Negotiating Religious and Ethno-National Identities in the Balkans

Beyond Mosque, Church, and State: Negotiating Religious and Ethno-National Identities in the Balkans October 6-8, 2011 Lockheed Martin Boardroom and Lounge Library The John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University 1810 College Road Columbus, OH

Registration is free and open to the public in the Lounge Library on the third floor of the John Glenn School.

Program Beyond Mosque, Church, and State: Negotiating Religious and Ethno-National Identities in the Balkans 6-8 October 2011 The Ohio State University

Conference organizers: Theodora Dragostinova: [email protected] Yana Hashamova: [email protected] Additional information: [email protected]

Thursday, 6 October 2011 4:00-4:30, Check-in and registration at the Glenn School 4:30-6:00, Opening remarks and Session I Beyond Mosque, Church, and State - Moderator:  Theodora Dragostinova, The Ohio State University Victor Friedman, University of Chicago E mos shikjoni kish e xhamija (And look not to church and mosque): How Albania and Macedonia Illuminate Bosnia and Bulgaria Yana Hashamova, The Ohio State University Women between State and Mosque: Compliance or Agency 6:30-8:30, Reception at the Glenn School Friday, 7 October 2011 9:00-9:30, Coffee and breakfast 9:30-11:30, Session II The Ottoman Legacy in the Balkans - Moderator: Jane Hathaway, The Ohio State University Nikolay Antov, University of Arkansas Emergence and Historical Development of Muslim Communities in the Ottoman Balkans: Turcoman Colonization, Conversion to Islam and the “Indigenization of Islam” in the Balkan Peninsula (late 14th – 18th cc.) Snjezana Buzov, The Ohio State University Conversion to Islam and Islamicization in Bulgaria and Bosnia: Similarities and Differences Ipek Yosmaoglu, Northwestern University From Exorcism to Historicism: The Legacy of Empire and the Continuing Pains of Nation-making in the Balkans 11:30-1:30, Lunch break (box lunch provided for presenters and moderators) and campus tour/free time 1:30-3:30, Session III Ideas of Nationhood in Bosnia - Moderator: Gregory Jusdanis, The Ohio State University Robert Donia, University of Michigan The Historical Development of a Bosniak National Identity Max Bergholz, Concordia University, Canada When Nationhood Suddenly Happens:  The Micro Dynamics of Inter-Communal Relations in Post-World War II Bosnia-Herzegovina Edin Hajdarpasic, Loyola University- Chicago Constituent Parts: Accounting for Nationhood, History, and the “Unaccounted for” in Modern Bosnia-Herzegovina 3:30-4:00, Coffee break 4:00-6:00, Session IV National Dilemmas in Bulgaria - Moderator: Tatyana Nestorova, The Ohio State University Theodora Dragostinova, The Ohio State University In Search of the Bulgarians: Mapping the Nation through National Classifications Irina Gigova, College of Charleston Negotiating National and Cosmopolitan Impulses in Socialist Bulgaria: Bulgarian Writers in Texts and Actions Donna A. Buchanan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Beyond Nation? A Thrice-Told Tale from Bulgaria’s Postsocialist Soundstage 6:30-8:30, Catered dinner at the Glenn School Saturday, 8 October 2011 9:00-9:30, Coffee and breakfast 9:30-10:45, Session V Postsocialist Discourses and Debates - Moderator: Jennifer Suchland, The Ohio State University Jelena Subotic, Georgia State University Stories States Tell: Identity, Narrative, and Human Rights in the Balkans Kristen Ghodsee, Bowdoin College Secularism and Church-State Symphony: Religious Freedoms, Eastern Orthodoxy and the application of Western conceptions of Human Rights in Postsocialist Bulgaria 10:45-11:00, Coffee break 11:00-2:15, Session VI Postsocialist Conflicts and Identities - Moderator: Richard Tempest, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Maria Popova, McGill University, Canada Who supports Ataka? Analysis of individual level support for Bulgaria’s radical nationalists Simeon Mitropolitski, University of Montreal, Canada One Trigger – Two Outcomes: The Role of the EU Integration in Boosting and Eroding the Balkan Ethno-National Identities; The case of Bulgaria and of (F.Y.R. of) Macedonia 12:15-1:00, Lunch break (box lunch provided for presenters and moderators) 1:00-2:15 Paula M. Pickering, College of William and Mary Local Governing Institutions in Bosnia: Prioritizing Local Concerns over Ethno-National Identity? John Quigley, The Ohio State University The Efficacy of International Criminal Prosecution in the Aftermath of Inter-ethnic Conflict 2:15-3:00, Roundtable discussion and concluding remarks - Moderator: Yana Hashamova, The Ohio State University