Session 1
Wednesday (May 4):
8.30-10.00 AM ET
CHAIR
Stefano Bianchini
(U of Bologna, Italy)
PAPERS
Gözde Emen-Gökatalay
(Independent Scholar)
Bulgarian Far-Right Groups and Muslim Communities in Bulgaria
During the Interwar Period
Giustina Selvelli
(Ca’ Foscari U of Venice, Italy)
Cyrillic or Latin? Proposals of a Mixed Alphabet and
Visions of National Unity in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Sylvia Hershcovitz
(Bar Ilan U, Israel)
National Peripheries-Romanian Jewish Women and Zionism
Dušan Fundić
(Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
The Failure of Yugoslav Nation-Building Project and Right-Wing Politics
(1934–1941): Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Romania Compared
DISCUSSANT
John Paul Newman
(Maynooth U, Ireland)