Thursday, 20 October
16.00
Welcome and keynote speech: Carl Bethke and Johann Büssow
16.45-19.15
Panel 1: Histories of migration and integration along the Balkan Route (Chair: Carl Bethke)
Bekim Agai: Crossing mental borders: Refugees and minorities and their challenges to national and regional histories
Mathias Beer: Flight and expulsion of Germans from South Eastern Europe. A facet of the Balkan Route at the end of World War II
Husnija Kamberović and Vera Katz: Bosnia: Immigrations and emigrations
Florian Bieber: Fleeing the Balkans: Yugoslav and Greek refugees in the Middle East, 1943-1946
Reception and dinner
Friday, 21 October
8.30 Coffee
9.00-11.30
Panel 2: Forced migration: Cases of flight and expulsion in comparison (Chair: Boris Nieswand)
Michael Schwartz: ‘Resettlements’ and forced migrations in Central Europe and the Balkans: Transfers of concepts and practices
Mehmet Arisan: Borderlands and violence during the Late Ottoman Period
M. Hakan Yavuz: Patterns of ethnic cleansing in the Late Ottoman Period (1821-1921)
Anisa Hasanhodžić and Rifet Rustemović: Memory work: Jewish refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina
11.30-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-16.00
Panel 3: Encounter Studies: Transfer and entanglements (Chair: Johann Büssow)
Yuval Ben-Bassat: The Ottoman View on Jewish Immigration to the Empire since the 1880s
Constantin Iordachi: Encounters and Diversity in Times of Conflict: Life and experiences of Germans, Turks, Romanians, Bulgarians and others in Dobrudja
Thomas Schad: The Case of a Bosniak-Turkish Figuration between Migration (muhacirlik), Mutual (Be)longings, and Turkey's New Role in the Balkans
Armina Omerika: Knowledge Production on Islam in South Eastern Europe: Transfer and interaction during the 20th century
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-19.00
Panel 4: Conflict management and regulatory politics (Chair: Bekim Agai)
Sarah Büssow-Schmitz: ‘Conflict management’ in German consular records from Late Ottoman Palestine, 1868-1917
Tamara Scheer: The Habsburg Empire and Muslim refugees in South Eastern Europe (1878-1918)
Carl Bethke: The ‘Minority Question’ and the League of Nations
Dinner
Saturday, 21 October
9.00 Coffee
9.30-12.00
Panel 5: Collective images: Occidentalisms, Orientalisms, friendship (Chair: Armina Omerika)
Ruža Fotiadis: ‘Historical ties’, ‘traditional bonds’ and ‘common destinies’: The making of the Greek-Serbian friendship in the 1990s
Fruma Zachs: Occidentalism and the Woman Question as viewed by Nahda intellectuals, 1826-1912
Gaelle Fisher: Friendship, hostility or indifference? The relationship between Bukovina Germans and Bukovina Jews during the Cold War (1950-1980)
Maurus Reinkowski: The return of the Near East? The Arab World, Turkey and South Eastern Europe: Old and new interactions
12.00-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-16.00
Conclusion and final discussion
Jannis Panagiotidis: Migration and integration