urban life and culture in southeastern europe

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN ANTHROPOLOGY
ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE D'ANTHROPOLOGIE DU SUD-EST EUROPEEN
INTERNATIONALE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR DIE ANTHROPOLOGIE SÜDOSTEUROPAS
3rd InASEA Conference
URBAN LIFE AND CULTURE IN
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE
May 26-29, 2005
School of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
This conference is sponsored by
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (USA)
http://www.wennergren.org/
Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft (Germany)
http://www.suedosteuropa-gesellschaft.com
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
TIME
SESSIONS & PANELS
Thursday, May 26, 2005
19:00-20:30
Plenary Session 1
Opening
Keynote speech: Thomas Hengartner
Friday, May 27, 2005
9:00-10:45
11:00-13:00
15:00-17:00
17:30-19:00
Plenary Session 2
Keynote speeches:
Robert Hayden, Rajna Gavrilova
1.1
1.2
Urbanization as a
Urban-rural ties
historical process 1
Harthmuth
Reka
Kera
Petreska
Miletic
KrastevaPetrovic S.
Blagoeva
Janiskee &
Radovanovic
2.1
2.2
Urbanization as a
City vs. village 1
historical process 2
Vucetic
Markovic
Milicevic
Yeomans
Lukovic
Ristovic
Onal & Zeybekoglu
Jansen
1.3
Communication in
the city
Fridman
Antonijevic & Hristic
Marjanovic
Erdei
1.4
Time, travel and
identity
Preda & Vasiluta
Duda
Radojicic
Greenberg
1.5
Place & memory 1
2.3
Migration 1
2.4
Exploring the city 1
2.5
Place & memory 2
Stiuca
Bada
Koleva D.
Hausmaninger
Kaser
Pemunta
Cotoi
Pušic
Kostov & Petrovic
Branc
Chaveneau
Lubenova S.
3.5
Religious space and
place
Damljanovic
Aleksov
Kalkandijeva
3.1
Socialist city
3.2
City vs village 2
3.3
Migration 2
3.4
Exploring the city 2
Brunnbauer
Gulin Zrnic
Horvath
Stojanovic D.
Spasic
Petrovic T.
Bondžic
Kodra-Hysa
Cvetkovic
Popovic
Grandits
Petronijevic
Zerilli
Lavrence
Milanovic
Cojocari & Birladeanu
Lafazanovski
Saturday, May 28, 2005
9:00-11:00
11:15-13:15
4.1
Suburbia: processes &
phenomena
4.2
Family, kinship
& gender 1
4.3
City & national
identity
4.4
Social inclusions/
exclusions 1
Maksin-Micic
Briciou et al.
Milic & Djokic
Visnar
Papa-Pandele
Fujii
Ciolan & Ilie
Ivanovic
Maxwell
Perica
Karamihova
Toma
5.1 Trust & security
5.2
Family, kinship
& gender 2
Helms
Petreska
Petrova
Pisac
5.3
Urban identities
Leutloff-Grandits
Koci
Mihay & Harriss
15:00-17:00
17:30-19:30
6.1
Commodities &
consumption
6.2
Sexuality &
gender
Kovacevic
Radu
Matic
Fruntelata
Žikic
Bukov &
Potkonjak
Kantsa
Svab
Mihailescu
Munnich
Jerman
Zlatkova
Kalapoš-Gasparac
6.3
Urban communities
Alexiu
Kovac & Kovac
Tomanovic
Larionescu
Plenary Session 3
InASEA General Assembly
3
4.6
New technologies
& the city
Stanoeva
Inal O.
Gruber
Djiuzings
4.5
Constructions &
meanings of public
space
Avlijas & Monno
Inan & Patsavos
Djokic V.
Coman
5.4
Social inclusions/
exclusions 2
Kaneff
Halili
Sedmak
Dimova
5.5
Commercialized
places
Hristov
Ichimescu
Tesar
Siegel
5.6
Culture of pubs
and clubs
Petre R.
Bilsel
Nagy & Colotelo
Petrov
6.4
Social inclusions/
exclusions 3
6.5
Sociability & place
6.6
Actors, policies &
power
Zavratnik
Dalipaj
Yilmaz
Cvorovic
Vucinic
Tirca
Treitler
Bugaric
Duša
Otoiu
Vujovic
Gavrilovic
Codorean
Podosovnik
Sunday, May 29, 2005
9:00-10:30
7.1
Travel & leisure
Taylor
Scarbo
Meehan Pedrotty
10:45-12:15
12:30-13:30
8.1
Transport, borders,
crossroads
Prato
Ditchev
Ban
Plenary Session 4
Closing Keynote speech:
Keith Brown
7.2
Urban pop
culture 1
Lukic-Krstanovic
Voiculescu
Hofman et al.
Kronja
7.3
Football
7.4
City & ethnicity
Kyurkchieva
Stankovic
Zikic & Sinani
Georgelin
Pavlovic
Luleva et al.
Stojanovic L.
8.2
Urban pop
culture 2
Grujic M.
Nagy T.
Stoimenov
8.3
Urban youth
8.4
City & religion
Maleševic
Crvenkovska
Risteski
Boyadjieva
Iliescu
Pavicevic
4
7.5
Reading urban
landscape
Djordjevic
Kazalarska
Samardžic
8.5
Representations of
city in art & literature
Milutinovic
Vasiloiu
Naumovic
PROGRAM SUMMARY AND CONFERENCE VENUES
Thursday, May 26, 2005: National Museum, atrium
19:00-20:30 Plenary session 1. Opening of the Conference and keynote lecture
Friday, May 27, 2005: Friday: School of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
9:00-10:45
11:00-13:00
15:00-17:00
17:30-19:00
Plenary session 2. Keynote lectures (Main auditorium)
Session 1 (Panels 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5)
Session 2 (Panels 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5)
Session 3 (Panels 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5)
20:00
Reception: City Hall of Belgrade
Saturday, May 28, 2005: Saturday: School of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
9:00-11:00 Session 4 (Panels 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6)
11:15-13:15 Session 5 (Panels 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6)
15:00-17:00 Session 6 (Panels 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6)
17:30-19:30 Plenary session 3. InASEA General Assembly (Main auditorium)
19:30-20:15 Mini Tour: Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade
20:15-21:15 Reception: Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade (Main exhibition hall)
Sunday, May 29, 2005: Sunday: School of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
9:00-10:30 Session 7 (Panels 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5)
10:45-12:15 Session 8 (Panels 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5)
12:30-13:30 Plenary session 4. Closing keynote lecture and discussion (Main auditorium)
3rd InASEA CONFERENCE VENUES
School of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, Cika Ljubina 18-20
(Main entrance from Vasina Street, next to Bookstore Plato, first floor):
Main conference venue (All Panels, Plenary sessions 2, 3 & 4)
National Museum
Narodni muzej, Trg Republike 1a
(Entrance from Vasina Street, atrium):
Opening of the Conference, Plenary session 1.
Ethnographic Museum
Etnografski muzej, Studentski trg 13
(Main exhibition hall): Museum mini tour and cocktail.
City Hall of Belgrade
Skupština grada, Dragoslava Jovanovica 2
(Entrance from Pionirski park, across the Federal Assembly): cocktail.
Hotel Royal, Kralja Petra 51:
Hotel where participants accommodated by the conference organizers will reside.
Hotel Kasina, Terazije 25, and Hotel Park, Njegoševa 4:
Hotels where other participants will reside.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Milena Benovska-Sabkova, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria
Ulf Brunnbauer, Free University of Berlin, Germany (Chair)
Nicolae Constantinescu, University of Bucharest, Romania
Christian Giordano, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Klaus Roth, University of Munich, Germany
Enkeleida Tahiraj, University College London, United Kingdom
Vesna Vucinic-Neškovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Senka Kovac, Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, U of Belgrade
Slobodan Naumovic, Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, U of Belgrade
Mina Petrovic, Department of Sociology, U of Belgrade
Dubravka Stojanovic, Department of History, U of Belgrade
Danijela Velimirovic, Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, U of Belgrade
Vesna Vucinic-Neškovic, Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, U of Belgrade (Chair)
Bojan Žikic, Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, U of Belgrade
Contact information:
Vesna Vucinic-Neškovic
Department of Ethnology and Anthropology
School of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
Cika Ljubina 18-20, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
E-mail: [email protected]
phone: +381-11-3206-265, fax: +381-11-639-356
Ulf Brunnbauer
Institute of East European Studies
Free University of Berlin
Garystrasse 55, 14195 Berlin, Germany
E-mail: [email protected]
phone: +49-30-838-52028, fax: +49-30-838-54036
Internet: http://www-gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/inasea/
PROGRAM
Thursday, May 26
National Museum, atrium
PLENARY SESSION 1 (19:00-20:30)
Conference opening
Keynote lecture: Thomas Hengartner, University of Hamburg, Germany.
Friday, May 27
School of Philosophy, main auditorium.
PLENARY SESSION 2 (9:00-10:45)
Keynote lectures:
Robert M. Hayden, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Rajna Gavrilova, University of Sofia, Bulgaria.
School of Philosophy, lecture rooms (rooms 1–5: first floor, room 6: second floor)
SESSION 1 (11:00-13:00)
Panel 1.1 Urbanization as a historical process in Southeastern Europe (1)
Room 1.
1. Hartmuth Maximilian (Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey): Europeanization of the post-Ottoman cityscape
in the Balkans: a comparative analysis of processes in Belgrade, Sofia and Sarajevo 1878-1918.
2. Kera Gentiana (Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria): Living in a city in continuous transformation:
Urban life in Tirana (1900-1939).
3. Miletic R. Aleksandar (Institute for the Recent History of Serbia, SCG): Urban life, cultural changes and
modernization in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 1918-1928.
4. Petrovic Sanja (Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade, SCG): Traditional versus modern: the
example of a small Serbian town between the Two World Wars.
Panel 1.2 Urban-rural ties
Room 2.
1. Réka Geambasu (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania): The Dynamics of Social Network-Management
among Rural Immigrants.
2. Petreska Vesna (Institute of folklore “Marko Cepenkov,” Skopje, Macedonia): Urban and Rural
Relationships in Kinship Relations. Examples of Macedonian migrant families.
3. Krasteva-Blagoeva Evgenia (New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria): Country House Owning: a ruralurban phenomenon in Bulgaria.
4. Janiskee Robert & Radovanovic Olivera (The University of South Carolina, USA & Green Network of
Vojvodina, SCG): Repairing the Urban-Rural Symbiosis in Vojvodina: Moj Salaš and Via Pacis Pannoniae.
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Panel 1.3 Communication in the city
Room 3.
1. Fridman Orli (George Mason University, USA): Public Urban Space and Alternative Voices: the Case of
Women in Black.
2. Antonijevic Dragana & Hristic Ljubomir (University of Belgrade, SCG): Graffiti: An urban phenomenon of
anonymous and public expression of worldviews.
3. Marjanovic Vesna (Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, SCG): Mask and Disguising – medium of
communication in an urban environment.
4. Erdei Ildiko (University of Belgrade, SCG): Television, Rituals and Struggle for Public Memory in Serbia
during 1990s.
Panel 1.4 Time, travel and identity
Room 4.
1. Preda Sinziana, Vasiluta Marius (West University of Timisoara, Romania): Queuing up as an Urban
Reality: an aggression against time.
2. Radojicic Dragana (Ethnographic Institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, SCG):
Urban Biorhythm of a Suburban Community.
3. Duda Igor (University of Rijeka, Croatia): Escaping the City: leisure travel in the 1950s and 1960s Croatia.
4. Greenberg Jessica (University of Chicago, USA): On the Road to Normal: Discourses of Travel in Serbia
and Montenegro.
Panel 1.5 Place and memory (1)
Room 5.
1. Lavrence Christine (Université Laval, Canada): Negotiating “Catastrophe Tourism” in Belgrade and
Sarajevo.
2. Milanovic Vesna (University of Surrey, UK): Place and Memory.
3. Cojocari Ljudmila & Birladeanu Virgiliu (Independent International University of Moldova, Chisinau,
Moldova): Metamorphoses of Collective Memory and National Identity Reflected in »Lieux de memoire« of
the Post-soviet Capital City. The Case of Chisinau, Republic of Moldova.
4. Lafazanovski Ermis (Institute of Folklore, Skopje, Macedonia): Spaces of Utopia and Places of Nostalgia:
Towards research of contemporary culture in the city of Skopje.
SESSION 2 (15:00-17:00)
Panel 2.1 Urbanization as a historical process in Southeastern Europe (2)
Room 1.
1. Vucetic Radina (Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade, SCG): Belgrade – a patriarchal town or a
modern city?
2. Milicevic Nataša (Institute of Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade, SCG): The historical development of the
Serbian civic community till 1944/45.
3. Lukovic Jovica (Free University of Berlin, Germany): The Social Map of the City: Urban Answers to
Workers of Peasant Origin in Southeastern Europe.
4. Onal Feride & Zeybekoglu Senem (Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey): The Sustainability of
Cultural Identity in Context of Urban Space: Turkey/Bolvadin, Case Study.
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Panel 2.2 City vs. village: Ideological aspects of urbanization in the Balkans (1)
Room 2.
1. Markovic Predrag (Institute of Contemporary History, Belgrade, SCG): Two Contrasted Myths: Rural
Arcadia versus Urban Metropolis – The Perception of Village-City Relations in the 19th and 20th Century
Serbian Culture.
2. Yeomans Rory (University College London, UK): Night and the City: Degeneracy, Renewal and the Urban
Visions of Nationalist Writers in the Independent State of Croatia, 1941-1945.
3. Ristovic Milan (University of Belgrade, SCG): City in the Ideology of the Serbian Radical Right 1941-1944.
4. Jansen Stef (University of Manchester, UK.): White Socks and Modernity: Post-Yugoslav Urban Nostalgia.
Panel 2.3 Migration to the city and adaptation to urban life (1)
Room 3.
1. Stiuca Narcisa (University of Bucharest, Romania): The Ways to the Town.
2. Bada Konstantina (University of Ioannina, Greece): From the Mountain Villages to the Cities. The
experience and the memory of the women’s migration.
3. Koleva Daniela (St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria): Rural-Urban Migration in the Normal
Biography.
4. Hausmaninger Anna (Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria): Transnational Aspects of Urbanization.
A Macedonian Case Study.
Panel 2.4 Exploring the city: past, present, future (1)
Room 4.
1. Kaser Karl (Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria): Historical anthropology of the city – a new and
exciting challenge.
2. Pemunta Ngambouk Vitalis (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary): Negotiating a
Reconceptualisation of the ‘Urban’ and ‘Rural’ in the Social Sciences.
3. Cotoi Calin (University of Bucharest, Romania): Urban versus rural in Southeastern Europe. Different
traditions, different modernities, different sciences?
4. Pušic Ljubinko (University of Novi Sad, SCG): Urban Life as Everyday Life: the cultural context.
2.5 Place and memory (2)
Room 5.
1. Kostovicova Denisa & Petrovic Mina (London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK &
University of Belgrade, SCG): Reading Identity from the City: Interpreting NATO Ruins in Belgrade.
2. Branc Simona (West University of Timisoara, Romania): Memory, identity and cultural diversity in the
city of Timisoara.
3. Chaveneau-LeBrun Emmanuelle (Université Paris-Sorbonne, France): Renaming Zagreb. When the City
Tells the Government Ideology.
4. Lubenova Stefka (York University, Toronto, Canada): Train stations: history, memory and renewal.
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SESSION 3 (17:30-19:00)
Panel 3.1 Socialist city
Room 1.
1. Brunnbauer Ulf (Free University of Berlin, Germany): “The City of the Youth.” Dimitrovgrad and the
Building of Socialism in Bulgaria.
2. Gulin Zrnic Valentina (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia): The community
within a community in New Zagreb.
3. Horváth Sándor (Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary): The
Knife-Thrower and the Gold Star: Pubs and Social Identities in the First Socialist City in Hungary.
Panel 3.2 City vs. village: Ideological aspects of urbanization in the Balkans (2)
Room 2.
1. Stojanovic Dubravka (University of Belgrade, SCG): Village vs. City: Antiurbanization discourse and
ideology in Serbia at the beginning of 20th century.
2. Spasic Ivana (University of Belgrade & Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade, SCG): Asfalt:
Constructions of ‘Being Urban’ in Lay Discourses.
3. Petrovic Tanja (Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade, SCG): Urban vs. Rural in Language Ideology of
Speakers of Contemporary Serbian Language.
Panel 3.3 Migration to the city and adaptation to urban life (2)
Room 3.
1. Bondžic Dragomir (Institute of Contemporary History, Belgrade, SCG): The Province Students in Belgrade
after the Second World War.
2. Kodra-Hysa Armanda (Institute of Folklore, Tirana, Albania): Regional and religious tolerance – the bases
for mutual understanding between immigrant and autochthon population in the city of Tirana.
3. Cvetkovic Marina (Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, SCG): Migrants and contemporary weaving craft
in cities of Serbia (1991-2004): the case of women refugees from former Yugoslavia.
4. Popovic Dragan (»Humanitarian Law Center«, Belgrade, SCG): Some Observations of the »Peasant« life in
Towns – Is the Adaptation Possible?
Panel 3.4 Exploring the city: past, present, future (2)
Room 4.
1. Grandits Hannes (Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria): The city as a text: using methods of
historical-anthropological research.
2. Petronijevic Edita (University of Rijeka, Croatia): The Unspoken Word – Rijeka: potential or effective
urban space.
3. Zerilli Filippo (University of Cagliari, Italia): Ethnographic locations. Reflections on doing fieldwork in
urban/rural postsocialist Romania.
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Panel 3.5 Religious space and place
Room 5.
1. Damljanovic Tanja (Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Serbia, Belgrade, SCG): St. Sava
and St. Anthony: Byzantine Origins for Two Christianities.
2. Aleksov Bojan (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary): St. Sava Church in Belgrade: History of
National, Urban and Architectural Failure.
3. Kalkandijeva Daniela (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” Bulgaria). The Places of God in Bulgarian
Cities Under Communism.
20:00 Reception: City Hall of Belgrade
Saturday, May 28
SESSION 4 (9:00-11:00)
Panel 4.1 Suburbia: processes and phenomena
Room 1.
1. Maksin-Micic Marija (Institute of Architecture and Urban and Spatial Planning of Serbia, Belgrade, SCG):
Central versus peri-urban regions – planning and implementation.
2. Briciou Cosmin, Popescu Raluca & Virdol Amalia (University of Bucharest & Anti-Poverty and Social
Inclusion Promotion Commission, Bucharest, Romania): Urbanization in Romania: patterns and dilemmas.
3. Milic Vladimir & Djokic Jasna (University of Belgrade, SCG): Informal Urbanization in Postsocialist
Serbia: Urbanism without Urbanists, Architecture without Limits.
4. Višnar Katarina (Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia): Evaluating the
Spatial Context of the Suburban: The Case of Ljubljana East.
Panel 4.2 Urban family, kinship and gender (1)
Room 2.
1. Papa-Pandelejmoni Enriketa (Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria): Family life in Shkodra: First half
of the 20th century.
2. Fujii Gen (University College London, UK): Changing Materialization of Family in Gjirokastër, Southern
Albania.
3. Ciolan Narcisa & Ilie Magdalena (West University of Timisoara, Romania): A family for the city or a city
for the family?
4. Ivanovic Zorica (University of Belgrade): Kinship and Urban Culture: towards a new paradigm.
Panel 4.3 City and national identity
Room 3.
1. Maxwell Alexander (University of Wales, Swansea, UK): Budapest and Thessaloniki as Slavic Cities.
2. Perica Vjekoslav (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA): Young Croatia and the City of Split at 1700.
Conflicting Constructions of the National and the Local in Croatia, 1990-2005.
3. Karamihova Margarita (Institute of Ethnography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences – Sofia & Sofia
University “St. Climent Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria): Myths of Nation-building after Socialism: how one local
folk song leads national ideology, while simultaneously creating a new nation-building strategy.
4. Toma Stefania (Center for Interethnic Relations, Cluj-Napoca, Romania): Symbolic War for Space and
Time in Cluj – an anthropological inquiry into the symbolism of nationalist discourses in Cluj/Kolozsvár.
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Panel 4.4 Social inclusions/exclusions in the urban society (1)
Room 4.
1. Stanoeva Elitza (Human and Social Studies Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria): Social Differentiation Translated
into Spatial Arrangement (Sofia, 1878-1924): From Ethnically Enclosed Neighborhoods towards Classdivided Residential Quarters.
2. Inal Onur (Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey): Nationalism as a tool of social and cultural change
throughout the urbanization process of Istanbul in the post-ottoman period.
3. Gruber Siegfried (Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria): The quarters of Shkodra in 1918: Differences
and similarities.
4. Duijzings Ger (University College London, UK): Balkanising urban space in the Netherlands. What about
the Balkans?
Panel 4.5 Constructions and meanings of public space
Room 5.
1. Avlijas Natasa & Monno Valeria (Universita degli Studi Roma Tre & Politecnico di Bari, Italy):
Democracy and planning practices in western Balkan cities: emerging meanings of public urban spaces in
Split, Croatia.
2. Inan Derin & Patsavos Nikolaos (Architectural Association Graduate School of Architecture, London,
UK): Istanbul Plaji. The suburban Istanbul beach as a place for the construction of modern Turkish identity.
3. Djokic Vladan (University of Belgrade, SCG): Urban and Cultural Identity of Serbian Cities Regarding the
Phenomenon of the Serbian City Square.
4. Coman Gabriela (Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada): Social Construction of the Cluj-Napoca's
Central Plazas.
Panel 4.6 New technologies and the city
Room 6.
1. Gavrilovic Ljiljana (Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, SCG):
Internet: Overcoming the Distance Between Urban and Rural Culture.
2. Codorean Gabriela (West Univiveristy of Timisoara, Romania): The Influence of New Informational
Technologies on Gender Relationships in the City.
3. Podovšovnik Eva (University of Primorska, Slovenia): Digital divide among Slovenian youngsters.
SESSION 5 (11:15-13:15)
Panel 5.1 Trust and security in the city
Room 1.
1. Leutloff-Grandits Carolin (Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria): The role of kin in child-care in
urban Croatia: the example of Zagreb.
2. Koci Arianit (BBC World Service in London, UK): Rebirth of an Idea: Community Policing in Albania.
3. Mihaylova Dimitrina & Harriss John (University of Oxford & London School of Economics, UK): City
Networks, Trust and Economic Development: an Ethnography of the Advertising Agencies in Sofia,
Bulgaria.
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Panel 5.2 Urban family, kinship and gender (2)
Room 2.
1. Helms Elissa (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary): Only Peasants (and Policemen?) Hit
their Wives: Masculinity, Domestic Violence and Rural/Urban Identities in a Bosnian Town.
2. Petrova Ivanka (Ethnographic Institute and Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia,
Bulgaria): Geschlechtsrollen in einem internationalen Unternehmen in Sofia.
3. Pisac Andrea (University of London, UK): Singlehood as a Rite of Passage in Postcommunist Croatia.
Panel 5.3 Urban identities
Room 3.
1. Mihailescu Vintila (National School for Political Studies and Administration, Romania): From pre-war
elites to post-modern mix-culture. Usages of space in a “symbolic” sea-site resort.
2. Münnich Nicole (University of Leipzig, Germany): Ambiguous urban identity – Belgrade in the socialist
era.
3. Jerman Katja (Institute of Slovene Ethnology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of
Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenija). Analyzing city’s identity through its monuments and street names.
The case of Nova Gorica.
4. Zlatkova Meglena (University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, Bulgaria): The city in transition – a
Bulgarian case.
5. Kalapoš Gasparac Sanja (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia): City’s Images
through the Looking Glass.
Panel 5.4 Social inclusions/exclusions in the urban society (2)
Room 4.
1 Kaneff Deema (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany): Urban kin and
‘traditional’ networks: the importance of kinship in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
2. Halili Rigels (University College London, UK): The coming of »the Chechens«. Changes of urban life in an
Albanian town.
3. Sedmak Mateja (University of Primorska; Faculty of Humanities of Koper, Slovenia): Social
Inclusion/Exclusion of Immigrant Groups in Urban Slovenia: a case study of Istria.
4. Dimova Rozita (Max Planck Instiute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Sale, Germany): On Similarity and
Fear: Spatial Transformations of Class and Ethnicity in Contemporary Macedonia.
Panel 5.5 Commercialized places
Room 5.
1. Hristov Petko (Ethnographic Institute with Museum – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria):
The Market and the Piazza for Hired Hands in Sofia as Places to Exchange Cultural Stereotypes.
2. Ichimescu Dan (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania):
Urban space and place: Entering the supermarket.
3. Tesar Catalina (University of Bucharest & National School of Political Sciences and Public Administration,
Bucharest, Romania): Shopping for human relationships.
4. Siegel Allan (Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary): From market halls to hypermarkets:
the social space of food shopping.
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Panel 5.6 Culture of pubs and clubs
Room 6.
1. Petre Raluca (‘Ovidius’ University of Constanta, Romania): Reconfiguring Leisure in the City; ‘pub’
culture in Constanta.
2. Bilsel Hande (Bahçesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey): Exploration of the Middle Class Urban Youth
Cultures vis-à-vis a Flux of Leisure Consumption in Istanbul: Night Life Scene in the Turn of the
Millennium.
3. Nagy Raluca, Colotelo Cristina (National School of Political Sciences and Administration, Bucharest,
Romania): Clubbing in Bucharest: networks and practices around electronic music.
4. Petrov Petar (Institut für Volkskunde, München, Germany): „Ein Lokal ohne ‚Balkan-Papagei‘ ist wie ein
Baum ohne Laub.“ Zur öffentlichen Verwendung und Rezeption politischer Karikaturen in Bulgarien.
SESSION 6 (15:00-17:00)
Panel 6.1 Commodities and consumption
Room 1.
1. Kovacevic Ivan (University of Belgrade, SCG): The Belgrade Kiosk between Economics and Politics.
2. Radu Cosmin (University of Bucharest, Romania): The dynamics of urban marketplaces in post-socialism:
fragmentation, expansion, and regulatory practices in Bucharest.
3. Matic Miloš (Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro): Urban Economy in a Rural
Manner.
4. Fruntelata Ioana-Ruxandra (University of Bucharest, Romania): A Second-hand Book Community in
Bucharest, Romania.
Panel 6.2 Sexuality and gender
Room 2.
1. Žikic Biljana (Graduate School of Humanities, Ljubljana, Slovenia): Representation of urban woman Comparative analysis of Serbian and Slovenian transitional press.
2. Bukovcan Zufika Tanja & Potkonjak Sanja (University of Zagreb, Croatia): Stranger in the City:
Commercialised womanhood on city billboards.
3. Kantsa Venetia (University of Aegean, Greece): Strolling and holding hands in the center of Athens: Samesex sexualities in urban contexts.
4. Švab Alenka (University of Primorska & University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): Public homophobia and
privatisation of homosexuality – everyday life of gays and lesbians in Slovenia.
Panel 6.3 Urban communities
Room 3.
1. Alexiu Teodor Mircea (West University of Timisoara, Romania): Neighborhood Relationships in the
Blocks of Flats in Romanian Urban Environment.
2. Kovac Senka & Kovac Jelena (University of Belgrade, SCG): The Old Courtyards of Belgrade: places where
ethnology meets architecture.
3. Tomanovic Smiljka (University of Belgrade, SCG): Meaning and Significance of Community for Children:
Study in Three Belgrade Urban Settings.
4. Larionescu Sanda (Musée National du Village “Dimitrie Gusti” de Bucarest. La Faculté de Lettres et à la
Faculté d’Histoire de L’Université de Bucarest, Roumanie): Sociabilité et solidarité au sein d’un voisinage
restreint de ville de Giurgiu, Roumanie.
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Panel 6.4 Social inclusions/exclusions in the urban society (3)
Room 4.
1. Zavratnik Zimic Simona (University of Primorska, Slovenia): Framing Migrant’s Existence on the Margins
of Urban Life.
2. Dalipaj Gerda (Institute of Folk Culture, Albanian Academy of Sciences, Tirana, Albania): Roma
communities in Elbasan – In and Out.
3. Yilmaz Bediz (Institut Francais d’Urbanisme, Paris 8 University, France & Mersin University, Turkey):
The dialectics of exclusion and inclusion in the example of Kurdish conflict-induced migrants living in an
Istanbul slum.
4. Cvorovic Jelena (Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, SCG &
Arizona State University, Tempe, USA): “Urbaneness” among Gypsies in Serbia.
Panel 6.5 Sociability and place
Room 5.
1. Vucinic-Neškovic Vesna (University of Belgrade, SCG): Corso: the total phenomenon in towns of Serbia
and Montenegro.
2. Tirca Miruna (National School of Political and Administrative Sciences, Bucharest, Romania): City
representations through public space uses – three case studies from Bucharest.
3. Treitler Inga (The Terranova Group, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA): Hanging a Clothesline in Dubrovnik:
Meeting Private Needs in Public Places.
Panel 6.6 Actors, policies and power
Room 6.
1. Bugaric Boštjan (University of Primorska, Slovenia): Urban Space between Action and Stagnation: Public
Interventions as a Communication Link between Public and Private Space.
2. Duša Iona-Alexandra (University of Bucharest, Romania): Somewhere between urban and rural:
consequences for the members of a small urban community.
3. Otoiu Damiana Gabriela (Université de Bucarest, Roumanie): La reconstruction de la propriété en
Roumanie post-communiste. Acteurs et stratégies.
4. Vujovic Sreten (Université de Belgrade, SCG): Les Acteurs des Changements Urbaine en Serbie.
Main auditorium.
PLENARY SESSION 3 (17:30-19:30)
InASEA General Assembly
19:30–21.15
Mini Tour and Reception, Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade
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Sunday, May 29
SESSION 7 (9:00-10:30)
Panel 7.1 Travel and leisure in the making of socialist citizens
Room 1.
1. Taylor Karin (Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria): Tourism and Leisure Culture in Socialist
Yugoslavia: 1960s and 70s.
2. Scarabo Christofer, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA): Mapping Socialist Subjectivity:
Reading the City Through Proximate Tourism.
3. Meehan Pedrotty Kate (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA): Visiting the Socialist Capital:
Tourism and Cosmopolitan Identity in Belgrade, 1950-1980.
Panel 7.2 Urban pop culture (1)
Room 2.
1. Lukic-Krstanovic Miroslava (Ethnographic Institute of the Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, SCG):
City Spectacles in Belgrade: Popular Music and Ideologies.
2. Voiculescu Cerasela (University of Bucharest, Romania): Music and Post-socialist Lifestyles in Bucharest.
3. Hofman Ana, Markovic Aleksandra, Tarabic Iva (University of Arts & Center for Balkan Music Research,
Belgrade, SCG): Roma-musicians as a hidden class in the urban cultural environment.
4. Kronja Ivana (University of Arts, Belgrade): New Urban Trends in Serbia, 1990-2004: From Urban Life to
Popular Culture and Vice Versa.
Panel 7.3 Football: political uses and meanings
Room 3.
1. Stankovic Peter (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): Sport, Nationalism and the Shifting Meanings of
Football in Slovenia.
2. Kyurkchieva Iva (Ethnographic Institute and Museum – BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria): Football and Political
Symbolism in Bulgaria during 1980s and 1990s.
3. Žikic Bojan, Sinani Danijel (University of Belgrade, SCG): How to Place the City? Urban Topography in
the Organizational Agenda of the Serbian Football Association.
Panel 7.4 City and ethnicity
Room 4.
1. Georgelin Herve (École Française d’Athènes, Greece): Transformed Athens and Thessalonica: The impact
of Asia Minor refugees on urban life, a social history.
2. Pavlovic Mirjana (Ethnographic Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, SCG):
Centre-Periphery. Ethnicity of Serbs in Timisoara.
3. Luleva Ana, Boncheva Tsvetana, Pimpireva Jenja (Institute of Ethnography with the Museum of BAS,
Sofia, Bulgaria): Constructing Identities in a Border Area. Intercultural Gender Relations: the Bulgarian–
Greek case.
4. Stojanovic-Lafazanovska Lidija (Institute of Folklore "Marko Cepenkov", Skopje, Macedonia):
Dazwischen: Mentalitätsveränderung und Hysteresis des Habitus.
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Panel 7.5 Reading the urban landscape
Room 5.
1. Djordjevic Jelena (University of Belgrade, SCG): Imaginary and Real Belgrade.
2. Samardžic Nikola (University of Belgrade, SCG): A Pavement Brigandage. Deurbanizing Belgrade.
3. Kazalarska Svetla (“St. Kliment Ohridsky” University of Sofia, Bulgaria): Gazing at the City from the
Window of the Public Transportation Bus.
SESSION 8 (10:45-12:15)
Panel 8.1 Transport, borders, crossroads
Room 1.
1. Prato Giuliana B. (University of Kent, UK): From via Egnatia to Corridor Eight. Balkan Cities in East-West
Encounters.
2. Ditchev Ivaylo (University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ochridski,” Bulgaria): Cities on Borders. Symbolic
Geography of EU Accession.
3. Bán David (Eotvos Lorand University of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary): The Role of the Railway station in
the Urban Society: Budapest “Keleti” Station.
Panel 8.2 Urban pop culture (2)
Room 2.
1. Grujic Marija (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary): Urban identities in popular culture of
post-socialist Serbia: Symbolic appropriations and exclusions of the rural.
2. Nagy Terezia (Centre for Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary): The city
as a theatre of subcultures – looking for interpretation.
3. Stoimenov Ivaylo (Sofia University, Bulgaria): Sons of Wind: The “Rockers” subculture in Contemporary
Bulgaria.
Panel 8.3 Urban youth
Room 3.
1. Maleševic Miroslava (Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, SCG):
The Revival of Religion and its Impact on Collective Identity in Post-communist Serbia.
2. Crvenkovska-Risteska Ines (University »Sts. Cyril and Methodius« Skopje, Macedonia): Urban Youth in
Macedonia and the Question of HIV/AIDS: Sex/Gender Implications.
3. Risteski Ljupco (University »Sts Cyril and Methodius« - Skopje, Macedonia): Anthropological Research of
(Non)Discrimination Comprehension among Macedonian Youth.
Panel 8.4 City and religion
Room 4.
1. Boyadjieva Elia (University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridsky,” Bulgaria): The role and position of Orthodox
clergymen in Bulgarian city life – social and cultural aspects.
2. Iliescu Laura Jiga, (»Constantin Brailoiu« Institute of Ethnography and Folkolore of the Romanian
Academy, Bucharest, Romania): The Pilgrims and the City.
3. Pavicevic Aleksandra (Ethnographic Institute Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, SCG):
Cremation as New Age Urban Phenomenon: From Ecology to Ideology.
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Panel 8.5 Representations of city in art and literature
Room 5.
1. Milutinovic Zoran (University College London, UK): Miloš Crnjanski’s European Cities.
2. Vasiloiu Ionut (Ecole Doctorale Regionale en Sciences Sociales, Bucharest, Romania): Urbanism and
Science Fiction Literature. The Soviet Model Imported in Romania.
3. Naumovic Slobodan (University of Belgrade, SCG): Images of Belgrade and the Idea of Urbanity in the
Serbian Culture Wars during the 1980s and 1990s.
Main auditorium.
PLENARY SESSION 4 (12:30-13:30)
Closing keynote speech: Keith Brown, Brown University, USA.
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