ces perspectives de recherche.
Problématique :
Après le deuxième siège de Vienne en 1683, les frontières entre les puissances habsbourgeoise et ottomane ont été repoussées loin des pays autrichiens. Les traités de Karlowitz (1699), Passarowitz (1718), Belgrade (1740) et Sistova (1791) définissent une limite qui sépare les provinces d’Olténie, de Syrmie, du Banat, de Serbie et de la Bačka en suivant grosso modo le Danube. Les techniques de consolidation de la frontière militaire du côté habsbourgeois ont déjà été largement traitées par l’historiographie. L’autonomie politique et les formes de vie sociale particulières dans la région des confins militaires autrichiens sont elles-aussi bien connues. Mais l’enjeu que constitue la fixation et, plus encore, la permanence de la frontière politique pour les populations locales n’a pas encore fait l’objet d’une étude systématique. Une telle lacune peut paraître explicable dans la mesure où cette limite passe encore auprès de beaucoup pour l’extrémité orientale de l’Europe chrétienne voire de l’Europe policée. Le rôle de démarcation entre civilisations qu’elle a joué et continue d’occuper dans l’imaginaire collectif nous encourage à privilégier aujourd’hui une de ses dimensions oubliées, celle de lieu de passage.
Dans cette perspective, au-delà de la construction par les deux puissances ennemies de la ligne et de la zone frontière, c’est bien d’une population-frontière dont il faut s’occuper. Le
trait de frontière tracé au début du XVIIIe siècle constitue en effet une réalité nouvelle pour des hommes réunis au siècle précédent sous la Pax Ottomanica. Si elle divise, en empêchant ou ralentissant les contacts, elle est aussi une aubaine. La loyauté des populations locales envers les deux empires ennemis est un enjeu majeur en temps de guerre comme en temps de paix. Dans ce cadre, les définitions individuelles et collectives de l’appartenance politique et des droits qui lui sont associés dans les efforts de consolidation de la frontière des deux côtés jouent un rôle important. L’opportunisme dans la définition identitaire, l’incompréhension totale entre deux mondes, la mention d’une appartenance collective qui ne correspond pas toujours aux catégories en usage chez les administrateurs peuvent également intervenir dans le détournement de cette identification.
Du côté des États, la logique d’attribution des privilèges collectifs visant à s’assurer la participation des populations à l’effort de guerre coexiste avec la volonté d’exclure des zones stratégiques les ennemis potentiels. Communautés récemment immigrées, nouveaux convertis, fidèles d’une Église orthodoxe puissante et organisée des deux côtés de la frontière ou encore marchands passant fréquemment d’un empire à l’autre restent suspects. L’identification politique, qui permet de différencier sujets ottomans et habsbourgeois, et l’identification confessionnelle restent longtemps les outils principaux utilisés par Vienne et Istanbul dans le contrôle de la frontière. Mais l’incertitude de cette identification sur le terrain, la valeur changeante donnée à ces appartenances, sans oublier l’intervention d’autres critères – origine géographique, langue, statut social – prennent une place variable dans la pratique des institutions concernées.
Tous ces phénomènes attirent notre attention sur les usages de l’identification. En quoi se heurtent-ils à l’identité revendiquée par ceux qui passent la frontière ou vivent auprès d’elle, malgré un travail d’adaptation permanent mené par les fonctionnaires ? Comment cet outil, conçu pour contrôler la mobilité des habitants et éloigner les étrangers indésirables, peut-il être détourné par cette population-frontière ? Qu’est-ce que les contestations ouvertes de ce système de contrôle – fuite de communautés entières, banditisme transfrontalier, révoltes paysannes soutenues par la puissance adverse – nous apprennent sur le cadre politique du dialogue entre communautés et État à la frontière ? Dans quelle mesure peut-on parler de l’autonomie d’une société frontalière ou transfrontalière ? Plus qu’une logique de rationalisation des pratiques d’identification, ce sont les conflits et négociations sur les critères d’identification et leur usage politique entre communautés rurales, notables locaux, responsables religieux, chefs militaires, compagnies commerciales et autorités impériales qui seront au centre de notre propos.

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