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Snjezana Koren
CLIO IN THE BALKANS
The Politics of History Education
ed. Christina Koulouri, Thessaloniki 2002, p. 549
The international conference History Teaching in Southeast Europe – Present and Future was held in Athens, April 4th-7th, 2002. The conference was organised by the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe (www.cdsee.org) in order to present the results of the two-year project Southeast European Joint History Project. During the conference the book Clio in the Balkans was presented. This book contains the papers prepared for and presented during the seven workshops which were part of the project.
Contents
CHAPTER I: Common Past, Shared History
A. The Multi-ethnic Empires
1. THE BYZANTINE AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRES
A Common Regional Past? Portrayals of the Byzantine and Ottoman Heritage from Within and Without by Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal and Vasilia Lilian Antoniou
Dealing with Ottoman Past in Greek Chronicles by Pinelopi Stathi
‘Tyranny’ and ‘Despotism’ as National and Historical Terms in Greek Historiography by Sia Anagnostopoulou
From Trauma to Self-Reflection: Greek Historiography meets the Young Turks ‘Bizarre’ Revolution by Vangelis Kechriotis
Medieval and Modern Macedonia as Par of a National ‘Grand Narrative’ by Nikola Jordanovski
Multiethnic Empires, National Rivalry and Religion in Bulgarian History Textbooks by Alexei Kalionski and Valery Kolev
Between two Empires by Codruta Matei
Byzantine and Ottoman Studies in Romanian Historiography. A Brief Overview by Bogdan Murgescu
2. THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE
Hungarian Legacy in Southeastern Europe by Mirela-Luminita Murgescu
Hungarians and Hungarian History in Croatian History Textbooks by Snjezana Koren
B. The Former Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia: a Look in the Broken Mirror. Who is the ‘Other’? by Snjezana Koren
Between Euphoria, Sober Realisation and Isolation. ‘Europe’ in the History Textbooks of Former Yugoslavian Countries by Heike Karge
The Second World War and Socialistic Yugoslavia in Slovenian Textbooks by Dragan Potocnik and Jelka Razpotnik
The Yugoslav History in Croatian Textbooks by Magdalena Najbar-Agicic
Yugoslavia in a Broken Mirror. The Serbian Textbooks by Dubravka Stojanovic
The Common Yugoslav History and the Republic of Macedonia by Nikola Jordanovski
CHAPTER II: National and Religious Identities Co-existing of Conflicting?
A. Macedonian Identities
Between the Necessity and the Impossibility of a ‘National History’ by Nikola Jordanovski
Ottoman Macedonia in Bulgarian History Textbooks for Secondary School by Alexei Kalionski
The Macedonian: Romanticism against Realism (According to a Recent Sociological Survey) by Tzvetan Tzvetanski
School Celebrations in Greek Macedonia by Vlassis Vlassidis
The Macedonian Question in Greek History Textbooks by Despina Karakatsani
The Macedonian Question in Serbian Textbooks by Bojan Dimitirijevic
B. Religious Identitites
Religious Education and the View of the ‘Other’ by Mirela-Luminita Murescu
Religious Identities in Turkish Textbooks by Etienne Copeaux
Religious Education in Serbia by Milan Vukomanovic
The Ethnic and Religious Climate in Bulgaria after 1989. Preliminary Notes for Discussion by Alexei Kaliionski
Religion, State and Society in Romanian History Textbooks by Ecaterina Lung
Islamic Religious Education in Bosnia by Smail Balić
Islam in Austrian Schools by Smail Balić
The Treatment of Jewish History in Schools in Central and Eastern Europe by Ivo Goldstein
Religious Identity and Religious Education in Schools by Costa Carras
Perceiving the Religious ‘Other’ in a Cecular Educational Context by Hanna Kassis
CHAPTER III: The Past in the Mirror of the Present
A. Cyprus
Citizenship, History and Memory in Turkish Cypriot Society: Is there Room for Cypriotness? by Nergis Canefe
Otherness in the Turkish Historical Discourse: General Considerations by Etienne Copeaux
The Subject of History in the Greek Cypriot Educational System: A Subset of the Greek Nation by Loris Koullapis
School is a Textbook: Symbolism and Rituals in Turkish Cypriot Schools by Neshe Yashin
Historical Distortions Biasing Books by Ulus Irkad
National Memory and Turkish-Cypriot Textbooks by Niyazi Kizilyurek
B. Albania
Albanian Schoolbooks in the Context of Societal Transformation: Review Notes by Erind Pajo
Albania and Northen Epirus in Greek Civic Schoolbooks since the 1970s by Despina Karakatsani
Albanians and their Neighbours: the Future’s Past by Dubravka Stojanovic
APPENDIX: Educational System and History Teaching
Albania by Valentina Duka
Croatia by Snjezana Koren
Cyprus by Ulus Irkad
Greece by Triantafyllos Petridis and Maria Zografaki
FYR Macedonia by Emilija Simoska
Slovenia by Božo Repe
Turkey by Hayrettin Kaya, Mutlu Ozturk, Dilara Kahyaoglu, Ayse Cetiner and Orhan Silier
Yugoslavia by Dubravka Stojanovic