Voluntary Associations in the Yugoslav Space since the 19th Century
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