Call for Papers - New Approaches to the History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath in Yugoslavia, Greece, and Albania (1939-1949)

Conference venue: Humboldt University Berlin, École française d’Athènes
Period: October 2015, March 2016
Deadline for submitting abstracts: December 1, 2014

Doctoral researchers, both in the early and final stages of pursuing their PhD, are invited to apply for participation in events organized in the framework of the international project on “New Approaches to the History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath in Yugoslavia, Greece, and Albania (1939-1949)”, to take place in Berlin in October 2015 and in Athens in March 2016. The language of the preparatory workshop in Berlin and the final conference in Athens will be English.

The international project on the Second World War and its aftermath in Yugoslavia, Greece and Albania is jointly coordinated by the Humboldt University in Berlin and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. The project focuses on the three occupied countries of Southeastern Europe, and includes the postwar years, characterized by a continuation of massive violence in all three countries.

The project aims at accomplishing the following tasks:
- to assess the “state of the art” of research Albania, Greece, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro
- to identify PhD researchers working on the Second World War in Yugoslavia, Greece and Albania
- to sketch pertinent research questions in order to design the framework of the final conference
- to discuss how future research can foster integration, comparison, and entanglement of the history of the Second World War in Southeastern Europe into European and global research on that war

Xavier Bougarel (Berlin), Hannes Grandits (Berlin), and Nathalie Clayer (Paris) coordinate the project. Its other members are Paolo Fonzi (Berlin/Naples), Tchavdar Marinov (Paris/Athens), Nadège Ragaru (Paris), Milan Ristović (Belgrade), Drago Roksandić (Zagreb), Sabine Rutar (Regensburg), Fabien Théofilakis (Montreal/Paris), Nevenka Troha (Ljubljana), Polymeris Voglis (Athens), and Marija Vulesica (Berlin). Holm Sundhaussen, Professor Emeritus of Southeastern European History at the Free University Berlin, acts as senior advisor.

Invited PhD researchers will be invited to participate in two events:

A preparatory workshop will take place in Berlin in October 2015 and will give the PhD candidates an opportunity to present and discuss their research. This will be a special occasion to present and test their findings by discussing it in a circle of established scholars.

A final conference will take place at the École française d’Athènes (March 2016). This will be an international conference conceptualized along the core topical tropes of the project. The PhD researchers be will be encouraged to submit a scientific paper; they will be asked to take an active part in the discussion.

Your proposal should clearly point out the research questions you are studying. It should also contain information on how you think that your PhD research will add innovative knowledge on the Second World War, and which, according to you, are the most pressing further research lacunae in the field.

Please place your application within one of the following research tropes:

A preliminary, not exhaustive list of research questions may serve as a guiding thread in crafting your proposal:

Please send us your proposal (max. 2 pages) and a short CV by Monday, 1 December 2014, at the latest. Contact: Xavier Bougarel (xbougarel@yahoo.fr ), Sabine Rutar (rutar@ios-regensburg.de )

Xavier Bougarel
e-mail: xbougarel@yahoo.fr

Sabine Rutar
e-mail: rutar@ios-regensburg.de