Conference topics

This meeting aims to demonstrate how the observation of Southeast European societies can feed research on these fundamental questions. Paper proposals contributing to this discussion may be submitted on the following themes, and we strongly encourage approaches that multiply the spatial and temporal scales of observation, as well as those that combine several prisms of analysis, using intersectional approaches.

The Balkans in the global world: the area studies in question: 

• Connecting and comparing the "Balkans", "Southeast Europe", and "Eastern Europe”
• Neighborhoods revisited: coexistence and pluralism
• Political and cultural transfers and regional integration 

Connections through the lens of intersectionality:

• Class and social (re)stratification
• Gender and sexuality
• Religion and spirituality 
• Nation, ethnicity, race 
• Age and generation

Migrations, mobility, movements:

• Bodies, routes, supports: the materiality of circulations 
• Migratory flows and diasporas
• Crises, conflicts and contestations
• Populations and demographic dynamics

Cities and recomposed ecologies:

• Urban and rural life in the Balkans 
• Places and environments, atmospheres and environment 
• Humans and non-humans

Aesthetics, arts and forms of cultural expression:

• Institutions and cultural manifestations 
• Circulations and social practices of the arts
• Research-creation, sciences and arts
• Networks, borders and virtual circulations 
• Memories, legacy and connected heritage 

Communications, networks, circulation of practices and models:

• Economies, businesses and exchanges
• Infrastructures and transport 
• Care practices and health