Friday,
February 25, 2005 - William Pitt Union, Lower Lounge
9:30-10:00
AM - Formal greeting and introduction to the conference
Dr. Robert Hayden, Director of REES and Department of
Anthropology
Dr. Bob Donnorummo, Associate Director of REES and
Department of History
10:00-11:45
AM - Panel 1: Minorities as a Challenge to the Modern Nation State
Chair/Discussant: Dr. Sharon Franklin-Rahkonen
(franklin@iup.edu)
Department of History / Indiana University of
Pennsylvania
"Salonika's Urban Ethno-Religious Communities
and the Contest for Self-Determination during the Balkan Wars of
1912-1913"
Stefan S. Papaioannou (spapaioa@mail.umd.edu)
Department of History / University of Maryland
"Home is Our Native Land: Ethnic Swedish
Identity on the Periphery of Estonia until 1944"
Glenn Eric Kranking (kranking.1@osu.edu)
Department of History / The Ohio State University
"New Neighbors: Jews, Poles and Ukrainians in
Small-Town Poland"
Karen Gabert (kgabert@connect.carleton.ca)
Department of Public History / Carleton University
"The Threat of the Powerless: Police Conspiracy
Theories and Jewish Youth in the Borderland Province of Bessarabia"
Katherine Sorrels (kas76@pitt.edu)
Department of History / University of Pittsburgh
12:00-1:15
PM - Lunch (on your own)
1:30
- 3:15 PM - Panel 2: Boundaries and Borders, Inside and Out
Chair/Discussant: Dr. Ilya Prizel
(prizel@ucis.pitt.edu)
University Center for International Studies Research
Professor of East European Studies / University of Pittsburgh
"Borders of and within Georgia in a Borderless
World"
Eka Imerlishvili (eimerlis@yahoo.com)
Department of International Relations and Diplomacy /
Telavi State University
"From the Sudetenland to Ceske pohranici: Same
Borderlands, Different Borders"
David Gerlach (dwgst11@pitt.edu)
Department of History / University of Pittsburgh
"In Between 'The State' and 'The
Social/Local': CATOM Field Supervisors as Mediators"
Hande Sozer (hande_sozer@hotmail.com)
Department of Anthropology / University of Pittsburgh
"Shifting Borders and the Ambiguity of
National Identity in Ukraine"
Irina A. Papkov (papkovi@georgetown.edu)
Department of Comparative Government / Georgetown
University
3:30-5:15
PM - Panel 3: The Geography of Identity: Symbolic Borders
Chair/Discussant: Dr. Andreea Deciu-Ritivoi
(aritivoi@andrew.cmu.edu)
Department of Rhetoric / Carnegie Mellon University
"Identity Borders: Internal and External
Boundaries of European Citizenship in Central and Eastern European
Countries"
Cristina Blanco Sio-Lopez (cristina.blanco.sio-lopez@iue.it)
Department of History and Civilization / European
University Institute
"After Nationalism: Tourism and the Production
of Croatian Identity"
Lauren Rivera (larivera@fas.harvard.edu)
Department of Sociology / Harvard University
"Geographies of Consumption in Eastern Europe:
The Symbolic Dimensions of European Union Regulations"
Narcis S. Tulbure (nst4@pitt.edu)
Department of Anthropology / University of Pittsburgh
5:15-6:30
PM - Dinner
6:30-8:00
PM - Keynote Address:
“Borders and
Intellectuals in Central and Eastern Europe between the Wars”
Dr. Katerina Clark
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures / Yale
University
Saturday,
February 26, 2005 - William Pitt Union, Kurtzmann Room
9:30-10:30
AM - Panel 4: Identifying and Crossing into the Other through Imagery
Chair/Discussant: Dr. Barbara McCloskey
(bmcc@pitt.edu)
Department of the History of Art and Architecture /
University of Pittsburgh
"A Land of Contradictions: Austrian Images of
Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Era of Annexation"
Anthony Glocke (aglocke@umd.edu)
Department of History / University of Maryland
"Toyen and the Boundaries of Gender in the
Czech Avant-Garde"
Karla Huebner (karlahuebner@compuserve.com)
Department of the History of Art and Architecture /
University of Pittsburgh
"Autonomy or Ab(sorb)tion: Lusation Sorb
National Identity and the Visual Arts between the World Wars"
Annah E. Krieg (annie.krieg@fulbrightweb.org)
Department of the History of Art and Architecture /
University of Pittsburgh
10:45
- 12:15 pm - Panel 5: The Changing Borders of Central Asia
Chair/Discussant: Dr. Bob Donnorummo
(tsarpepe@ucis.pitt.edu)
Associate Director of REES and Department of History /
University of Pittsburgh
“Beyond the Frontier: Chinese Borders and
Uyghur Nationalism”
Kristian Petersen (kristianpetersen20@yahoo.com)
Department of Religious Studies / University of
Colorado
“Old and New Boundaries of Uzbek Self
Identity”
Zumrad Masarovna Ahmedjanova (azumrad@yahoo.com)
Department of Religious Studies / University of North
Carolina
“The Mediation of Space by Dreams and Institutions
in Darezhan Omirbaev's Kairat and Kardiogramma”
Tim Schlak (tms29@pitt.edu)
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures /
University of Pittsburgh
12:15-1:30
pm - Lunch (catered)
1:30-3:15
pm - Panel 6: Multinational and Transnational Democratization
Chair/Discussant: Dr. Jonathan Harris
(jonharri@pitt.edu)
Department of Political Science / University of
Pittsburgh
"Goliath's Predicament: Cultural Identity and
the Problem of Socio-Economic Backwardnes in the Russian Empire, the Soviet
Union and Post Socialist Russia in Historical Perspective"
Leonid Kil (lkil@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Department of Political Science / University of
California, Berkeley
"The Uses of the West in Discourses about the
Democratization in the Former Soviet Union"
Simone Z. Ipsa-Landa (ipsaland@fas.harvard.edu)
Department of Sociology / Harvard University
"Political Crisis in Ukraine: Geopolitical and
Humanitarian Issues Underlying a Nation at the East-West Crossroads"
Troy R. Arnold (river@email.arizona.edu)
Department of Russian and Slavic Studies / University
of Arizona
"In the Name of Democracy: The Rhetoric of the
International Community in Bosnia-Herzegovina"
Daniel S. Hammer (dsh3@pitt.edu)
Department of Anthropology / University of Pittsburgh
3:30-5:15
PM - Panel 7: Borders on the Move: Causes and Consequences
Chair/Discussant: Dr. Gregor Thum (grt2@pitt.edu)
Department of History / University of Pittsburgh
"Creating Boundaries: National Conflct under
Socialism and the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: 1944-1992"
Brian Rohlik (brian.rohlik@yale.edu)
Department of History / Yale University
"Turkish Candidacy as a Challenge for the
EU"
Zeki Sarigil (zes3@pitt.edu)
Department of Political Science / University of
Pittsburgh
"Shifting of Political Boundaries or Cultural
Boundaries in the Balkans?"
Drita Cetaku (drita@bilkent.edu.tr)
Department of Turkish Literature / Bilkent University
"Patient Tourists at a Czech Spa Town Embody a
Negotiation of the Borders of a New Europe"
Amy Renae Speier (arspeier@yahoo.com)
Department of Anthropology / University of Pittsburgh
5:15-5:30
PM - Closing Remarks
Katherine Sorrels
President, Graduate Organization for the Study of
Europe and Central Asia
Dr. Robert Donnorummo,
Associate Director of REES |
