[Oberlist] BA* call/urb: CEELBAS Workshop, Sarajevo Revisited

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Subject: [balkans] CfP: CEELBAS Workshop, Sarajevo Revisited, 30 June - 1
July 2011
From:    "Rory Archer" <rory.archer at uni-graz.at>
Date:    Mon, March 28, 2011 1:12 pm
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CEELBAS Workshop: SARAJEVO REVISITED

Call for Papers
30 June -1 July 2011, University of Bath

Deadline: 10 April 2011

Keynote speakers: Professor Dina Iordanova, Professor Dusan I. Bjelic,
Professor Natasa Kovacevic

With the twentieth anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo approaching it
seems a timely moment to revisit the city and the myths that surround it.
Today, the city and the region have been  overshadowed by the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq. In the 1990s the besieged city became central to the
future of Europe, to questions of international foreign policy, and indeed
to the notion of western civilisation itself. Known previously only for
its minor role in World War One, the city rapidly became a symbol of a
post-Cold War world order in which ethnic divisions had replaced
ideological ones, and barbarism was unleashed. At the same time, the city
was understood as an exception in the region, variously representing
Europe's commitment to multiculturalism, and defence of European Islam.
This workshop aims to revisit the city in its many manifestations past and
present, and explore its role in debates on Europe, the Balkans and the
post-Cold War world order.

Contributions are invited for an interdisciplinary workshop to be held at
the University of Bath, funded by CEELBAS, which aims to explore the
changing representations and significations of the city. One strand of
this workshop will examine literary, cinematic, journalistic and artistic
representations of the city. A second strand will examine its symbolic
significance in political and intellectual debates. Here, the uses of the
city in debates on the clash of civilisations, multiculturalism, new
imperialisms and the future of supranational bodies such as the UN are
welcomed. Papers on any period in the history of the city will be
considered, although the focus of the workshop is on the recent war and
its aftermath.

Workshop Organiser: Dr Karoline von Oppen, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY

Please send 200 word abstracts of papers to mlskvo at bath.ac.uk by 1 April
2011.

A publication of contributions is planned.




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