Workshop
May 19 and 20, 2017
EHESS, 96 bd Raspail, room Lombard and 105 bd Raspail, room 13.
Languages: English and French
PROGRAM
Friday 19, May
EHESS, 96 bd Raspail, salle Lombard
During the 1990s the (post) Yugoslav space did not only witness the reinforcement of nationalism, the emergence of violence and the outbreak of war, but also a series of transformations that affected every dimension of the common life that the countries of the former Yugoslavia had shared during most of the previous century. The production and circulation of scientific knowledge was not an exception in this context: universities, research centers and other spaces of critical thought and production of knowledge in the former Yugoslav states, as well as the researchers themselves, were also affected by the redefinitions of territorial frontiers and political, economic and social systems, in addition to the permanent theoretical and methodological renewals that commonly distinguish the scientific field.
In a context characterized by the crisis of Marxist thought and the collapse of the discourse of self-management, as well as the consolidation of the liberal-democratic consensus of the 1990s and the disappearance of Communist regimes in Europe, both the production and transformations of human and social sciences in post-Yugoslav countries must be examined as elements that take part in a wider network of power relations between scientists from the region and the scientific production of the rest of the world, most notably American and Western European science. Particular attention must also be given to the structural transformations that affected the world of universities and the transmission of knowledge in general (the revolution in the means of communication, the setting of European educational and academic programs, processes of professionalization, privatization, development of NGOs, etc.) and the way they interacted with the specific events that affected the (post) Yugoslav space.
From a perspective of critique and reflection, this meeting will gather different generations of researchers, some of whom have been actors and witnesses of these transformations. Working on the particular case of the (post) Yugoslav space, we will attempt to assess the complex relations that exist between knowledge and experience, both individual and collective.
9:00 Reception
9:30-10:00 Introduction
Ivan Čolović, Biblioteka XX Vek, Belgrade
L’espace post-yougoslave : champ de recherche commun en sciences sociales. Témoignages d’un auteur et éditeur / The Post-Yugoslav Space: a Common Research Field in Social Sciences. Account of an Author and a Publisher.
10:00-13:00 Transformations in the Context of the Yugoslav Breakup: “Reflecting on the Crisis, Reflecting During the Crisis”
From Society to Memory: transfers of concepts between the Balkans and Western Europe around 1989. Nenad Stefanov (Institut fûr Geschichteswissenschaften, Humbold Universität, Berlin)
Les apories des sciences sociales en France face à l’éclatement de la Yougoslavie. Quelques éléments pour une approche transnationale / The dilemmas of Social Sciences in France in the Face of the Yugoslav Breakup. Some Elements for a Transnational Approach. Anne Madelain (CERCEC, EHESS-CNRS, Paris)
Between The Man and the System. Sociology in Serbia and Croatia facing the Crisis and Breakup of Yugoslavia. Agustín Cosovschi (CETOBAC, EHESS-CNRS, Paris et UNSAM, Buenos Aires)
Discussion: Wolf Feuerhahn (Centre Alexandre Koyré, EHESS-CNRS, Paris) and Xavier Bougarel (CETOBAC, EHESS-CNRS, Paris).
14:30-17:30 (Re) Building Academic Spaces: Scientific Policies and Networks Between the National and the International
From Self-Analysis to Field Analysis: A Modestly Personal Account of Serbian Sociology’s Post-Socialist Transition. Ivana Spasić, (Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade)
The Abyss of Interdisciplinarity. Manipulation through Cultural Knowledge in Postsocialist Narratives. Ines Prica (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb)
Constructions transnationales du genre après la guerre froide : l’héritage yougoslave comme ressource critique / National Constructions of Gender After the Cold War. The Yugoslav Heritage as a Critical Ressource. Ioana Cîrtocea, (CESSP, EHESS-CNRS, Paris)
Discutants : Jean-Louis Fabiani (CESPRA, EHESS-CNRS, Paris) and Nathalie Clayer, (CETOBAC, EHESS-CNRS, Paris)
Saturday 20, May
EHESS, 105 bd Raspail, salle 13
9h15-12h00 Social Sciences and Society: Roles and Positions Redefined
On the Politics of Anthropology in Serbia : Two case studies followed by a redefinition of concepts. Slobodan Naumović (Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)
Producing Science in Times of (Violent) Societal Unrests: Scholarship on the War-related Belgrade and Zagreb Feminism in the 1990s. Ana Miškovska Kajevska (Department of Polical Science, University of Amsterdam)
Les intellectuels de la Druga Srbija ou l’émergence d’une société civile serbe /The Druga Srbija Intellectuals, or the Rise of a Serbian Civil. Society Laëtitia Delamare (LAIOS, EHESS-CNRS, Paris)
Discussion: Igor Štiks (College of Art, University of Edinburgh)
12h00-13h00 Final Round Table
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