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20th anniversary workshop - Between continuities and ruptures: Exploring violence and resistance in the SEE

Liverpool, UK
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BISA South-East Europe Working Group (SEE) and the University of Liverpool are organising a workshop to mark the 20th anniversary of the SEE.

 Over the past twenty years, since the formal emergence of the SEE Working Group, a range of international dynamics, developments, and continuities — and the knowledge generated by exploring them — have contributed to our understanding of International Relations as a discipline and world politics as a practice. At the same time, we recognise that much of the knowledge on SEE has been shaped by part of the region’s violent history, often reproducing harmful stereotypes through extractivist research practices. On this occasion, in Liverpool, we seek to reflect on the role of South East Europe in problematising such dominant narratives across IR and other related disciplines.

Programme

10:15-10:30 - Welcome and Introductions

Facilitator: Mate Subašić, University of Liverpool

 

10:30-12:00 -  Panel I

Facilitator: Mate Subašić, University of Liverpool

  • Danilo Burzanović, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
    Orthodox Realignment: Conspiracy Theories and Alternative Medicine as Anti- Modern Manifestations
  • Nina Djukanović, University of Oxford
    “We Live the Violence, We Resist the Violence:” Violent and Toxic Politics Between a School Shooting and Lithium Mining in Serbia

  • Vanessa Pupavac, University of Nottingham
    The Lost Art of Translation in International Relations and Representations of War in South East Europe

     

12:00-13:00 -  Lunch break
 

13:00-14:30 - Roundtable: 20 Years of BISA South East Europe Working Group

Facilitator: Elena B. Stavrevska, University of Bristol

  • Catherine Baker, University of Hull
  • Daniela Lai, Royal Holloway, University of London Denisa Kostovicova, LSE
  • Katarina Kušić, University of Vienna
  • Lydia Cole, University of Sussex

  • Maria-Adriana Deiana, Queen’s University Belfast

     

14:30-15:00 - Coffee break 

 

15:00-16:30 - Panel II

Facilitator: Nina Djukanović, University of Oxford

  • Josipa Šarić, University of Kent
    Klečavci: A Rupture in Croatian Veteran Masculinities or Continuity of Gender- based Violence?
  • Islam Jusufi, Independent Researcher
    Violence and Deaths as a Result of Albania’s Land Ownership Insecurity

  • Filip Balunović, University of Belgrade
    Transnational Mobilizations: Yugoslavism in Diaspora as a Platform for Solidarity Activism

     

16:30-17:00 - Closing remarks

Registration will close on Monday 24 March 2025. 

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