PROGRAMME
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5 December 2005 (Monday)
Introductory speech by Kata KULAVKOVA, Academician
president of the Organising Commitee
Welcome addresses
Cvetan GROZDANOV, Academician
President of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Gjorgji MARTINOVSKI, PhD
Rector of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University – Skopje
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Kata KULAVKOVA, Academician (Skopje)
The Balkan world in world: mise-en-abîme
– from image to model of the world –
10.00 : The Balkan image of the world and otherness
Moderator: Jolanta Sujecka, PhD
Milan DJURČINOV, Academician (Skopje)
Otherness in the Bahtian context
Predrag PALAVESTRA, Academician (Belgrade)
Foreign countries and loneliness in the Balkan world of culture
Ivan DŽEPAROSKI, PhD (Skopje)
The other as an interpreter: the sublime smell and taste of the homeland
Marija GJORGJIEVA, MA (Skopje)
The image for the stranger/the image of the stranger in Balkan literatures (examples taken from Balkan prose)
10.30 : Balkan history and memory
Moderator: Milan Djurčinov, Academician
Jolanta SUJECKA, PhD (Warsaw)
The Balkan sites of memory. The concept of Macedonia
in the Bulgarian and Macedonian space-time continuums
Zdenko LEŠIĆ, Academician (Sarajevo)
“This world is a structure of infernal discordance.” Is it really?
Nedret KURAN BURÇOĞLU, PhD (Istanbul)
The image of the Turk in Europe in the past and today: a critical journey
Luan STAROVA, Academician (Skopje)
My personal Balkan saga
11.30 : Literature – individualism
Moderator: Luan Starova, Academician
Lech MIODYŃSKI, PhD (Krakow)
Slavica SRBINOVSKA, PhD (Skopje)
The Balkan point of view on “European“ concepts of knowledge and power in the discourse of contemporary culture
Krzysztof TRYBUŚ, PhD (Poznan)
The Balkans as a necessary hypothesis
in reading Cyprian Norwid's "Quidam"
12.30 : War, peace, humor
Moderator: Ivan Džeparoski, PhD
Boguslaw ZIELIŃSKI, PhD (Poznan)
Jelena LUŽINA, PhD (Skopje)
How the Balkan people laugh:
On certain specific features of Balkan comediography
Is there a Balkan sense of humour?
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17.00 : The literary image of the Balkan
Moderator: Slavica Srbinovska, PhD
Lilla MOROZ-GRZELAK, PhD (Warsaw)
The Balkan Slavs in the Polish literary output
at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
Anastasija GJURČINOVA, PhD (Skopje)
The image of the world in the new Balkan novel
Loreta GEORGIEVSKA JAKOVLEVA, PhD (Skopje)
Stereotypes in the Macedonian drama and novel
17.45 : Cultural tradition
Moderator: Slavica Srbinovska, PhD
Krzysztof WROCŁAWSKI, PhD (Warsaw)
Traditional epic poetry of the Balkans as a cultural synthesis
Between two cultures (the example of the proto-priest
Yoan of Kratovo – literary figure and illuminator of the XVI century)
Universal Christian saints portrayed through Balkan celebrations – their unifying role in the Balkan vision of the world
6 December 2005 (Tuesday)
9.00 : Variations: travelogues, auto – biographies, essayes
Moderator: Jelena Lužina, PhD
Sonja STOJMENSKA-ELZESER, PhD (Skopje)
Aleksandar PROKOPIEV, PhD (Skopje)
Rebecca West and Marija Todorova –
images of the Balkans in the past and today
Jasmina ŠOPOVA, MA (Paris)
When there becomes here
Elizabeta ŠELEVA, PhD (Skopje)
The blind spot of Balkanism
(Macedonia in Maria Todorova's Imaginary Balkans)
9.45 : Anthropological contextualization
Moderator: Jelena Lužina, PhD
Topography of the Balkan consciousness:
peninsula, continent, hidden valley
Borders (border, periphery and marginality)
Lidija KAPUŠEVSKA-DRAKULEVSKA, PhD (Skopje)
In quest of the romantic myth of the Balkans
Ilina JAKIMOVSKA, MA (Skopje)
“Body politics”: mechanisms of surveillance, discipline and punishment
in Macedonian traditional culture
11.00 : The Humanities
Moderator: Ivan Džeparoski, PhD
Nikola KLJUSEV, Academician (Skopje)
The Balkan spiral in socio-economic and cultural development
Identities and images of the world in the light of contemporary Bulgarian humanities. Personal observations
Nebojša VILIĆ, Ph.D. (Skopje)
Positioning the gaze. Macedonian art and its commentary on the world
11.00 : Linguistic session
Moderator: Olga Mišeska Tomić, PhD
Olga MIŠESKA TOMIĆ, PhD (Leiden)
Evidentiality – Balkan linguistic encoding of extralinguistic reality
Snežana VELKOVSKA, PhD (Skopje)
The status of lexical Balkanisms in the Macedonian language
Milica MIRKULOVSKA, PhD (Skopje)
Expressing the category of definiteness in the Balkan context
Eleni BUŽAROVSKA, PhD (Skopje)
Relation terms in Balkan languages
11.45 : The Balkans – European contextualization
Moderator: Maja Bojadžievska, PhD
Jasna BAČOVSKA, MA (Skopje)
The new media and the Balkan image of the world
12.30 : The gender issue in the Balkan context
Moderator: Maja Bojadžievska, PhD
Vesna MOJSOVA-ČEPIŠEVSKA, PhD (Skopje)
13.00 : Final plenary session