Archives par mot-clé : histoire contemporaine

Appel à communication – 1922: In the Wake of the Death of an Empire: The archival journey of entrenched post-Ottoman minorities

Place: Istanbul, Turkey (Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations-ANAMED, Koç University)

Date: October 6, 2023
Deadline for submission: 30/03/2023St. Sepulcre façade portes et personnages militaires, A. Reid. The Lenkin Family Collection of Photography, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesHow does one apprehend the lives of Eastern Mediterranean minorities who managed, or were allowed to stay where they resided despite the upheavals brought by the collapse of the Ottoman Empire? On the face of it, the task might appear easier than the one facing scholars of actively persecuted populations. Traumatic events like the massacres and expulsions of Muslim and Christian populations from the Balkans and Anatolia that have marked the abolition of the Sultanate never say their name -often given to them subsequently by historians or activists- in the written record. The latter’s destruction was often indeed planned, an integral part of the nationalistic demographic engineering at work in these events. By contrast “minorities,” as were sometimes designated after the Great War ethnically distinct groups allowed to remain in the successor states of the Ottoman empire, are much more visible in the archive. Indeed, official concerns regarding their size, wealth, activities, and indeed loyalty, meant that they were constantly surveilled. In this sense, the written record contributed very much to fabricating minorities, namely discrete, legible, and ultimately controllable groups. This was not a uniquely top-down process, however. Minority groups themselves, using the official channels of communication available to them, and performing -sometimes tactically- the social function they had been ascribed as a strategy of survival in their interactions with state authorities or official and unofficial third parties, participated in the entrenchment of their identity.
This one-day workshop invites contributions from scholars and archivists interested in exploring the archival lives of Eastern Mediterranean minorities who became entrenched in the successor-states of the Ottoman Empire, from Southeast Europe to North Africa, through Anatolia and the Near East. Its focus is not so much on the minorities as such. Rather it seeks to engage an epistemological discussion on the records, official and unofficial, public and private, written, oral, and built, that can be used to document state methods of surveillance of minority groups, but also the strategies of entrenchment devised by minorities themselves. We are therefore interested in “archives,” in the broadest sense of the word, produced by post-Ottoman successor states, minority groups themselves, and their institutions -secular, religious, economic- or even third-party observers. Our goal is two-fold. Empirical first, as we seek to map out archival repositories relevant to the trajectories of post-Ottoman, Eastern Mediterranean minorities. Epistemological, second, as we aim to tackle the linguistic, but also conceptual and methodological challenges raised by a study of these groups through the existing records.
Themes of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

  • The transformation of the archival identity of Eastern Mediterranean minorities at the time of imperial transitions
  • Accessibility and archival policy of private and public institutions of archives
  • Reading strategies -ethnographic/extractive- in apprehending the lives of minorities in written records: against or along the archival grain
  • The role of state records in fabricating minorities
  • The congruence and incongruence between the written records and oral testimonies emanating from minorities and minority institutions
  • Apprehending minorities in third-party repositories (League of Nations, Red Cross, Red Crescent, Permanent Mandates Commission, etc.), namely outside of the dual relationship between states and minorities
  • Linguistic challenges in the exploitation of minority-related archives
This workshop, with its driving theme, is the second major event of a five-year project entitled  1922: In the Wake of the Death of an Empire:  Political Transitions and Minority Strategies of Entrenchment in the Eastern Mediterranean which is funded by the Ecole française d’Athènes, the CNRS-IHMC, and Koç University and run by Angelos Dalachanis (CNRS-IHMC) and Alexis Rappas (Koç University).
Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered by the organizers 
Place: Istanbul, Turkey (Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations-ANAMED, Koç University)
Date: October 6, 2023
Deadline for sending abstracts: 30 March 2023 to angelos.dalachanis@cnrs.fr or arappas@ku.edu.tr
Response to participants: by end of April 2023
Language: English

Agustín COSOVSCHI, Les Sciences sociales face à la crise. Une histoire intellectuelle de la dissolution yougoslave (1980-1995), Paris, Karthala, 2022 (250 p. /25€)

Les sciences sociales face à la crise. Une histoire intellectuelle de la dissolution yougoslave (1980-1995)

En puisant dans un large corpus de publications scientifiques, de documents de presse et d’archives, complété par des entretiens personnels avec des chercheurs et chercheuses en Serbie et en Croatie, cet ouvrage propose un examen critique de l’univers des sciences sociales yougoslaves pendant la période de crise qui va de la mort de Josip Broz Tito en 1980 à la fin de la guerre en Croatie et en Bosnie en 1995.

L’auteur montre que, malgré leur inéluctable position de faiblesse face aux grandes transformations politiques, économiques et sociales en Yougoslavie, de nombreux chercheurs et chercheuses réussissent à préserver certains espaces d’autonomie pendant cette période de crise. Par ailleurs, il souligne que, malgré la rupture que signifie le début de la dissolution yougoslave en 1991, il existe de nombreuses continuités conceptuelles et théoriques entre les années 1980 et les années 1990.

En se servant du monde des sciences sociales comme d’un prisme pour analyser la dissolution de la Yougoslavie, cet ouvrage offre des pistes de réflexion sur la crise du projet socialiste yougoslave et donne un récit actualisé et rigoureux de la crise et de la désagrégation yougoslaves.

Agustín Cosovschi est historien, spécialiste de la guerre froide et du Sud-Est européen. Docteur de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris) et de l’Université nationale de General San Martin (Argentine), il est actuellement chercheur postdoctoral. Ses travaux portent sur la politique yougoslave de non-alignement et sur l’histoire de la dissidence en Europe de l’Est.

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Lea RASO DELLA VOLTA, Les paradoxes du nationalisme turc. La construction de l’identité de 1869 au néo-ottomanisme de Recep Erdogan, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2021, (494 p., 42 €)

Couverture Les paradoxes du nationalisme turc

Cent ans après la proclamation de la République turque et la naissance du nationalisme d’État, la Turquie peine à définir son identité. La disparition prématurée de Mustafa Kemal a mis un coup d’arrêt à la lente gestation de la nouvelle société. Après l’arrivée du multipartisme au pouvoir dans les années 1950, la Turquie a fait le choix ensuite de la synthèse turco-islamique censée faire consensus. Ces années 1960-70, dites « de plomb », ont été dominées par deux forces nationalistes : l’État-profond, garant de l’héritage de Mustafa Kemal et l’ultranationalisme des Loups gris. Dans les années 1990, on assiste à l’émergence du concept de Türkyeli (de Turquie) qui tend à faire du citoyen non plus un Turc mais un habitant de Turquie. Apparaît également la tendance néo-ottomaniste qui vise à permettre à la Turquie de renouer avec son passé ottoman.

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Séminaire – Cities of Multiple Arrivals and Departures

Cities of Multiple Arrivals and Departures; Rethinking the Refugee Experience in Thessaloniki, 1922-2022


Eleni Kyramargiou – Olga Lafazani
Institute of Historical Research / National Hellenic Research Foundation

Jeudi 12 mai 2022 – 19:00 (EEST)
Thursday 12 May 2022 – 7 p.m. (EEST)

Séminaire hybride / Υβριδικό σεμινάριο  / Hybrid seminar

=> Salle des conférences de l’EFA, Didotou 6 (port du masque obligatoire) / Αίθουσα διαλέξεων της ΓΣΑ, Διδότου 6 (υποχρεωτική χρήση μάσκας) / EFA Conference room, Didotou 6 (mandatory face mask)

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The research project 100memories attempts to combine the historical research on refugee settlement and population movement to and from Greek territory in the 20th century, with pioneering technological methods and tools, aiming at the documentation, dissemination and representation of historical memory, as it relates to refugee populations. But beyond that, it also endeavours to highlight the complex and multifaceted ways in which both the political and social history of Greece are interwoven with the refugee arrival and settlement, as well as with later population movements. The project focuses on four port cities (Piraeus, Volos, Thessaloniki, and Chania) which were pivotal to the refugee experience. Presenting the preliminary findings of the research we will narrate the story of the city of Thessaloniki and, mainly, on the neighbourhood of Ano Poli, the port, and the train terminal. Using 12 historical fragments, we will attempt to trace the thread of movement as it was woven into the history of the city, and particularly this neighbourhood and these two transport hubs, over a period of more than a hundred years, beginning in 1917, with the blaze that transformed the city, all the way to 2015 and the arrival of the refugees.

Eleni Kyramargiou is associate researcher in the Institute of Historical Research / National Hellenic Research Foundation. She has earned her Ph.D. in Contemporary History (University of the Aegean). She has worked in research programmes of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies / Foundation of Research and Technology, the Institute of Historical Research / National Hellenic Research Foundation and the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation. Her research focuses on the subject of refugee settlement and industrial history in the wider area of Piraeus. She is currently active as Principal Investigator in the research project “100 Memories” (2020-2023) focusing on the memories and legacies of the population exchange and the refugee settlement in Greece. She has published a book and several articles in academic and non-academic journals

Olga Lafazani is a Post Doc Researcher at the Institute of Historical Research / National Hellenic Research Foundation. She holds a PhD in Social Geography. She has been working as a social and cultural geographer in several national and European research institutions and projects. Her main interests include the study of migration, borders, economies and urban space with an emphasis on ethnographies of everyday life. She is currently active in the research project “100 Memories” (2020-2023) focusing on the memories and legacies of the population exchange and the refugee settlement in Greece. She has published several articles in academic and non-academic journals.

Journée d’études- Art et politique à l’ère des révolutions

École française d’Athènes, Fondation Telloglion
Avec le soutien de l’INU Champollion et de l’IUF

13 mai 2022

Séminaire hybride / Υβριδικό σεμινάρι

Sur place à l’École française d’Athènes, Salle des conférences de l’EFA, Didotou 6 (port du masque obligatoire) / Αίθουσα διαλέξεων της ΓΣΑ, Διδότου 6 (υποχρεωτική χρήση μάσκας) / EFA Conference room, Didotou 6 (mandatory face mask)

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CfA – Visiting Fellowship Program at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana

The Institute of Contemporary History (Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino) in Ljubljana has launched a Visiting Fellowship program and is accepting applications for the Visiting Fellowship program starting from October 1, 2022.

Deadline for applications: June 15

link: https://www.inz.si/en/Visiting-Fellowship_program/

Scholars working in the field of contemporary political, social, economic history or related disciplines, as well scholars working in the field of digital humanities, are invited to apply for the fellowship of two to four months in the period between October 1, 2022, and October 1, 2023.

The Institute is offering:

  • Free accommodation in an apartment in Dom Podiplomcev in Ljubljana.
  • Travel expenses for a round trip from the home institution (max 500 eur).
  • A working space at the Institute (Privoz 11, near the National Archives and the National and University Library).
  • An access to the library of the Institute, which is one of the finest libraries for 20th century history in Slovenia, containing publications from the whole Yugoslav space (and broader).
  • A friendly working environment and an opportunity to participate in the work of the Institute and to foster long-term individual and institutional cooperation.

The Institute does not offer any additional financial assistance, but the fellowship can of course be combined with other forms of funding (for example, researcher’s home institution, COST Actions’ Short Term Scientific Missions, Erasmus traineeship program, CLARIN ERIC Mobility Grants, etc.)