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Regensburg & Rijeka Online Lectures: New Research in Southeast European Studies
2023-01-19 11:15 UTC | via Zoom
Heike Karge (Regensburg): “What can the cultural history of psychiatry (not) tell us about the traumas of soldiers?”
Abstract: This lecture discusses the chances and limits of coming to terms with trauma based on a close reading of a psychiatric patient file from the Yugoslav post-war period (end of the 1950s). The focus is on two questions in particular: How do we in cultural studies deal with the problem of researching trauma in a society that does not itself name it linguistically? And what further impulses can we gain from patient files for current research in cultural history?
Vinko Korataj Drača (Zagreb): “Fear and traume in turn of century psychiatry”
Abstract: Whether it was considered cause of mental illness, its symptom, or justification for the confinement of mentally ill, fear was present in psychiatry since its 19th century beginnings. Trauma was, on the other hand a novel concept first articulated in second half of the 19th century and considered relatively irrelevant in the psychiatric practice until the end of World War I and controversial ascent of the psychoanalytic theories. In this lecture author will examine attitudes and approaches of late 19th century Croatian psychiatrists towards fear and trauma. Research will be based on scientific papers published in the medical journals between 1875 and 1918 and patient files of the Royal and Land Asylum for the Insane in Stenjevac, first psychiatric institution in Croatia.
https://uni-regensburg.zoom.us/j/61273172388?pwd=[REDACTED]
(Meeting-ID: 612 7317 2388, Passcode: [REDACTED]
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Regensburg & Rijeka Online Lectures: New Research in Southeast European Studies
2022-12-22 11:15 | via Zoom
Ger Duijzings (Regensburg): “If cars could walk: postsocialist streets between circulation and conviviality”
Abstract: In this talk, Ger Duijzings will present some of the key ideas of a new volume edited with geographer Tauri Tuvikene (Tallinn University) on street life in postsocialist cities. Starting point is the explosion of private car mobility from the 1990s onwards, with case studies documenting the tensions between ‘mobility’ and ‘sociability’ in cities like Bucharest and Prishtina. The talk will reflect on what this ‘car invasion’ has meant for the urban fabric of cities — with demands of uninhibited flow for motorised vehicles colliding with the need for dwelling and slow-paced and pedestrian sociability and conviviality. The talk will also address the relevance of defining these streets as ‘postsocialist’, looking at historical path-dependencies that connect current phenomena to the socialist past and highlighting the differences with the so-called ‘west’, which has shaped recent mobility patterns.
Kevin Kenjar (Rijeka): “Renaming Memory Lane: Street Naming Practices in Sarajevo from the Ottoman Era to the Post-Socialist/Post-War Present”
Abstract: This lecture outlines broad trends in the practice of (re-)naming streets and squares in Sarajevo over the course of the city’s history. While it is well known that the renaming of streets and squares often goes hand in hand with a change in regime, particularly when the heroes venerated and the values extolled by the old regime in the urban linguistic landscape are seen as ill-fitting to the new one, this lecture moves beyond that, placing the practice of commemorative naming itself in its own historical context. In tracing street naming practices from the Ottoman period to the present, this lecture addresses pre-commemorative naming practices in Sarajevo as well as the advent of what is called here a “meta-commemorative” approach to street naming.
Zoom Link: https://uniregensburg.zoom.us/j/61273172388pwd=[REDACTED]
(Meeting-ID: 612 7317 2388, Passcode: [REDACTED]
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Regensburg & Rijeka Online Lectures: New Research in Southeast European Studies
2022-11-17 11:15 | via Zoom
Angelo Massaro (Rijeka): “Fiumemory (1943-1991): Exploring the ‘sites of memory’ of the Italian-speaking community in Rijeka/Fiume though oral history and the digital humanities”
Abstract: Angelo Massaro is a PhD candidate in Global Studies at the University of British Columbia – Okanagan Campus. His main research interests are in memory studies, oral history, border studies, and the contemporary history of the Upper Adriatic. His presentation seeks to showcase some ways in which interdisciplinary methodologies can assist oral historians in visualizing the memory mapping of a community. Drawing from Pierre Nora’s concept of “sites of memory,” Angelo Massaro presents how the post-WWII memories of the Italian-speaking community in Rijeka/Fiume can be visualized through the use of textual analysis and digital mapping.
Klaus Buchenau (Regensburg): “Bribing in times of catastrophy. The future of corruption studies”
Abstract: This presentation is a reflection on how the current multiple crises might affect corruption studies and what this means for a follow-up of the Regensburg Corruption Cluster (informalityregensburg.com). In a first step, I depict the present climate – both East and West – as detrimental for an interest in impartial formal rules since the world has allegedly entered a series of „lethal struggles“ (climate, corona, war, identity politics) in which only victories but not rule-based procedures count. Partiality is thus becoming a new norm, and it can be either inscribed into formal rules or be realized through informality justified by „thick morals“. Under such circumstances, corruption research must struggle to remain visible and to stay independent from political influence. It should include perspectives of those remote from power and influence and pay attention to the phenomenon of legal corruption, i.e. the capability of allegedly crisis-solving industries to inscribe their „collective egoisms“ into the legal system of our societies.
https://uniregensburg.zoom.us/j/61273172388pwd=[REDACTED]
(Meeting-ID: 612 7317 2388, Passcode: [REDACTED]

SNAKLAB Regensburg Southeastern Europe Research Seminars
2022-11-16 16:00 - 18:00 | IOS, Landshuter Str. 4, R 319
Vjeran Pavlaković (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Croatia) will give a talk on “Dalmatians in the Desert: Southeast European Immigrants in Arizona, 1880-1920 “
Time: 4-6 pm
Venue: IOS, Landshuter Str. 4, R 017
Abstract: In his talk, Vjeran Pavlaković will examine the untold story of a group of immigrants who settled in Tucson at the turn of the nineteenth century and whose fates were interwoven into the socio-economic history of both Arizona and their distant homeland on the Adriatic coast. Although considered ‘Austrians’ by the US authorities, they originated from Dalmatia, most notably the city of Dubrovnik and its vicinity. In his presentation, Pavlaković will present the preliminary results of work on his forthcoming book Tucson’s Little Dalmatia: Transnational Migration from Southeastern Europe to the American Southwest, 1880-1920. It uncovers the contributions of this relatively small but influential immigrant community that left its mark on the city of Tucson at a time of its transition from a frontier outpost into a modern American metropolis. The talk will explore issues of migration, white colonialism, national identities, borderland studies, and collective memory that intersects in the American Southwest.
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Lesung und Gespräch: Albanien: Bereit für die EU?
2022-10-28 18:00 - 20:00 | University Regensburg, RW-Gebäude, R009
Am 28. Oktober präsentiert Franziska Tschinderle, Südosteuropa-Korrespondentin aus Tirana ihr Buch unter dem Titel “Albanien. Aus der Isolation in eine europäische Zukunft” an der SOG-Zweigstelle Regensburg. In ihren Reportagen zeigt sie den Weg des Landes aus der Selbstisolation und stalinistischen Diktatur unter Enver Hoxha hin zu einer jungen Demokratie. Sie porträtiert Albaniens exzentrischen Ministerpräsidenten Edi Rama, besucht das wohl luxuriöseste Flüchtlingslager Europas und begleitet albanische Studierende bei ihrem Kampf um mehr Mitbestimmung und bessere Gewerkschaften.
Die Lesung wird moderiert von PD Dr. Heike Karge, Lehrstuhl für Geschichte Südost- und Osteuropas, Universität Regensburg/Leiterin der Zweigstelle Regensburg der Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft
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