THE BALKAN WARS (1912-13)
A CONFERENCE TO MARK THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY
17th - 18th October 2012
Rees Davies Room ~ Faculty of History ~ University of Oxford
Sponsored by the John Fell Fund and the Modern European History Research Centre
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY 17TH OCTOBER
3.00 REGISTRATION - REES DAVIES ROOM
4.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE - LECTURE THEATRE
PROFESSOR SABRINA P. RAMET
Realpolitik or foreign policy surrealism:
A reconsideration of the peace treaties of Berlin (1878) London (1913)
Versailles (1919) and Trianon (1920)
Followed at 6pm by a drinks reception in the Common Room
THURSDAY 18TH OCTOBER
Welcome and SESSION 1
Please be seated at 8.50 for a prompt start.
Chair Professor Robert Evans
New Perspectives on the Conflicts
9.00 Dr Eric Weaver
Hungary's South Slavs and the Balkan Wars
9.25 Dr Christian Promitzer
Combating Epidemics during the Balkan Wars: The Case of Bulgaria
9.50 Professor Bernd J. Fischer
The Balkan Wars and the creation of Albanian Independence
10.15 Discussion
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee & Tea
Continued over
Thursday 18th October continued
11.15 SESSION 2
Chair Professor Nada Boskovska
International Dimensions
11.15 Professor Biljana Vankovska
History and Memories of the Balkan Wars in the Republic of Macedonia: Debates over the Past
11.40 Professor James Pettifer;
After the Golden Age?: The Journalism of the Balkan Wars
12.00 Jasmina Knezovic
Croatian Nationalism and the Balkan Wars
12.20 Discussion
13.00 -14.00 Lunch
14.00 SESSION 3
Chair Dr Mark Almond
Post-Conflict Perspectives
14.00 Dr Melina Grizo
Macedonia - the crisis after the Paris Peace Conference
14.25 Sir Michael Llewellyn-Smith
Venizelos and Greek policy post 1913
14.50 Dr Helen Katsiadakis
The Balkan Wars experience: understanding the enemy
15.15 Dr Enika Abazi
Past and present in the Balkans: Coming to terms with the Balkanisation of the Balkan Wars
15.40 – 16.15 Discussion
16.15 – 16.45 Coffee & Tea
16.45 SYMPOSIUM FOR GENERAL DEBATE
Chair Professor Richard Crampton
The Balkan Wars and the Arrival of Yugoslavia 1913-1923
Panel Members: Sabrina Ramet ∙ James Pettifer ∙ Nada Boskovska ∙ Helen Katsiadakis
18.00 Conference Ends