1st Meeting of Balkan History
Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH and École Française d’Athènes
venue: ΙΜS/FORTH
Nikiforou Foka 130 & Melissinou, Rethymno 74100 Crete
Session 1 February 20, 16:30-21:00
Albanians and Greeks: connected patterns in historiography
1st panel 16:30-19:00 chair Andreas Lyberatos, Panteion University
Şükrü Ilıcak, IMS/FORTH: The Albanian factor in the Greek War of Independence
Nikos Sigalas, CETOBaC/EHESS: The Pelasgians in the 19th century between “Hellenism” and “Albanism”: a double-edged strategy of identification
Paraskevas Matalas, University of Crete: Two letters of Gjergj Fishta to Maurice Barrès
Coffee break 19:00-19:20
2nd panel 19:20-21:00 chair Tassos Kostopoulos, IMS/FORTH
Leonidas Embiricos, Centre for Asia Minor Studies: The Arvanite identity movement in Greece from 1974 to 1990
Gilles de Rapper, École française d’Athènes: The return of the Pelasgians: “Neo-Pelasgianism” in Post-Socialist Albania as a Greek-Albanian affair
Session 2 February 21, 10:00-14:30
Interstate relations, politics and nationalism in the Cold War
1st panel 10:00-12:30 chair Sokratis Petmezas, University of Crete and IMS/FORTH
Elias Skoulidas, University of Ioannina: “Especially distinct”: Policies, ideologies, mentalities of the "Party of Labour of Albania" in the Cold War Era
Agustín Cosovschi, École française d’Athènes: Yugoslav non-alignment from peaceful coexistence to détente
Tassos Kostopoulos, IMS/FORTH: Fiend’s Friends: what we know about Greece’s participation in clandestine operations against Albania during the Cold War
Coffee break 12:30-12:50
2nd panel 12:50-14:00 chair Gilles de Rapper, École française d’Athènes
Lambros Baltsiotis, Panteion University: The politics of citizenship in Greece and Turkey as a means of inclusion and exclusion from the nation during the Cold War era
Athena Skoulariki, University of Crete: Politics of unnaming: Greek political discourse on the Macedonian minority issue in the post-WWII decades
Conclusions 14:00-14:30
Organising Committee
Sokratis Petmezas, University of Crete and IMS/FORTH
Tassos Kostopoulos, IMS/FORTH
Gilles de Rapper, École française d’Athènes
Nikos Sigalas, CETOBaC/EHESS