Reggio Emilia
Aula Magna, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Allegri 9
19 Marzo 17:30

Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia e Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso

“Dialogues on Cinema” è una serie di tre incontri con esperte di cinema balcanico, realizzati nell’ambito del progetto europeo “Racconta l’Europa all’Europa”, guidato da Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso per promuovere una maggiore conoscenza dei paesi che stanno percorrendo la strada dell’integrazione europea.

Per raccontare la Bosnia Erzegovina, la Croazia, la Turchia, il Kosovo e molti altri paesi, a Reggio Emilia si parlerà della loro produzione cinematografica. Proprio in questo settore infatti negli ultimi anni si sono affermate eccellenze capaci di superare il gap comunicativo tra le due Europe. Si pensi al successo della cinematografia bosniaca, ma anche al meno conosciuto cinema turco, così come ai numerosi festival che in tutta Europa volgono la loro attenzione proprio al cinema balcanico.

L’approfondire la conoscenza del cinema di questi paesi può dirci molto sul loro immaginario, sulla loro identità, così come sulla direzione dei loro slanci per il futuro. Insieme a OBC, il professor Leonardo Gandini, docente di Estetica e Storia del Cinema presso il Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali dell’Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, promuove tre incontri pubblici tutti al femminile con tre esperte internazionali di cinema della regione balcanica.

L’ospite di oggi è Mila Turajlic regista, produttrice e autrice dell’acclamato documentario Cinema Komunisto che ripercorre la storia e il declino dell’industria cinematografica jugoslava.

L’Europa sul web, nelle sale cinematografiche, in radio, nelle scuole, all’università e in eventi pubblici. Per un anno sarà protagonista su Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso. Per rispondere alla crisi, con nuova forza e idealità.

Passaggio a sudest: speciali del programma Passaggio a sudest

Il progetto

Racconta l’Europa all’Europa così abbiamo intitolato il progetto europeo che ci vedrà impegnati per tutto il prossimo anno. Del resto contribuire al dibattito sull’Europa è uno degli obiettivi di Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso fin dal suo esordio.

Inizialmente la ragione d’essere di OBC era quella di riflettere sulle conseguenze della guerra in Europa e sul sostegno alla ricostruzione dei Balcani. Con il tempo la situazione è gradualmente migliorata e dall’aiuto umanitario si è passati a discutere di armonizzazione di sistemi giuridici e consolidamenti democratici.

Il prossimo luglio la Croazia diventerà il 28esimo membro dell’Unione. Ma, a seconda del punto di partenza, negli ultimi anni anche gli altri paesi della regione hanno fatto passi avanti nel processo di democratizzazione avendo di fronte la prospettiva dell’integrazione europea.

Sebbene dominato da questioni economiche e aspetti tecnico-legali, il processo di allargamento dell’UE ha avuto un ruolo chiave nel superamento delle guerre degli anni ’90 e nella stabilizzazione regionale e resta un fondamentale orizzonte politico per tutti i Balcani. E ciò non dovrebbe sorprendere perché si tratta anche per l’Europa sud-orientale di accedere a quel processo storico di superamento della guerra e di costruzione di un comune spazio politico, da cui è di fatto rimasta esclusa fino alla fine degli anni ’90.

Di questa Europa i mezzi di informazione parlano poco se non quando si agitano gli animi per la paura di nuovi flussi migratori o si evidenzia l’instabilità politica che la caratterizza. Senza dubbio per alcuni paesi balcanici, con economie fragili e amministrazioni soffocate dalla corruzione, l’impegno per accedere all’integrazione europea è ancora molto oneroso. Ma nonostante tutto il processo di armonizzazione lentamente prosegue lontano dai riflettori, assistito dalla Direzione Generale per l’Allargamento della Commissione Europea e monitorato delle Commissioni del Parlamento Europeo.

Si tratta certamente di una dinamica complessa e come tale viene considerata una questione per addetti ai lavori. Eppure l’allargamento ad est dell’UE è stato ed è uno straordinario fenomeno geopolitico per il nostro continente. È sorprendente, come notava il centro studi ESI, che in questi 20 anni non sia emerso nemmeno un best seller per animare la discussione sulla riunificazione europea.

D’altro canto, uno degli aspetti principali del deficit democratico dell’UE è proprio la povertà del dibattito sulle nostre istituzioni e le nostre politiche, e l’allargamento è solo una di queste.

L’integrazione europea non è un processo facile, comporta cessione di sovranità e condivisione di oneri. I membri UE più ricchi e con democrazie mature importano parte dei problemi dei paesi più deboli anche se ne beneficiano in termini di prosperità e sicurezza in senso lato.

Invece i paesi balcanici ancora fuori dall’Unione vivono comunque le conseguenze della dipendenza economica dalla zona euro, come sottolinea Dimitar Bechev. E se fino al 2008 erano tutte economie in forte crescita, poi hanno subito duramente le conseguenze della crisi: lo shock per il crollo degli investimenti esteri, il ridursi dell’accesso al credito, la contrazione delle rimesse hanno avuto conseguenze pesanti.

La congiuntura economica che viviamo ci schiaccia su dibattiti dal respiro corto ma nei Balcani a pochi sfugge il parallelismo tra la crisi che oggi vive l’UE e quella che viveva la Jugoslavia a cavallo degli anni ’90. E se qualcosa possiamo apprendere dal passato è che in Europa nessuno esce da solo dalle crisi e senza rilanciare quel progetto comune di cui tanto abbiamo beneficiato fino ad oggi.

Grazie a Racconta l’Europa all’Europa, Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso accrescerà il suo sforzo per colmare il deficit democratico e stimolerà la discussione sull’integrazione europea dei Balcani e della Turchia con ben 11 diversi partner, in 4 paesi differenti, e non solo sul web ma anche alla radio, nelle aule universitarie, nei corsi di formazione e infine al cinema.

Anche grazie al contributo dei suoi lettori sempre più numerosi, OBC continuerà a lavorare per la costruzione dell’Europa dei cittadini facendo dialogare e mettendo in rete organizzazioni e persone tra le due sponde dell’Adriatico. Perché per tenere vivo il dibattito in Europa bisogna essere in tanti.

Venerdì 16 novembre ore 17.00 Palazzo Sorbello Piazza Piccinino, 9 Perugia

Saluti: Prof. Ruggero Ranieri (Fondazione Ranieri di Sorbello) Presiede: Prof. Mario Tosti (Isuc)

Intervengono: Prof. Giuseppe Dell’Agata (Università degli Studi di Pisa) Prof. Francesco Caccamo (Università degli Studi di Pescara) Saranno presenti i curatori L’evento è organizzato in collaborazione con l’ISUC Istituto Storico Umbria Contemporanea

Igor Despot

The Balkan Wars in the Eyes of the Warring Parties: Perceptions and Interpretations

In the fall of 1912, the Ottoman Empire was in turmoil. In addition to the Albanian and the Yemen rebellions, the Empire was at war with Italy over the Libyan territory. Worse yet, cholera was spreading throughout the country, leaving a decimated population in its wake. In its weakness, the Ottoman Empire was ripe to be attacked, and the Balkan countries did so. On October 8, 1912, Montenegro declared war on the Ottoman Empire, beginning the first of the Balkan Wars. Embracing maturity and setting their differences aside, four nations joined together to form the Balkan League—Serbia, Greece, Montenegro, and Bulgaria.

Despite the tremendous land victory celebrated by the Balkan League, disputes over dividing the won territory soon arose. Dissatisfied with its share of the Macedonia, Bulgaria attacked its former allies Serbia and Greece. On August 10, 1913, the Treaty of Bucharest ended the second conflict, but it did not bring the peace. In the First World War, which was initiated by Sarajevo assassination, Balkan again became theater of the war.

The Balkan wars have been a popular topic for scholarly research since their resolution. Despite the attention this topic has received, however, the research is far from complete. In this study contributing to the documentation and understanding of this conflict, author Igor Despot has not only reviews the events of the wars, but also considers these events in light of pertinent cultural aspects, identifying the commonalities and differences that may have determined alliances or sparked conflict throughout Balkan history.

Igor Despot was born in Zagreb. He graduated from the faculty of humanities and social science of the University of Zagreb in 1998, obtaining the degree of history and philosophy professor. He obtained his master’s degree on 2008 from the same faculty. This is his PhD dissertation, which he defended in 2012.

iUniverse

Second Annual Conference of the Balkan Sociological Forum

Close but Unknown Neighbors : Balkan Sociological Perspectives

9-10 November 2012 Sofia, Bulgaria

Deadline: 30th of June 201

The Conference is organized by the Balkan Sociological Forum and Bulgarian Sociological Association and supported by the International Sociological Association. It will be held parallel with the XIII Congress of the Bulgarian Sociological Association on November 9-10, 2012 in Sofia.

Place of the topic in relation to state-of-the-art in sociology The Balkans have been systematically studied by historians, anthropologists, cultural studies experts, art historians, but have rarely been placed in a general sociological perspective. Comparative studies on separate social problems have rarely included more than three or four countries. In fact, from a sociological perspective, Balkan countries pose a double challenge: social and cognitive. There is the social aspect, for even though they have a shared past of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in different periods of the 20th century, their social and political development in post WW2 Europe has not been the same for all countries. Their common present situation of transition to a market economy and democratic structures like those of Western Europe, does not cancel the specific ordeals of economic, political, and social development that each national society of the Balkans is going through. Engrossed as we are in the supra-national structures of the EU and of Transatlantic cooperation, we hardly notice our neighbours; moreover, we fail to realize that the position of each country on the international scene depends on its relations with, and the support of, its closest environment. In competing for international recognition, our interest in neighbouring countries is all too often limited to what can be advantageous though detrimental to them. Thus we miss the chance of working together to overcome our common weaknesses and achieve mutual consolidation of our separate advantages. In scrutinizing our own problems, we fail to look around us and see that, within the proximate region – so close to us by its historical destiny and present state of civilization, some country may have already found a solution to some of our own problems. What are our Balkan neighbours like as economic and political players, as stratified societies and united communities, as educational and cultural structures, as ways of living together and recognizing the other? What is happening here and now in each Balkan country? How does the past impact on the present in each country and in the relations between them? What part of the contemporary experience of each country could be useful for its neighbours, so that our presence in united Europe and in the world might be constructive, mutually enriching, and stimulating? These are all questions to which sociology, with its rich variety of paradigms and approaches, can provide well-argued and thoughtful answers. As concerns the Balkans as a cognitive challenge, this aspect consists foremost in the problems that the current processes of internationalization and interdisciplinary scientific knowledge pose for sociology. The national communities of sociologists in Balkan countries compete to win a place in the European production of interdisciplinary and policy-oriented knowledge, but we are also partners playing non-hegemonic roles in the international research area. These combined features provide a suitable starting point for analysis, and our integration in the European Research Area clarifies a number of problems, such as:

· the marginalization of national sociological traditions;

· the neutralization of local issues by presenting them as Eastern equivalents of problems formulated with reference to the West European social and research context;

· the irrelevance of applying a theoretical framework to social situations in separate national contexts;

· the replacement of scientific argumentation as to the validity of knowledge by imperatives of immediate applicability;

· the tension between local vocation vs. international involvement; the growing dependence of the research structure and the type of knowledge produced relative to the forms of funding and the supra-national management of scientific production, etc.

Objectives and topics The main objective of the Second Annual Conference of BSF is by identifying the common and specific problems in the contemporary development of Balkan countries, to contribute to a better understanding of our own society, and to the development of sociology as a cognitive solution to the contextual problems, a solution based on adequate theoretical and methodological tools.

The discussions will be organized around the following thematic centers: · The Contemporary Economic Crisis: Political Solutions, Technological Answers, Individual Strategies; · Mobility and Social Inequalities; · Global Social Order, States, Citizens; · Transformations of Identities and Social Relationships in the Balkans; · National Sociological Traditions and the Sociologist’s Vocation Today.

Organization and deadlines Balkan Sociological Forum and Bulgarian Sociological Association invite scholars and students of sociology and other social sciences from all Balkan countries and colleagues outside the Balkans working jointly with sociologists from this region to take part in the Second Conference of BSF.

Please, send your proposals until June 30th 2012 to the following addresses: bsa @ sociology . bas . bg and diana @ sociology . bas . bg .

Conference languages: Bulgarian and English

Deadlines: · 30th of June 2012: Abstract submission · 15th of July 2012: Confirmation of abstract acceptance · 30th of September 2012: Participants registration · 25th of October 2012: Conference programme

Abstracts should be contained the following items: · Name · Professional status (student, Ph.D. student, professor, research fellow, experts, etc.) · Institution · Title and abstract up to 20 lines/or 200 words/or 1500 sings in English Accommodation and other details will be announced before 10th of October 2012.

Organizers and Organizing Committee Bulgarian Sociological Association (www.bsa-bg.org) Balkan Sociological Forum Organizing Committee Lekë SOKOLI – president of the Balkan Sociological Forum, University Martin Barleti, Tirana, Albania Svetla KOLEVA – vice-president of the Balkan Sociological Forum, president of the Bulgarian Sociological Association, Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Gjon BORIÇI – Albanian University, Tirana, Albania Ognjen ČALDAROVIĆ – president of Croatian Sociological Association Todor GALEV – Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Maya GREKOVA – Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria Ivo HRISTOV – Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski, Bulgaria Martin KANOUSHEV – New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria Jonida LAMAJ – Balkan Sociological Forum Secretary, Albanian Institute of Sociology Svetla MARINOVA – Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria Mihail MIRCHEV – University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria Diana NENKOVA – Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Andrei NONCHEV – University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria Ali PAJAZITI – South East European University, Tetovo, Macedonia Miroslava RADEVA – Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski and MBMD Ltd., Bulgaria Sunai RAIMI – State University of Tetovo, Macedonia Rumiana STOILOVA – Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Gorgi TONOVSKI – FON University, Skopje, Macedonia

Jamil HasanliS

Stalin and the Turkish Crisis of the Cold War, 1945-1953

This book presents the ups and downs of the Soviet-Turkish relations during World War II and immediately after it. Hasanli draws on declassified archive documents from the United States, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan to recreate a true picture of the time when the ‘Turkish crisis’ of the Cold War broke out. It explains why and how the friendly relations between the USSR and Turkey escalated into enmity, led to the increased confrontation between these two countries, and ended up with Turkey’s entry into NATO. Hasanli uses recently-released Soviet archive documents to shed light on some dark points of the Cold War era and the relations between the Soviets and the West. Apart from bringing in an original point of view regarding starting of the Cold War, the book reveals some secret sides of the Soviet domestic and foreign policies. The book convincingly demonstrates how Soviet political technologists led by Josef Stalin distorted the picture of a friendly and peaceful country_Turkey_into the image of an enemy in the minds of millions of Soviet citizens.
Jamil Hasanli is professor of history at Baku State University.

Rowman & Littlefield Publisher

28 February 2012, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Woodrow Wilson Center

Jamil Hasanli, former Wilson Center scholar and professor of history at Baku State University will discuss his latest book, “Stalin and the Turkish Crisis of the Cold War, 1945-1953.” Hasanli will explore the ups and downs of Soviet-Turkish relations during and immediately after World War II. Hasanli draws on declassified archive documents from the United States, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan to recreate a picture of the time when the ‘Turkish crisis’ of the Cold War broke out explaining why and how the friendly relations between the USSR and Turkey escalated into enmity, led to the increased confrontation between these two countries, and ended up with Turkey’s entry into NATO. Hasanli uses recently-released Soviet archive documents to shed light on some dark points of the Cold War era and the relations between the Soviets and the West.

Joining Hasanli on the panel is Malcolm Byrne, deputy director and director of research at The George Washington Univeristy’s National Security Archive. James G. Hershberg, professor of history and the former director of the Wilson Center’s Cold War International History Project will chair the event.

RSVP: coldwar@wilsoncenter.org
Location:
4th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center

John Dos Passos

Esce per la prima volta in traduzione italiana Orient Express, lo straordinario reportage di viaggio dai Balcani alla Turchia, dal Causaso al Medio Oriente del grande scrittore americano John Dos Passos, accompagnato da otto disegni originali dell’autore.

«Perché ho tutta questa voglia di trascinarmi per l’Oriente? Cosa me ne importa di questi frammenti avvizziti dei vecchi ordini, di queste religioni defunte, di queste rovine che pullulano delle larve della storia?». Accompagnato da incessanti interrogativi, John Dos Passos ci racconta il suo viaggio consapevole della propria irriducibile estraneità a quei luoghi e a quella gente, e tuttavia incredibilmente attratto dai ritmi e dalle regole di una vita che pare procedere con esasperante lentezza, con un andamento sempre uguale da secoli, ma che all’improvviso si infiamma. È il 1921, in un’epoca di tremendi rivolgimenti politico-sociali, di conflitti militari, anni in cui cambia profondamente l’assetto delle regioni che Dos Passos attraversa. E guardando a questi eventi scrive pagine acute e provocatorie, come quelle sugli strascichi della guerra greco-turca o sulla creazione dell’Iraq a opera degli inglesi.

Sul crinale fra realtà e sogno, in un viaggio in bilico fra memoria e immaginazione, il lettore si ritrova proiettato in spazi e scenari naturali e umani di struggente bellezza: «i vecchi con le barbe cremisi, i turbanti enormi, bianchi, blu, neri, verdi, appollaiati su zucche pelate, gli asini bianchi, le cupole a  ovo di pettirosso, i campi di  papaveri bianchi da oppio». Da questo flusso di vita che avanza placido e stanco, ma è capace di repentine accelerazioni, Dos Passos cattura fotogrammi di grande forza evocativa, e il puro reportage raggiunge le vette della lirica.

John Dos Passos (1896-1970) scrittore e giornalista, è l’autore di alcuni capisaldi della letteratura americana come Manhattan Transfer, 42° parallelo, Tre soldati. Viaggiatore fin dall’infanzia – a un anno fu portato dalla madre in giro per l’Europa, tanto che più tardi ricorderà di aver vissuto una «hotel childhood» –, non smise mai di spingersi al di là dei confini statunitensi: dal Medio Oriente al Messico, dalla Russia al Sudamerica. Il suo tenace impegno politico – che lo portò in Spagna durante la guerra civile – ne fa una delle figure più significative e turbolente nel panorama degli intellettuali americani del Novecento.

Meledonzelli

De Moscou à Madrid, du Caire à Berlin-Est. Les pays d’Europe orientale et la Méditerranée. Relations et regards croisés, 1967-1989. / From Moscow to Madrid, from Cairo to Berlin: The Eastern European countries and the Mediterranean. Relations and crossed perspectives, 1967-1989.
Colloque international co-organisé par Richie1, l’UMR IRICE2, l’Université Paris I et l’Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Langues de travail : Français et Anglais  / The working languages of the conference are English and French
24 et 25 novembre 2011(date à confirmer), Paris. /November 24th and 25th 2011 (date to confirm), Paris

Les chercheurs intéressés doivent envoyer un résumé de leur communication (500 mots maximum) incluant (le titre de la contribution, la mention des sources envisagées ainsi qu’un court curriculum vitae) avant le 13 juillet 2011 aux membres du comité d’organisation, Nicolas Badalassi et Houda Ben Hamouda :
nicolas.badalassi@univ-paris3.fr et houdabh31@yahoo.fr.
Interested researchers are kindly requested to send a summary of their paper, include: the title of the paper, a summary of its content (no more than 1,500 characters), including the indication of the main archival sources (if any) of the contribution, and a brief vita before 13 July 2011 to the members of the steering committee, Nicolas Baladassi and Houda Ben Hamouda. (nicolas.badalassi@univ-paris3.fr and  houdabh31@yahoo.fr .)
Langues de travail : Français et Anglais24 et 25 novembre 2011(date à confirmer), Paris.

De Moscou à Madrid, du Caire à Berlin-Est. Les pays d’Europe orientale et la Méditerranée. Relations et regards croisés, 1967-1989.

Les années 1960 inaugurent une ère nouvelle tant dans l’histoire de l’Europe que dans celle de la Méditerranée : d’une part la détente s’installe durablement pour faire suite aux crises de Berlin et de Cuba, d’autre part la fin du processus de décolonisation en Afrique du Nord donne naissance à de nouveaux États souverains qui apparaissent rapidement comme des alliés potentiels pour les deux Grands. C’est également au cours de cette décennie que le conflit israélo-arabe reprend de la vigueur avec la guerre des Six Jours en 1967. L’ensemble de ces facteurs conduit à faire du bassin méditerranéen un centre d’intérêt majeur des relations internationales durant les deux dernières décennies de la guerre froide. Mais si l’attention portée par les Occidentaux, Américains comme Européens de l’Ouest, à l’égard de l’espace méditerranéen a fait l’objet d’études approfondies depuis les années 1990, la proportion des travaux reste plus faible pour ce qui est des liens entre le bloc de l’Est et les pays riverains de la Méditerranée.

Cette journée d’étude se propose de faire le point sur les perspectives de recherche relatives à ce thème. La périodisation proposée s’étend de 1967 à 1989 et prend en compte les seules relations politiques, diplomatiques et économiques entre l’Est de l’Europe et la Méditerranée, que ce soit de manière bilatérale ou multilatérale. Il s’agit de voir quelle place les États d’Europe orientale – l’ensemble des membres du pacte de Varsovie ainsi que la Yougoslavie – et l’Union soviétique accordent aux territoires méditerranéens au sein de leur politique étrangère, tant en matière diplomatique qu’économique, dans un contexte marqué par la détente puis par le retour des tensions Est-Ouest. Il importe de ne pas privilégier une analyse en sens unique et, de ce fait, il est essentiel d’étudier la perception que les pays méditerranéens – européens, proche-orientaux, nord-africains – se font du bloc de l’Est et de ceux qui le composent.

Nous proposons ci-dessous une liste non exhaustive de thèmes qui pourraient être abordés :
les relations de l’URSS et de ses alliés avec le monde arabe et Israël ;
le poids du conflit israélo-arabe dans les rapports Est-Ouest ;
l’impact de la crise énergétique vu de l’Est ;
l’enjeu que représente la fin des dictatures ibériques aux yeux du mouvement communiste international ;
les politiques de détente de la France et de l’Italie à l’égard des pays d’Europe orientale ;
les Années de plomb italiennes vues de l’Est ;
la place de la Yougoslavie dans le bassin méditerranéen et dans le monde communiste durant la dernière décennie du pouvoir titiste puis après la mort du maréchal Tito ;
la question chypriote vue de l’Est ;
l’Afrique du Nord, entre sympathies socialistes et non-alignement ;
le rôle de la Communauté européenne à la fois en Méditerranée et dans les relations Est-Ouest ;
le rapprochement de la Libye avec l’Union soviétique, en corollaire avec le développement des liens avec les États africains « marxistes » ;
la question de la neutralité maltaise ;
la réception en Méditerranée de la fin de la guerre froide.

Les chercheurs intéressés doivent envoyer un résumé de leur communication (500 mots maximum) incluant (le titre de la contribution, la mention des sources envisagées ainsi qu’un court curriculum vitae) avant le 13 juillet 2011 aux membres du comité d’organisation, Nicolas Badalassi et Houda Ben Hamouda :
nicolas.badalassi@univ-paris3.fr et houdabh31@yahoo.fr.

Le comité scientifique, présidé par Robert Frank (Université Paris 1), et composé de Frédéric Bozo (Université Paris III), Antonio Varsori (Université de Padoue), Elisabeth du Réau (Université Paris III), Jean-Robert Henry (IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence), Eric Bussière (Université Paris IV) Georges Corm (Université Saint- Joseph à Beyrouth), Fritz Taubert (Université de Bourgogne) établira un programme définitif sur la base de ces propositions dans le courant du mois de septembre 2011.Une publication des actes du colloque est prévue.

From Moscow to Madrid, from Cairo to Berlin: The Eastern European countries and the Mediterranean. Relations and crossed perspectives, 1967-1989.

International conference co-organized by Richie3, UMR IRICE4, the Paris I university and the Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle university.

November 24th and 25th 2011 (date to confirm), Paris

The 1960s inaugurated a new period both in European and in Mediterranean history: On the one hand détente was firmly established in the aftermath of the Berlin and Cuban Missile crises. On the other hand, the end of the decolonisation process in Northern Africa gave birth to new sovereign states which rapidly appeared to be potential allies for the two superpowers. It was in this same decade that the Six Day War, in 1967, revived the Arab-Israeli conflict. These factors collectively gave significance to the Mediterranean area in international relations as a centre of major interests during the last two decades of the Cold War. The Western attention to this region, from the United States and from Western Europe, has been subject of thorough research since the 1990s. But the relations between the Eastern bloc and the Mediterranean countries (Europe, Near East, Northern Africa) have received far less attention. This workshop aims at taking stock of the research perspectives in this field.

The workshop focuses on the place of the Mediterranean countries in the foreign politics of the USSR and the Eastern European countries (member states of the Warsaw Pact and Yugoslavia) within the context of détente and subsequent increased tensions. It comprises foreign relations of political, diplomatic and economic nature only between Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean area, both at bilateral and multilateral level. The period of research stretches from 1967 to 1989. One of the essential aspects of the conference is the focus on both foreign politics of the two areas without privileging a one-way analysis. Research on the Mediterranean perception of the Eastern bloc and its members is thus greatly encouraged.

Themes to be discussed might include, but are not limited to:
The relations of the USSR and its allies with the Arab world and Israel.
The weight of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the East-West relations.
The impact of the energy crisis
The stakes of the end of the Iberian dictatorships in the eyes of the international communist movement
The politics of détente of France and Italy towards the Eastern European countries
The place of Yugoslavia in the Mediterranean and in the communist world during the last decade of the Tito era and after his death.
The Cyprus problem and the significance for the member states of the Warsaw pact.
Northern Africa, between socialist sympathies and non-alignment.
The role of the European Community in Mediterranean and East West relations.
The Mediterranean and the end of the Cold War
The approach of Libya to the USSR as a corollary to the development of a relationship with the « marxist » African states
The problem of the Maltese neutrality and the associated relations with the Eastern European countries and the USSR.

Interested researchers are kindly requested to send a summary of their paper, include: the title of the paper, a summary of its content (no more than 1,500 characters), including the indication of the main archival sources (if any) of the contribution, and a brief vita before 13 July 2011 to the members of the steering committee, Nicolas Baladassi and Houda Ben Hamouda. (nicolas.badalassi@univ-paris3.fr and  houdabh31@yahoo.fr .)

The working languages of the conference are English and French

The scientific committee, chaired by Robert Frank (Paris 1 University), and composed of Frederic Bozo (Paris III University), Antonio Varsori (University of Padua), Elizabeth du Réau (Paris III University), Jean-Robert Henry (IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence), Eric Bussière (Paris IV University) George Corm (Saint Joseph University in Beirut),), Fritz Taubert (University of Burgundy) will establish a final program on the basis of these proposals in the course of the month of September, 2011. A publication of the acts of symposium is envisaged.

a cura di Carla Tonini

Dalla seconda metà del Diciannovesimo secolo, le regioni orientali d’Europa hanno conosciuto continui mutamenti nella sfera economica, all’interno della quale la questione della proprietà ha svolto un ruolo centrale. Per i governi che si sono succeduti alla guida di quest’area geografica, le politiche riguardanti la proprietà sono state mezzi importanti per modernizzare economie arretrate, per affermare il controllo del centro su aree di recente acquisizione, per ottenere legittimazione agli occhi di popolazioni ostili, per omologarle dal punto di vista sociale o etnico. Questo libro colloca, per la prima volta, la struttura della proprietà in una prospettiva di lungo periodo in modo da evidenziarne i cambiamenti ma anche gli elementi di continuità con il passato. I contributi, provenienti da storici italiani, affrontano tematiche riguardanti l’introduzione della proprietà privata in Siberia e le riforme agrarie in Bosnia-Erzegovina agli inizi del ‘900, l’esproprio delle fondazioni pie in Asia centrale da parte dei bolscevichi, le politiche economiche di Stambolijski in Bulgaria, la restituzione della proprietà ebraica in Polonia dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, per finire con le privatizzazioni in Ungheria ed Estonia dopo il 1989.

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