“Building the Balkans Anew: From Metaphor to Market”

21–22 September 2007
Auditorium (126), Library and Information Science, 501 E. Daniel Street, Champaign

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Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080), Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Street, Urbana

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Friday, 21 September
126 Library and Information Science

2:00–3:45 pm
Welcoming Remarks
Richard Tempest (Director, REEEC; Slavic, University of Illinois)

Panel 1: Tradition and Globalization in Daily Life, Family, Religion
Milica Bakic-Hayden (Religion, University of Pittsburgh): “Religious Dialogue in the Balkans”
Ana Croegaert (Anthropology, Northwestern University): “Making Home and Making Family: Work, Credit, and Gender among the New Bosnian Diaspora”
Ljudmila Popovic-Labudovic(Comparative Literature, University of Colorado): “Unpacking Independence: Women Authors and Fictional Females in the Recently-Declared Independent Montenegro”
Chair: Maria Todorova (History, University of Illinois)
Discussant: Tomislav Longinovic (Slavic, University of Wisconsin)
4:00–5:30 pm
Keynote Address
“Highways, Roadblocks and Empires”
Robert Hayden (Professor of Anthropology, Law, and Public & International Affairs; Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh)

Introduction by William Brustein (Associate Provost of International Affairs, University of Illinois)

Saturday, Sept. 22
Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080), Foreign Languages Building

9:00–10:45 am
Panel 2: Wealth, Private Enterprise, Marketing: Redefining the Region in an European Framework
Svitozar Omelko (Eastern European and Russian Studies, Carleton University): “European Energy Security Framework: Critical Role of the Balkan Region”
Larisa Puslenghea (Advertising, University of Illinois): “Does Ecotourism Work? Community, Environment and Sustainable Development in Romania”
Yuson Jung (CEERES, University of Chicago): “Reshaping Inter-Balkan Relations in the ‘New’ Europe”
Chair: Robert Whiting (Geography, University of Illinois)
Discussant: Zsuzsa Gille (European Union Center, Sociology, University of Illinois)

11:00–12:45pm
Panel 3: Creating New National and International Self-definitions
Andrew Gilbert (Anthropology, University of Chicago): “The Threat of Concrete Cases: Transparency and International
Authority in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina”
Ralitsa Konstantinova (Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh): “Building Peace in Kosovo: The Social Impact of the International Peacemaking in Kosovo, 2003-2006”
Evguenia Davidova (University Studies, Portland State University): “The New Tour-ist: Bulgaria's Intra-Balkan Tourism since 1990s”
Chair: Keith Hitchins (History, U of Illinois)
Discussant: Yana Hashamova (Slavic, Ohio State University)

12:45–3:00 pm

Lunch break

3:00–4:45pm
Panel 4: Communications and Image-Making
Andrew Graan (Anthropology, University of Chicago): “‘We Need Marketing’: The Politics of Imidz in Macedonia”
Elza Ibroscheva (Mass Communications, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville): “The New Face of Bulgarian Television: A Case Study of bTV and the Role of Foreign Investment in the Bulgarian Media”
Oana Popescu-Sandu (Comparative Literature, University of Illinois): "'The Afternoon of a Torturer': Film and Historical Image-making in Post-communist Romania"
Chair: Kate Meehan Pedrotty (History, University of Illinois)
Discussant: Diana Mincyte (Advertising, University of Illinois)

5:00–6:00pm
Closing Address
"Back to the Future? Kosovo's Uncertain Prospects and Its Implications for the Balkans"
Louis Sell (Executive Director, American University in Kosovo Foundation)

Introduction by Richard Tempest (REEEC, University of Illinois)

6:00pm

Closing Reception