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DEPARTMENT OF BALKAN, SLAVIC & ORIENTAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA

University of Macedonia (Hall 14)

PROGRAM ON ORDER, CONFLICT & VIOLENCE, YALE UNIVERSITY CIVIL WARS STUDY GROUP

Scrambling for Power in the Balkans 1940sWar and Political Transformation

Thessaloniki, May 31st - June 3rd, 2012


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Thursday, May 31t

17.15: OpeningMarantzidis Nikos (Head of the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies,

University of Macedonia)17.30 - 18.30:Key Note SpeakerVeremis Thanos(National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

18.30 - 19.00 Coffee Break

19.00 - 21.30: Foreign Policy and International Relations I

Chairman: Kalyvas Stathis (Yale University)

Bojinov Voin (Institute of History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Between Understandingand War. Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, 1937-1941

Chourchoulis Dionysios (Queen Mary University of London), Great Power Involvement as aFactor in Political Transformation: Soviet Interest in the Hinterland and the Coastal Areasof the Balkans, 1939-1944

Klapsis Antonis (Panteion University), Resistance and Civil War in Occupied Greece: BritishPriorities and Strategic Dilemmas

Dragomir Elena (University of Helsinki), Constructing Romanias Pro-Soviet State SecurityStrategy, 1944-1947

Stefanidis Ioannis(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Incitement to Violence: Wartime BritishPropaganda and the Question of Armed Resistance in the Balkans

Friday, June 1t

09.00 - 11.00: Civil Wars and the Communist Takeover IChairman: Marushiokova Elena(Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies and

Ethnographic Museum at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

Pappas Takis (University of Macedonia), Preventing Communism but Failing to Deter Civil War:Greece, April-December 1944

Sfetas Spyridon (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), From Kingdom of Bulgaria to PeoplesRepublic of Bulgaria, 1944-1948: The Communist Takeover in Bulgaria, the Concept of Peoples Republic and the Personality of Georgi Dimitrov in the Contemporary Bulgarian

Historiography

Fuek Marko(University of Zagreb), Peoples Youth of Croatia and the Consolidation of Power:

Postwar Elections and Main Opposition PartiesHatzivassiliou Evanthis(National and Kapodistrian University of Athens),Political Transformation

in Civil War Greece, 1943-1949: A Deviation from Western European Model

11.00 - 11.30Coffee Break11.30 - 13.30: Civil Wars and the Communist Takeover II

Chairman: Pettifer James(Oxford University)Sokolovic Dzemal (Institute for Strengthening Democracy in Bosnia), Yugoslavia and Bosnia:

Countries Between Two Curtains and Two AspirationsMichailidis Iakovos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Aspects of the Civil Conflicts in the

Peoples Republic of Macedonia, 1944-1949Strazimiri Zana(University of Tirana), Features of Class Struggle in Post War AlbaniaMarantzidis Nikos (University of Macedonia), The Greek Civil War and the International

Communist System


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17.00 - 19.00: Minorities and Ethnic Groups I

Chairman: Michailidis Iakovos(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)Vrabiescu Ioana(National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest), Early

Communist Roma Assimilation Politics in Romania

Marushiokova Elena - Popov Vesselin (Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies andEthnographic Museum at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Gypsy/Roma Organisations andState Policy towards Gypsies/Roma in Bulgaria, 1945-1950

Ionescu Magdalena (Universitatea Valahia, Trgovite), The Romanian Discourse onHungarian Minority from Romania in the Relationships between the Peoples Republic ofRomania and Hungarian Peoples Republic

Tsoutsoumbis Spyros (University of Manchester), Ethnic Collaboration and Violence:Reappraising the Case of the Muslim Chams of Thesprotia, 1940-1945


19.30 - 21.30: Minorities and Ethnic Groups IIChairman: Sokolovic Dzemal(Institute for Strengthening Democracy in Bosnia)

Boci Sonila(Institute of History, Center for Albanological Studies, Tirana), Efforts to Establishthe Balkan Joint Staff and Greek Minority in Albania

Sage Steven (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and VictimsResource Center), Ethnic Policy and the Jews in 1940s Bulgaria

Mamarelis Argyris (London School of Economics) - Papadimitriou Dimitris (University ofManchester), The Battallion of Ottomans of DSE

Tsivos Kostas (Charles University), The Slav-Macedonian Refugees in Eastern and CentralEurope after the Greek Civil War

saTurday, June 2

09.00 - 11.00: Resistance and CollaborationChairman: Hatzivassiliou Evanthis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Kalogrias Vaios(University of Mainz), Mihailovi - Zervas: A Comparative Study of Resistanceand Collaboration in Serbia and Greece, 1941-1944

Bitunjac Martina(Humboldt University of Berlin), War Tactic and Propaganda of the ResistanceMovement in the Independent State of Croatia

Muraru Andrei (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University), Collaboration on Trial. Romanian Nationalists

vs. Communists in the Post War JusticeGogas Themistoklis (Epirus Institute of Technology), Linguistic Variety and Collaboration


11.30 - 13.30: Foreign Policy and International Relations IIChairman: Veremis Thanos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Makris-Staikos Petros St. (lawer-author), The Post-War Greek Frontiers in the Balkans and theForeign Office, 1943-1945. An Approach

Dordanas Stratos N. (University of Western Macedonia), Policy and War in the Post-WarBalkans. Germany and the Greco-Yugoslavian Issue at the Beginning of the 1950s

Djordjevi Jovanovi Jovanka(Institute for Balkan Studies of Serbian Academy of Sciences andArts), The Ideological Brotherhood of Greeks and Yugoslavs, 1948-1950

Ploumidis Spyros(National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), The New Megali Idea inGreece, 1943-1946: Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and Peasantist Nationalism


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Scientific Committee: IATRIDES John O. (Southern Connecticut State University), KALYVASStathis (Yale University), KONDIS Basil (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), MARANTZIDISNikos (University of Macedonia), MICHAILIDIS Iakovos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Organizing Committee: KALYVAS Stathis, MARANTZIDIS Nikos, PASCHALOUDI Eleni,SKOULIDAS Elias, TSEKOU Katerina

17.00 - 18.30: Parties and Political Institutions I

Chairman: Botsiou Konstantina(University of Peloponnese)Pettifer James (Oxford University), Hoxhas Partisans after 1944: A Guerilla Army versus a

Governing Party?

Kazamias Alexander(Coventry University), The Papagos Solution, 1948-1951: The Specter ofFar Right Dictatorship over the Greek Civil War

Kaba Hamit(Institute of History, Center for Albanological Studies, Tirana), The Fate of AlbanianMonarchy at the End of World War

18.30 - 19.00 Coffee Break19.00 - 20.30: Parties and Political Institutions II

Chairman: Sage Steven(United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumHolocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center)

Botsiou Konstantina(University of Peloponnese), A New Lease of Life: The Impact of War and

Civil War on the Greek Monarchy, 1941-1949Baltsiotis Lambros (Panteion University), Expulsions and Deprivations of Citizenship during

the 1940s Greece: The Reduction of the Internal Enemy

Pupuleku Nertila(University of Tirana), The Communist Party of Albania

sunday, June 3

09.00 - 11.30: Churches

Chairman: Bojinov Voin(Institute of History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)Tsironis Theodosis(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), The Church of Greece and the National

Intentions for the Operation of the Theological School of Thessaloniki, 1942

Ognyanova Irina(Institute of Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Catholic Churchand the Croatian Nationalism during World War II and the First Post-War Years, 1941-1953

Naxidou Eleonora (Democritus University of Thrace), Ecclesiastical Organization and NationalIdeology under a Communist Regime: The Case of the Peoples Republic of Macedonia, 1945-1967

Skura Gentiana(University of Tirana), The Role of Religious Institutions during the Reign ofKing Zog and World War II

Skoulidas Elias(Epirus Institute of Technology), Bishops in Exile: Orthodox Church of Albaniaand Greek Irredentism


12.00 - 14.00Round Table:Greek Policies regarding the Balkans in the 1940sChairman: Marantzidis Nikos (University of Macedonia)

Kondis Basil (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Hatzivassiliou Evanthis(Nationaland Kapodistrian University of Athens), Michailidis Iakovos(Aristotle University of

Thessaloniki)

Sponsors:JOHN S. LATSIS PUBLIC BENEFIT FOUNDATION UNIVERSIT Y OF MACEDONIA EPIKENTRO PUBLISHERS

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