Voluntary Associations in the Yugoslav Space since the 19th Century

Type: 
Workshop
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Speaker: 
Fabio Giomi
Elissa Helms
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Room: 
Gellner Room
Friday, May 16, 2014 - 1:30pm
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Date: 
Friday, May 16, 2014 - 1:30pm to Saturday, May 17, 2014 - 12:30pm

 

 

 

 

Voluntary Associations in the Yugoslav Space since the 19th Century

 

A friendly, two-day interdisciplinary workshop

 

May 16-17, 2014

Central European University
Budapest 1051
Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Gellner Room

 

 

 

 

Friday, May 16

 

13.30-14.00 Éva Fodor, CEU IAS Academic Director

Opening remarks

 

Elissa Helms, CEU Department of Gender Studies and Fabio Giomi, CEU IAS / CETOBAC EHESS (France)

Introduction

 

14.00-16.00 Panel I: Multilevel Flows

 

Mehmet Ö. Alkan, Istanbul University (Turkey)

The emergence of civil society organizations in the Ottoman Empire

 

Mate Nikola Tokić, CEU IAS / American University in Cairo (Egypt)

Competing loyalties: emigrant organizational culture and Croatian diaspora politics after World War II

 

Nebojša Savija-Valha, Nansen Dialogue Centre Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Organizations of “civil society” in Bosnia and Herzegovina between being a tool for social (and political) engineering and self-preservation

 

Zsófia Lóránd, CEU Department of History

The New Yugoslav Feminists and the State

 

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

 

16.30-18.30 Panel II: Philanthropy, Family and the State

 

Fabio Giomi, CEU IAS / CETOBAC EHESS(France)

Voluntary associations, gender and Islam in post-Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

Čarna Brković, CEU IAS

Ignorance and stubbornness: struggles for social security in a Bosnian town

 

Stefano Petrungaro, Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (Germany)

The parable of philantropism: the case of Prehrana

 

Sandra Prlenda, Centre for Women’s Studies (Croatia)

Women’s associations in Croatia in the first half of the 20th century – the politics of women’s entrance into the public sphere

 

Saturday, May 17

 

9.30-11.30 Panel III: Continuities across Ruptures

 

Elissa Helms, CEU Department of Gender Studies

Models of women’s organizing in postwar and postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina: NGOs, associations, and Aktiv žena

 

Bojan Bilić, University of Bologna (Italy)

Post-Yugoslav antiwar and LGBT activism

 

Mila Orlić, University of Rijeka (Croatia)

The end of utopia. A brief history of the “Association for the Yugoslav Democratic Initiative” (UJDI)

 

Alex Cooper, CEU Department of Gender Studies

Stepping Out of The Closet: Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Yugoslav Space since the 1980s

 

11.30-11.45 Coffee break

 

11.45-12.30 Final round up session