Balkan Circle
The Balkan Circle is a monthly seminar series where lectures, presentations, exhibits, or open interactive dialogues will focus on any (and all) aspects of historical, political, economic, social and cultural phenomena in the (so-called) Balkans. The seminar is free and open to the public.
Balkan Circle is currently paused as the Center readjusts to funding and staff shortfalls. In the meantime, please check out our extensive library of past talks on our YouTube channel.
Past Speakers:
Recordings of the past presentors are available on our YouTube Channel.
Note: some recordings are unavailable due to speaker request or technical glitches.
- Albania
- Tracking Dead Bodies: Burials, Reburial and Regimes of Memory in Albania, 1930s–1970s • Klejd Këlliçi
- Greek Identity Politics in Communist Albania: State v. Family • Mary Shiraef
- Collective Trauma, Collective Memory, and the Ethical Response-ability of Research: A Case Study from Albania • Lori Amy
- The Orthodox Church of Albania Under Communism: Negotiating with an Atheist Regime • Artan Hoxha
- Tales from Albarado: Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania • Smoki Musaraj
- Legitimization vs. Delegitimization of Terror: Controversies on Transitional Justice and Communist Past in Albania• Enriketa Papa-Pandelejmoni
- An Ottoman Story Until the End: Reading Fan Noli’s Post-Mediterranean Struggle in America, 1906-1922• Isa Blumi
- Bosnia
- Mapping Unrepresentability: Traumatic Cartographies and Synesthetic Translation in Films of Besieged Sarajevo • Nebojša Todorović
- Can Heritage that Divides Us Reconcile Us?: Experiences of Heritage-Led Reconciliation after the Yugoslav Wars • Višnja Kisić
- Capitalism’s Cruel (Non)Fiction: An Immigrant Perspective on America • Masa Kolanović
- Global Connections of a Dalmatian Island • Florian Bieber
- Law of the Forest: Early Legal Governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the Inter-Imperial Transition between Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Rule, 1878-1901 • Iva Lučić
- Exhibiting Yugoslavia • Vladimir Kulić
- Reparative Tendencies in the Work of Jasna Žmak and Dana Budisavljević • Samantha Farmer
- New Moral and Affective Economy of Capitalism on the Ruins of Yugoslav Socialism: Three Cultural Patterns • Maša Kolanović
- Returning "Home": Bosniak Migrants in Turkey • Milena Ðorđević-Kisačanin
- The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire • Dominique Kirchner Reill
- Bulgaria
- Free to Hate: How Media Liberalization Enabled Right-wing Populism in Post-1989 Bulgaria • Martin Marinos
- Factotum and Fakir: The Translator of Bulgarian Literature into English • Angela Rodel
- Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain • Victor Petrov
- A Delicate Balancing Act: Turkish-Bulgarian Relations within the Context of Foreign and Domestic Politics | Emilia Zankina
- The Mosque at the End of the Road: The Geopolitics of Development Among Pomak and Bulgarian Turk Communities in Bulgaria |Chris Haley
- The Meaning of Money: Credit Institutions in Ottoman Bulgaria 18th – 19th Century • Hristiyan Atanasov
- Bulgarian/Macedonian Historical Disputes • Stefan Detchev
- Ottoman Borderlands: Islamic Modernism and The Making of Muslim Identities in Nineteenth-Century Dobruca • Catalina Hunt
- The Road to Socialism: Transport Infrastructure in Socialist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia (1945–1989) • Lyubomir Pozharliev
- Citizens Experiences and Expectations of European Union Enlargement: Discourses from Bulgaria, Serbia and North Macedonia • Antoaneta Dimitrova
- By Bread Alone? Hunger, Abundance, and the Politics of Grain in 20th Century Bulgaria• Mary Neuburger
- Raiders of the Past: Revisiting Department XIV of the First Main Directorate of Bulgarian State Security's Controversial Legacy • Kiril Avramov
- The Impact of European Integration on the Rights of Minorities in Bulgaria and in Greece • Nuri Tahir
- Radicalization in Bulgaria: Empirical Research on U.S. – Russia Competition in Eastern Europe • Iskren Ivanov
- Croatia
- Can Heritage that Divides Us Reconcile Us?: Experiences of Heritage-Led Reconciliation after the Yugoslav Wars • Višnja Kisić
- Losses and Meaning: A Long History of Transformation on the Case of Shipbuilding in Croatia | Ulf Brunbauer
- Capitalism’s Cruel (Non)Fiction: An Immigrant Perspective on America • Masa Kolanović
- Global Connections of a Dalmatian Island • Florian Bieber
- The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire • Dominique Kirchner Reill
- Exhibiting Yugoslavia • Vladimir Kulić
- Communist Monuments in Post-Socialist South-Eastern Europe: Removed, Dislocated or Resignified • Caterina Preda
- Reparative Tendencies in the Work of Jasna Žmak and Dana Budisavljević • Samantha Farmer
- New Moral and Affective Economy of Capitalism on the Ruins of Yugoslav Socialism: Three Cultural Patterns• Maša Kolanović
- Fragments of Utopia: Imaginary Archives in Dubravka Ugrešić’s Fiction • Vladislav Beronja
- Greece
- Greek Identity Politics in Communist Albania: State v. Family • Mary Shiraef
- Bulgarian/Macedonian Historical Disputes • Stefan Detchev
- The Left-Wing Populism of SYRIZA: Successes and Limitations During the 2010s • Lazaros Karavasilis
- The Impact of European Integration on the Rights of Minorities in Bulgaria and in Greece • Nuri Tahir
- Kosovo
- Macedonia
- Post-Colonialist Perspectives on Roma and Racializations in Ottoman Turkey and Macedonia • Sonia Seeman
- Bulgarian/Macedonian Historical Disputes • Stefan Detchev
- Citizens Experiences and Expectations of European Union Enlargement: Discourses from Bulgaria, Serbia and North Macedonia • Antoaneta Dimitrova
- North Macedonia: From Region to Nation • Alexander Maxwell
- The 1903 Report: Macedonia, Patriotic Education and the Case for Dialogue • Keith Brown
- Montenegro
- Can Heritage that Divides Us Reconcile Us?: Experiences of Heritage-Led Reconciliation after the Yugoslav Wars • Višnja Kisić
- Capitalism’s Cruel (Non)Fiction: An Immigrant Perspective on America • Masa Kolanović
- The Political and The Material: Ottoman-Habsburg Dispute over the Menschenmaterial in the post-Ottoman territories of the Kingdom of Serbia and Montenegro (1916-1917) • Jovo Miladinović
- Exhibiting Yugoslavia • Vladimir Kulić
- New Moral and Affective Economy of Capitalism on the Ruins of Yugoslav Socialism: Three Cultural Patterns• Maša Kolanović
- Romania
- A School Like No Other: The Queen Marie Institute for the Blind and Deaf-Mute in Cernauti • Maria Bucur
- How “Christian” were the Romanian Legionaries? Reassessing the Relationship Between Religion and Fascism in the Case of the Iron Guard • Ionut Biliuta
- Romanian Music on Oboe and Piano • Andrew Parker and Colette Valentine
- Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist Romania • Jill Massino
- Ottoman Borderlands: Islamic Modernism and The Making of Muslim Identities in Nineteenth-Century Dobruca • Catalina Hunt
- Architects, Archaeologists, and the Search for History in Bucharest's Old Town • Emanuela Grama
- Mimicking the Metropolis: Parisianization as a Path to Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle Bucharest • Keith Wagner
- Between Evola and Dugin: Traditionalism in a Romanian Iron Guard Manifesto • Jason Roberts
- A Contentious Politics Perspective on the Romanian Workers Movement at the beginning of the 20th Century (1905-1921) • Dan Draghia
- The Iron Guard Ecclesiology of Nae Ionescu and Mircea Eliade• Jason Roberts & Sergio Glajar
- Imagining the Global Fascist Revolution in a Balkan Periphery: The Legionary Movement in Interwar Romania • Raul Carstocea
- Serbia
- Challenges and Challengers to Illiberalism in Serbia and Hungary • Ferenc Németh
- Towards Postsecular Memory Studies: Remembering Suffering and Resistance: Memory Politics and the Serbian Orthodox Church • Karin Roginer Hofmeister
- Affect and Diplomacy: New and Old Friendships under Pressure from Conflict in Europe • Asya Metodieva
- EU, Western Balkans and Serbia: Stabilization to Stagnation? • Vladimir Petrović
- Can Heritage that Divides Us Reconcile Us?: Experiences of Heritage-Led Reconciliation after the Yugoslav Wars • Višnja Kisić
- Capitalism’s Cruel (Non)Fiction: An Immigrant Perspective on America • Masa Kolanović
- Citizens Experiences and Expectations of European Union Enlargement: Discourses from Bulgaria, Serbia and North Macedonia • Antoaneta Dimitrova
- The Political and The Material: Ottoman-Habsburg Dispute over the Menschenmaterial in the post-Ottoman territories of the Kingdom of Serbia and Montenegro (1916-1917)• Jovo Miladinović
- Exhibiting Yugoslavia • Vladimir Kulić
- Communist Monuments in Post-Socialist South-Eastern Europe: Removed, Dislocated or Resignified • Caterina Preda
- Reparative Tendencies in the Work of Jasna Žmak and Dana Budisavljević • Samantha Farmer
- New Moral and Affective Economy of Capitalism on the Ruins of Yugoslav Socialism: Three Cultural Patterns• Maša Kolanović
- Turkey
- Yugoslavia
- "War Minus the Shooting": Sport and Social Division in the former Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland, and the Basque Country • Blaze Joel
- Utopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People's Army • Tanja Petrovic
- Can Heritage that Divides Us Reconcile Us?: Experiences of Heritage-Led Reconciliation after the Yugoslav Wars • Višnja Kisić
- "I Am Jugoslovenka!” Feminist Performance Politics During & After Yugoslav Socialism | Jasmina Tumbas
- Capitalism’s Cruel (Non)Fiction: An Immigrant Perspective on America • Masa Kolanović
- Global Connections of a Dalmatian Island • Florian Bieber
- Law of the Forest: Early Legal Governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the Inter-Imperial Transition between Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Rule, 1878-1901 • Iva Lučić
- The Road to Socialism: Transport Infrastructure in Socialist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia (1945–1989) • Lyubomir Pozharliev
- The Feminist Challenge to the State in Yugoslavia • Zsofia Lorand
- Citizens Without Borders: Yugoslavia and its Migrant Workers in Western Europe • Brigitte Le Normand
- Communist Monuments in Post-Socialist South-Eastern Europe: Removed, Dislocated or Resignified • Caterina Preda
- Exhibiting Yugoslavia • Vladimir Kulić
- The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire • Dominique Kirchner Reill
- Reparative Tendencies in the Work of Jasna Žmak and Dana Budisavljević• Samantha Farmer
- New Moral and Affective Economy of Capitalism on the Ruins of Yugoslav Socialism: Three Cultural Patterns• Maša Kolanović
- Fragments of Utopia: Imaginary Archives in Dubravka Ugrešić’s Fiction• Vladislav Beronja
- Transnational
- Mapping Unrepresentability: Traumatic Cartographies and Synesthetic Translation in Films of Besieged Sarajevo • Nebojša Todorović
- Challenges and Challengers to Illiberalism in Serbia and Hungary • Ferenc Németh
- "War Minus the Shooting": Sport and Social Division in the former Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland, and the Basque Country • Blaze Joel
- The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders • Jacob Daniels
- Greek Identity Politics in Communist Albania: State v. Family • Mary Shiraef
- Affect and Diplomacy: New and Old Friendships under Pressure from Conflict in Europe • Asya Metodieva
- On the Colonial Origins of the Balkan Route • Piro Rexhepi
- EU, Western Balkans and Serbia: Stabilization to Stagnation? • Vladimir Petrović
- Post-Colonialist Perspectives on Roma and Racializations in Ottoman Turkey and Macedonia • Sonia Seeman
- Can Heritage that Divides Us Reconcile Us?: Experiences of Heritage-Led Reconciliation after the Yugoslav Wars • Višnja Kisić
- Sustainable Solutions from the Margins: Earth Houses in 21st-Century Eastern Europe • Dóra Mérai
- The Western Balkans after Europe: New Malign Factors • Jasmin Mujanović (coming soon)
- Bulgarian/Macedonian Historical Disputes • Stefan Detchev
- Capitalism’s Cruel (Non)Fiction: An Immigrant Perspective on America • Masa Kolanović
- Global Connections of a Dalmatian Island • Florian Bieber
- Law of the Forest: Early Legal Governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the Inter-Imperial Transition between Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Rule, 1878-1901 • Iva Lučić
- Romanian Music on Oboe and Piano • Andrew Parker and Colette Valentine
- The Left-Wing Populism of SYRIZA: Successes and Limitations During the 2010s • Lazaros Karavasilis
- Citizens Experiences and Expectations of European Union Enlargement: Discourses from Bulgaria, Serbia and North Macedonia • Antoaneta Dimitrova
- Russian, French, English: The Stories Language Books Tell • Elidor Mëhilli
- Addressing the Rule of Law in the Western Balkans • Marko Kmezić
- Roma Representation in Southeast European Cinema• Sunnie Rucker-Chang
- Residential-Defensive Towers in the Balkans from the Ottoman Era • Stefka Kuneva
- De Facto End of European Enlargement in the WB and the Effects of that on Regional and Continental Politics • Jasmin Mujanović
- Communist Monuments in Post-Socialist South-Eastern Europe: Removed, Dislocated or Resignified • Caterina Preda
- An Ottoman Story Until the End: Reading Fan Noli’s Post-Mediterranean Struggle in America, 1906-1922• Isa Blumi
- The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire • Dominique Kirchner Reill
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Non-recorded speakers:
- Archetypes of Moral Choice: Romania through the Lens of Values • Sabrina P. Ramet
- Power, Mis-representation, and Symbolic Violence • Ioanida Costache
- The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller: A "File Story" of Cold War Surveillance • Valentina Glajar
- Remembering the Past, Constructing the Present: History and Albanian Identity in North Macedonia • Vasiliki Neofotistos
- The Production of Space: A Balkan Perspective • Diana Mishkova
- Under the Radar: Hezbollah on the Balkans • Ruslan Trad
- Islamic Revivalism in Yugoslavia and the Crisis of Europe • Emily Greble
- Rival Power: Russia's Challenge to the West in the Balkans • Dimitar Bechev
- Nonaligned Modernism: Tracing Transnational Artistic Ties Between Second and Third Worlds • Bojana Videkanić
- Report from internship at the Balkan Civil Society Development Network in Skopje • Michael Kiel
- The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene • Theodora Dragostinova
- Kosovo: U.S. Bureaucracies Adaptation to Conduct Post-Combat Operations in a Dynamic Multi-National Environment • Jeremy Kasper
- "Come See Swords and Yatagans / and Quite a Few Bulgarian Heads": Constructing a Greek anti-Bulgarian Culture of War during the War Decade of 1912-22 • Charalampos Minasidis