The Nature of Tolerance and Intolerance in the
Balkans
Conference pre-session of the International Union
of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences on Humankind/Nature Interaction:
Past, Present and Future
Florence, Italy
July 5, 2003 - July 12, 2003
The term the Balkans usually connotes negative characteristics: filthiness,
passivity, untrustworthiness, disregard of women, plotting, unscrupulousness,
opportunism, indolence, superstition, laziness, sluggishness, unprincipled and
over zealous bureaucracy, and so on. In many European languages to balkanise
means to break up into smaller and often hostile units. After recent political
and armed conflicts in the region, the Balkans again became a marker of
intolerancy. However, during the centuries, the region was characterised with an
unprecedented level of tolerancy - at least regarding religion and welfare of
the people. It only changed when European powers started to interfere and
support "national liberating" movements. As a matter of fact, it was
Europeanisation (ie. destroying of the Ottoman and Muslim heritage, especially
its architecture) that brought on the fore intolerancy within the newly
established states and between them.
The aim of the workshop is to stress the long tradition of cultural diversity in
the Balkans and to bring together experts in historical anthropology of the
region and anthropologists and ethnologists, engaged in recent studies of the
region.
Language of the conference: English
Convenors: Rajko Mursic and Bozidar Jezernik (Department of Ethnology and
Cultural Anthropology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Abstracts may be submitted in one of the following ways:
On-Line Abstract Form
Abstracts may be submitted online through official web site.
E-mail
Abstracts may be submitted via electronic mail. Abstracts should be attached to
the email message using Rich Text Format Word 7,Word 97 or 2000 for Windows and
Word 98 for Macintosh. The message title should clearly indicate the presenting
author's name. If submitting multiple abstracts, they must be sent as a separate
e-mail message then the title should indicate that these are separate abstracts.
One copy of the abstract must be sent to the Session's Organizer and the other
to the Scientific Secretariat, stating the Session for which it applies.
Please note:
Last day of submission of abstract: December 31, 2002.
Deadline for early pre-registration: December 31, 2002.
Submission/Contact Address Submission/Contact Address:
Rajko Mursic (Session Organizer)
Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology,
University of Ljubljana
P.O.Box 580
1001 Ljubljana,
Slovenia.
Email: rajko.mursic@guest.arnes.si
Email:
abstracts@icaes-florence2003.com
