9 October

Opening: 9.30 – 9.45 Plamen Mitev, Ivan Parvev, Kostadin Grozev

I Session, 1st section. The Southeast in the policy-making of the European powers – economical and cultural penetration, wars, peace treaties, diplomacy

Moderator: Harald Heppner

9.45 – 10.00
Charles Ingrao (Purdue University). Understanding Habsburg Grand Strategy, 1699-1829

10.00 – 10.15
Markus Koller (University of Giessen). The Integration of the Ottoman Empire into the European State System

10.15 – 10.30
Ivan Parvev (Sofia University). Southeastern Europe as a factor in German history 1699-1829

10.30 – 10.45
Ilya Zaytsev (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow). The Crimean Khanate between Empires: independence or submission

Discussion: 10.45 – 11.15
Coffee Break: 11.15 – 11.45

11.45 – 12.00
Jovan Pešalj (University of Belgrade). Guarding the Peace and Good Neighbourhood in the Southeastern Europe: How Habsburg Diplomacy Resolved Several Crises in its Relations with the Ottomans between 1699 and 1716

12.00 – 12.15
Iskra Schwarcz (University of Vienna). "The loyal ally": The problem of the participantion of Russian military units in Eugene of Savoy’s army

12.15 – 12.30
Tamara Stoilova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences). Revolutionary France and the Russian diplomacy in Constantinople

12.30 – 12.45
Boro Bronza (University of Banja Luka). Habsburg Monarchy and the Projects for Division of the Ottoman Balkans 1771-1788

Discussion: 12.45 – 13.15
Lunch: 13.15 – 14.15

II Session, 2nd section. The Southeast in the policy-making of the European powers – economical and cultural penetration. Wars, Peace treaties, Diplomacy

Moderator: Ivan Parvev

14.15 – 14.30
Will Smiley (Queens’ College, Cambridge University). The Rules of War on the Danube: Ottoman, Romanov, and Habsburg Captivity in Transition

14.30 – 14.45
Kyrillos Nikolaou (University of Athens). Peloponnesus in the plans of the great powers for the control of the Eastern Mediterranean, second half of the 18th century

14.45 – 15.00
Sergei Murtuzaliev (Dagestan State University, Mahachkala). Potto about the role of Caucasian front in the war at the Balkans (1828-1829 years)

Discussion: 15.00 – 15.30
Coffee Break: 15.30 – 16.00

III Session, 1st section. Societies in Southeastern Europe: the Ottoman model, the Habsburg variant, “autonomous” und “peripheral” societies

Moderator: Kostadin Grozev

16.00 – 16.15
Giacomo Brucciani (University of Pisa). The South-Slavic Historiographies and socio-political changes in the Balkan Region 1699-1829

16.15 – 16.30
Maria Baramova (Sofia University). The Southeast in Encyclopaedia Context. The "Balkans" as a Topic in the 18th-Centruy German Lexicons

16.30 – 16.45
Plamen Mitev (Sofia University). A Look at the Bulgarians and the Balkans during the Russian-Turkish War of 1828-1829

Discussion: 16.45 – 17.15
Break: 17.15 – 17.30

17.30 – 17.45
Nadia Manolova-Nikolova (Sofia University). Spanish Records about Istanbul from the End of the 18th century

17.45 – 18.00
Miloš Djordjević (University of Niš). Educational and Cultural Conditions of Serbs in the First Half of 18th Century

18.00 – 18.15
Snežana Vukadinović (University of Novi Sad). Marko Kraljević and the Power of the Ottoman Empire in the Key of the South Slavic Epic Poems

Discussion: 18.15 – 18.45
Reception: 19.30

10 October

IV Session, 2nd section. Societies in Southeastern Europe: the Ottoman model, the Habsburg variant, “autonomous” und “peripheral” societies

Moderator: Markus Koller

9.30 – 9.45
Dean Sakel (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul). Between Old and New: Historiography as a Reflexion of Ideological Reorientation Among The Zimmi in the 18th Century

9.45 – 10.00
Mariya Shusharova (Sofia University). A Local View on the War. War service functions of the Rumelian ayans in the Ottoman Empire – the end of 17th and during the 18th Centuries

10.00 – 10.15
Nadia Danova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences). Svishtov between War and Peace

10.15 – 10.30
Ifigenija Draganic (University of Novi Sad) Greeks and Serbians in the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy in the 18th and at the Beginning of the 19th Century

Discussion: 10.30 – 11.00
Coffee Break: 11.00 – 11.30

11.30 – 11.45
Dimitris Michalopoulos („Eleutherios Veniselos“ Historical Institute, Athens). The vision of Agathangelus: An eighteenth century apocalyptic Weltanschauung

11.45 – 12.00
Victor Taki (High Anthropological School, Chisinau). A Polizeistaat on the Frontier: Russo-Turkish Imperial Rivalry and Police Reform in Moldavia and Wallachia in the Early Nineteenth Century

12.00 – 12.15
Vanya Racheva (University of Sofia). Lessons from the Great Bulgarian migration (1828-1833)

12.15 – 12.30
Elka Drosneva, Maria Kirova (Sofia University). Wars and migrations. Observations on the ground (1828-2008)

Discussion: 12.30 – 13.00
Lunch: 13.00 – 14.00

V Session. Art of transition in Southeastern Europe – the transformation of Ottoman society; the modern nation in the South East – patterns of evolution; “modernization” as an economic, cultural and mental “re-orientation” in Southeastern Europe.

Moderator: Ilya Zaytsev

14.00 – 14.15
Harald Heppner. (University of Graz). The Habsburg model of modernized society in the era of enlightenment

14.15 – 14.30
Suzana Rajić. (University of Belgrade). Serbia – the revival of the national states 1804-1829 (from the Turkish provinces to the autonomous principality)

14.30 – 14.45
Momir Samardzić (University of Novi Sad). Sources and limitations of traditional model of social and political integration in the history of 19th Century Serbia

Discussion: 14.45 – 15.15
Coffee Break: 15.15 – 15.45

Moderator: Vania Racheva, Maria Baramova

15.45 – 16.00
Eleonora Naxidou (Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini). The transition from ecumenical tradition to a multinational perspective: the historical evolution of the Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire

16.00 – 16.15
Marlene Kurz (University of Vienna). Modernization in the Ottoman Empire between Karlowitz and the reign of Mahmud II: A process of cultural transfer

16.15 – 16.30
Vladimir Stoychev (University of Sofia). Church and Modernization

Discussion: 16.30 – 17.00
Break: 17.00 – 17.15

17.15 – 17.30
Nedelko Radosavlević (Serbian Academy of Sciences). Serbian Revolution and the creation of the modern state: geopolitical changes of the Balkan

17.30 – 17.45
Manos Perakis (University of Crete). The Greek Revolution and the socio-economic transformation of an Ottoman province: the case of the island of Crete in 1821

17.45 – 18.00
Elpida K. Vogli (Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini). The Emergence of a Modern Nation-State in the Southeastern Europe: The Greek War of Independence as a National-Building Revolution in the 1820s

Discussion: 18.00 – 18.30
Closing of the Conference