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International Workshop
“Mobilities” in the Black Sea Region
New Europe College Bucharest (21 Plantelor St.)
20–21 May 2016
www.nec.ro
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“MOBILITIES” IN THE BLACK SEA REGION
During the past decades, the construction of the Black Sea Region as a meaningful area of
scholarly research has followed different methodological approaches and concepts. New Europe
College (NEC), an Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest, has contributed to this academic debate
by hosting six international colloquia and workshops on the history, present, and prospects of the area,
organized in the framework of its Black Sea Link Fellowship Program (2010–2015).
For this year’s workshop, now integrated into the Pontica Magna Fellowship Program, we
propose to look at the Black Sea Region as a space of motion, movement, migration, transfer,
circulation, flow, etc. By employing this relatively new concept – “mobility” (which does not aim to
hierarchize the research object, but to ask for actors, trajectories, borders, or communication) –,
different layers of dynamics in the Black Sea Region can be analyzed, aspects that usually remain
little visible when a more “classical” approach focused on politics, economics, or religion is used.
Methodological papers on the “mobility turn” in the social sciences, and empirical case studies
on several types of concrete “mobilities” in the area (such as human migrations, trade, cultural and
academic exchanges) will reveal some of the durable features and the variables of these “mobilities”
across space and time in the Black Sea Region.
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PROGRAM
FRIDAY, MAY 20TH
10.00–10.15
Welcome address
Valentina SANDU–DEDIU
Rector, New Europe College
10.15–10.45
Keynote Speaker
Şerban PAPACOSTEA
Corresponding Fellow of the Romanian Academy
The Black Sea as a Crossroads. A Romanian View
10.45–11.15
Discussions
11.15–11.45
Coffee Break
11.45–13.15
Session 1
Politics and Mobility in the Black Sea Region in the 21st Century
Moderator:
Carmen SCHEIDE
Universität St. Gallen
11.45–12.05
Igor DELANOË
French–Russian Analytical Center Observo (French–Russian Chamber of Commerce), Moscow /
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute CIES / Kadir Has University, Istanbul
Military Balance in the Black Sea Region
12.05–12.25
Carter JOHNSON
Department of International Affairs, National Research University – Higher School of Economics,
Moscow / American Councils
Ethnic Migration and the End of Civil War: How Demographic Changes Impacted the Georgia–
Abkhazia Conflict (1992–2008)
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12.25–12.45
Aram TERZYAN
Yerevan State University, NEC Alumnus
The Evolution of the European Union’s Conception in Foreign Policy Discourse of Armenia:
Implications for the U-turn and the Path Beyond the Association Agreement
12.45–13.15
Discussions
13.15–15.00
Lunch
15.00–17.00
Session 2
Economic Mobility in an Imperial Borderland
Moderator:
Katharina BIEGGER
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
15.00–15.20
Volodymyr KULIKOV
“V. N. Karazin” Kharkiv National University, NEC Alumnus
Labour Mobility in Company Towns in the Late Russian Empire
15.20–15.40
Andrei EMILCIUC
Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chişinău
Mobility of Merchants in the Southern Regions of the Russian Empire: State Regulations and
Community Perception (First Half of the 19th
Century)
15.40–16.00
Igor LYMAN & Victoria KONSTANTINOVA
Berdyansk State Pedagogical University
“Mobilities” of “Russian” Cities of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov Area in the Period of the
Russian Empire: Study by the Research Institute of Urban History
16.00–16.30
Discussions
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16.30–16.45
Coffee Break
16.45–17.45
Roundtable:
Academic Mobility in the Countries around the Black Sea. Opportunities and Challenges
Moderator: Constantin ARDELEANU
NEC Long Term Fellow / “The Lower Danube” University of Galaţi
19.30
Dinner
SATURDAY, MAY 21ST
09.30–11.30
Session 3:
Geographic Displacement, Social Mobility, and Symbolic Transfers in an East-European
Borderland
Moderator:
Oliver REISNER
School of Arts & Sciences, European & Caucasian Studies, Ilia State University, Tbilisi
09.30–09.50
Andrei CUŞCO
“Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University in Chişinău, NEC Alumnus
Marginality, Stigma, and Uncertain Identities: Trajectories of Bessarabian Emigrés in Romania
09.50–10.10
Diana DUMITRU
“Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University in Chişinău, NEC Alumna
Five Lives of a Holocaust Survivor: Shifting Identities and Loyalties in the Context of Migration
10.10–10.30
Vitalie SPRÎNCEANĂ
George Mason University, NEC Alumnus
Moldovan Baptists Building the Global Christendom: “DivitiaGratiae” University from Chişinău
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10.30–10.50
Petru NEGURĂ
“Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University in Chişinău, NEC Fellow
The First Moldovan Students in Romania (1990–1991): Social Conversion, Anomie, and Shifting
Identities
10.50–11.30
Discussions
11.30–11.45
Coffee Break
11.45–13.15
Session 4:
Merchants and Commercial Mobility in the Black Sea Basin
Moderator:
Uku LEMBER
NEC Fellow
11.45–12.05
Marco CASSIOLI
Aix-Marseille University, NEC Alumnus
Mobility and Wax Trade in the Black Sea Region: the Merchants of Kilia (14th
Century)
12.05–12.25
Ekin MAHMUZLU
Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
Institutional Change in Marketing and Mobility of Merchants and Commodities in East Anatolian
Black Sea ports and Its Hinterland between 1830s–1910s
12.25–12.45
Discussions
12.45–13.30
New Books on the Black Sea Area
13.30–15.00
Lunch
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15.00–16.30
Session 5
Diasporas, Migration, and Mobility in the Danubian Principalities / Romania in the 19th
Century
Moderator:
Dietmar MŰLLER
Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe
15.00–15.20
Constantin IORDACHI
Central European University, Budapest
Collective Imperialism and Freedom of Navigation: The European Commission of the Danube
15.20–15.40
Dimitrios M. KONTOGEORGIS
International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki
From the Eastern Mediterranean to the Romanian Ports. Mobility Trajectories of Greek
Merchants, Seafarers and Workers at the Lower Danube during the Long 19th
Century (c. 1829–
1914)
15.40–16.00
Nicoleta ROMAN
“Nicolae Iorga” History Institute, Bucharest
Women Travellers and (Pre)Modern Romania: Profiles, Interests and Expectations
16.00–16.30
Discussions
16.30–16.45
Conclusions
Constantin ARDELEANU
NEC Long-Term Fellow / “The Lower Danube” University of Galaţi
The Black Sea and Its “Mobilities”
EVENT ORGANISED WITH THE SUPPORT OF VOLKSWAGENSTIFTUNG
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The workshop is organized within the framework of the Pontica Magna Fellowship Programme
in partnership with the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe
(St. Gallen University)
and is supported by
VolkswagenStiftung
NEW EUROPE COLLEGE Str. Plantelor 21, Bucureşti 023971
Tel.: (+4) 021 307 99 10
Fax: (+4) 021 327 07 74 E-mail: [email protected]
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