The aim of the Conference is to consider the causes, course, and the political, social and economic consequences of the First World War on the basis of new historical research in the context of European and more specifically Balkan history. The conference will also explore the legacy of World War One and its place in collective memory today. The conference wants to highlight the significance of the First World War for Eastern and Southeastern European societies but at the same time will consider the larger European and international picture.

The intention of the organizers is to make the conference in Sarajevo a vibrant forum of academic exchange of new approaches to the history of the First World War in the context of the centennial of its beginning. One aim of the conference is to re-consider the political aspects of World War One, such as the relations between the Great powers on the eve of the First World War, the politics of smaller countries and their room of manoeuvre, the formation of the system of alliances and their geo-political as well as ideological foundations, the clash between imperial orders and nationalism, etc. At the same time the conference will focus on the experiences and perceptions of "ordinary people", both at the frontline but also "at home", and the mental consequences of the war on its survivors.

The conference will discuss the immediate as well as long-term impact of the Great War on the development of European societies. We also intend to reflect on the way, how the First World War is treated by the various national historiographies in the Balkans and by other historiographies, and how it is taught in the classroom. The conference intends to discuss the place of the war in local, national and transnational cultures of memory and the ways the war has been presented in different media and literary and artist genres.

Conference organized by:

Institute for History of the University of Sarajevo (Sarajevo) | Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (Regensburg) | Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest) | Institute for Balkan Studies and Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia) | Institute for National History (Skopje) | Institute for Contemporary History (Ljubljana) | Croatian Institute for History (Zagreb) | Center for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz (Graz)

Conference Venue:  Hotel Hollywood, Dr. Mustafe Pintola 23, Ilidža, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Conference homepage:  http://konferencija2014.com.ba/

For Registration see:  http://konferencija2014.com.ba/o_konferenciji/osnovne-informacije/

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Programme:

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

20:00 - 22:00  Opening Plenary Session

Welcome speeches by the organizers

Keynote Lecture by Mark MAZOWER (Columbia University, New York): "New Trends in the research on the Great War"

Thursday, 19 June 2014

09:00 - 11:00   Session One

Ideational and Political Foundations:

Charles EMMERSON: "1913 - The World before the Great War"

Norman DOMEIER: "The Moral Legitimation of a 'World War' before 1914"

Andrej RAHTEN: "Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the Greater Austrian Idea"

Thomas S. CARHART: "Bryan, House and Wilson's American real politics and their contribution to the outbreak of the Great War"

The Roads to War in Southeastern Europe, I:

Nikola SAMARDZIC: "The Independence of Serbia and the Outbreak of the First World War (1878-1914)"

Marko Attila HOARE: "The roots of the Serbo-Austrian war of 1914-1918"

Dalibor JOVANOVSKI: "Personality as a Factor: Eleftherios Venizelos and Greek Participation in the First World War

The Roads to War in Southeastern Europe, II:

Ferenc POLLMANN: "The Hungarian military and the July 1914 crisis"

Maros MELLICHÁREK: "Foreign policy of Serbia towards Bosnia and Herzegovina before the breakup of First World War"

Krisztián CSAPLÁR-DEGOVICS: "The last common failure of the great powers: the case of Albania (1912-1914)"

11:30 - 13:30   Session Two

The Bosnian "Question":

Carl BETHKE: "Bosnia and Herzegovina in German view and foreign politics, 1878-1918"

Björn LEMKE / Jana OSTERKAMP / Sevan PEARSON: "The Bosnian annexation crisis of 1908 as a watershed"

Diana Reynolds CORDILEONE: "Coming of Age on the Bosnian Frontier: Gender and Politics in a Habsburg colony, 1896-1908"

June 1914 in Sarajevo and Echo of the Assassination:

James LYION: "Habsburg Sarajevo on the Eve of the Great War"

Philippe GELEZ: "In Search of Princip's Countryside: Economic Decline and Agrarian Tensions"

Izet SABOTIC: "Impact of the Assassination on Tuzla and its surroundings in the first months of the Great War"

Mobilizing Soldier and Soldier's Experiences:

Ladislav HLADKÝ: "The Czech soldiers during the Great War (1914-1918)"

Silvana SIDOROVSKA-CHUPOVSKA: "Measures of Mobilization and Requisition in Western Macedonia (1916-1918)"

Robert UPTON: Ressurecting kshatriyas: rationales for encouraging Hindu enlistment during the Great War

14:30 - 16:30  Session Three

Diplomatic and Military Aspects of the War:

Claudiu-Lucian TOPOR: "A forewarning of a massacre in the antechamber of war? The German Legation in Bucharest and the diplomatic scandal of the 'Microbes' (1916)"

Michael JONAS: Neutral Allies, Immoral Pariahs? Scandinavian Neutrality in German and British-Policy-Making and Diplomacy during the First World War

The Impact of War on Society and Politics:

Eckard MICHELS: "The Spanish Flu 1918/19. Course, Consequences and Interpretations in Germany in the Context of the First World War"

Sergei A. ROMANENKO: "Russian Social-Democrats and Austria-Hungary Before and During the WWI and the Disintegration of Two Empires"

Ivan KOSNICA: "Citizenship in Croatia-Slavonia during the First World War"

Olexander Yuriyovich KIRIENKO: "Military censorship in the Russian empire (July 1914 - February 1917)"

Local Experiences:

Vera GOSEVA: "The Fate of the Civilian Population in Bitola in the First World War"

Redzep SKRIJELJ: "The Sandzak During the War"

Marijana STAMOVA: "Kosovo During the First World War"

Lidija BARISIC BOGISIC: "Syrmia on the Eve of the Great War" 17:00 - 19:00

Plennary Session - "Mladna Bosna/Young Bosnia and the Great War":

Dzevad JUZBASIC: "The Reactions of the Political Leaderships in the Bosnian Parliament to the Sarajevo Assassination"

Bojan ALEKSOV: "Religion and Nationalism of the Young Bosnians"

Edin HAJDARPASIC: "Year X, or 1914? Heroism, Violence, and Young Bosnia"

Guido van HENGEL: "Arrival in the city. The radicalisation of Gavrilo Princip"

19.00  Reception for the Conference Participants

Friday, 20 June 2014

09:00 - 11:00  Session Four

Social and Cultural Life during the War:

Drago ROKSANDIC: "How did it Begin in Bihac, Karlovac, and Zadar? How did it end?"

Seka BRKLJACA: "Orchestrated Social Life of the City in Total War - Sarajevo 1914-1918"

Risto Pekka PENNANEN: "Uplifting the Home Front: Entertainment and Propaganda in Public Musical Performances in Sarajevo during the Great War"

Jasmin BRANKOVIC: "Life in Mostar during the War"

Famine, Food and Health:

Vijoleta Herman KAURIC: "How to Feed a City? The Example of Zagreb"

Stratos N. DORDANAS: "Dying in Greece ... of hunger": The food war and the public opinion on the war

Tadeusz CZEKALSKI: "The First World War and evolution of European culinary culture"

Amila KASUMOVIC: "The Health Situation in Bosnia & Herzegovina during the First World War"

Love, Life and Death Behind the Frontlines:

Mirela KRESIC: "Declaration of 'death in absentia': Civil Law Aspects of Missing Croatian Soldiers"

Simone EGGER: "Love in Times of War. Letters from Smyrna to Munich (1910-1919)"

Petar TODOROV: "Civilians and Soldiers: Enduring the Salonika Front Line"

Hana YOUNIS: "Greetings and Kisses from Frontline"

11:30 - 13:30  Session Five

Repression against Civilians:

Tamara SCHEER: "Denunciation and State of Emergency: The case of the Austro-Hungarian War Surveillance Office (k.u.k. Kriegsüberwachungsamt)"

Zdravka JELASKA MARIJAN: "The Destiny of Political Prisoners and Suspicious Persons from Dalmatia During the First World War"

Konrad CLEWING: Rule of law under self-attack: Austro-Hungarian ethnopolitics in Bosnia-Hercegovina during World War I

Sonja DUJMOVIC: "War Against Civilian Subjects: The Jeftanovic Case"

Nationalism during the War:

Maurus REINKOWSKI: "Trajectories of Radicalization in the Late Ottoman Empire"

Albert BING: "First World War and Mass Political (Self)consciuosness: The Case of the South Slavic Region"

Andrea GRIFFANTE: "Redefining what is Lithuanian and what is not: Religion, Language, and Nationality in Ober Ost"

Mehmet Ö. ALKAN: "The Committee of Union and Progress: Strategies of Nationalist Indoctrination during the First World War in the Ottoman Empire"

Ethnicity and Minorities:

Denis NJARI: "The Hungarians of Slavonia and the problem of their allegiance"

Danilo SARENAC: "Minorities as Combatants in the Serbian Army 1914-1918"

Danijel VOJAK: "Over the hills and far away: The Roma population in Croatia during the First World War"

Haris DAJC/Marija KOCIC: "Jews in Sarajevo and Bosnia on the eve of and during the Great War"

14:30 - 16:30  Session Six

The "Slavic Question" in the Habsburg Empire:

Zdravka ZLODI: "First World War and the Slavic Question"

Nikolina SIMETIN SEGVIC: "The 'Enemy Within': Intelligence Operations, Treason and Espionage. The South Slav Question and Anti-Habsburg Sentiment in Croatia during the First World War

Bozo REPE: "Impact of World War I on the Fate of the Slovene Nation"

Filip HAMERSAK: "Honour, Revenge, Hate and Atrocities: the Croatian 1914-1918 Perspective"

Hungary, the Habsburg Empire and the War:

Ferenc SZÁVAI / László GULYÁS / Norbert PAP: "The Dualist Hungarian Political Elite's conceptions of the Balkans (1867-1918)"

Tibor HAJDÚ: "The strange position of the Hungarian State during the Great War"

Dániel SZABÓ: "Hungarian War Aims in the First World War"

Peter BIHARI: "The history of the home front in Hungary during World War I, with particular regard to the conditions of the middle classes"

Árpád HORNYÁK: "The Balkan Policy of Hungary in the Great War"

Politics in the Habsburg Balkans:

Zoran GRIJAK: "Conceptions of Statehood and Restructuring of the Austria-Hungarian Empire in Petitions of the Croat, Muslim and Serb Political Elite"

Stjepan MATKOVIC: "Croatian Political Evolutions and the Sarajevo Assassination"

Adnan JAHIC: "Bosnian Politics during World War One: the Disappearance of the United Muslim Organization and the Rise of 'Very Minor and Unserious Elements'"

Branko OSTAJMER: "Serbs in Croatia in 1914: between Power and Persecution"

17:00 - 19:00  Session Seven

The Ottoman Empire and the First World War:

M. Hakan YAVUZ: "Said Nursi and the Armenian Question"

Mehmet ARISAN: "'The Enemy' as The Mirror Image: Literary Representations of World War One"

Ozan ARSLAN: "The Balkan Diplomacy of the Sublime Porte before and after the onset of WWI: Quest for a Bulgaro-Romano-Ottoman Alliance"

Ramazan Hakki OZTAN: "Young Turks and Saving the State: World War I as an Opportunity Space?"

Perceptions of War, Violence and Occupation:

Gundula GAHLEN: "The experience of German war participants in Romania during World War One"

Dénes SOKCSEVITS: "The image of Croatian and Bosnian soldiers in Hungarian public opinion and in the works of Hungarian fiction writers during the First World War and between 1918 and 1939"

Florian GRAFL: "The First World War and its impact on the Pistolerismo in Barcelona"

Envisioning and Establishing the Post-War Order:

Svetlana SUVEICA: "Post-imperial 'regional' projects and 'imperial' identities after 1918: the Case of Bessarabia"

Ondrej KOLÁR: "The Czechoslovak Gendarmerie and the Creation of the Republic"

Denis BECIROVIC: The End of the War and the Beginning of Peace: Bosnia and Herzegovina and Europe (1918-1919)"

Saturday, 21 June 2014

08:30 - 10:30  Session Eight

Propaganda, News and the Media:

Karl KASER: "The First World War and the first media revolution in the Balkans"

Elisabeth HAID: "The clash between 'two worlds': support of the war in Austrian and in Russian newspapers in the First World War"

Werner SUPPANZ: "'Serbia must die'. On the representations and memories of the Serbian front in Austria during World War One and in the interwar period "

Edin OMERCIC: "The Great War on the Pages of National Geographic Magazine 1914-1919"

Artists and Intellectuals in and after the War:

Sanja Zaja VRBICA: "The activities of the painter Marko Rasica during the First World War"

Daniel BARIC: "Archaeologists at War: Austrians and French on the Front of Science"

Ramajana HIDIC DEMIROVIC: "Entangled Traditions: Laura Papo Bohoreta's Modernisms during the Great War and Beyond"

Georgios GIANNAKOPOULOS: "Nationality before Internationalism: The New Europe magazine in wartime Britain"

Visual and Musical Representations of War:

Marko LOVRIC: "All Quiet on the Western Front: Echoes of World War I in American cinema during the interwar period"

Jana GEORGE: "'The assassins of Sarajevo and Thessaloniki'. The depiction of resistance to the Habsburg and to the Ottoman Empire in two Yugoslavian feature films"

Dobrinka PARUSHEVA: "Light on the War: Visual Representations of the Great War in the Bulgarian Magazine Ilustratsia svetlina"

Darin STEPHANOV: "Bulgarian Patriotic Songs from the First World War and the Traits of the Ethno-national Mind-set"

11:00 - 13:00  Session Nine

Economic and Social Consequences of War:

Josip VRBOSIC: "Political, Economic and Constitutional Consequences of World War I on the Territory of the Former State of Yugoslavia"

Muhamed NAMETAK: "The Privileged National Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the First World War"

Zlata ZIVAKOVIC-KERZE: "The Impact of War on the Economy of Eastern Slavonia and Western Syrmia"

Ana RAJKOVIC: "An overview of social consequences of World War I in Slavonia in the Slavonian workers' press (1918-1920)"

Demographic Transformations and Social Policies:

Enes S. OMEROVIC: "The Departure of the 'suitcase holders': Emigration of Foreigners from Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1918/19"

Pierluigi PIRONTI: "Disabled Soldiers of the First World War in Germany and Italy. Welfare Policies and Social Conflicts (1918-1923)"

Ivana ZEBEC SILJ / Drazen ZIVIC: "The First World War as a Factor of Ethno-Demographic Changes in Slavonia and Syrmia"

Bartosz OGÓREK: "The impact of World War I on the population of Cracow. Short and long-term dimensions of the 'population-war' relation"

The Great War as History and Memory:

Jasmin MUJANOVIC: "Princip, Valter, Pejic and the Raja: Elite Domination and Betrayal in Bosnia-Herzegowina

Snezana KOREN: "The politics of history and transformations in the narratives of World War I during the 20th century: historiography, history textbooks, writing"

Ismar DEDOVIC / Tea SINDBÆK: "The First World War as public history in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. From Yugoslav to national narratives"

Selma HARRINGTON "The Politics of Memory: The Museum 'Sarajevo 1878-1918' and the Centenary of the Catastrophe"

14:00 - 16:00  Session Ten

The First World War in Historiography:

Wojciech SZCZEPANSKI: "The Balkan Theatre of the Great War in Polish Historiography"

Todor CEPREGANOV/Sonja NIKOLOVA: "The Great War in Macedonian Historiography"

Edin RADUSIC: Serbian or Yugoslav Victory - Historiographies in Bosnia and Herzegovina on World War I in the second half of the 20th century

Karsten FLEDELIUS: "The Outbreak of the First World War and its Lesson - from a Scandinavian Perspective"

Social Memories of and during the War:

Renata JAMBRESIC KIRIN: "Croatian Women on the Home Front: Between Visual Archives, Historiography and Cultural memory"

Andrea BAOTIC: "Commemorative Practices in Bosnia & Herzegovina: The Case of Imperial and War Monuments, 1914-1918"

Srdja PAVLOVIC: "Bitter Sweet Victory: Memories of the First World War and the Annexation of Montenegro"

Petra SVOLJSAK: "The Slovenian Remembrance of World War One"

Negotiating the Memory of the War:

Marijan BULJAN: "Discussions about World War I in the magazine New Europe (Nova Evropa)"

Valentyna SHEVCHENKO: "The events of World War I in the works of Ukrainian writers in the 1920s and 1930"

Ivana Cvijovic JAVORINA: "The Isonzo Front 1915-1918: Conflicting Cultures of Remembrance 1918-1941"

Biljana RISTOVSKA-JOSIFOVSKA: "Remembering the First World War in Macedonian Written Memories"

16:30 - 18:30  Session Eleven

History Textbooks and Teaching:

Predrag M. VAJAGIC: "World War I in History Schoolbooks in the ex-Yugoslav Countries"

Vera KATZ: "Presentations of the First World War in History Textbooks in post-socialist Bosnia and Herzegovina in comparison to the Socialist Period"

Sanja GLADANAC: "The Image of Yugoslav World War One in School Textbooks from 1918 to 1989"

Gjorgji CHAKARJANEVSKI / Zoran NECHEV: "World War One in Macedonian history textbooks and history teaching"

Places of Memory - and of Oblivion:

Oksana DUDKO: "Presentiments of War: The Evolution of Ukrainian Commemorative and Celebrative Practices in Lviv (1911-1914)"

Robert J. DONIA: "The Iconography of an Assassin: Gavrilo Princip's First Hundred Years"

Deniza PETROVA: "Band of Brothers? Remembering and Forgetting the Romanian Campaign 1916/17 in Bulgaria"

Ljiljana DOBROVSAK: "Monuments of Jewish Victims of the Great War"

Political and Other Usages of World War One Memory:

Nicolas MOLL: "A new Sarajevo? The memory of the First World War and its impact on the dealing with political crisis in Europe: the example of the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in Marseille in 1934"

Filip SIMETIN SEGVIC / Nikolina SIMETIN SEGVIC: "What remained of the Double-Headed Eagle?"

Tadej KOREN: "The Isonzo Front a Hundred Years Later - the Case of the 'Walk of Peace'"

Marjan DIMITRIJEVSKI / Lidija GJURKOVSKA: "Memorial Tourism: 'Landscapes of Conflict' From the First World War in Macedonia"

Historiana Outline WWI Modules:

Robert STRADLING

Steven STEGERS

18:45 - 20:30  Concluding Plenary Session

Marie Janine CALIC: "Global economy, the Balkans and the impact of the Great War"

Concluding Remarks by Attila POK | Jasna TURKALJ | Damijan GUSTIN | Florian BIEBER | Aleksandar KOSTOV | Dragi G'ORGIEV | Ulf BRUNNBAUER

Sunday, 22 June 2014

Conference Excursions

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