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12TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES
BUCHAREST, 2-6 SEPTEMBER 2019

Political, Social and Religious Dynamics in South-Eastern Europe
Dynamiques politiques, sociales et religieuses dans le Sud-Est européen
PROGRAMME
BUCHAREST 2019
Organised by
The Romanian National Committee

of South-East European Studies ‒ Romanian Academy
Association Internationale d’Études du Sud-Est européen
Partners
University of Bucharest
Library of the Holy Synod
National Archives of Romania
The National Museum of Art of Romania
The National Museum of History of Romania
The Romanian Peasant Museum
New Europe College
George Enescu Festival
National University of Music, Bucharest
Sponsors
Alexandrion Foundation
Dar Development Association
The Scientific Committee
Acad. Ioan-Aurel Pop (President), Acad. Victor Spinei,

Acad. Dan Berindei, Acad. Grigore Brâncuş, Acad. Sabina Ispas,
Andrei Pippidi, Ionel Cândea, Emilian Popescu, Elena Siupiur
The Organising Committee
Andrei Timotin (President), Constantin Ardeleanu, Daniel Cain,

Archim. Policarp Chițulescu, Ovidiu Cristea, Ioana Feodorov, Sergiu Iosipescu,
Simona Nicolae, Ernest Oberländer-Târnoveanu,
Florin Țurcanu, Cătălina Vătășescu
Secretarial Office
Dana Caciur, Radu Dipratu, Mihail-George Hâncu, Oana Iacubovschi,

David Neagu, Ștefan Petrescu
Institute for South-East European Studies, Academy Palace
Address: 13, Calea 13 Septembrie, Bucharest; e-mail: [email protected]
Board of the International Committee

of the Association Internationale d’Études du Sud-Est Européen
President: Alexandre Kostov, Honorary President: Luan Omari

Vice-presidents: † Dušan T. Bataković, Guy Burgel, Wolfgang Dahmen,
Melek Delilbaşi, Francesco Guida, Taxiarchis Kolias, Konstantin Nikiforov
Honorary Vice-president: † Vasilka Tăpkova-Zaïmova
Secretary-General: Răzvan Theodorescu
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
The opening and the closing ceremonies, as well as most of the sessions of the
Congress will be held at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest, 36-46,
Mihail Kogălniceanu Blvd. Other sessions will be held at the Library of the Holy
Synod (29, Mitropolit Antim Ivireanul Str.) and at the National Archives of
Romania (49, Regina Elisabeta Blvd.). The Registration desk is located at the
entrance in the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest and will be open
Sunday, September 1st, from 16.00 to 19.00, from Monday to Thursday,
September 2-5, from 9.00 to 16.00, and Friday, September 6, from 9.00 to 12.00.
During the Congress, participants will have free lunch at the

University restaurant, close to the Faculty of Law, where most of the congress
sessions will take place, from Tuesday, September 3 to Friday, September 6,
between 12.00 and 14.00. Free tickets to be used in the University restaurant
are enclosed in the Congress pack. The participants in the sessions at the
Library of the Holy Synod will have free lunch in a restaurant close to the venue.
Monday, September 2, a cocktail and a lunch will be offered in the Faculty of
Law of the University of Bucharest, at the first floor, starting from 12.00.
The keynote lectures will take place, with some exceptions, in the
morning, and will last 40 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion and a
20 minutes break. Each paper is allotted 20 minutes and every two papers are
allotted 10 minutes for discussion. The abstracts of the papers are available as
a book in the Congress pack, and are also posted on the Congress website. All
rooms are equipped with a laptop and a projector. Wi-Fi networks will be
available in the Congress venues: in the Faculty of Law of the University of
Bucharest, in the Library of the Holy Synod, and in the National Archives of
Romania.
CONGRESS EVENTS
EXHIBITIONS
Romania and South-Eastern Europe. Historical witnesses
from the collections of the National History Museum of Romania
The National History Museum of Romania
Organiser: Ernest Oberländer-Târnoveanu
Opening: Wednesday, September 4, 2019, at 13.00
Byzantine Manuscripts from the Collections

of the Library of the Romanian Academy
Library of the Romanian Academy
Organiser: Gabriela Dumitrescu
Opening: Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Floating Spaces. Maps of the Danube Region 1650-1800

Romanian National Library
Concept: Josef Wolf, Wolfgang Zimmermann. Organiser: Rudolf Gräf
Opening: Monday, September 2, 2019, at 19.00
MUSEUMS
The participants will have free admission to the National Museum of Art (49-53,
Calea Victoriei). Guided tours of the Gallery of Romanian Medieval Art are
provided by the Museum’s specialists. Guided tours may also be organized at
the George Severeanu Museum (26, Henri Coandă Str.).
ROUND TABLE
Round table on Claudiu Turcitu’s book, Constantin Basarab Brâncoveanu.
Portrait of a ruler and retrospective of an era (1654-1688), 2 vols. (Bucharest,
DAR Publishing, 2018-2019). Speakers: Paschalis Kitromilides, Andrei Pippidi,
Paolo Odorico, George Lazăr, Cristian Anița, Claudiu Turcitu.
Library of the Romanian Academy, Aula (“Ion Heliade Rădulescu” Hall)
Wednesday, September 4, 2019, 18.00-19.00
BOOK FAIR
A book exhibition will be organised during the Congress in the Faculty of Law
of the University of Bucharest, where most of the sessions of the Congress will
take place. The national Committees of AIESEE and the Academies of Sciences
and their institutes from more than ten countries will display and sell their
publications. International and domestic publishers will also exhibit and sell
their books.
MUSICAL PROGRAM
The participants are invited to two musical events organised by The National
University of Music from Bucharest (UNMB):
Tuesday, September 3, 19.00, Concert Studio of the UNMB (33, Știrbei Vodă,
Str.): Taraful Bucureștilor Band.
Thursday, September 5, 19.30, Concert Studio of the UNMB (33, Știrbei Vodă,
Str.): Byzantine choir Psalmodia of the UNMB. Conductor: Nicolae Gheorghiţă.
EXCURSIONS
The Monasteries of Bukovina (Humor, Voroneţ, Moldoviţa, Suceviţa, Dragomirna,

Sf. Ioan cel Nou de la Suceava), 3-day tour
Date: September 7-9
The Monasteries of Oltenia (Cozia, Govora, Bistriţa, Hurez, Polovragi, Surpatele),

2-day tour
Date: September 7-8
The registration for excursions will take place during the registration at the
congress (at the Registration desk, in the Faculty of Law).
Registration
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law

Sunday, September 1st, 16.00-19.00
Monday-Thursday, September 2-5, 09.00-16.00
Friday, September 6, 09.00-12.00
Monday, September 2
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law, Aula Magna
11.00-12.00
Opening of the Congress, Inaugural addresses
Alexandre Kostov, President of AIESEE, Corresponding member of the

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Mircea Dumitru, Rector of the University of Bucharest, Corresponding member
of the Romanian Academy
Răzvan Theodorescu, Secretary-General of AIESEE, Vice-president of the
Romanian Academy
Andrei Timotin, Director of the Institute for South-East European Studies,
President of the Romanian Committee of AIESEE
12.00-14.00
Cocktail and lunch

Monday, September 2
Networks in South-Eastern Europe: Politics, Trade, Culture

(14th-17th Centuries) – 1st Part / Réseaux dans le Sud-Est européen:
politique, commerce, culture (XIVe-XVIIe siècles) – 1e partie
Convenor: Ovidiu Cristea

Aula Magna
14.00-14.50 Keynote lecture

Andrei Pippidi (Institute for South-East European Studies, Bucharest)
Intellectual Networks in Pre-modern South-Eastern Europe
14.50-15.10 Break
Chair: Ovidiu Cristea
15.10-15.30 Paola Avallone, Raffaella Salvemini (Istituto di Studi sulle Società

del Mediterraneo, CNR, Napoli)
From the Republic of Ragusa to the Kingdom of Naples. Brief Notes on the Events
of the Radulovich Family (16th-17th centuries)
15.30-15.50 Daniel Dumitran (“1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia)

Concerning the History of an Absence: The Community of the Greeks from Alba
Iulia
15.50-16.00 Discussions
16.00-16.20 Break
16.20-16.40 Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann (Bayerische Akademie der

Wissenschaften, DFG-Projekt “Johannes Zacharias Aktuarios”, München)
Postbyzantine “Iatrosophistic” Migration
16.40-17.00 Agon Rrezja (Institute of National History, Skopje)

Today's Kosovo, an Important Political and Commercial Area of Albanian Nobles
during the 14th-15th Centuries
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17.10-17.30 Joanna Bencheva (“St Kliment Ohridsky” University, Sofia)

Trading with Foodstuffs in the Balkans in the 14th-15th century
17.30-17.50 Irena Bogdanović (Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Slavic and Greek translations of pastoral plays Aminta and Pastor fido
17.50-18.10 Anita Paolicchi (University of Florence)

Reliquaries in South-Eastern Europe: between Byzantine Tradition and Stylistic
Innovation
New Perspectives on Balkan Linguistics – 1st Part

Nouvelles perspectives sur la linguistique balkanique – 1e partie
Convenors: Cătălina Vătăşescu, Vasilka Alexova,
Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova

Constantin Stoicescu Hall

Victor A. Friedman (University of Chicago)
& Catherine Rudin (Wayne State College)
Double Determination in Balkan Slavic and Albanian
14.50-15.10 Break
Chair: Victor A. Friedman
15.10-15.30 Petya Asenova (Université “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia) &

Christina Markou (Université de Komotini)
Grammaticalisation et modalité des formes du futur balkanique
15.30-15.50 Ekaterina Tarpomanova, Bilyana Mihaylova (“St Kliment Ohridski”

University, Sofia)
Future in the past and conditional in the Balkan languages
10 Political, Social and Religious Dynamics in South-Eastern Europe
15.50-16.10 Artur Karasiński (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun)

On the issues of Albanian word formation
16.30-16.50 Break
Chair: Helmut Schaller
16.50-17.10 Irena Sawicka (Institute of Slavic Studies, Warsaw)

Convergent phonetic phenomena in the Central Balkanic area
17.10-17.30 Dana-Mihaela Zamfir (“Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti” Institute of

Linguistics, Bucharest), Oana Uță Bărbulescu (University of Oxford / University
of Bucharest)
Diachronic and diatopic variation in the inflection and phonetics of the Romanian
nouns frâu ‘bridle’, grâu ‘wheat’, brâu ‘girdle’, pârâu ‘brook’ and their Albanian
correspondents
Empires’ Legacy in the Balkans: Romania and Bulgaria

in the XXth Century / L’héritage des empires dans les Balkans:
Roumanie et Bulgarie au XXe siècle
Convenors: Alexandre Kostov, Cristina Diac

Petre Antonescu Hall

Alexandre Kostov (Académie Bulgare des Sciences)
L’héritage habsbourgeois et ottoman dans les Balkans:
le cas des chemins de fer
14.50-15.10 Break
Chair: Alexandre Kostov

15.10-15.30 Dobrinka Parusheva (University of Plovdiv / Institute for Balkan

Studies & Centre of Thracology, Sofia)
From Imperial to National Elite. Dynamics of the Romanian and Bulgarian
Political Elite in the Late 19th - Early 20th Century
15.30-15.50 Cristina Diac (National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism,

Bucharest)
A Linguistic Babylon or Competing Linguistic Imperialisms? Foreign Languages
Spoken by the First Romanian Communists
16.00-16.20 Break
Chair: Cristina Diac
16.20-16.40 Aneta Mihaylova (Institute for Balkan Studies & Centre of

Thracology, Sofia)
Crossing the Borders of Former Empires: Patrick Leigh Fermor and His Journey
Though the Balkans in the 1930s
16.40-17.00 Carmen Stratone (National Institute for the Study of

Totalitarianism, Bucharest)
Between the French Legacy and the Soviet Imperialism. The Romanian Culture in
the 1950s and its Instrument – The National Institute for Promoting Romanian
Culture Abroad
17.10-17.30 Ana Maria Cătănuș (National Institute for the Study of

“The Light Comes Always from the East". Patterns of Soviet Cultural Influences in
Communist Romania
17.30-17.50 Vasile Buga (National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism,

Bucharest)
Soviet Obstructions to the Romanian Proposal for Extending the Balkan
Cooperation in the 1970s
17.50-18.10 Alexandru Murad Mironov (National Institute for the Study of

Elaborating on a Limit of the Socialist Model. Pensions, Retirees, Retirement
Systems in Post-war Romania
Translations of Patristic Literature in South-Eastern Europe

Les traductions de la littérature patristique
dans le Sud-Est européen
Convenors: Zamfira Mihail, Lora Taseva
Chair: Zamfira Mihail
14.00-14.20 Aneta Dimitrova (“St Kliment Ohridsky” University, Sofia)

Traces of an Unknown Old Church Slavonic Translation of the Homily on
Repentance, Continence, and Virginity (CPG 7555)
14.20-14.40 Petra Stankovska (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts)

The Homilies of Origenes and John Chrysostom in Croatian-glagolitic Breviaries
of 13th-15th Century
14.50-15.10 Lora Taseva (Institute for Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology,
Sofia)
In Transfiguration Domini by Proclus of Constantinople (CPG 5807) in the
Medieval South Slavonic Literature
15.10-15.30 Ekaterina Dikova (Institute for Balkan Studies & Centre of

Thracology, Sofia)
The Sermon on the Transfiguration of Christ (CPG 3939) Ascribed to St. Ephrem
the Syrian in South Slavonic Tradition: The Construction of Rhetorical Rhythm
15.30-15.50 Zamfira Mihail (Institut d’Études Sud-Est Européennes, Bucarest)

Les écrits d’Éphrem le Syrien en slavon (XIVe – XVIIIe s.). Versions renouvelées
16.10-16.30 Break
Chair: Lora Taseva
16.30-16.50 Georgi Minczew (University of Łódz, Waldemar Ceran Research

Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East
Europe)
Osservazioni sulla traduzione slava di Panoplia dogmatica di Eutimio Zigabeno
16.50-17.10 Jürgen Fuchsbauer (University of Innsbruck)

Embedded Theology. Slavonic Translations of Patristic Literature Contained in
Greek Compilations
17.20-17.40 Malgorzata Skowronek (University of Łódz, Waldemar Ceran

Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and
South-East Europe)
On Authorities and Epistles. Church Fathers in Anti-Heretic Polemics in Medieval
Slavic Codices
17.40-18.00 Daniar Mutalâp (University of Bucharest)

The Romanian Contribution to the Pre-existing Philokalic Tradition: a Manuscript
from 1769
18.10-18.30 Book presentation by Jürgen Fuchsbauer

L. Sels, J. Fuchsbauer, V. Tomelleri and I. de Vos (eds.), Editing Mediaeval Texts
from a Different Angle: Slavonic and Multilingual Traditions. Together with
Francis J. Thomson's Bibliography and Checklist of Slavonic Translations
(Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 276 / Bibliothèque de Byzantion 19),
Leuven – Paris – Bristol, CT: Peeters, 2018
The Black Sea and Its Straits: a Permanency

of South-East European History / La Mer Noire et ses détroits:
une permanence historique sud-est européenne
Convenors: Sergiu Iosipescu, Ionel Cândea

Constantin Dissescu Hall
Chair: Matei Cazacu
14.00-14.20 Radu Ștefan Vergatti (University ‟Valahia”, Târgoviște)

Un problème d’urbanisme antique sur les bords de la mer Noire : l'assainissement
de Tomis aux IIe-VIe siècles
14.20-14.40 Șerban V. Marin (National Archives of Romania, Bucharest)

The Venetian Crusading Routes towards the Straits (11th-13th Centuries)
14.50-15.10 Sergiu Iosipescu (Institut National du Patrimoine, Bucarest)

Navigation et cartographie de la mer Noire (XIIIe- XVe siècles). Étude de cas:
le basin nord-ouest pontique
15.10-15.30 Ionel Cândea (Académie Roumaine, membre correspondant)

Sur le Danube maritime : la ville de Brăila/Ibrail et ses fortifications (milieu du
XVIe–début du XIXe siècle)
15.40-16.00 Break
Chair: Sergiu Iosipescu
16.00-16.20 Matei Cazacu (CNRS, Centre d'Études Turques, Ottomanes,

Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques, Paris)
Mare clausum versus Mare liberum – permanences historiques et héritages
impériaux
16.20-16.40 Mirella Vera Mafrici (University of Salerno)

Diplomacy and Trade between Mediterranean and Black Sea during the
Napoleonic Wars
16.50-17.10 Maria Sirago (Liceo Classico “Jacopo Sannazaro”, Napoli)

New Spaces for the Development of Trade in Southern Italy: the Black Sea (1787
– 1860)
17.10-17.30 Dragi Gjorgiev (Institute of National History, Skopje)

Migration from Macedonian towns to the Black Sea region in the 19th century
(according to Ottoman Sources)
17.30-17.50 Raluca Verussi Iosipescu (National Institute of Heritage,

Bucharest)
Between Sea and Danube – Sulina and the Achievements of the European
Commission of the Danube
Georgia and South-Eastern Europe: Byzantine Heritage

and Common Cultural Path / La Géorgie et le Sud-Est européen:
héritages byzantins et parcours culturel commun
Convenor: Nino Kavtaria

Room 213
Chair: Nino Kavtaria
14.00-14.20 Nino Kavtaria (Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Center of

Manuscripts, Tbilisi)
The Diversity of Artistic Traditions in the Decoration of Georgian-Greek Liturgical
Manuscript (разнояз. 0.I.58)
14.20-14.40 Eka Dughashvili (Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Centre of

Old Georgian Translation Tradition in the Byzantine Cultural context
14.50-15.10 Ketevan Tatishvili (Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Center of

Hymns in Honour of Georgian Saints who Carried out Activities in Byzantium
15.10-15.30 Mariam Nemsadze (Akaki Tsereteli State University / Gelati

Theological Academy and Seminar, Kutaisi), Natalia Parjanadze (Gelati
Theological Academy and Seminary, Kutaisi)
The Contribution of Monastery of Iveron at Mount Athos in the
Byzantine-Georgian Literary and Political Relations
Devotion and Pious Donations to the Holy Places

within the Ottoman Empire / Dévotion et donations pieuses
aux Lieux Saints de l’Empire Ottoman
Convenor: Radu G. Păun

Room Online
Chair: Radu G. Păun
16.00-16.20 Lidia Cotovanu (Institut d’Histoire « N. Iorga », Bucarest)

Métoques avant les métoques. Dédicaces de terres valaques aux monastères du
Mont-Athos (XIVe – XVIe siècles)
16.20-16.40 Elias Kolovos (University of Crete, Department of History and

Archaeology)
Orthodox Patronage across South-East Europe under the Ottomans: the Case of
Mount Athos, mid-16th century
16.40-17.00 Radu G. Păun (Centre d’Étude des Mondes Russe, Caucasien et

Centre-Européen, CNRS – EHESS, Paris)
Pour une histoire sociale des relations roumano-athonites. Quelques pistes de
recherche
17.20-17.40 Augustin Guriță („Al. I. Cuza” University, Jassy)

The Poverty-saving Assets. The Metochia of the Patriarchate of Alexandria in
Moldavia and Wallachia (18th and 19th centuries)
17.40-18.00 Maria Litina (National Bank Cultural Foundation, Centre for

History and Palaeography)
The contribution of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem to the
education of Greek communities’ in the Balkans: the case of the metochion of the
Holy Sepulchre in Philippoupolis (1885-1888)

Room Online
15.00-16.00 Book presentation

Presentation of the new series “Bibliothèque de l’Institut d’études sud-est
européennes” (Brăila, Istros Publishing House), coord. Andrei Pippidi and
Andrei Timotin, 7 vols., 2018-2019
N. Iorga, Histoire des États balkaniques à l’époque moderne, édition par Andrei
Pippidi et Andrei Timotin, Istros, Brăila, 2018, 380 p. (BIESEE 1)
Nicolae-Șerban Tanașoca, Études byzantines et balkaniques, édition par Oana
Iacubovschi et Andrei Timotin, Istros, Brăila, 2018, 314 p. (BIESEE 2)
Viorel Panaite, News in England on the Great Turkish War (1683-1699), Istros,
Brăila, 2018, 200 p. (BIESEE 3)
Virgil Cândea, Histoire des idées en Europe du Sud-Est (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles),
édition par Ioana Feodorov et Mihai Ţipău, Brăila, Istros, 2018, 349 p.
(BIESEE 4)
Maria Ana Musicescu, Tradition et innovation dans l’art du Sud-Est européen du
XVe au XIXe siècles, édition par Oana Iacubovschi, Istros, Brăila, 2019, 274 p.
(BIESEE 5)
Elena Siupiur, Die deutschen Universitäten und die Bildung der Intelligenz in
Rumänien und die Ländern Südosteuropas im 19. Jahrhundert, Istros, Brăila,
2019, 266 p. (BIESEE 6)
Un siècle d’études sud-est européennes en Roumanie. Bilan historiographique,
édition par Andrei Timotin, Istros, Brăila, 2019 (BIESEE 7)
Tuesday, September 3
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law, Aula Magna

8.50-9.00 Inaugural address
Ioan-Aurel Pop, President of the Romanian Academy
The Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans: Structural Change

and Continuity / La conquête ottomane des Balkans:
changement structurel et continuité
Convenor: Oliver J. Schmitt

Aula Magna

Oliver J. Schmitt (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
The Ottoman conquest of the Balkans – theoretical
models of interpretations
9.50-10.10 Break
Chair: Oliver J. Schmitt
10.10-10.30 Mariya Kiprovska (“St. Kliment Ohridsky” University, Sofia)

Agents of Conquest: Frontier Lords’ Extended Households as Actors in the
Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans
10.30-10.50 Grigor Boykov (“St. Kliment Ohridsky” University, Sofia)

Conquered by Sword, Subdued by Charity? Geospatial and Socio-Economic
Analysis of Islamic Pious Foundations’ Landed Possessions in Ottoman Bulgaria
11.00-11.20 Emir O. Filipović (University of Sarajevo)

Vis major, Act of God or Natural disaster? Ottoman Military Threat as Exemption
from Contract Liability during the Conquest of the Balkans (14th-15th centuries)
11.20-11.40 Antonis Athanasopoulos (University of Ioannina)

Ottoman Invasions in the Southern Balkans: The Case of Peloponnese
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Oliver J. Schmitt
14.00-14.20 George Terezakis (University of Ioannina)

The Transformation of Thessaly to Early Ottoman Sanjak of Tirhala (Trikala)
(12th-15th c.)
14.20-14.40 Iassen Vanev (South-West ‟Neofit Rilsky” University,

Blagoevgrad)
Political and commercial implications of the legal actions of the last Byzantine
emperors
14.40-15.00 Snejana Rakova (Institute for Balkan Studies, Sofia), Elena Kostova
(Institute for Historical Studies, Sofia)
Ragusa (Dubrovnik), Venice and the Ottomans: regulation of the trade relations
before the fall of Constantinople
15.20-15.40 Break
15.40-16.00 Neven Isailović (Institute of History, Belgrade)

Croatian Noble Refugees in the Late 15th and 16th Century Banat and
Transylvania - Preliminary Findings
16.00-16.20 Aleksandar Krstić (Institute of History, Belgrade), Adrian Magina

(Muzeul Banatului Montan, Reșița)
The Belmužević family – the fate of a noble family in South-Eastern Europe in the
turbulent period of the Ottoman conquest (15th -16th centuries)
The Religious Rhetoric of Power in Byzantium

and South-Eastern Europe – 1st Part / La rhétorique religieuse du pouvoir
à Byzance et dans le Sud-Est européen – 1e partie
Convenors: Ivan Biliarsky, Andrei Timotin


Paul Magdalino (University of St Andrews, Emeritus)
The Religious Rhetoric of Byzantine Political Prophecy
10.50-11.10 Break
Chair: Paul Magdalino
11.10-11.30 Andrei Timotin (Institut d’études sud-est européennes, Bucarest)

La rhétorique religieuse du pouvoir à l’époque méso-byzantine : quelques
réflexions
11.30-11.50 Florin Filimon (University of Münster)

On Holy Men and Imperial Decision-Making: Hagiography, Narrative Strategies,
and Rhetoric of Power
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Andrei Timotin
14.00-14.20 Thomas Daiber (Institut für Slavistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität,

Gießen)
Allegory and Genealogy in Arguments with Jews in the 9th c. The Case of Vita
Constantini-Cyrilli
14.20-14.40 Adrian Pirtea (Freie Universität Berlin)

The Power of Books. Arethas of Caesarea as a Scholar and Manuscript Collector
14.50-15.10 Mihail Mitrea (Newcastle University)

Spiritual and Imperial Authority in the Hagiographical Works of Philotheos
Kokkinos
15.10-15.30 Simona Nicolae (Institut d’Études Sud-Est Européennes, Bucarest)

L’Empire des hommes agonise, vive l’Empire des Cieux ! Politique et religion dans
les écrits de Manuel Paléologue
15.40-16.00 Break
Chair: Lidia Cotovanu
16.00-16.20 Tudor Teoteoi (Institut d’Études Sud-Est Européennes, Bucarest)

Les qualités du souverain orthodoxe vues à travers l’Histoire de Jean VI
Cantacuzène et les Chroniques slavo-roumaines
16.20-16.40 Andrei Prohin (National Museum of Ethnography and Natural

History, Chișinău)
The Sovereign’s Dream as Historical Parable in the Byzantine Chronographs from
the Romanian Principalities (15-16th c.)
16.40-17.00 Vladimir T. Vasilev (South-West University “Neofit Rilski”,

Blagoevgrad)
The Emperor versus Barbarians: Military tactics in Early Byzantium
South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediteranean – 1st Part

Le Sud-Est Européen et la Méditerranée orientale – 1e partie
Convenor: Ioana Feodorov

Bernard Heyberger (EHESS, Paris)
Pour une histoire connectée des chrétiens orientaux
(XVIIe -XVIIIe siècles)
10.50-11.10 Break
Chair: Bernard Heyberger
11.10-11.30 Vera Tchentsova (Maison française d’Oxford / UMR 8167 Orient et

Méditerranée, Paris)
“Moscow, Queen City, Trembled All Entirely While Welcoming You...”: About the
Second Visit of Patriarch Macarius of Antioch to the Russian Tsar’s Court
11.30-11.50 Carsten-Michael Walbiner (Research Center for Oriental

Christianity, Catholic University Eichstaett)
Traces of Russian (Church) History in the Writings of Macarius b. Al-Zaʿīm
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Carsten Walbiner
14.00-14.20 Mihai Ţipău (Institut d’Études Sud-Est Européennes, Bucarest)

Byzance et les Grecs dans le récit de voyage de Paul d’Alep
14.20-14.40 Sofia Moiseeva (St Tikhon’s Orthodox University, Church Research

Center “Orthodox Encyclopedia”, Moscow)
Hagiographical Renaissance as a part of Melkite Renaissance : Macarius b.
al-Zaʿīm’s contribution
14.40-15.00 Stavros S. Panayiotou (Neapolis University, CY)

Re-examining Hagiographical Sources on the Arabo-Byzantine Intercultural
Relations in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean
15.15-15.40 Break
15.40-16.00 Constantin A. Panchenko (Moscow State University)

Romanians and the Revival of Palestinian Monasticism in the Early Ottoman
Period
16.00-16.20 Charbel Nassif (Leiden University)

Les miniatures des empereurs byzantins et des sultans ottomans dans le
manuscrit Ad-Durr Al-Manzum de Yussef Al-Musawwer
16.30-16.50 Ioana Feodorov (Institute for South-East European Studies,

Bucharest)
Was Peter Movila’s Confession of the Orthodox Faith a Source for the Teachings
on the Orthodox Faith in the 1752 Beirut Psalter?
16.50-17.10 Benedict Valentin Vesa (Faculty of Orthodox Theology,

‟Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca)
Theology and Education in the Church of Persia
The Phanariot Literature / La littérature phanariote

Convenors: Lia Brad Chisacof, Jacques Bouchard


Peter Mackridge (University of Oxford)
Enlightenment or entertainment?
The intolerable lightness of Phanariot literature, 1750-1800
9.50-10.10 Break
Chair: Jacques Bouchard
10.10-10.30 Lia Brad Chisacof (Institute for South-East European Studies,

Bucharest)
Looking anew at the Phanariot Literature
10.30-10.50 Jacques Bouchard (Université de Montréal)

Un microcosme carcéral à l'image de l‘Empire ottoman dans les Loisirs de
Philothée de Nicolas Mavrocordatos
11.00-11.20 Ileana Mihăilă (Université de Bucarest, Faculté des Langues et

Littératures Étrangères / Institut d’Histoire et de Théorie Littéraire)
Nicolas Mavrocordato, lecteur de Neagoe Basarab
11.20-11.40 Marian Ciucă (Bucharest)

The Public Image of an XVIIIth century Prince in statu nascendi. Nicolaos
Maurocordato as reflected in his correspondence
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Andrei Eșanu
14.00-14.20 Andrei Eșanu, Valentina Eșanu (Institute of History, Chișinău)

The Romanian Principalities and the Ottoman Empire in the area of interests
of Dimitrie Cantemir after his establishment in Russia, 1711-1723
14.20-14.40 Ștefan Șuteu (‟Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca)

Iordache Ruset (c. 1650-1720) – The Cantemirian Leopard
14.40-15.00 Alexandru Madgearu (Institute for Political Studies of Defence and

Military History, Bucharest)
Cantemir, the first modern historian writing on the Romanian-Bulgarian state
founded by the Asan brothers
15.20-15.40 Break
Chair: Lia Brad Chisacof
15.40-16.00 Anca Mihaela Sapovici (Institut de Linguistique ‟Iorgu Iordan – Al.

Rosetti”, Bucarest)
Particularités linguistiques de quelques écrits de Mathieu, Métropolitain de Myre
16.00-16.20 Ion Andrei Ţârlescu (Library of the Romanian Academy,

Bucharest)
A less known autographed manuscript of Nicolae Milescu (Spatarion). Greek
Manuscript B.A.R. 3 (580)
16.30-16.50 Mihaela Marin (‟Iorgu Iordan −Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics,

Bucharest)
Emblematic figures in the Romanian chronicles of the eighteenth century:
St. Constantin Brâncoveanu and the ruler Nicholas Mavrocordatos
16.50-17.10 Charalampos Minaoglou (National and Kapodistrian University,

Athens)
An Ottoman embassy returning from its mission: Ahmed Azmi Effendi traveling
through Central and South-East Europe in 1792
The Balkans in the Age of New Imperialism and beyond / Les Balkans dans
l’Âge du nouvel impérialisme et au-delà
Convenor: Vojislav Pavlović


Florin Țurcanu (Institut d’études sud-est européennes /
Université de Bucarest)
Nicolae Iorga, l'impérialisme au début du XXe siècle
et « le droit à la vie des petits États »
10.50-11.10 Break
Chair: Vojislav Pavlović
11.10-11.30 Konstantin Dragas (Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade)

Mazzini between national democracies, imperialism and anti-imperialism: a
review of contradictory interpretations of Giuseppe Mazzini’s political thought
and question of Balkans
11.30-11.50 Slobodan G. Markovich (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political

Science)
The Discourse of Balkanism in Britain, in the Age of Imperialism (1870-1918)
12.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.20 Anja Nikolic (Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade)

Austro-Hungarian Cultural “Imperialism” in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Case of
Kosta Hörmann and Provincial Museum
14.20-14.40 Dušan Fundić (Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade)

Austro-Hungarian Imperial Project in Albania and its Rivals (1912-1914)
14.50-15.10 Dragan Bakić (Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade)

“Less of Two Evils”: Milan Stojadinović, Albania and Yugoslav-Italian Relations,
1935-1939
15.10-15.30 Rastko Lompar (Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade)

Drang nach (Süd-)Osten: Reassessing the German Efforts to Establish a Foothold
in Yugoslavia 1935-1941
15.40-16.00 Break
16.00-16.20 Boris Milosavljević (Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade)

Balkan “Propaganda Wars”. Participant and Interpreter: Historian Slobodan
Jovanović
16.20-16.40 Vojislav Pavlović (Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade)

US decisive influence on the issue of the Second World War in the Balkans
From Ani to Romania: History, Tradition and Iconography

D’Ani en Roumanie: histoire, tradition et iconographie
Convenors: Karen Khachatryan, Anna Leyloyan-Yekmalayan

Room 213
Chair: Anna Leyloyan-Yekmalayan
11.00-11.20 Lusine Sargsyan (Matenadaran Mesrop Mashtots Research

Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Yerevan)
Armenian Gospel from Surkhat dating back to the 14th century
11.20-11.40 Mariam Vardanyan (Yerevan State University)

Armenian Altar Crosses in Romanian-Armenian Church Tradition
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Anna Leyloyan-Yekmalayan
14.00-14.20 Seyranush Manukyan (Yerevan State University)

The Art of Icons of Romanian-Armenians
14.20-14.40 Levon Chookaszian (Yerevan State University)

Artworks as witnesses of the presence of the Armenians in Romania
Chair: Karen Khachatryan
14.50-15.10 David Neagu (University of Bucharest)

The Kingdom of Cilician Armenia between Ilkhans and Latins: 1289-1307
15.10-15.30 Beatrice Tolidjian (Washington D.C.)

Ponderings on the art of construction and facade embellishment in Ottoman
Macedonia (4 churches and 2 mosques). Resonances from medieval Armenia:
artistic reciprocity
15.30-15.50 Hasmik Stepanyan (Institute of Oriental Studies, Yerevan)

Hakob Sirouni's two historical fundamental books: a. Polis and its role; b. Pages
from Manuk Bey's life
Networks in South-Eastern Europe: Politics, Trade, Culture

(14th-17th Centuries) – 2nd Part / Réseaux dans le Sud-Est européen:
politique, commerce, culture (XIVe-XVIIe siècles) – 2e partie
Convenor: Ovidiu Cristea

Room Online
Chair: Cristian Luca
10.00-10.20 Dimitris Georgakopoulos (University of Ioannina)

Serbs and Albanians in Epirus, according to the Author of the Chronicle of
Ioannina (14th -15th cent.)
10.20-10.40 Ioannis Kioridis (Hellenic Open University, University of Zaragoza)

The Image of the Greek in the Catalonian Chronicle of Ramon Muntaner (1st half
of the 14th century)
10.50-11.10 Break
11.10-11.30 Katarzyna Niemczyk (University of Silesia, Katowice)

Antemurale Christianitatis. South-Eastern policy of the Kings of Poland in the
First Half of the 16th century
11.30-11.50 Paulina Grobelna-Mazurek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)

Entre l’Europe de l’Ouest et du Sud-Est. Absolutum dominium – respublica –
tyrannis dans la République Nobiliaire de Pologne (XVIe-XVIIe siècles). De la
notion à l’imaginaire par l’usage politique
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Mária Pakucs
14.00-14.20 Sabina Madgearu (University of Bucharest, Faculty of History)

Castle Networks of the East in Illuminated Manuscripts Produced in Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Century France
14.20-14.40 Vladimir V. Mihajlović (Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade)

How to Write an Encyclopedia: L. F. Marsigli and his Network
14.50-15.10 Break
15.10-15.30 Manuela Dobre (University of Bucharest, Faculty of History)

The Role of the Past in shaping the 15th Century Byzantine Identity
15.30-15.50 Dana Caciur (“N. Iorga” Institute of History, Bucharest)

Diplomacy and Coexistence in 16th century Dalmatia. The Regional Officials of
Venice and the General Requirements of Neighbourliness with the Ottoman
Empire
15.50-16.10 Florin Nicolae Ardelean (“Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca)

The Role of Serbs in the Conflict between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans in
Banat and Transylvania (1551-1552)

Room Online
16.45-18.00 Round table on Andrei Pippidi’s book,

Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe (Hurst 2012).
Speakers: Andrei Pippidi, Oliver J. Schmitt, Ovidiu Cristea,
Radu G. Păun, Robert Born
New Perspectives on Balkan Linguistics – 2nd Part

Nouvelles perspectives sur la linguistique balkanique – 2e partie
Convenors: Cătălina Vătășescu, Vasilka Alexova,
Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova

Room 212
Chair: Joachim Matzinger
9.00-9.20 Helmut W. Schaller (University of Marburg)

Turkish influence on Balkan languages: The case of loan-words
9.20-9.40 Thede Kahl (University of Jena / Austrian Academy of Sciences,

Vienna)
Assessing the sociolinguistic vitality of Meglenoromanian (Meglen Vlach) in
Turkey. New field researches
Chair: Petya Asenova, Vasilka Alexova
9.50-10.10 Klimova Ksenia (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of

Philology)
The vocabulary of the Modern Greek folk mythology on the Balkan background:
the ethnolinguistic aspect
10.10-10.30 Adnana Boioc (“Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics

/ University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters)
The Slavic-Balkan Contact: The Case of Lipovan Romanian
10.30-10.50 Cătălina Vătăşescu (Institut d’Études Sud-Est Européennes,

Bucarest)
Un livre important dans le développement des études concernant l’union
linguistique balkanique : Th. Capidan, Limbă şi cultură (Bucarest, 1943)
Chair: Cătălina Vătăşescu, Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova
11.10-11.30 Joachim Matzinger (Balkanforschung der ÖAW, Vienna)

Albanian and Romanian convergence area
11.30-11.50 Mihaela-Mariana Morcov (Institut de Linguistique “Iorgu

Iordan-Al. Rosetti”, Bucarest)
Noms de personnes en albanais et en roumain
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Irena Sawicka
14.00-14.20 Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova (Institute of Bulgarian Language,

Sofia)
The Memory of Language: Historicisms and Archaisms in the 14th century Original
Works of Patriarch Euthymius
14.20-14.40 Cristian Moroianu, Ion Giurgea, Monica Vasileanu (Institute of

Linguistics „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti”, Bucharest)
The project of a new Etymological Dictionary of Romanian (Dicţionarul
Etimologic al Limbii Române – DELR)
14.40-15.00 Alexandra Evdokimova (Institute of Linguistics, Moscow)

Cappadocian Dialect and the Orthographical, Morphological and Lexical
Computer Description
Between Czar, Kaiser and Sultan: New Approaches to the Age

of Revolution in the Lower Danube and the Black Sea Area
Entre Tsar, Kaiser et Sultan: nouvelles approches de l’âge de la Révolution
au Bas-Danube et dans la région de la Mer Noire
Convenor: Konrad Petrovszky

Room 212
Chair: Konrad Petrovszky
16.00-16.20 Salvatore Bottari (University of Messina)

The Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774 and its impact in the Black Sea and in the
Mediterranean Area
16.20-16.40 Kyrillos Nikolaou (Université européenne de Chypre)

Nouveaux éléments de présence de bateaux de guerre russes à Chypre pendant la
guerre russo-turque de 1768-1774, sur la base des archives françaises inédites
16.50-17.10 Akitsu Mayuzumi (University of Tokyo)

Voyvoda and khan as Diplomatic Issues in Russo-Ottoman Relations from the
Perspective of the History of the Black Sea Region in the Eighteenth Century
17.10-17.30 Mariya Shusharova (Institute of Balkan Studies & Center of

Thracology, Sofia)
Between Demonstration of Power and Beheading: Networks of Alliances and
Contention of the Provincial Elite (Ayans) of the South-East Danube Areas during
the Late 18th Century
On Rivers and Seas: Hydropolitical Conflict and Maritime Cooperation

in South-East Europe / Sur les fleuves et sur les mers:
conflit hydropolitique et coopération maritime dans le Sud-Est européen
Convenors: Constantin Ardeleanu, Stelu Șerban

Room 215
Chair: Stelu Șerban
16.00-16.20 Luminita Gatejel (Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südost-

Europaforschung, Regensburg)
Exploring the Lower Danube: Cartographic and Commercial Expeditions of the
Habsburg Monarchy in the Late-18th Century
16.20-16.40 Constantin Ardeleanu (The Lower Danube University, Galați / New

Europe College, Bucharest)
The Making of an Epistemic Community of Experts in Inland Navigation. The Case
of the Maritime Danube in the Mid-19th Century
Chair: Constantin Ardeleanu
16.50-17.10 Daniel Cain (Institute for South-East European Studies, Bucharest)

A Trouble Maker Border: Danube as a Source of conflicts between Romania and
Bulgaria (1879-1919)
17.10-17.30 Stelu Șerban (Institute for South-East European Studies,

Bucharest)
“Using” the Danube. Levees on the Romanian and Bulgarian Banks in the Interwar
Period
Wednesday, September 4
Orthodoxy, from Empire to Church. Social Manifestations

and Cultural Forms of Faith / L’Orthodoxie, de l’empire à l’Eglise.
Expressions sociales et formes culturelles de la foi
Convenor: Petre Guran

Aula Magna

Paschalis Kitromilides (National and Kapodistrian University in Athens)
Faith and the challenges of worldly power: what is left of Orthodoxy?
9.50-10.10 Break
Chair: Paschalis Kitromilides
10.10-10.30 Mircea Grațian Duluș (Central European University, Budapest)

Defining Orthodoxy in the Norman Kingdom of Sicily: The Case of Philagathos of
Cerami and Neilos Doxapatres
10.30-10.50 Snezhana Filipova (“S. Cyril and Methodius” University, Faculty of

Philosophy, Skopje)
The Precious Gifts by the Byzantine Emperors to the Ohrid Archbishopric
11.00-11.20 Petre Guran (Institute for South-East European Studies, Bucarest)

Unity of Faith and Ecclesiastical Hierarchy: the Gordian Knot of the Orthodox Idea
11.20-11.40 Ion Croitoru (Université « Valahia », Târgoviște)

L’importance du Tome synodal du février 1347 pour l’Orthodoxie du monde
byzantin et post-byzantin
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Petre Guran
14.00-14.20 Iulia Nițescu (Institute for the Research in the Humanities,

University of Bucharest)
The Question of Sofiia Palaiologina’s Religious Identity in Moscow
14.20-14.40 Andreea Iancu (Bucarest)

Le tierçage successoral (τριμοιρία): un héritage byzantin à l’épreuve de la
pratique juridique (Valachie, XVIIIe-début du XIXe siècle)
14.50-15.10 Elisabeta Negrău (“George Oprescu” Art History Institute,

Bucharest)
Art Connections between Romanian Principalities, Epirus and Western
Macedonia in the 17th Century: Contexts and Outgrowths
15.10-15.30 Dragoș Gh. Năstăsoiu (Center for Medieval Studies, National

Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Moscow)
Cross-credal Devotion: Catholic Saints Venerated by the Orthodox
15.40-16.00 Break
16.00-16.20 Irina Sedakova (Institute for Slavic Studies, Moscow)

Orthodox Values in Bulgarian Traditional Culture of 19th-21st centuries: an
Ethno- and Sociolinguistic Approach
16.20-16.40 Lusine Gushchyan (Musée ethnographique de la Russie), Valentina

Fedchenko (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
Le phénomène du pèlerinage chrétien à l’exemple des cultures arménienne et
grecque
16.50-17.10 Mira Markova (“St. Kliment Ohridsky” University, Sofia)

Saint Anna’s Cult in Bulgaria – Cultural Transformations and Contemporary
status (in the Light of Orthodox Dogma and Traditional Practices)
17.10-17.30 Miruna Tătaru-Cazaban (Université de Bucarest, Faculté des

Sciences Politiques)
« Conscience orthodoxe » et pluralité de l’Europe selon Alexandru Duțu
Exit from the Great War: South-East European Societies

from 1918 to 1923 / Sortir de la Grande Guerre:
les sociétés sud-est européennes de 1918 à 1923
Convenors: Florin Țurcanu, Vojislav Pavlović, Daniel Vatchkov


Vojislav Pavlović (Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade)
The Quest for Peace in the Balkans 1918-1923
9.50-10.10 Break
10.10-10.30 Claudiu-Lucian Topor (“Al.I. Cuza” University of Iași, Faculty of

History)
Repudiated Biographies and Controversial “Stories”: Romanian
“Collaborationists” and “Traitors” at the End of the War (1918)
10.30-10.50 Daniel Cain (Institute for South-East European Studies, Bucharest)

Citizenship, Ethnicity and Political Rights in Greater Romania. The Dobruja case
(1919)
11:00-11:20 Florin Țurcanu (Institut d’Études Sud-Est Européennes, Bucarest

/ Université de Bucarest)
Expérience du rapatriement et témoignage sur la captivité : la sortie de guerre

des prisonniers roumains en Bulgarie (1918-1919)
11.20-11.40 Irina Achim (Institut d’Archéologie « Vasile Pârvan », Bucarest)

L'archéologie roumaine à l’épreuve de l’histoire : le cas de Dobroudja pendant et
après la Grande Guerre
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Florin Țurcanu
14.00-14.20 Daniel Vatchkov (Institut d’Études Historiques, Sofia)

Les idées paneuropéennes dans la société bulgare durant la période entre les deux
guerres dans le contexte du statu quo de Versailles
14.20-14.40 Moritz A. Sorg (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Historisches

Seminar)
Remains of an Old Order? Monarchy, Internationality and the Legacies of the First
World War
14.40-15.00 Victor Rizescu (University of Bucharest)

Departures of Syndical Politics and Legacies of Guild Organization: Intermingling
Venues of Social Policy in Romania after the Great War
15.20-15.40 Valentin Kitanov (South-West University “Neofit Rilski”,

Blagoevgrad)
Tobacco, Legislation, Politics in Bulgaria after the First World War
15.40-16.00 Silvana Rachieru (University of Bucharest, Faculty of History)

From Imperial Residence to a Republican City: Constantinople and its
Cosmopolitan Society after the Great War
16.10-16.30 Break
Chair: Daniel Vatchkov
16.30-16.50 Dobrinka Parusheva (University of Plovdiv / Institute of Balkan

Studies, Sofia)
In the Mirror of the Satire: The End of the WW I in caricatures
16.50-17.10 Roumiana L. Stantcheva (Université « St. Kliment Ohridski », Sofia)

Le sentiment religieux et le scepticisme dans le roman sud-est européen des
années d’après-guerre
17.20-17.40 Christina Vamvouri (State School Advisor for the region of Drama),
Vassilis Messis (Teacher of the Greek language and History to the Secondary
Education)
The Influence of the Crisis of Values during the Years 1918-1923 to the Poetic
Language of the Mid-War Greek Generation
17.40-18.00 Maria Zoubouli (Université de Ioannina)

Un peintre à la guerre : Paolo Rodocanachi entre 1918 et 1923
18.00-18.20 Georges Kokkonis (Université de Ioannina)

Musique populaire et nationalisme à Smyrne à la veille du désastre
The Religious Rhetoric of Power in Byzantium

and South-Eastern Europe – 2nd Part / La rhétorique religieuse du pouvoir
à Byzance et dans le Sud-Est européen – 2e partie
Convenors: Ivan Biliarsky, Andrei Timotin

Chair: Radu G. Păun
10.00-10.20 Smilja Marjanović-Dušanić (Université de Belgrade, Faculté de

Philosophie)
Le rituel liturgique et la rhétorique du pouvoir dans la Serbie médiévale
10.20-10.40 Ivan Biliarsky (Institut de Recherches Historiques, Sofia)

La rhétorique du pouvoir dans l’œuvre littéraire du patriarche Euthymius de
Tarnovgrade
10.50-11.10 Break
11.10-11.30 Sashka Georgieva (Institute for Historical Studies, Sofia)

Marriage Law and Diplomatic Marriages in Mediaeval Bulgaria
11.30-11.50 Ivelin Argirov Ivanov (“St. Cyril and St. Methodius” University,
Veliko Tarnovo)
Looking South: The Bulgarian Medieval Policy Towards Constantinople and
Thessaloniki (8th – 14th c.)
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Ivan Biliarsky
14.00-14.20 Marian Coman (“N. Iorga” Institute of History / University of

Bucharest)
Political Theory and Biblical References in Wallachian Charters (late 15th c. –
early 16th c.)
14.20-14.40 Radu G. Păun (Centre d’Étude des Mondes Russe, Caucasien et

Centre-Européen, CNRS – EHESS, Paris)
Prince contre son gré. Le refus du pouvoir dans la tradition politique du monde
orthodoxe
14.50-15.10 Lidia Cotovanu (Institut d’Histoire « N. Iorga », Bucarest)

« Les deux corps » du prince Matei Basarab (1632-1654) et la question de
l’autonomie des laures princières de Valachie
15.10-15.30 Elena Firea (Central University Library, Cluj-Napoca)

Holy Relics and the Legitimization of Princely Power in Moldavia (15th to 17th
centuries)
15.40-16.00 Break
Chair: Marian Coman
16.00-16.20 Nikolas Pissis (Freie Universität Berlin)

Religious Rhetoric and Imperial Legitimisation: Russian Tsars and Greek
Hierarchs in the 17th century
16.20-16.40 Robert Born (University of Leipzig)

Icons of the Virgin in the Service of the Habsburgs. Remarks on the Function of
Images of Eastern Tradition in the Context of the Turkish Threat in East Central
Europe
16.40-17.00 Radu Nedici (University of Bucharest, Faculty of History)

Wondrous Icons Between Politics and Religion: Building Legitimacy among the
Romanians in Transylvania in a Time of Internal Power Struggles and
Confessional Dissent

Paul Magdalino, Andrei Timotin (ed.), Savoirs prédictifs et techniques
divinatoires de l’Antiquité tardive à Byzance (La Pomme d’or, 2019)
South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediteranean – 2nd Part

Le Sud-Est Européen et la Méditerranée orientale – 2e partie
Convenor: Ioana Feodorov
Chair: Vera Tchentsova
09.00-09.20 Georgiana Focșineanu (University of Bucharest)

Politeness and Impoliteness in Paul of Aleppo’s travel journal (1652-1659)
09.20-09.40 Yulia Petrova (“A. Krymsky” Institute of Oriental Studies, Kyiv)

The Collection of Arabic manuscripts at the V.I. Vernadsky National Library of
Ukraine
09.50-10.10 Serge Frantsouzoff (Institut des Manuscrits Orientaux,

St. Pétersbourg)
Les vieux livres imprimés en écriture arabe dans la collection de Jean-François
Xavier et Jean-Baptiste Louis Jacques Rousseau, père et fils
10.10-10.30 Elena Korovtchenko (Institut des Manuscrits Orientaux,

St. Pétersbourg), L'arabisante Alexandra Mikhaylova (1923-2009) et sa
contribution aux études arabes chrétiennes
10.40-11.00 Break
11.00-11.20 Ljiljana Stošić (Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade)

Islamic Influences and Orientalism: Serbian Art and the Balkans
11.20-11.40 Aleksandar Z. Savić (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy)

Athos – Jerusalem – Sinai: Towards a Conceptual Understanding of the Holy
Places in Medieval Serbia
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Ioana Feodorov
14.00-14.20 Paule Fahmé-Thiéry (Paris)

Écriture de récits de voyage. Autour de Paul d’Alep, de Makarios Al Zaïm et de
quelques voyageurs orientaux
14.20-14.40 Paolo Gerbaldo (Université de Turin)

Presque en Orient. Le regard différent sur le Sud-Est Européen d'un voyageur
italien : Stanislao Grimaldi del Poggetto de Turin à Constantinople
14.40-15.00 Liviu Bordaș (New Europe College, Bucharest)

From the Ottoman Empire to the Mughal Empire. The many lives of an 18th
century political adventurer
15.20-15.40 Break
15.40-16.00 Șerban V. Marin (National Archives of Romania, Bucharest)

The Geographical Dimension of the Venetian Crusades. Between Terra Santa and
the Balkans
16.00-16.20 Radu Dipratu (Institute for South-East European Studies,

Bucharest)
The ‘imperial signs’ (nişan-ı hümayun) and the Ottoman-Venetian Peace-making
Process in the 17th Century
16.30-16.50 Mustafa Yavuz (History of Science Department, Medeniyet

University, Istanbul)
The Ottoman Reception of P.A. Mattioli’s Commentaries on the “Materia Medica”
of Dioscorides
16.50-17.10 Teymour Morel (ENS-CNRS, Centre Jean Pépin, UMR 8230)

Asʿad al-Yānyawī et la tradition philosophique arabo-islamique : Une étude sur le
manuscrit Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Hamidiye 812
17.10-17.30 Stefano di Pietrantonio (Université Catholique de Louvain / École

Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris), L'original grec du Kitāb fī ṣinā‘at al-
faṣāḥa du Patriarche d’Antioche Athanase III Dabbās
Foyer de la Bibliothèque du Saint Synode
18.00-18.45
Un demi-siècle depuis la première exposition d’icônes post-byzantines arabes :
Beyrouth, Musée Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock, mai 1969
Conserving the Cultural and Artistic Heritage in South-Eastern Europe

La sauvegarde de l’héritage culturel et artistique
dans le Sud-Est européen
Convenors: Sabina Ispas, Tereza Sinigalia

Chair: Sabina Ispas
10.00-10.20 Shaban Sinani (Albanian Academy of Sciences, Tirana)

“Codex Purpureus Beratinus” in UNESCO’s “Memory of the World” Programme
10.20-10.40 Katica Kulavkova (Macedonian Academy of Sciences, Skopje)

Prolegomena to an Inclusive Interpretation of the Shared Sites of Memory on the
Balkans
10.50-11.10 Break
11.10-11.30 Christina Merkouri (Ephorate of Antiquities of West Attica), Athina

Chroni (Ministry of Culture & Sports, Greece)
Integrated Documentation, Management and Highlighting of Archaeological
Sites and Finds. The Mycenaean Cemetery at Kambi, Zakynthos, Greece. A Case
Study
11.30-11.50 Goran Đurđević (Capital Normal University of Beijing)

Secret Message: Asians from Far East and Bulgarians in Early 19th Century
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Tereza Sinigalia
14.00-14.20 Laura Jiga Iliescu (Institute for Ethnography and Folklore,

Bucharest)
Narratives of Religiosity Created around the Healing Cross at Dervent Monastery,
Romania
14.20-14.40 Andreea Pascaru (University of Jena)

Singing rumca and Dancing horon on the Mountains of Karadeniz. Language
Preservation through Music among the Romeyka Speakers of Trebizond and
Tonya
14.50-15.10 Alexandra Chivarzina (Institute of Slavic Studies, Moscow)

Colour Symbolism in Funeral Rites (On the Material of the Balkan Slavonic
tradition in Comparison with the Albanian and Romanian Traditions)
15.10-15.30 Cristina Bogdan (Université de Bucarest, Faculté des Lettres)

Saint Sisoès se lamentant sur la tombe d’Alexandre le Grand. Un motif
iconographique connu dans tout le monde balkanique
15.40-16.00 Break
16.00-16.20 Elena Ene Vasilescu (University of Oxford)

Churches and Schools in Byzantine Cappadocia
16.20-16.40 Vitalii Tkachuk (City Museum “Spiritual Treasures of Ukraine”,

Kyiv)
Eastern Christian Relics and Icons in Ukraine in the Second Half of the XVIIIth
Century
16.50-17.10 Fotiny Christakoudy (‟St Kliment Ohridski” University, Sofia)

Greek Modernism – on the Border of Tradition and Innovation
17.10-17.30 Evangelia Georgitsoyanni (Harokopio University, Athens)

Greeks in Romania: Historical and Artistic Testimonies from the Bellu Cemetery,
Bucharest
The Imagery of Eastern Christianity and Islam According to Western

Travel Descriptions during the Second Half of the 16th Century /
L’image de la chrétienté orientale et de l’islam selon les récits de voyage
occidentaux dans la seconde moitié du 16e siècle
Convenors: Ionuț-Alexandru Tudorie, Bogdan Tătaru-Cazaban

Room 213
Chair: Ionuț-Alexandru Tudorie, Bogdan Tătaru-Cazaban
10.00-10.20 Daniel Benga (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

The Religious Otherness in the Description of Eastern Liturgies by Western
Travellers in the Second Half of the 16th Century
10.20-10.40 Bogdan Tătaru-Cazaban (Institute for the History of Religions,

Bucharest)
L’image de Constantinople et du monde musulman chez Guillaume Postel
10.40-11.00 Octavian-Adrian Negoiță (University of Bucharest)

Muslim Circumcision as Reflected in the Western Travel Descriptions of the
Second Half of the Sixteenth Century
The Ottoman Empire, the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean

through the Eyes of Western Travelers / L’Empire Ottoman, les Balkans
et la Méditerranée orientale au miroir des voyageurs occidentaux
Convenor: Viorel Panaite

Room 213
Chair: Viorel Panaite
14.00-14.20 Miloš Ivanović (Institute of History, Belgrade)

The Perception of the Ottomans in the Eyes of Serbs from the late 14th Century
to the end of 15thCentury
14.20-14.40 Ivayla Popova (‟St Kliment Ohridski” University of Sofia)

Culture, Languages and Customs in the Balkans seen through the Eyes
of Western Travelers of the 15th Century
14.40-15.00 Manuela Dobre (University of Bucharest, Faculty of History)

L’image de la ville de Constantinople dans les œuvres historiques du XVe siècle
15.20-15.40 Break
15.40-16.00 Viorel Panaite (University of Bucharest / Institute for South-East

European Studies)
Western Merchants, Trade and Consuls in the Ottoman Mediterranean at
late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century. The Evidence of Western Travelers’
Accounts
16.00-16.20 Radu Dipratu (Institute for South-East European Studies,

Bucharest)
A Costly Affair: Western Travellers to Ottoman Jerusalem in the Early 17th Century
16.20-16.40 Octavian-Adrian Negoiță (University of Bucharest)

Western Travelers to Mount Sinai during the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Room Online
11.00-12.00 Book presentation by Acad. Răzvan Theodorescu

Emil Condurachi, Pars Orientis. Studii de istoria culturii europene, Bucharest,
Romanian Academy Publishing House, 2019
The Border in the Balkans: Opening and Closing the territories

La frontière dans les Balkans: ouverture et fermeture des territoires
Convenor: Guy Burgel

Room Online
Chair: Guy Burgel
14.00-14.20 Guy Burgel (Université Paris Nanterre)

Occident-Orient, Orient-Occident. Permanences des itinéraires terrestres et
maritimes à travers l’Europe
14.20-14.40 Andrei Feraru (Ecole Nationale d’Architecture de Paris-Versailles)

Les capitales frontalières en Europe centrale et orientale
14.50-15.10 Régis Darques (CNRS, UMR 5281 ART-Dev, Montpellier)

Transgressions frontalières. Crises et mutations du commerce international grec
15.10-15.30 Enika Abazi (Institut de recherche pour la paix, Paris), Albert Doja
(Université de Lille)
Récits de guerres balkaniques dans l’industrie médiatique et les politiques
internationales
15.30-15.50 Stoyan Nikov (Université de Lille)

Les passages quotidiens des frontières symboliques ethniques, nationales et
européennes. Le cas de la ville multiethnique d’Elena
Doctrines, Movements and Totalitarian Regimes in South-Eastern Europe

in the 20th Century / Doctrines, mouvements et régimes totalitaires
dans le Sud-Est européen au XXe siècle
Convenors: Mioara Anton, Georgi Engelhardt

Room 212
Chair: Georgi Engelhardt
11.00-11.20 Hervé Georgelin (National and Capodistrian University of Athens)

An Armenian Young Man Trying to Face the Turkish State in WWII: from
Bulgarian Temptations to “Conscription” in Turkey: Zaven Biberyan’s case
11.20-11.40 Settimio Stallone (Università di Napoli Federico II)

An Extraordinary Case of Realpolitik: the Relations between Maoist Albania and
the Greek Regime of Colonels (the Junta). A Study on Albanian and Italian
Diplomatic Documents
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Mioara Anton
14.00-14.20 Alexandru Barnea (Université de Bucarest / Institut d’Archéologie

« V. Pârvan »)
L’introduction de l’idéologie marxiste dans l’historiographie roumaine par le
régime communiste
14.20-14.40 Takuya Momma (University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and

Sciences)
Searching for the National Education in the Independent State of Croatia
14.40-15.00 Georgi Engelhardt (Institute of Slavic Studies, Moscow)

Observing the collapse from the collapsing platform: Soviet/Russian diplomatic
sources on the Yugoslavia’s break-up
Everyday life in Communist Romania

La vie quotidienne dans la Roumanie communiste
Convenor: Mioara Anton

Room 212
Chair: Mioara Anton
15.40-16.00 Mioara Anton (“N. Iorga” Institute of History, Bucharest)

Leisure and Pleasure in Socialist Romania. The Official Campaigns for Education
in Good Taste
16.00-16.20 Cristian Vasile (“N. Iorga” Institute of History, Bucharest)

Romanian Artists and their Reflections on Private Life during Communism
16.20-16.40 Alexandra Bardan (University of Bucharest)

Alternative Cultural Practices in Communist Romania: Developments, Impact and
Limits
Thursday, September 5
Biblical Apocrypha in South-Eastern Europe. Variation and Transmission

from Antiquity to Modern Times – 1st Part / Les apocryphes bibliques
dans les Sud-Est européen. Variation et transmission de l’Antiquité
à l’époque moderne – 1e partie
Convenors: Anissava Miltenova, Emanuela Timotin

Aula Magna

Michael E. Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Emeritus),
Edda Vardanyan (Matendaran Institute, Yerevan)
Pulling Beards and Injuring Knees: Jacob and the Angel
10.50-11.10 Break
Chair: Ljubica Jovanovic
11.10-11.30 Basil Lourié (National Research University Higher School of

Economics; Scrinium. Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography, Leiden)
A Seventh-Century Syrian Petrine Apocryphon Preserved only in Slavonic
11.30-11.50 Agnes Kriza (Universität zu Köln, Slavisches Institut)

Apostle Peter, Saint Sophia and the first church of Rome: a late Byzantine
anti-Latin “apocryphon”
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Anissava Miltenova
14.00-14.20 Alexandra Evdokimova (Institute of Linguistics, Moscow)

Biblical Apocrypha and Theotokos in South-East Europe on the material of the
Byzantine inscriptions
14.20-14.40 Julian Petkov (University of Heidelberg)

Behind the mirror: who were the readers of medieval apocalypses?
14.40-15.00 Vadim Wittkowsky (Humboldt University, Berlin)

Towards a New Edition of the Slavonic Baruch
15.20-15.40 Break
15.40-16.00 Cristina-Ioana Dima (University of Bucharest)

The particularities of The Apocalypse of the Theotokos in Romanian Culture
16.00-16.20 Maria Stanciu-Istrate (“Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of

Linguistics, Bucharest)
The Road to the Afterlife in a Romanian Manuscript from the First Half of the 17th
Century
16.20-16.40 Fedor Veselov (St Petersburg State University)

Signs of the Apocalypse: Gog and Magog in Russian illuminated copies of the
Alexander Romance
The Afterlife of the Byzantine monuments in Post-Byzantine Times

La fortune des monuments byzantins à l’époque post-byzantine
Convenor: Elena Boeck


Elena Boeck (DePaul University, Chicago)
Anomaly, Antiquity, Allegory: Justinian’s Bronze Horseman
9.50-10.10 Break
Chair: Elena Boeck

10.10-10.30 Stefania Gerevini (Università L. Bocconi, Milan)

Making Byzantine art “History”: the Pala d’oro in San Marco, Venice
10.30-10.50 Maria Alessia Rossi (Princeton University)

Byzantine Monuments in the Serbian Kingdom or Serbian Monuments in a
Post-Byzantine World?
11.00-11.20 Nicole Paxton Sullo (Yale University)

Imagined Cityscapes and Mythical Histories: The Riccardiana Virgil in the Wake
of Constantinople’s Fall
11.20-11.40 Charles Barber (Princeton University)

The Archaeology of Past, Present, and Future: Francesco Barozzi and Georgios
Klontzas on the column of Arcadius
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Brian Boeck
14.00-14.20 Michalis Kappas (Ephorate of Antiquities of Messenia)

The Afterlife of Byzantine Monuments in the Peloponnese: Three Cases
in Messenia
14.20-14.40 Theocharis Tsampouras (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki /

University of Western Macedonia)
Church Institutions in Continuous Existence since the Byzantine Period:
a Characteristic of Privilege or Disadvantage during Ottoman Times?
14.50-15.10 Ovidiu Olar (“N. Iorga” Institute of History, Bucharest / Austrian

Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
The Byzantine Manuscripts of a Post-Byzantine Prince. Alexandru II Mircea
of Wallachia (1568-1577) and his Self-Fashioning
15.10-15.30 Alice Isabella Sullivan (University of Michigan)

Reinterpreted Traditions in the Churches of Medieval Moldavia
15.40-16.00 Break
16.00-16.20 Diana Iuliana Barbu (Romanian Patriarchate, Bucharest)

The Orthodox Painters from the South and North of the Danube in the Romanian
principalities in the 16th-18th centuries
16.20-16.40 Aleksandar Ignjatović (University of Belgrade, Faculty of

Architecture)
Neither Byzantine nor Serbian: Byzantine Architecture in Serbian Historiography
of the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century
16.50-17.10 Ljubomir Milanovic (Institute for Byzantine Studies, Belgrade)

Re-animation of Byzantium: the Case of the Chapel of Sts. Cosmas and Damian in
Belgrade
17.10-17.30 Mariëtte Verhoeven (Radboud University of Nijmegen)

From East to West and Back Again: the Relics of St Gregory the Theologian and St
John Chrysostom
The Printing Press in and for South-Eastern Europe

L’imprimerie dans et pour le Sud-Est de l’Europe
Convenor: Archim. Policarp Chițulescu

Archim. Policarp Chițulescu (Bibliothèque du Saint Synode, Bucarest)
Livres imprimés en Europe aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
avec la contribution des Pays Roumains
10.20-10.40 Break
Chair: Archim. Policarp Chițulescu
10.40-11.00 Anca Elisabeta Tatay (Library of the Romanian Academy,

Cluj-Napoca), Octavian Gordon (University of Bucharest)
Early Romanian Books written in Greek in the Vatican Apostolic Library
(17th–19th century)
11.00-11.20 Daniela Lupu (Bucharest Municipality Museum)

The Lazaru Brothers of Ioannina, Paper Merchants, Editors and Owners
of a Printing House in Wallachia (Second Half of the 18th Century)
11.20-11.40 Dimitrios Kotsikas (University of Ioannina)

International Relations, Press and Scholarship: the Case of N. G. Dosios
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Octavian Gordon
14.00-14.20 Ksenia Melchakova (Institute for Slavic Studies, Moscow)

The First Printing house in the Bosnia Vilayet
14.20-14.40 Taisiya Leber (Gutenberg University of Mainz)

The Role of Printing Presses and Printed Books in the “Transottoman” Perspective
(15th–17th Centuries)
14.50-15.10 Oana-Mădălina Popescu (Library of the Romanian Academy,

Bucharest)
Hasty Opinions, Outdated Clichés. The Need to Carefully Study Historical Sources
15.10-15.30 Andreea Ștefan (Musée National d’Histoire, Bucarest)

S’en servir des anciens à l’âge des Lumières : Dimitrios Darvaris nouvel éditeur –
traducteur d’Épictète
15.30-15.50 Alexandru Nicolaescu (Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities,

Sibiu), Sorin Radu (“Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu)
The Romanian Newspapers Published for Peasants in Transylvania at the End of
the Nineteen and Beginning of the Twentieth Century: between Cultural and
Political Education
Foyer de la Bibliothèque du Saint Synode
16.30-17.30
Exposition de livres anciens
Merchants in the Balkans: Family and Geographical Solidarities,

Networks and Commercial Techniques – 1st Part
Les marchands dans les Balkans: solidarités familiales et géographiques,
réseaux et techniques commerciales – 1e partie
Convenors: Cristian Luca, Salvatore Bottari


Maria Christina Chatziioannou (Institute of Historical Research
of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens)
Merchant Capitalism, Overland and Maritime Trade (18th–19th centuries)
14.50-15.10 Break
Chair: Cristian Luca
15.10-15.30 Georgios Kardaras (Institute of Historical Research, National

Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens)
The Byzantine–Bulgarian treaty of 716 and its commercial dimension
15.30-15.50 Penka Danova (Institut d’études balkaniques, Sofia)

Le marchand écrivain et la fortune de ses écrits durant les XVe–XVIe siècles
16.00-16.20 Break
Chair: Salvatore Bottari
16.20-16.40 Gerassimos Pagratis (National and Kapodistrian University of

Athens)
Greeks subjects of Venice in Eastern Mediterranean Maritime Business: some
sixteenth century case studies
16.40-17.00 Benedetto Ligorio (Sapienza University of Rome)

The Ragusa (Dubrovnik) trade geography in South–Eastern Europe in the 17th
century
Chair: Gerassimos Pagratis
17.10-17.30 Eleni G. Gavra (University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki)

Commercial routes and trading posts of the Greek communities in Romania:
Cultural and Ekistics Heritage
17.30-17.50 Cristian Luca (The Lower Danube University of Galaţi / Romanian

Institute of Culture and Humanities Research, Venice)
Balkan Merchants as Suppliers of Agricultural Produce and Raw Materials from
the Romanian Principalities to the Northern Italian Markets during the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Formation of South-East European Nations – 1st Part

La formation des nations sud-est européennes – 1e partie
Convenors: Jolanta Sujecka, Ahmet Nuri Yurdusev, Bogdan Murgescu


Jolanta Sujecka (University of Warsaw)
Markers of Identity in the Slavia Orthodoxa Realm: Dositej Obradović and His
Identity Construction between Influence of Europe, and the Balkans
9.50-10.10 Break
Chair: Jolanta Sujecka
10.10-10.30 Ahmet Nuri Yurdusev (Middle East Technical University, Ankara)

Formation of Nations in South-East Europe: Ethnic or Civil?
10.30-10.50 Anna A. Leontyeva (Institute of Slavic Studies, Moscow)

The Ottoman Rear Area During the War of 1735-1739 (According to the Data
from a Country Town Sicil)
11.00-11.20 Aytaç Yürükçü (Turkish Historical Society, Ankara)

Political and Social Effects to South-Eastern Europe Diplomacy: A Case Study War
Correspondents and the War Reminiscences During the Ottoman-Russian War
1877-1878
11.20-11.40 Igor Kaliganov (Institute for Slavic Studies, Moscow)

Forgotten brotherhood, which today is hardly believed (from the history of the
Bulgarian-Serbian relations XIX–XX с.)
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Ahmet Nuri Yurdusev
14.00-14.20 Eleonora Naxidou (Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi)

Nation and Territory in the 19th century Balkans: The Bulgarian Paradigm
14.20-14.40 Stamatia Fotiadou (Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi)

The Unification of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia and the Greek Press (1885)
14.50-15.10 Nikita Gusev (Institute of Slavic Studies, Moscow)

Bulgarian and Serbian propaganda on the question of Macedonia in Russia
during the Balkan wars 1912-1913
15.10-15.30 Jędrzej Paszkiewicz (“Adam Mickiewicz” University, Poznań)

Byzantine references towards the ideas of Greek and Bulgarian national
unification at the turn of 19th and 20th century
15.40-16.00 Break
16.00-16.20 Jolanta Mindak-Zawadzka (Université de Varsovie)

Les Slaves musulmans des Balkans et le bogomilisme ethnopolitisé de nos jours
16.20-16.40 Takuya Nakazawa (University of Tokyo)

Creating Montenegrin National Culture: Cultural Politics in Socialist Yugoslavia
16.40-17.00 Petra Babić (University of Zagreb)

Mythologized historical heroes in the formation and affirmation of national
identity
The Migration. Human and Political Condition in South-Eastern Europe

La migration. Condition humaine et politique dans le Sud-Est européen
Convenors: Elena Siupiur, Konstantin Nikiforov

Room 213

Elena Siupiur (Institut d’études sud-est européennes, Bucarest, émérite)
La migration. Condition humaine et politique dans le Sud-Est européen
9.50-10.10 Break
Chair: Elena Siupiur
10.10-10.30 Konstantin V. Nikiforov (Institute of Slavic Studies, Moscow)

The Formation of the Balkan Statehood
10.30-10.50 Raluca Alexandrescu (Université de Bucarest, Faculté de Sciences

Politiques)
La circulation intellectuelle au XIXe siècle et la construction du narratif
démocratique, entre acceptations et refus
11.00-11.20 Mihai Sorin Rădulescu (Université de Bucarest, Faculté d’histoire)

Une famille serbo-bulgare dans les élites militaires et intellectuelles roumaines
11.20-11.40 Virginia Blînda (Institut d’études sud-est européennes, Bucarest)

La migration des livres dans le Sud-Est de l’Europe (milieu du XIXe siècle)
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Konstantin Nikiforov
14.00-14.20 Sergiy Matsnev (Moscow)

Between Adaptation and Nostalgia. Destiny of Pontian Greeks from Soviet
Deportation in 1949 to Present Greece
14.20-14.40 Mariana Alecu (Institute for South-East European Studies,

Bucharest)
Unwillingly Leaving One's Native Town
14.40-15.00 Natalia Golant (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and

Ethnography, St Petersburg)
On Some Features of the Labour Migration of Romanians ("Vlaсhs") of Eastern
Serbia
Circulation of Goods, Circulation of People in South-Eastern Europe

(17th–early 19th centuries) / Circulation des biens, circulation des hommes
dans le Sud-Est de l’Europe (17e–début du 19e siècles)
Convenor: Constanța Vintilă-Ghițulescu
(ERC-2014-CoG no. 646489–LuxFaSS)

Room 213
Chair: Constanța Vintilă-Ghițulescu
16.00-16.20 Michał Wasiucionek (“N. Iorga” Institute of History / New Europe

College, Bucharest)
Religion, Identity, and Sartorial Patterns in the Early Modern Ottoman Balkans:
A Comparative Perspective on the Danubian Principalities and Western Balkans
16.20-16.40 Mária Pakucs (“N. Iorga” Institute of History / New Europe College,
Bucharest)
Consumption of Foreign Goods in Transylvania: the Role of the Greek merchants
in Retail Distribution during the 16th and 17th Centuries
16.40-17.00 Constanța Vintilă-Ghițulescu (“N. Iorga” Institute of History / New

Europe College, Bucharest)
Circulation of Knowledge, Circulation of objects: Sartorial Law and Foreigners in
the Danubian Principalities (18th century)
17.20-17.40 Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu (University of Bucharest, Faculty of

History / Institut für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa, Vienna)
A Concept in Need of Reconsideration: „Modernity” in 19th c. Romania
17.40-18.00 Nicoleta Roman (“N. Iorga” Institute of History / New Europe

College, Bucharest)
Fabrics and jewels. Fluctuations in price and interest in Wallachia’s women’
textile world of early 19th century
Religious Minorities in South-Eastern Europe – 1st Part

Les minorités religieuses dans le Sud-Est européen – 1e partie
Convenors: Cristina Feneșan, Aleksandra Twardowska

Room 212
Chair: Aleksandra Twardowska
9.00-9.20 Iustina Barbu (University of Bucharest)

Economic Aspects of the Jewish Community in Byzantium (10th to 11th centuries)
9.20-9.40 Emilie Themopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of

Athens)
La communauté juive de Salonique au XIXe siècle: évolution et transformations
sociales
9.50-10.10 Mădălina Vârtejanu-Joubert (Institut National des Langues et

Civilisations Orientales, Paris)
Les enjeux de l’interprétation juive de la Bible au XIXe siècle roumain à partir de
l’œuvre de Malbim
10.10-10.30 Ioanna Kotsiavra-Champoud (Paris)

Les Communautés hébraïques en Grèce, l'année 1943
10.40-11.00 Break
11.00-11.20 Raia Zaimova (Institut d’Études balkaniques et Centre de

Thracologie, Sofia)
Identités religieuses/nationales à Salonique ottomane
11.20-11.40 Alexander A. Novik (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and

Ethnology, St Petersburg State University)
Traditional Costume, Ethnic-Religious Affiliation and Common Memory of Slavic
(Macedonian) Muslims of Golloborda in Albania: Adaptating and Preserving the
Identity
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Cristina Feneșan
14.00-14.20 Floresha Dado (Albanian Academy of Sciences, Tirana)

The Four Concordats Between the State and Religious Communities During the
Royal Period in Albania (1928-1939)
14.20-14.40 Olimpia Dragouni (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Philosophische

Fakultät, Institut für Slawistik)
Sharing Sacred Space by Muslims and non-Muslims in Islamic Law and in the
Islamic Religious Thought in the Balkans
14.40-15.00 Aikaterini Markou (Université Démocrite de Thrace, Xanthi)

La minorité musulmane en Thrace grecque et les questions qui l'accompagnent
au cours des premières décennies du XXIe siècle
15.00-15.20 Marius Lazăr (Université ‟Babeș-Bolyai”, Cluj-Napoca)

Les chiites en Roumanie : les dynamiques identitaires et sociales d’une nouvelle
communauté religieuse
15.40-16.00 Break
Jews in Yugoslavia in the 20th Century

Les Juifs en Yougoslavie au 20e siècle
Convenor: Aleksandra Twardowska
Chair: Aleksandra Twardowska
16.00-16.20 Krinka Vidaković-Petrov (Institute for Literature and Art,

Belgrade)
Jewish Identity from Yugoslavia to Post-Yugoslavia
16.20-16.40 Aleksandra Twardowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń)

The Role of the Jewish Press in Shaping of Identity of Bosnian Jews in the Kingdom
of Yugoslavia
16.50-17.10 Magdalena Koch (“Adam Mickiewicz” University, Poznań)

Acculturation or Separateness? Two Identity Formation Models of Jewish Women
Authors in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
17.10-17.30 Katarzyna Taczyńska (“Adam Mickiewicz” University, Poznań)

Women and War in the Dramas by Đorđe Lebović
Religious Dynamics between the Pontos Euxeinos

and the Aegean Sea in Antiquity – 1st Part / Dynamiques religieuses
entre le Pont-Euxin et la mer Egée dans l’Antiquité – 1e partie
Convenors: Vasilica Lungu, Adrian Robu

Room Online

François de Polignac (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
Divinités des passages : étude comparée des détroits de Mer Noire
et de Méditerranée
14.50-15.10 Break
Chair: François de Polignac
15.10-15.30 Lucio Maria Valletta (École Pratique des Hautes Études-PSL, Paris)
Entre Laconie et Colchide : l’expédition du navire Argos à l’origine
des Minyens de Sparte
15.30-15.50 Panagiota Avgerinou (Archaeological Museum of Megara)

The Worship of Demeter in Ancient Town of Megara in West Attica, Greece
16.00-16.20 Break
16.20-16.40 Stella Dreni (Archaeological Museum of Megara)

Religious Interrelations between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea: The
Numismatic Evidence and the Economy of Religion
16.40-17.00 Alexandar Portalsky (South-West University “Neofit Rilski”,

Blagoevgrad)
Topoi of Faith from South-Eastern Europe and their Parallels in Northwest
Anatolia. Sites of Cultural and Historical Heritage in the Context of the
Palaeobalkan-Westanatolian Community
17.10-17.30 Adrian Robu (Institut d’E� tudes Sud-Est Europé ennes, Bucarest)
Communautés cultuelles et transferts religieux entre l’Egée et le Pont-Euxin:
l’exemple des colonies mégariennes
17.30-17.50 Yannis Chairetakis (Ephorate of Antiquities of Chania)

Clay Vessels and Magical Rituals. From the Aegean Sea to the Pontos Euxeinos
17.50-18.10 Iulian Bı̂rzescu („Vasile Pâ rvan” Institute of Archaeology,

Bucharest)
Non-Ionic Archaic Inscriptions from Histria and their Context
The European Union and the South-East European States

L’Union Européenne et les États sud-est européens
Convenors: Francesco Guida, Daniel Cain

Room Online
Chair: Francesco Guida, Daniel Cain
9.00-9.20 Mirella Korzeniewska-Wiszniewska (Institute of Political Science and

International Relations, Jagiellonian University)
The course and dynamics of the accession process to the European Union of the
Republic of Serbia in the second decade of the 21st century - basic obstacles and
challenges
9.20-9.40 Hristina Slavova, Kalin Kalinov (“St Kliment Ohridski” University,

Sofia)
Public Diplomacy Aspects of Tourism: The Case of Bulgaria and the EU
9.50-10.10 Blagovest Njagulov (Institut d’études historiques, Sofia)

Intégration européenne et droits des minorités: valeurs et réalités en Europe du
Sud-Est
10.10-10.30 Marica Antovska-Mitev (Skopje)

Entrepreneurial Culture and Innovations - State and Perspectives in the
South-East European Countries
10.40-11.00 Break
11.00-11.20 Anna Aleksandrova (Institute of Slavic Studies, Moscow)

The Issue of German Reparations in Greece: Rabble-rousing or a Quest for Justice?
11.20-11.40 Mariyana Stamova (Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of

Thrachology, Sofia)
Political dilemmas and inter-ethnic problems on the road to European integration
of the Republic of Macedonia
Perspectives on the Digitization of Documents

in the South-East European Archives / Perspectives sur la numérisation
des documents des archives sud-est européennes
Convenor: Șerban Marin
National Archives of Romania
Chair: Rafael-Dorian Chelaru
10.00-10.20 Bogdan-Florin Popovici (National Archives of Romania, Brașov)

“The Image of a Document is Not Enough”. Some Considerations on Archival
Documents Digitization for Online Access
10.20-10.40 Mădălina-Diana Ruşanu-Radu (National Archives of Romania,

Bucharest)
The Rights of the National Archives of Romania over the Documents in
Preservation and their Impact over the Digitization Projects
10.50-11.10 Break
11.10-11.30 Arcadie Bodale (National Archives of Romania, Jassy)

Les problèmes d’archives électroniques et archivage des documents électroniques
en Roumanie
11.30-11.50 Concetta Damiani (Archivio del Real Conservatorio di Santa Maria

della Solitaria)
The Digitization Projects under Way in the Neapolitan Institutions. The Case
Study of the Archive of the Reale Conservatorio di Santa Maria della Solitaria
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Șerban Marin
14.00-14.20 Anna Adashinskaya (Central European University, Budapest / Al

Quds Bard College)
Monumentalized Endowment Documents: How to Process Data Preserved in
Form of Inscriptions and Mural Paintings?
14.20-14.40 Nebojša Porčić (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy)

Diplomatarium Serbicum Digitale: A Virtual Archive of Serbian Medieval
Documents
14.50-15.10 Monica Negru (National Archives of Romania, Bucharest)

The Relevance of Digitization of Documents for Saving the Historical Information.
A Case Study
15.10-15.30 Neja Blaj Hribar (Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana)

The Slovenian Population Censuses 1830–1935 Project
15.00-17.00 General Meeting of the International Committee of AIESEE

Assemblée générale du Comité international de l’AIESEE
Friday, September 6
Written Culture of the Peripheries from Middle Ages to Modern Times

La culture écrite des périphéries du Moyen-Âge à l'époque moderne
Convenor: Paolo Odorico

Aula Magna

Paolo Odorico (EHESS, Paris)
Commonwealth athonite ? Une question de périphéries
09.50-10.10 Break
Chair: Paolo Odorico
10.10-10.30 Daniele Bianconi (Università degli Studi « La Sapienza » di Roma)

La notion de périphérie (et province) en paléographie grecque
10.30-10.50 Charis Messis (EHESS, Paris)

Versions littéraires de la province : le cas de la Macédoine
11.00-11.20 Sergio Basso (Università Roma 3)

Circulation périphérique et "fluidité" des textes : l'exemple du Barlaam et Ioasaph
au XIe siècle
11.20-11.40 Romina Luzi (EHESS, Paris)

Les romans paléologues de la « périphérie byzantine »
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Paolo Odorico
14.00-14.20 Elena Nonveiller (EHESS, Paris)

Quelques attestations de sacrifices animaux en l'honneur de saints locaux
circulant dans l'aire chypriote autour du XIVe siècle
14.20-14.40 Dieter Fahl, Sabine Fahl (Greifswald University)

What did a Novgorod monk do in the early 15th century with the South Slavic
translations from Greek chronography?
14.50-15.10 Ovidiu Olar (“N. Iorga” Institute of History, Bucharest / Austrian

Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Giulio Mancinelli SJ († 1618) and his Journey across Wallachia and Moldavia
15.10-15.30 Xavier Agati (EHESS, Paris)

Le texte comme manifeste politico-religieux : transmettre Byzance aux sujets et
vassaux chrétiens de l'Empire Ottoman au XVIIIème siècle. Le cas du Livre des
Règnes de Césaire Dapontes
15.40-16.00 Break
16.00-16.20 Efi Synkellou (University of Ioannina)

The reception of the “Despotate” of Epirus in Modern Greek historiography (19th
– early 20th centuries)
16.20-16.40 Vitomir Mitevski (Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts,

Skopje)
South Slavic Oral Epic Tradition about King Marko Written Down in 19th century
in Relation to the Byzantine Epic Poem about Digenes Akritas

Ovidiu-Victor Olar, La boutique de Théophile. Les relations du patriarche de
Constantinople Kyrillos Loukaris (1570-1638) avec la Réforme, Paris, 2019
(Autour de Byzance, 6)
The Byzantine Heritage in South-Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages

L’héritage byzantin dans le Sud-Est de l’Europe au Moyen Âge
Convenors: Srdjan Pirivatrić, Andrei Timotin,
Ernest Oberländer-Târnoveanu


Srdjan Pirivatrić (Institute for Byzantine Studies, Belgrade)
The Byzantine Emperor and the Byzantine Heritage in South-Eastern Europe
in the Middle Ages. Remarks on certain aspects of the imperial policy
10.50-11.10 Break
Chair: Srdjan Pirivatrić
11.10-11.30 Nebojša Porčić (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy)

Byzantine Influences in the Documentary Production of Serbian Medieval Rulers
11.30-11.50 Nebojša Šuletić (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy)

Restoration or Continuity: Serbian Patriarchate in the Latter Half of the 16th
century
12.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.20 Petre Guran (Institute for South-East European Studies,

Bucharest)
The Legend of Roman and Vlahata. Saint Sava of Serbia and Orthodox Historical
Consciousness in the XIIIth century
14.20-14.40 Aleksandar Z. Savić (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy)

Islam and Muslims in the Thought-World of Medieval Serbs: A Cultural and
Intellectual Aspect of the Byzantine Heritage in South-Eastern Europe
Chair: Andrei Timotin
14.50-15.10 Oana Iacubovschi (Institute for South-East European Studies,

Bucharest)
Portraits of Saints Represented as Icons. Their Place and Function in the
Decoration of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Churches
15.10-15.30 Ștefania Dumbravă (National University of Arts, Bucharest)

Connecting to the Melting Pot: Embroideries by Hristofor Žefarović in the
Romanian Principalities, and Their Cultural Testimony
15.40-16.00 Break
Chair: Ernest Oberländer-Târnoveanu
16.00-16.20 Sergiu Iosipescu, Raluca Verussi Iosipescu (Institut National du

Patrimoine, Bucarest)
Autour du Patrimoine byzantin dans les Pays Roumains : la cité de l’île de Păcuiul
lui Soare et l’Église princière Saint Nicolas de Curtea de Argeş
16.20-16.40 Maja Nikolić (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy)

Byzantine History in Μικρογραφίαι of George Klontzas
16.50-17.10 Marka Tomić-Đurić (Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade)

The Cult of Saint Zotikos and His Images in Serbian Medieval Painting
17.10-17.30 Mihail-George Hâncu (Institute for South-East European Studies,

Bucharest)
For Whom the Saint Fights: Military Saints as Allies in Battle
The Formation of South-East European Nations – 2nd Part

La formation des nations sud-est européennes – 2e partie
Convenors: Jolanta Sujecka, Ahmet Nuri Yurdusev, Bogdan Murgescu

Chair: Bogdan Murgescu
9.00-9.20 Vladimir Creţulescu (Bucharest Municipality Museum)

The Beginnings of Romanian national activism among Balkan Vlachs: Nicolae
Bălcescu, Ion Ghica and Ion Ionescu de la Brad
9.20-9.40 Ștefan Petrescu (Institute for South-East European Studies,

Bucharest)
Justifying Violence: Aromanian Issue and Political Crimes in Romania
(1904-1907)
9.50-10.10 Oana-Maria Mitu (‟Lower Danube” University of Galați)

Nation Building and the Identity Problem in Greater Romania. Case Study on
Southern Bessarabia
10.10-10.30 Edda Binder-Iijima (University of Heidelberg and Göttingen)

Foreign Intervention in Support of the Romanian Monarchy at the End of the 19th
Century
10.40-11.00 Break
11.00-11.20 Michalis Sarras (Greek Committee for South-Eastern European

Studies)
South-Eastern Europe in the Long 19th century. Economic Approaches and
Historical Inconsistencies
11.20-11.40 Ivaylo Nachev (Institute for Balkan Studies, Sofia)

Planning South-East European Primary Cities in the Late-19th to Early-20th
Century (Planning in National States and in Empires: the Cases of Ljubljana, Sofia
and Thessaloniki)
12.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.20 Biljana Ristovska-Josifovska (Institute of National History, Skopje)

Exchange of Knowledge and Impact on Slavistic Studies (through the Research
Work of Petar Draganov from Moldova in Macedonia)
14.20-14.40 Lidia Pakhomova (Institute of Slavic Studies, Moscow)

Modernisation of former Ottoman provinces as an object of contemporaneous
scientific research. Alexey Kharuzin on Habsburg Bosnia
14.40-15.00 Castilia Manea-Grgin (Institute of Social Sciences “Ivo Pilar” /

University of Zagreb)
The 19th-Century Romanian Printed Cookbooks and the Building of a Nation
Biblical Apocrypha in South-Eastern Europe. Variation and Transmission

from Antiquity to Modern Times – 2nd Part / Les apocryphes bibliques
dans les Sud-Est européen. Variation et transmission de l’Antiquité
à l’époque moderne – 2e partie
Convenors: Anissava Miltenova, Emanuela Timotin

Chair: Basil Lourié

10.00-10.20 Anissava Miltenova (Institute for Literature, Sofia)

Reconsideration of the Series of the Stories about Holy Tree Attributed to St.
Gregory the Theologian in Slavonic Literature
10.20-10.40 Sladana Mirkovic (University of South Florida)

Variation and Transmission of the Moses and the Plagues Narrative in
South-East Europe from Antiquity to Modern Times
10.50-11.10 Break
11.10-11.30 Keiko Mitani (University of Tokyo)

Slavonic Translation of “Testament of Job”: Linguistic analysis of the Old Serbian
Manuscripts
11.30-11.50 Emanuela Timotin (“Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of

Linguistics, Bucharest)
The Lament of Eve. A Late Romanian Development of the Life of Adam and Eve
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Emanuela Timotin
14.00-14.20 Ivan Iliev (“St Kliment Ohridsky” University, Sofia)

The Antichrist Myth in the Slavonic Apocryphal works
14.20-14.40 Matija Ogrin (Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences,

Ljubljana)
Slovenian Manuscripts on Antichrist and the problems of manuscript tradition
14.50-15.10 L.K. Gavriushina (Institute of Slavic Studies, Moscow)

Transformation of the biblical texts in the folklore of Russian Old Believers living
in Romania
15.10-15.30 Milena Rozhdestvenskaja (St Petersburg State University)

Old Russian apocryphal literature in the collections of the Institute for Russian
Literature (Pushkin’s House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences
15.40-16.00 Break
16.00-16.20 Ljubica Jovanovic (American Public University System)

What Is Transmitted from the Greek into the Slavic Cultures: Theology or Canon?
16.20-16.40 Maria Cioată (University of Manchester)

The Reception of Apocrypha as ‘Popular Books’ in Romania
16.40-17.00 Giuseppe Stabile (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”)

Conversing with the Wise Alien. Sapiential Dialogues in the Rumanian Tradition
from the Bible to the Popular Romance (16th-19th c.)
Religious Dynamics between the Pontos Euxeinos and the Aegean Sea
in Antiquity – 2nd Part / Dynamiques religieuses entre le Pont-Euxin
et la mer Egée dans l’Antiquité – 2e partie
Convenors: Vasilica Lungu, Adrian Robu

Room 212
Chair: Adrian Robu
10.00-10.20 Vasilica Lungu (Institut d’Études Sud-Est Europé ennes, Bucarest)

L’archéologie au service de l’étude de la religion grecque. Les autels et les foyers
sacrificiels dans les nécropoles grecques ouest pontiques
10.20-10.40 Aleksandra Nikoloska (Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts,

Skopje)
Religious Dynamism Behind an Image: The Development of the Iconography of
Cybele
10.50-11.10 Break
11.10-11.30 Vera Bitrakova Grozdanova (Macedonian Academy of Sciences and

Arts, Skopje)
Pont-Euxin, la Macédoine et l’Orient - les relations religieuses
11.30-11.50 Alina Streinu, Dan Pı̂rvulescu (Bucharest Municipality Museum)

Of Gods and men. Roman Artefacts for Rite and Magic from the Maria and dr.
George Severeanu Collection
12.00-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Vasilica Lungu
14.00-14.20 Alexandru Barnea (Université de Bucarest / Institut d’Arché ologie

« V. Pâ rvan »)
Présences égyptiennes au Bas-Danube à l'époque du Bas-Empire
14.20-14.40 Elena Gritti (University of Bergamo)

Gaudentius’ Travel towards Constantinople (Pall. dial. 3,133 - 4,28): a Brixiensis
Bishop along the Sea between the Aegean Sea and Pontus Euxeinos on Behalf of
Theologian Bishop Iohannes Chrysostomus
14.50-15.10 Svetlana Stoyanova Gancheva (Silistra Regional Museum of

History)
Topography of Durostorum through the Principate and Late Antiquity
15.10-15.30 Irini Svana (Ephorate of Antiquities of West Attica)

Sacred Trees and Plants in Ancient Greek Religion and Worship
Merchants in the Balkans: Family and Geographical Solidarities, Networks

and Commercial Techniques – 2nd Part
Les marchands dans les Balkans: solidarités familiales et géographiques,
réseaux et techniques commerciales – 2e partie
Convenors: Cristian Luca, Salvatore Bottari

Room 213
Chair: Rafael-Dorian Chelaru
9.00-9.20 Roxana Coman (Bucharest Municipality Museum)

Balkan merchant houses in the 18th and 19th centuries. From cosmopolitanism to
nationalism
9.20-9.40 Roumiana Preshlenova (Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of

Thracology, Sofia)
Between Vienna, Bucharest and Thessaloniki: Bulgarian Expatriate Merchants
and Nation Building in 19th Century
9.50-10.10 Evguenia Davidova (Portland State University)

Merchants’ Strategies for Business Expansion: Perspectives from the 19th Century
Central Balkans
10.10-10.30 Gergana Georgieva (“St. Cyril and St. Methodius” University, Veliko
Tarnovo)
Balkan Merchants in the Nineteenth Century – New Data about Their Social
Profile and Property Status
10.40-11.00 Break
11.00-11.20 Nikolay Ivanov Todorov (Silistra Regional Museum of History)

Traders on the Lower Danube – Economic and Social Status of The Traders in
Tulcea and Silistra according to data of Temettuat Defters
11.20-11.40 Nevena Stiliyanova Nedelcheva (Popovo Historical Museum)

Merchants in Deliorman (the example of Hezargrad)
12.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.20 Ivaylo Naydenov (Institute for Historical Studies, Sofia)

Business Practices and Strategies in the Central part of the Balkans during the
19th Century: the case of the Pulievi Brothers
Religious Minorities in South-Eastern Europe – 2nd Part

Les minorités religieuses dans le Sud-Est européen – 2e partie
Convenors: Cristina Feneșan, Aleksandra Twardowska

Room Online
Chair: Mădălina Vârtejanu-Joubert
9.00-9.20 Stathis Birtachas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Politics and Religion in the Venetian Maritime State in the Beginning of the 17th
Century: the Case of the Greek Orthodox Minority of Tinos
9.20-9.40 Cristina Codarcea (Institut d’Études Sud-Est Européennes, Bucarest)

Les communautés catholiques en Albanie au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècles, entre survie
et épanouissement. Stratégies missionnaires dans la réorganisation religieuse des
enclaves catholiques dans l'Empire Ottoman
9.50-10.10 Elmira Vassileva (Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology,

Sofia)
Protestant Bulgarians in Thessaloniki by the End of the 19th and Beginning of the
20th centuries
10.10-10.30 Marcoandrea Spinelli (Central European University, Budapest)

Religious Minorities within Ethnical Minorities: Bunjevci, Rusyns and Vlachs in
Serbia
10.40-11.00 Break
11.00-11.20 Anna Plotnikova (Institute for Slavic Studies, Moscow)

The Specifics of the Funeral Rites at the Old Believers of Dobruja in Romania
(Ethnolinguistic Study)
11.20-11.40 Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović (Institute for Balkan Studies,

Belgrade)
Migration of Religious Minority: the Nazarenes from South-Eastern Europe to
North America during 20th Century
11.40-12.00 Luan Starova (Skopje)

La tolérance des Albanais dans l’histoire
Between the Imperial Eye and the Local Gaze. Cartographies of

South-Eastern Europe / Entre la surveillance impériale et le regard local.
Cartographies de l’Europe du Sud-Est
Convenors: Marian Coman, Robert Born

Room Online
Chair: Marian Coman
14.00-14.20 Işın Taylan (Yale University)

Approaches to Old and New Geography: Ptolemy in early Ottoman Atlases
14.20-14.40 Robert Born (Leibniz Centre for Cultural and History of Eastern
Europe, Leipzig)
Maps and the Anti-Ottoman Propaganda (16th-18th Centuries)
14.50-15.10 Andrei Nacu (Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, Sibiu)
Habsburg Military Plans of the Transylvanian Saxon Cities Produced Between the
End of the 17th Century and the End of the 18th Century
15.10-15.30 Josef Wolf (Institut für donauschwäbische Geschichte und

Landeskunde, Tübingen)
Giovanni Morando Visconti, an Almost Unknown Imperial Cartographer of the
Balkans and Transylvania
15.40-16.00 Break
Chair: Robert Born
16.00-16.20 Marian Coman (University of Bucharest / “N. Iorga” Institute of

History)
From Map to Text. Ridolfo Damiano de Brünnetz’s Reading of a Map of Wallachia
(1716)
16.20-16.40 Benjamin Landais (Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse)

La cartographie parcellaire et la construction de la mosaïque ethnique
du Banat (1773-1848)
16.50-17.10 Silviu Anghel (The National Museum of Maps and Old Books,
Bucharest)
The Borders of Dacia. A Romanian Cartographic Journey (1816-1944)
17.10-17.30 Emanuil Ineoan (“Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca)

Mapping as a Battlefield in the Balkan Region. The Aromanian Case and its
Cartographic Representations During the 19th and 20th Centuries
17.30-17.50 Cezar Buterez, Carmen Toncea, Theodor Cepraga, Andy Stanciu,

Iulian Dochița (University of Bucharest / Institute of Ethnography and Folklore
“Constantin Brăiloiu”)
Beyond the Region of the Unknown. Documenting the Small-Scale Romanian
Army Shooting Maps (1916-1959)
18.00
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law,

Aula Magna
Closing addresses

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12TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES

BUCHAREST, 2-6 SEPTEMBER 2019

The Romanian National Committee

Acad. Ioan-Aurel Pop (President), Acad. Victor Spinei,

The Organising Committee

Andrei Timotin (President), Constantin Ardeleanu, Daniel Cain,

Dana Caciur, Radu Dipratu, Mihail-George Hâncu, Oana Iacubovschi,

Board of the International Committee

President: Alexandre Kostov, Honorary President: Luan Omari

During the Congress, participants will have free lunch at the

Byzantine Manuscripts from the Collections

Floating Spaces. Maps of the Danube Region 1650-1800

The Monasteries of Bukovina (Humor, Voroneţ, Moldoviţa, Suceviţa, Dragomirna,

The Monasteries of Oltenia (Cozia, Govora, Bistriţa, Hurez, Polovragi, Surpatele),

University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law

Opening of the Congress, Inaugural addresses

Alexandre Kostov, President of AIESEE, Corresponding member of the

Cocktail and lunch

Networks in South-Eastern Europe: Politics, Trade, Culture

University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law

14.00-14.50 Keynote lecture

Chair: Ovidiu Cristea

15.10-15.30 Paola Avallone, Raffaella Salvemini (Istituto di Studi sulle Società

15.30-15.50 Daniel Dumitran (“1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia)

16.20-16.40 Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann (Bayerische Akademie der

16.40-17.00 Agon Rrezja (Institute of National History, Skopje)

17.10-17.30 Joanna Bencheva (“St Kliment Ohridsky” University, Sofia)

17.30-17.50 Irena Bogdanović (Kapodistrian University of Athens)

17.50-18.10 Anita Paolicchi (University of Florence)

New Perspectives on Balkan Linguistics – 1st Part

University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law

14.00-14.50 Keynote lecture

Chair: Victor A. Friedman

15.10-15.30 Petya Asenova (Université “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia) &

15.30-15.50 Ekaterina Tarpomanova, Bilyana Mihaylova (“St Kliment Ohridski”

15.50-16.10 Artur Karasiński (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun)

Chair: Helmut Schaller

16.50-17.10 Irena Sawicka (Institute of Slavic Studies, Warsaw)

17.10-17.30 Dana-Mihaela Zamfir (“Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti” Institute of

Empires’ Legacy in the Balkans: Romania and Bulgaria

University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law

14.00-14.50 Keynote lecture

Chair: Alexandre Kostov

15.10-15.30 Dobrinka Parusheva (University of Plovdiv / Institute for Balkan

15.30-15.50 Cristina Diac (National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism,

Chair: Cristina Diac

16.20-16.40 Aneta Mihaylova (Institute for Balkan Studies & Centre of

16.40-17.00 Carmen Stratone (National Institute for the Study of

17.10-17.30 Ana Maria Cătănuș (National Institute for the Study of

17.30-17.50 Vasile Buga (National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism,

17.50-18.10 Alexandru Murad Mironov (National Institute for the Study of

Translations of Patristic Literature in South-Eastern Europe

Library of the Holy Synod

Chair: Zamfira Mihail

14.00-14.20 Aneta Dimitrova (“St Kliment Ohridsky” University, Sofia)

14.20-14.40 Petra Stankovska (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts)

15.10-15.30 Ekaterina Dikova (Institute for Balkan Studies & Centre of

15.30-15.50 Zamfira Mihail (Institut d’Études Sud-Est Européennes, Bucarest)

Chair: Lora Taseva