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
Library of the Romanian Academy
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
Associates
Alexandrion Foundation
Dar Development Association
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Bucharest, 2019
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
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
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law
Aula Magna
9.00-9.50 Keynote lecture
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
10.50-11.00 Discussions
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)
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11.20-11.40 Antonis Athanasopoulos (University of Ioannina)
Ottoman Invasions in the Southern Balkans: The Case of Peloponnese
11.40-11.50 Discussions
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
15.00-15.20 Discussions
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)
16.20-16.30 Discussions
