BISA Annual Conference 2023: Panels, Roundtables and More!
We have six amazing panels and roundtables at this year’s BISA Annual conference. We include a list of these below for those of you attending. Please do come along for these great conversations and to support your fellow working group members.
We will also have our AGM at the conference on Wed 21st June at 12:15-13:15 in Don, Hilton. Join us to hear about our future plans and to share your thoughts about the working group. Do remember to grab some BISA-provided lunch before heading to the room! If you can’t make it to the meeting, feel free to say hi to Katarina, Lydia, or Tony around the conference.
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We plan to head to the BISA Reception on Wednesday 21st June at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. For those who want to walk over together, we will meet outside the Marriot Hotel at 18:20.
NB: There is a South East Europe Working Group roundtable on ‘The Eurovision Song Contest and International Politics’ directly before this which is conveniently located in Drummond, Marriott!
BISA 2023 South East Europe Working Group Schedule:
Wednesday 21st June
09:00 → 10:30:
Panel / Seeing South East Europe, Drummond, Marriott
Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group
Conveners: Miranda Loli (TU Darmstadt) , Lydia Cole (University of Sussex)
Chair: Catherine Baker (University of Hull)
- Selly joins the Romanian Land Forces: The Visual and Humour Politics of Military Recruitment on NATO’s Eastern Flank, Sorana-Cristina Jude (Newcastle University)
- The Art of Witness: Interventions in the Visual Political Economy of Wartime Sexual Violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lydia Cole (University of Sussex)
- Seeing and Listening Otherwise: Rave Aesthetics and the Multisensorial Politics of/in War, Maria-Adriana Deiana (Queen's University Belfast)
- Telling the Story they Want to Hear? Outside Influences on Artists in Moldova, Giovanna Di Mauro (Defence Academy, KCL)
12:15 → 13:15
Conference event / South East Europe Working Group AGM, Don, Hilton
16:45 → 18:15
Roundtable / The Eurovision Song Contest and International Politics, Drummond, Marriott
Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group
Chair: Katarina Kusic (University of Bremen)
Participants: Catherine Baker (University of Hull) , Maria Adriana Deiana (Queen’s University Belfast), Zoë Jay (University of Helsinki) , Bohdana Kurylo (UCL)
Thursday 22nd June
09:00 → 10:30
Panel / The politics of nature and landscapes in South East Europe I, Kinloch, Hilton
Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group
Convener: Katarina Kusic (University of Bremen)
Chair: Michiel Piersma (University of Liverpool)
Discussant: Katarina Kusic (University of Bremen)
- Hydropolitics in South-Eastern Europe: landscapes of socio-ecological contestations, Saska Petrova (University of Manchester)
- The ‘greening’ of protest politics: explaining the significance of environmental frames in the Rio Tinto protests in Serbia, Sabina Pačariz (King's College London)* , Filip Ejdus (University of Belgrade)* , Adam Fagan (King's College London)* , Mate Subašić (King's College London)
- Geopolitical positioning of environmentalists in Belgrade, Serbia: Environmental politics between imaginative geographies and material constraints, Ognjen Kojanić (University of Cologne)
- "Green are fields, not mines": the case of lithium mining and resistance in Serbia, Nina Djukanović (University of Oxford)
13:15 → 14:45
Panel / The politics of nature and landscapes in South East Europe II, Ewing, Marriott
Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group
Conveners: Katarina Kusic (University of Bremen) , Michiel Piersma (University of Liverpool)
Chair: Lydia Cole (University of Sussex)
Discussant: Roxani Krystalli (University of St Andrews)
- Transformative justice as if the post-Yugoslav space, land, landscapes, and its peoples mattered, Daniela Lai (Royal Holloway) , Sladjana Lazić (University of Innsbruck)*
- Neglected beaches, felled trees and the political question of the 'natural' in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Michiel Piersma (University of Liverpool)
- Invisible Transformations: How tourism disrupts the Sarajevo cityscape yet leaves no trace, Freya Cumberlidge (Central European University)
- Rural dreams of energy transition: Governing human-nature relations in (post-)socialism, Katarina Kusic (University of Bremen)
Friday 23rd June
13:15 → 14:45
Panel / The Dynamics of Regional Identity-building in the Foreign Policies of the Western Balkans. Rethinking Agency and Embedded Peripherality, QE1, Marriott
Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group
Conveners: Antony Horne (University of Portsmouth) , Lydia Cole (University of Sussex) , Katarina Kusic (University of Bremen)
Chair: Katarina Kusic (University of Bremen)
- The Duplicity of the EU’s Normative Europeanisation: The Faultlines of Serbia’s EU Trajectory, Antony Horne (University of Portsmouth)
- From ideology-oriented to interest-driven foreign policy: Turkey’s pragmatic turn in the Western Balkans, Jan P. W. Niemiec (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
- Regional economic integration in the Western Balkans between cooperation and contestation: the importance of external influence on the process, Miloš Hrnjaz (University of Belgrade)* , Aleksandar Milošević (University of Belgrade)
- Europe as a Bricolage: Complex Transformation of the Western Balkans, Marsela Sako (University of Tirana)* , Sokol Lleshi (University of New York Tirana)
16:45 → 18:15
Panel / Space, security, and foreign policies in South East Europe, Endrick, Hilton
Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group
Convener: SEEWG Working group
Chair: Lydia Cole (University of Sussex)
- Towards a new global paradigm (beyond western liberalism), Michail Theodosiadis (Charles University in Prague)
- The consequences of the EU negotiations on Turkish authoritarianisation, Massimo D'Angelo (Loughborough University London)
- The regional component of the far-right vote: An insight from rural Greece, Sofia Tipaldou (UC Berkeley)