Shadows of Empires: Imperial Legacies and Mythologies in East Central Europe
September 14th to 21st, 2021, Sofia
Participants & Projects
| Altıntaş, Toygun (EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2021-22) | The Governance of Inequality: The Ottoman State and Ottoman Armenians (1856-1908) |
| Artymyshyn, Pavlo (Ivan Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Lviv) | The “Russian World” (“Russkiy mir”): From Literary Metaphor to Political Context |
| Bondarenko, Dmytro (University of Szeged) | The Monarchist Counter-Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe, 1918-1920 – A Comparative Analysis |
| Budinova, Elen (European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder) | Europe’s Contested Peripheries: Zooming into the Donbas’ post-Soviet sociohistorical downward spiral into a lived dystopia of protracted war for territory and memory |
| Coman, Roxana (independent researcher) | Dealing with a contested past? Ottoman architectural influence in Wallachia and Moldavia |
| David, Kathryn (Vanderbilt University) | One Ukraine, Under God: Church, State, and the Making of the Postwar USSR |
| Dorn, Martin (Heidelberg University) | Managing Diversity in a Multiethnic Space: Governance and Parliamentary Practices in the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic (1918-1919) |
| Karakusheva, Slavka and Ivo Strahilov (both Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridksi) | Dis/Inheriting the Ottoman Legacy in Contemporary Bulgaria |
| Kilinskas, Kestutis (University of Vilnius) | The Interwar Military Forces of Lithuania as a Window into Imperial Legacy and Tradition |
| Krushynska, Oleksandra (University of Vienna) | Becoming Austrian? The Problem of Socio-Political Transformations in Galicia During First Decades of Habsburg Rule (1772-1815) |
| Peychev, Stefan (Boston College) | The Nature of the Ottoman City: Water Management and Urban Space in Sofia, 1380s-1910s |
| Sharaya, Liudmila (Arizona State University) | Limits of Nostalgia in Russia Abroad: imperial imagery among the first-wave Russian émigrés in Bulgaria and France in the interwar period |
| Shuvalova, Iryna (independent researcher) | ‘Donbas is my Sparta’: Identity and Belonging in the Songs of the War in Donbas |

