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Workshop - Journalismus zu Südosteuropa
2023-04-28 - 2023-04-29 | University Regensburg & IOS, Germany
Leitung: Franziska Tschinderle (Journalistin, Tirana)
Der Workshop richtet sich an Studierende der Universität Regensburg ohne journalistische Vorkenntnisse, die nach ihrem Studium erwägen, in den Journalismus zu wechseln, sei es als Redakteur:innen oder Reporter:innen. Aber nicht nur: Auch Studierende, die in der Forschung, Zivilgesellschaft oder Politikberatung tätig sein wollen, können davon profitieren, da sie früher oder später in irgendeiner Form mit der Öffentlichkeit kommunizieren müssen oder wollen. Generell dient der Kurs dazu, den Beruf des:der Journalist:in aus der Praxis zu verstehen.
Teil Eins soll einen Einblick in Franziska Tschinderles Arbeit geben: Die Journalistin erzählt, wie sie in den Job eingestiegen ist, was es ihrer Meinung nach dafür braucht und worauf man im Studium viel zu wenig vorbereitet wird. Anhand von konkreten Recherchen gehen wir die unterschiedlichen Formate durch. Was braucht es für eine lange Reportage, die stark sozialpolitische ausgerichtet ist (z.B. ein Jahr ein Milieu oder eine Person in den Fokus nimmt)? Wie schreibt man ein Politiker:innen-Porträt mit Integrität, professioneller Distanz und gleichzeitig intimen Details? Wie macht man Breaking-News Geschichten für das Radio, die schnell fertiggestellt sein müssen? Was unterscheidet Storytelling im Podcast-Format von einer Print-Geschichte? Und was müssen Journalist:innen für ein so genanntes Live-Gespräch im Radio können?
Teil Zwei geht weg von Tschinderles Fallbeispielen und behandelt allgemein die Medienlandschaft und Informationsbeschaffung in Südosteuropa. Wie sehen positive sowie negative Beispiele aus den Medien aus, auf die man vorbereitet sein muss? Anschließend beschäftigen wir uns vor allem mit dem Thema der Informationsbeschaffung. Wie recherchiert man angemessen für bestimmte Beiträge? Bei welchen Quellen muss man vorsichtig sein und was ist On/Off the Record? Wie schützt man Quellen, die anonym bleiben möchten und welche Formate der Anonymisierung gibt es?
Für alle Formate werden ausschließlich Themen aus Südosteuropa im Mittelpunkt stehen: der Kosovo-Serbien-Konflikt und die Stadt Mitrovica, Porträts von Politiker:innen in der Praxis, Umweltthemen in Albanien und der Umgang mit der Zivilgesellschaft sowie eine exemplarische, investigative Recherche (organisierte Kriminalität in Südosteuropa anhand von betrügerischen Forex-Call-Centern).
Anmeldung: Schickt uns eine kurze Motivation (max. 300 Wörter) und Biografie von euch mit Angaben zum Studiengang und Semester (max. 100 Wörter) bis 1. April 2023: fachschaftsuedost@gmail.com

Journalist Talks ALBANIEN: Zwischen Abwanderung und Tourismus-Hype
2023-04-27 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | VHS, Thon-Dittmer-Palais, Haidplatz 8, R 219
Franziska Tschinderle, Südosteuropa-Korrespondentin aus Tirana wird über das einst isolierte, heutzutage sich dynamisch entwickelnde Albanien sprechen. In der neuesten Zeit steht vor allem die wirtschaftlich bedingte Abwanderung im Mittelpunkt. In diesem Zusammenhang kann auch die neulich gestartete Initiative des bayrischen Staates für das Anwerben der Fachkräfte aus der Region, und besonders aus Albanien, betrachtet werden.
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Ger Duijzings
Journalist Talks im Rahmen des Projektes seeFField der Universität Regensburg in Zusammenarbeit mit der Volkshochschule.
Mehr Informationen unter https://vhs.link/p4RzJy.

Southeast European Studies Online Platform: New Research in Southeast European Studies
2023-04-19 14:00 - 16:00 | via Zoom
Petru Negura (IOS Regensburg): “Popular resistance to linguistic assimilation in the Romanian, Polish and Soviet Borderlands (1918-1940)”
Abstract: This presentation will share some preliminary results from a project that examines the rural inhabitants’ everyday resistance to the nation- and state-building policies promoted through primary education in the border regions of Romania, Poland, and the USSR in the interwar period (1918-1940). This paper focuses on the reactions of Ukrainian and Romanian-speaking peasant communities to nationalisation through school education, as applied by the three states in the border regions. It will explore the responses of pupils and village communities to two major schooling activities: assimilation into the national language and civic and patriotic education. The paper analyses the resistance against these activities displayed through non-enrolment, truancy, dropping out, non-participation, passive attendance, poor school performance, petitioning, speaking the dialect or native language in public and private, practising organic bilingualism, and openly expressing dissatisfaction. The working hypothesis is that a part of the rural population perceived the centre’s schooling and nationalising policies as disruptive at least on three levels: 1) practical rationality, 2) loyalties and identifications, and 3) social solidarity. Existing research provides valuable data on school education in the border regions of the three states. However, the literature features substantial gaps and analytical shortcomings regarding the resistance to mass schooling as a nationalisation policy. Building on theories of resistance, everyday nationhood and social solidarity, secondary literature, and archival and oral history sources, the presentation will seek to contribute to sketching a bottom-up model of nation-building.
Nicolae Drăgușin (CAS Sofia): “Romania and the Concordat with the Holy See. Churches, Nation-building and Legal Controversies (1921-1948)”
Abstract: The Concordat that the post-1918 Romanian state signed and ratified with the Holy See was a highly controversial document that had enormous consequences. There is apparently no other international document in the history of modern Romania to demand almost one decade to be enacted. Nevertheless, the research on this affair is almost non-existent after 1989. The presentation focuses on the Concordat during its first draft (1921) until the unilateral denunciation (1948). Working on a diversity of unexplored primary sources, the presentation aims at introducing the audience to the legal, political, religious debates that the Concordat generated and analyzing the effects it produced upon the nation-building and the society.
https://uni-regensburg.zoom.us/j/62411825548?pwd=[REDACTED]
(Meeting-ID: 624 1182 5548, Kenncode: [REDACTED])
Link to the whole programme

Southeast European Studies Online Platform: New Research in Southeast European Studies
2023-03-22 14:00 - 16:00 | via Zoom
Abdulhamit Kırmızı (CAS Sofia): “An Empire of Officials: Christians in the Ottoman Bureaucracy”
Abstract: During the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire underwent a massive process of state-building and expansion of state functions, creating tens of thousands of new government jobs. In this period of state reconstruction and bureaucratization, Christian officials’ employment is an essential feature of the expanding modern Ottoman bureaucracy. My project deals with non-Muslim members of the Ottoman bureaucracy, based on the personnel registers kept in 1879-1914, consisting of 201 large volumes that provided information on over 50,000 Ottoman officials. Almost 3.000 non-Muslims (6% of the total) worked in the Ottoman civil service. After giving the quantitative outcomes of the project, I will present the daily interactions of mostly petty officials from different confessional backgrounds in professional life. I will address their sharing of common languages, bureaucratic identity, networks of patronage, and joint malpractices as examples of a bureaucratic space of intercommunal life.
Jeremy Walton (University of Rijeka): “Ottoman Pasts in the Balkan Present: On Ironies and Absences of Collective Memory”
Abstract: When Maria Todorova famously opined that ““(It is) preposterous to look for an Ottoman legacy in the Balkans (because)…the Balkans are the Ottoman legacy,” she challenged the homogenizing settlements of nationalized collective memories in the Balkans. In this lecture, I take up this challenge by offering a comparative portrait of the ironies of post-Ottoman collective memory in three sites.. First, I discuss Thessaloniki’s New Mosque (Yeni Cami), the former site of worship for the syncretic dönme community that has recently been recruited to the project of excavating the city’s plural past as a means to present-day urban investment. Next, I examine a former mosque in the Croatian fortress of Klis near the Dalmatian city of Split, which functions today as a church, and bears no explicit marker of its Muslim past. Finally, I consider Sarajevo’s iconic Sebilj fountain, a site whose Ottoman-Orientalist aesthetic connotations belie its Habsburg origins.
https://uni-regensburg.zoom.us/j/62411825548?pwd=[REDACTED]
(Meeting-ID: 624 1182 5548, Kenncode: [REDACTED])
Link to the whole programme

SNAKLAB Regensburg Southeastern Europe Research Seminars
2023-02-23 16:00 - 18:00 | IOS, Landshuter Str. 4, R 319
Dr Daša Ličen (Institute of Slovenian Ethnology ZRC SAZU) will give a talk on
“Beyond nationalisms: The bourgeoisie of late Habsburg Trieste“
Time: 4-6 pm
Venue: IOS Regensburg, Landshuter Str. 4/ R 017, 93047 Regensburg
Abstract: In the second half of the 19th century, voluntary associations were inseparable from the lives of the bourgeoisie. Associations offered both a symbolic and a physical space, they were the meeting places of an intellectual, scientific, cultural, and to some extent also political nature. In the frame of Daša Ličen’s research, associations serve as windows into the world of the back-then bourgeoisie, which she describes and analyzes with a historical-anthropological explanatory apparatus. To shed a light on the Triestine associations’ past is however not in itself new. The originality, and thus the challenge, lies in the approach. She unravels Trieste’s bourgeois social and cultural dynamics in a way that presents and interprets the largest commercial center of the Habsburg Empire not as a puzzle of conflicting national entities, but as an arena where class belonging played a key role in the identification processes of the historical actors.
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Public Lecture in the National Library of Kosovo
2023-02-23 13:30 - 15:00 | National Library of Kosovo, M546+XVX, Prishtina, 10030
Our project leader, Prof Ger Duijzings will give a public lecture on Thursday, 23 February 2023, in Kosovo National Library in Prishtina, starting 1.30 pm:

“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.

SNAKLAB Regensburg Southeastern Europe Research Seminars
2023-02-01 16:00 - 18:00 | University Regensburg, RW-Gebäude, R009
Dr Halid Bulić (Associate professor at University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Philosophy; Bosnia and Herzegovina) will give a talk on
“The first SMS corpus in the Bosnian language“
Time: 4-6 pm
Venue: R009, RW-Gebäude (university campus)
Abstract: SMS messages as a means of communication experienced a “golden decade” in the first decade of the 21st century. After this period, the need for SMS messages decreased as the phone market began to be dominated by the so-called smartphones, which made it possible to send instant messages free of charge. However, SMS messages still exist, and some rules of communication and innovations in language and style developed in SMS discourse have been transferred to communication using new tools, so that SMS messages are still an important language material that is worthy of serious research. In general, linguists have not devoted much attention to describing the language and style of SMS messages. The first corpus of SMS messages in the Bosnian language was created at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, with the aim of enabling easier research into SMS discourse and gaining more substantial knowledge about the Bosnian language. The lecture discusses its origin, structure, purpose and methodology with regard to data collection.
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Ost- und Südosteuropa im Fokus: Virtuelle Workshops für Studierende, Forschende und Informationsspezialisten
2023-02-01 13:30 - 15:30 | via Zoom
Die Veranstaltungsreihe “Ost- und Südosteuropa im Fokus: “Virtuelle Workshops für Studierende, Forschende und Informationsspezialisten” lädt nach einer längeren Pause zu einem weiteren Workshop ein. Dieser widmet sich der bosnischen Bibliothekslandschaft.
Im Rahmen dieses Workshops stellen sich fünf bedeutende Bibliotheken aus Sarajevo vor. Im Fokus stehen das Angebot der Bibliotheken für Forschende aus den Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaft und mögliche Projekte zur Zusammenarbeit mit Bibliotheken aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum. Der Workshop richtet sich an Forschende und Bibliotheken mit Bezug zu Südosteuropa.
Es stellen sich vor:
1. National- und Universitätsbibliothek Bosnien und Herzegowinas, DženanaTuzlak (Leiterin der Bibliographieabteilung)
2. Gazi Husrev-Beg Bibliothek, Osman Lavrić (Direktor der Gazi Husrev-Beg Bibliothek)
3. Digitales Zeitungsarchiv Infobiro, Dragan Golubović (Leiter des Infobiro)
4. Bibliothek der Philosophischen Fakultät, Nadina Grebović-Lendo (Direktorin der Universitätsbibliothek)
5. Bibliothek des Bosniakischen Instituts – Stiftung Adil Zulfikarpašić, Narcisa Puljek-Bubrić (Leiterin der Bibliothek)
Moderation: Dr. Gudrun Wirtz (BSB München), Jan Dutoit (UB Bern)
Der Workshop findet auf Bosnisch mit Übersetzung ins Deutsche statt.
Übersetzung: Doc. Dr. Naser Šećerović
Für die Teilnahme ist eine Anmeldung (Link) bis am Montag, 30. Januar 2023 notwendig. Sie erhalten dann am Vortag der Veranstaltung den Zoom-Link und das Passwort per Mail zugesendet.
Während der Veranstaltung können Fragen im Chat gestellt werden. Die Veranstaltung wird aufgezeichnet und hier zur Verfügung gestellt.
Die Reihe “Ost- und Südosteuropa im Fokus: Virtuelle Workshops für Studierende, Forschende und Informationsspezialisten” wurde von der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Bibliotheken und Dokumentationsstellen der Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropaforschung e.V. (ABDOS) initiiert und wird in Kooperation mit dem Fachinformationsdienst Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa durchgeführt. Die Aufzeichnungen der bisherigen Workshops finden Sie auf dem Forschungsportal osmikon und auf der ABDOS-Webseite.

SNAKLAB Regensburg Southeastern Europe Research Seminars
2023-01-25 16:00 - 18:00 | IOS, Landshuter Str. 4, R 319
Dr Gergana Mircheva (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski” and Alexander von Humboldt fellow at IOS) will give a talk on
“Contested normalities: Socio-historical images of autism in Bulgaria“
Time: 4-6 pm
Venue: IOS Regensburg, Landshuter Str. 4/ R 017, 93047 Regensburg
Abstract: This research project addresses the socio-historical images of autism in Bulgaria, as constructed in parental and professional experiences of care for autistic children. The object of research includes the varying and disputed normative models of dealing with the now-called “autism spectrum disorders” (ASD) during the socialist and the post-socialist period. Such normative models are part of the conventions of “(ab)normality”, which have a prescriptive nature and are determined by particular psycho-medical and more general socio-cultural scripts. To what extent, why and how did therapists and parents adopt, negotiate, hybridise and/or confront such models?
The talk will focus mainly on the contemporary parental attitudes towards the healthcare system in Bulgaria, as well as to the parental images of autistic children and on the parental strategies towards the normative models of ASD regulation.
The project combines methods of anthropology and social history of medicine and the “psy-sciences”, with concepts of disability studies, social studies of autism, and ethics of care.

Regensburg & Rijeka Online Lectures: New Research in Southeast European Studies
2023-01-19 11:15 | 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]
Link

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]
Link

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
Poster
