October 11-12, 2018, Bucharest Convenor: Claudia-Florentina Dobre (Nicolae Iorga History Institute/Centre for Memory and Identity Studies‒CSMI) Scientific Committee: Ovidiu Cristea, Liliana Deyanova, Keith Hitchins, Karl Kaser, Sergiu Musteață, Maria Pakucs, Kristina Popova, Izabela Skórzyńska, Cristian Vasile Organising Committee: Claudia-Florentina Dobre, Dominik Gutmeyr, Adrian Stoicescu Keynote speakers: Stefan Dorondel, Victor Rizescu Conference Program October 11, 2018 9.00-9.30: Registration 9.30-10.00: Opening Address 10.00-11.00: Keynote Speaker Ștefan Dorondel, ‘Modernization’ of Nature and State Building in Southeast Europe Panel 1: 11.00-13.00 National Identity and Minorities in South-Eastern Europe Marek Figura, Anna Kuleszewicz, The Belarusian People’s Republic and its role in shaping the contemporary Belarusian national identity Alexander Nikolov, “Who is Bulgarian?: “Ethnic” vs. “Civic” and the specific case of the Pomaks and the Gagauz in Bulgaria Alla Kondrasheva, Stavros Parastatov, The Greeks of Tsalka: culture, language and the problems of preserving the identity Gumenâi Ion, The revival of the national identity of Armenians from Bessarabia in the context of the Romanian national project Lunch: 13.00-14.00 Panel 2: 14.00-16.00 Minorities and Trans-National Identities in the Black Sea Region Yana Volkova, Extraterritorial citizenship as a state-led reterritorialization project: the Romanian case Giorgos Antoniou, Sephardic, European, Ottoman, and Greek: Assimilation, Education and Salonica Jews (1915-1943) Wenjing Guo, Families from East Europe in Paris: Homeless or seasonal workers in mobility Claudia Mayr-Veselinovic, European Identity in a Nutshell? Vojvodina and the historical Banat Liviu Mihail Iancu, Equivocal ancient foreigners and building modern identities: Conceptual approaches of the 20th century Romanian archaeologists to the Greek colonists of Histria in the Black Sea Panel 3: 16.00-19.00 Identities in the Communist and Post-communist Times Cristofer Scarboro, Bit, Kultura and the Ambivalences of Consumer Desire in Late Socialist Bulgaria Mioara Anton, Identity dilemmas in socialist Romania. Young generation between ideological standards and Western temptation Jakub Wojtkowiak, The Contractual Identity of the Red Army Officers from Central and Eastern Europe During the Time of the “Great Purge” in the USSR Francesco Zavatti, Filtering and adapting foreign cultural influences in Ceausescu’s Romania Nicoleta Șerban, The plan of Rural Systematisation and the Hungarians Dinner: 19.30 October 12, 2018 10.00-11.00: Keynote Speaker Victor Rizescu, Refashioning the nation along vertical fault-lines: Romanian entanglements of corporatist projects and policies Panel 4: 11.00-13.00 Ethnic and Gender Identity Emilia Zankina, Women representation and identities in Southeastern Europe Izabela Skórzyńska, Microherstory as the Construction of the Intergenerational Identities of Women Living During the Communist Period. Petar Vodenicharov, Anastasiya Pashova, Bulgarian Muslim female identities against the atheistic totalitarian state Mirosław Szumiło, An Ethnic Group or a Nation? Problems of national identity of the Lemkos in Poland Lunch: 13.00-14.00 Panel 5: 14.00-16.00 Minorities and Symbolic Identities Saharneanu Eudochia, Sorin Scutelnic, New tendency toward identity’s reconfiguration between interculturalism and transculturalism Alla Paptova, Identity and Image of the Past: the Interrelation and Tendencies of Evolution Bernadette Jonda, The Sorbs – Germans national minority between extinction and rebirth Ekaterina V. Klimenko, From National Identity to State Legitimacy: Remembering the Revolution in Contemporary Russia Panel 6: 16.00-18.00 Visual and Literary Representations of Identities Marta Cobel-Tokarska, Literary description of Central Europe in the era of transformation and post-transformation: between familiarity and foreignness. Dominik Gutmeyr, The Visualization of linguistic identity. The Case of the Georgian Alphabet. Adrian Stoicescu, ‘Arrested’ otherness – identity building in the Romanian censored movies Emilia Cernăianu, Nostalgia for the oriental elements. The role of visual art in making of the national identity. Panel 7: 18.00-19.00 Migrations and Identities Cojocaru Violeta, The concept of transnationalism and migratory processes Sergiu Musteață, The Republic of Moldova: Migration vs. Immigration Tarna Dina, Multiplicity and transformations of personal identity in...