11 October 2012 Thursday
9:00-11:00
WELCOME ADDRESSES
İsmail YÜKSEK, President of Yıldız Technical University
Mehmet HACISALİHOĞLU, Director of BALKAR
Katrin BOECKH, Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS)
KEYNOTES
Fikret ADANIR
Ethnonationalism, Irredentism, and Empire: Notes on the Last "Turkish War" in Europe
Wolfgang HÖPKEN
At the Brink of "Modernity"? The Balkan Wars in 20th Century European Warfare
11:30-13:15
PANEL 1: DIPLOMACY (Chair: Aydın Babuna)
Bruno Korea GAJSKI
European Diplomacy and the Balkan Wars
Gül TOKAY
Balkan Wars and Great Powers through the Eyes of the Ottoman Diplomats: An Interpretation
M. Hakan YAVUZ
The Connection between War-Making and Nationalism in the Balkans
Konrad CLEWING
The War that Did Not End in 1912/13: Violence and Ethnic Politics in Southwestern Macedonia and Southern Albania
Michael HESSELHOLT CLEMMESEN
The Distant Storm and the Final Preparations for the Great War in Northern Europe
15:30-17:15
PANEL 2: DEMOGRAPHIC/SOCIAL ENGINEERING (Chair: Ömer Çaha)
Katrin BOECKH
Hopes and Illusions of Pan-Slavism: Pan-Slavic Actors and their Mobilizing Efforts during the Balkan Wars
Mehmet HACISALİHOĞLU
Negotiations and Agreements for Population Transfers in the Balkans (from the Beginning of the 19th Century until 1912)
Edvin PEZO
Violence and Population Movements in the Balkan Wars and after. Dynamics and Entanglements of States and Societies in Periods of Crisis
Vera GOSEVA / Natasha KOTLAR-TRAYKOVA
The Position of the Muslim Population in Salonica and its Environment during the Balkan Wars 1912-1913
12 October 2012 Friday
9:00-10:45
PANEL 3: SOLDIERS (Chair: Taha Akyol)
Richard HALL
The Thrakian Theater of War
Mehmet BEŞİKÇİ
Perceiving the Defeat: The Failure of Ottoman Manpower Mobilization in the Balkan Wars and its Reform
Claudiu-Lucian TOPOR
Forgotten Lessons of the Balkan War: the Romanian Army between the Bulgarian Campaign (1913) and the Disaster of Turtucaia (1916)
Spyridon TSOUTSOUMPIS
Culture, Combat and the Barbarisation of Warfare among Greek Soldiers
11:15-13:00
PANEL 4: CIVILIANS, WOUNDED, INVALIDS (Chair: Heike Karge)
Oya DAĞLAR MACAR
The British Red Cross Assistance in the Balkan Wars
Mile BJELAJAĆ
Treatment of Civilians, Wounded and Captured Enemies by the Serbian Army 1912 – 1913
Iakovos D. MICHAILIDIS
“Collateral Damages”: The Fate of Civilians in Macedonia
Eyal GINIO
Charity and Nationalism in the Home Front: Jewish Philanthropy during the Balkan Wars
14:30-16:15
PANEL 5: MEMOIRS OF VICTORY AND DEFEAT
(Chair: Gencer Özcan)
Stefan ROHDEWALD
Figures of National Religious Memory and Their (Ab)Uses in and after the Balkan Wars as a History of Entanglements
Alexey TIMOFEEV
Serbian Chetniks in the Balkan Wars: Cultural, Social and Political Tradition of Irregular Warfare in Serbia
Dubravka STOJANOVIĆ
The Mould of War Remembrance. The Balkan Wars in Serbian History Textbooks 1932-2011
Eva FRANTZ
Local Albanian and Serbian Experiences and Perceptions of the First Balkan War 1912/13 in Kosovo
16:45-18:30
PANEL 6/1: PERCEPTIONS (Chair: Elçin Macar)
Nicolas PITSOS
Marianne Staring at the Balkans on Fire: French Views and Perceptions of the 1912-13 Conflicts
Stjepan MATKOVIĆ
The Croatian Perception of the Balkan Wars and the Idea of Yugoslav Integralism
Günther SANDNER
Deviant Perceptions: Leon Trotsky and Otto Neurath on the Balkan Wars (1912-13)
Sabine RUTAR
At the Doorstep to the Balkans: Increased Warship Building and Fear of War in Trieste
13 October 2012 Saturday
9:00-10:45
PANEL 6/2: PERCEPTIONS
(Chair: Sabine Rutar)
Amir DURANOVIĆ
„An Outlaw and Robber Nation“. The Image of the Albanians in the Serb Press in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Balkan Wars
Florian KEISINGER
Uncivilised Wars in Civilised Europe? The Perception of the Balkan Wars 1912/13 in English, German, and Irish Newspapers and Journals
Svetlozar ELDAROV / Biser PETROV
Bulgarian Historiography on the Balkan Wars: Stages and Trends
Eugene MICHAIL
The Shifting Memory of the Balkan Wars in Western Historiography: 1912-1999
11:15-11:45
CLOSING SPEECH
Heike KARGE
The Wars that Knew No Post-War: Placing the Balkan Wars in the History of Wars of the 20th Century
FINAL DISCUSSION