University of Zadar, Department for Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

PROGRAMME

HUMBOLDT-KOLLEG
History as a Foreign Country: Historical Imagery in South-Eastern Europe
(Zadar and Nin, 22-24 March 2012)


Thursday, 22nd March
University of Zadar, Aula Magna (Obala Kralja Petra Krešimira IV. 2, HR-23000 Zadar)

9.30 Opening of the conference
- Ante Uglešić, Rector of the University of Zadar; Valentin Gescher, Deputy Chief of the Mission of the German Embassy in Zagreb

10.00-11.00 Keynote
- Joep Leerssen (Amsterdam), The Past is a Foreign Country; the Past is Ourselves: Auto-image and Exoticism

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-12.00 Presentation of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

12.00-13.00 Buffet lunch

13.00-15.00 Guided city tour

Session 1: Representations of History and/as Identity
Moderation: Tanja Zimmerman, Clemens Ruthner
15.30-17.00
- Tatjana Petzer (Berlin), Kako loš son / Like a Bad Dream. The Politics of Trauma in Balkan Cinema
- Nikolina Burneva (Veliko Tarnavo), Historische Reminiszenzen in der bulgarischen Belletristik der Gegenwart
- Davor Beganović (Vienna), History on the Road - Sybille Lewitscharoff Apostoloff and Jonathan Safran Foers Everything is illuminated

17.00-17.30 Coffee break

17.30-19.30
- Emilija Mančić (Vienna), Nach und Weiterleben von Helden Prometheus und Odysseus. Vom sozialistisch geformten zum europäisch orientierten Individuum.
- Renate Hansen-Kokoruš (Graz), Fluide Identitäten bei Miljenko Jergović und Aleksandar Hemon
- Snježana Zorić (Zadar), Buick Rivera – ein imagoanthropologisches Lesen
- Marijan Bobinac (Zagreb), Kroatische Identitäten in den Romanen Das Handwerk des Tötens und Die Winter im Süden von Norbert Gstrein

Friday, 23rd March
University of Zadar, Rectorate Building (Ulica Mihovila Pavlinovića bb, HR-23000 Zadar)

Session 2: History and/as Imagology
Moderation: Wolfgang Müller Funk
9.00-11.00
- Zoran Milutinović (London), Imagology and its Method(s) in the 21st Century
- Zrinka Blažević (Zagreb), Potentials of Otherness: Signposts for a Foreign Country
- Davor Dukić (Zagreb), Imagotype Zeiträume
- Mirna Zeman (Bamberg), Historische Alterität als gebrandete Identität: Imagologie und Praxeologie des Nation Branding

11.00-11.15 Coffee break

Session 3: Repositories of Historical Imagery
Moderation: Markus Koller, Ekrem Čaušević
11.15-12.45
- Endre Hárs (Szeged), “Historische Gemälde”: Vaterländische Bilderpolitik nach Herder
- Kálmán Kovács (Debrecen), Nationales und geteiltes Gedächtnis
- Sanja Roić (Zagreb), Two Native Countries, Two Types of Literary Experience and Two Monuments: a Case of Nicolò Tommaseo

12.45-13.00 Coffee break

13.00-14.00
- Tanja Zimmermann (Konstanz), Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer: From Philhellenism to Balkanism
- Tomislav Oroz (Zadar), Reconstructing Images of the Past and Imagining the Other in the Performance of the Lastovo Carnival

14.00-16.00 Lunch break

Session 4: Images of Self and/as the Other
Moderation: Renate Hansen-Kokoruš, Sanja Roić
16.00-17.30
- Katerina Karakassi (Athens), Literatur und Geschichte: Der Fall Kafka
- Wolfgang Müller-Funk (Vienna), Das Eigene in fremdem Gewand. Zur Ironie von Selbst- und Fremdbildern in Joseph Roths Die Geschichte der 1002. Nacht
- Lahorka Plejić Poje, Jasmina Lukec (Zagreb), Herstory of the (Foreign) Country: Imaginary Worlds of Ivana Brlić Mažuranić

17.30-18.00 Coffee break

18.00-19.30
- Tihomir Brajović (Belgrade), Between Balkanism and Eurocentrism: History as a “Distorted Mirror” of Identities in the Novels of Ivo Andrić
- Jurij Murašov (Konstanz), Images of Scripts and Times in Ivo Andrić’s Prokleta avlija
- Ivana Brković, Goranka Šutalo (Zagreb), Imagery of Space and Time in Miroslav Krleža’s Short Story Collection Hrvatski bog Mars (The Croatian God Mars)

Saturday, 24th March
Nin, Baroque House (Ulica Petra Zoranića 1, HR-23232 Nin)

Session 5: Images of History, Memory and Trauma
Moderation: Nedret Kuran-Burçoğlu, Kálmán Kovács
10.00-11.30
- Divna Mrdeža Antonina (Zadar), Similarities and Differences of Discourses in the Travel Books of Antun Vrančić and Marco Antonio Pigafetta
- Ekrem Čaušević (Zagreb), Eine imagologische Analyse der katholischen Texte aus Bosnien aus der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts
- Markus Koller (Bochum), Die Konstruktion von Peripherien in imperialen Kontexten (mit einem Schwerpunkt auf dem Osmanischen Reich)

11.30-12.00 Coffee break

12.00-13.30
- Jozo Džambo (Munich), Die Save als Grenze: Bruchlinie zweier Reiche
- Sanjin Kodrić (Sarajevo), Sites of Memorising Historical Trauma: “Austro-Hungarian Theme” in the 19th and 20th Century Bosniak / Bosnian-Herzegovinian Literature
- Clemens Ruthner (Dublin), UmgangsFormen: Bosnien-Stereotypen des österreichischen Kolonialdiskurses bei Strobl, Michel, Preindlsberger-Mrazović et al.

13.30-14.00 Closing discussion

14.00-16.00 Lunch

16.00-18.00 Guided city tour

19.00 Return to Zadar