Political, Social and Religious Dynamics in South East Europe, 12th Congress of South-East European Studies, Bucharest, September 2–7, 2019

The Romanian National Committee of AIESEE (Association Internationale d'Etudes du Sud-Est Europeen) has the pleasure to announce the main topic of the 12th Congress of our Association: “Political, Social and Religious Dynamics in South-East Europe”. The working languages will be French and English.

The congress will be held in Bucharest, between 2 and 7 September 2019 and will be opened to all members and collaborators of AIESSE, as well as to young researchers and PhD students.

Proposed Sessions

1. Religious Dynamics between the Pontos Euxeinos and the Aegean Sea in Antiquity
2. Urbanization in South East Europe in Roman times
3. The Religious Basis of Power in South East Europe
4. The Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans: Structural Change and Continuity
5. Networks in South East Europe: Politics, Trade, Culture (14th-17th Centuries)
6. The Black Sea and its Straits: a Permanency of South East European History
7. South East Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean
8. Devotion and Pious Donations to the Holy Places within the Ottoman Empire
9. Orthodoxy, from Empire to Church. Social Manifestations and Cultural Forms of Faith
10. Translations of Patristic Literature in South East Europe
11. Biblical Apocrypha in South East Europe. Variation and Transmission from Antiquity to Modern Times
12. The Printing Press in and for South East Europe
13. Between the Imperial Eye and the Local Gaze. Cartographies of South East Europe
14. Demetrius Cantemir’s South East Europe
15. South East Europe as Science. The Birth of a Scientific Discipline
16. Merchants in the Balkans: Family and Geographical Solidarities, Networks and Commercial Techniques
17. The Phanariote Literature
18. Between Czar, Kaiser and Sultan: New Approaches to the Age of Revolution in the Lower Danube and the Black Sea Area
19. On Rivers and Seas: Hydropolitical Conflict and Maritime Cooperation in South East Europe
20. The Formation of South-East European Nations and the National Unifications
21. The Migration. Human and Political Condition in South East Europe
22. From Ani to Romania: History, Tradition and Iconography
23. Georgia and South East Europe: Byzantine Heritage and Common Cultural Path
24. Religious Minorities in South East Europe
25. Experts, Technology, and State. Making the Modern Environment in South East Europe
26. New Perspectives on Balkan Linguistics
27. Exit from the Great War: South-East European Societies from 1918 to 1923
28. The Legacy of the Treaties of Paris (1919-1920), a Century after
29. Doctrines, Movements and Totalitarian Regimes in South East Europe in the 20th Century
30. Remigration and Transformation in Post-Socialist South-East Europe
31. The European Union, South-Eastern European State and Relations with Neighbours
32. Conserving the Cultural and Artistic Heritage in South East Europe
33. Perspectives on the Digitization of Documents in the South-East European Archives