Centralist Ambitions and Peripheral Realities in the 20th Century: Contested Identities in Yugoslavia

Centralist Ambitions and Peripheral Realities in the 20th Century: Contested Identities in Yugoslavia

Organizer
Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences; Institute of World History at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University; Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg; Croatian Institute of History in Zagreb
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Czech Academy of Sciences
ZIP
110 00
Location
Prague
Country
Czech Republic
Takes place
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From - Until
16.05.2023 - 16.05.2023
By
Milan Sovilj, Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences

The International Conference is jointly organised by the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Institute of World History at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg and the Croatian Institute of History in Zagreb.

Centralist Ambitions and Peripheral Realities in the 20th Century: Contested Identities in Yugoslavia

The planned Conference aims at bringing together researchers whose professional interest is focused on the research of various forms of identity (national, regional, local) on the example of Yugoslavia, a state with a very specific national, social and cultural structure during the vast majority of the 20th century. In contrast to previous texts, the basis of which was mainly related to the question of national (nationwide) identity, the focus of this Conference will be oriented towards the analysis of tensions and negotiations on the forms of identity between the power centre and the periphery in the phases of transformation (political, social, cultural, etc.), as well as towards important sociopolitical changes (crises, changes in ruling structures, war conflicts). In the implementation of the Conference, a number of methodological approaches will be applied, from local and migration history to institutional and cultural-historical research.

The Conference is the output of the research programme of the AV21 Strategy “Anatomy of European Society, History, Tradition, Culture, Identity” of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. With the support of the Cooperatio programme of Charles University in Prague.

Programm

8:45 – 9:15 Registration

9:15 – 9:30 Conference Opening

9:30 – 10:30 Panel I: Tensions and Negotiations between the Power Centre and the Periphery

Moderator: Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Institute of World History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague

Tomaž Ivešić, Study Centre for National Reconciliation, Ljubljana
Yugoslav national categories and the post-World War II censuses

Igor Duda, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Pula
Local community vs. municipality. Relations between social self-management and bureaucracy in Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s

Josip Mihaljević, Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb
Identity of Yugoslav Gastarbeiters in Socialism and Post-socialism

10:30 – 11:00 Discussion

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30 Panel II: From Local and Regional to Global

Moderator: Stipica Grgić, Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb

Pieter Troch, Ghent University, Ghent
The (im)possibility of multiple nationhood: The case of interwar Montenegro

Zoran Janjetović, Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade
E pluribus unum: Creation of the German Minority in interwar Yugoslavia

Anita Buhin, Institute of Contemporary History, FCSH / IN2PAST, Nova University, Lisbon
Hegemonic Dalmatian masculinities: between Mediterranean and Socialist identity

12:30 – 13:00 Discussion

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Panel III: Contested Identities in exile and diaspora

Moderator: Edvin Pezo, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg

Vesna Đikanović, Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade
Forging an identity – the case of Yugoslav migrants in the USA and the policy of Integral Yugoslavism

Milan Sovilj, Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
Contested identities and nationalities in exile: The case of the Yugoslav Exile Government during the Second World War and its elites after 1945

Ivan Hrstić, Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb
Development of diasporic identity in a triangle of interrelations between the state of emigration, the state of immigration and the diaspora itself – the case of pre-World War II emigrants from Croatia to Australia and New Zealand until the 1990s

15:00 – 15:30 Discussion

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:20 Panel IV: Building Blocks of Identity and Unity

Moderator: Milan Sovilj, Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

Michal Janíčko, Institute of World History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
Interaction between the communist leadership and public opinion in Slovenia in the late 1980s

Tanja Petrović, Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana
State Ideology, Institutional Policies, and Day-to-Day Reality of Military Service in the Yugoslav People’s Army

Marko Zajc – Jurij Hadalin, Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana (both)
The Yugoslav Media Space: “Eight Mirrors Held Up to the Public by the Media of the Yugoslav Republics and Provinces”

Stipica Grgić, Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb
Playing Football with Different Outcomes: Hajduk Split and their Australian Tours of 1949 and 1990

17:20 – 18:00 Discussion

18:00 – 18:15 Closing Remarks

19:00 Dinner

Contact (announcement)

Milan Sovilj
Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
Email: sovilj@hiu.cas.cz

https://www.hiu.cas.cz/en/events/centralist-ambitions-and-peripheral-realities-in-the-20th-century-contested-identities-in-yugoslavia
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