Transregional Projects
Snjezana Koren
CLIO IN THE BALKANS
The Politics of History Education
ed. Christina Koulouri, Thessaloniki 2002, p. 549
The international conference History
Teaching in Southeast Europe – Present and Future was held in Athens, April
4th-7th, 2002. The conference was organised by the Center for Democracy and
Reconciliation in Southeast Europe (www.cdsee.org)
in order to present the results of the two-year project
Southeast European Joint History Project. During the conference the book Clio in the Balkans was
presented. This book contains the papers prepared for and presented during the
seven workshops which were part of the project.
Contents
CHAPTER I: Common Past, Shared History
A. The Multi-ethnic Empires
1. THE BYZANTINE AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRES
A Common Regional Past? Portrayals of the Byzantine and Ottoman
Heritage from Within and Without by Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal and Vasilia
Lilian Antoniou
Dealing with Ottoman Past in Greek Chronicles by Pinelopi Stathi
‘Tyranny’ and ‘Despotism’ as National and Historical Terms in Greek
Historiography by Sia Anagnostopoulou
From Trauma to Self-Reflection: Greek Historiography meets the Young
Turks ‘Bizarre’ Revolution by Vangelis Kechriotis
Medieval and Modern Macedonia as Par of a National ‘Grand Narrative’
by Nikola Jordanovski
Multiethnic Empires, National Rivalry and Religion in Bulgarian
History Textbooks by Alexei Kalionski and Valery Kolev
Between two Empires by Codruta Matei
Byzantine and Ottoman Studies in Romanian Historiography. A Brief
Overview by Bogdan Murgescu
2. THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE
Hungarian Legacy in Southeastern Europe by Mirela-Luminita
Murgescu
Hungarians and Hungarian History in Croatian History Textbooks by
Snjezana Koren
B. The Former Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia: a Look in the Broken Mirror. Who is the ‘Other’? by
Snjezana Koren
Between Euphoria, Sober Realisation and Isolation. ‘Europe’ in the
History Textbooks of Former Yugoslavian Countries by Heike Karge
The Second World War and Socialistic Yugoslavia in Slovenian Textbooks
by Dragan Potocnik and Jelka Razpotnik
The Yugoslav History in Croatian Textbooks by Magdalena
Najbar-Agicic
Yugoslavia in a Broken Mirror. The Serbian Textbooks by Dubravka
Stojanovic
The Common Yugoslav History and the Republic of Macedonia by Nikola
Jordanovski
CHAPTER II: National and Religious Identities Co-existing of Conflicting?
A. Macedonian Identities
Between the Necessity and the Impossibility of a ‘National History’
by Nikola Jordanovski
Ottoman Macedonia in Bulgarian History Textbooks for Secondary School
by Alexei Kalionski
The Macedonian: Romanticism against Realism (According to a Recent
Sociological Survey) by Tzvetan Tzvetanski
School Celebrations in Greek Macedonia by Vlassis Vlassidis
The Macedonian Question in Greek History Textbooks by Despina
Karakatsani
The Macedonian Question in Serbian Textbooks by Bojan Dimitirijevic
B. Religious Identitites
Religious Education and the View of the ‘Other’ by Mirela-Luminita
Murescu
Religious Identities in Turkish Textbooks by Etienne Copeaux
Religious Education in Serbia by Milan Vukomanovic
The Ethnic and Religious Climate in Bulgaria after 1989. Preliminary
Notes for Discussion by Alexei Kaliionski
Religion, State and Society in Romanian History Textbooks by
Ecaterina Lung
Islamic Religious Education in Bosnia by Smail Balić
Islam in Austrian Schools by Smail Balić
The Treatment of Jewish History in Schools in Central and Eastern Europe
by Ivo Goldstein
Religious Identity and Religious Education in Schools by Costa
Carras
Perceiving the Religious ‘Other’ in a Cecular Educational Context by
Hanna Kassis
CHAPTER III: The Past in the Mirror of the Present
A. Cyprus
Citizenship, History and Memory in Turkish Cypriot Society: Is there
Room for Cypriotness? by Nergis Canefe
Otherness in the Turkish Historical Discourse: General
Considerations by Etienne Copeaux
The Subject of History in the Greek Cypriot Educational System: A
Subset of the Greek Nation by Loris Koullapis
School is a Textbook: Symbolism and Rituals in Turkish Cypriot Schools
by Neshe Yashin
Historical Distortions Biasing Books by Ulus Irkad
National Memory and Turkish-Cypriot Textbooks by Niyazi Kizilyurek
B. Albania
Albanian Schoolbooks in the Context of Societal Transformation:
Review Notes by Erind Pajo
Albania and Northen Epirus in Greek Civic Schoolbooks since the 1970s
by Despina Karakatsani
Albanians and their Neighbours: the Future’s Past by Dubravka
Stojanovic
APPENDIX: Educational System and History Teaching
Albania by Valentina Duka
Croatia by Snjezana Koren
Cyprus by Ulus Irkad
Greece by Triantafyllos Petridis and Maria Zografaki
FYR Macedonia by Emilija Simoska
Slovenia by Božo Repe
Turkey by Hayrettin Kaya, Mutlu Ozturk, Dilara Kahyaoglu, Ayse
Cetiner and Orhan Silier
Yugoslavia by Dubravka Stojanovic
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