1st International Balkan Studies Congress Successfully Completed

1st International Balkan Studies Congress took place between 17-19 September, in Skopje, North Macedonia.

In the Congress participated 32 participants from 7 different countries, including, North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Türkiye, Poland and Azerbaijan. Participants presented papers from 10 different disciplines as History, Architecture and Urban Studies, Media and Communication Studies, Politics, International Relations, Economics, Law, and Islamic Studies.

PRESENTATIONS

Session I

Moderator: Dr. Ahmet Köroğlu

》Mehmed Cavid Bey’in Selanik Günleri (1902-1908) – Mustafa S. Öztürk (Turkey)

》İttihat ve Terakki ile Ohrili Sabri Bey (1905-1910) – Isra Sheh (North Macedonia)

》The efforts of Ottoman Empire to build railways in the Balkan – Besnik Emini (North Macedonia)

Session II

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Shener Bilal

》Kosovo The Causes Holding of Congress of Berlin from dhe Viewpoint of the Anglophone Historiography – Faton Pllana (Kosovo)

》The character of the Albanan uprisings of 1830 – 1849, against the reformation of the Ottoman Empire – Oktaj Hasani (Kosovo)

》Terüman-ı Hakikat Gazetesi’ne Göre Bosna Hersek’te İşgal Sürecinin Bir Analizi – Esra Yoğurtçu (Turkey)

》Balkan Harbi’nin Meydana Gelmesinde Koçana Vak’ası’nın Etkisi – Fatih Fırat (Turkey)

Session III

Moderator: Dr. Murat Aliu

》Kolektif Mekansal Belleğin Yeniden İnşası: Üsküp Meydanı Örneği – Cengiz Destan (North Macedonia)

》Investigation of Urban Destruction in the Context of Urbicide in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Rümeysa Sena Şeker (Turkey)

》İvo Andriç’in Drina Köprüsü Romanında Kronotop (Zaman-Uzam) – Remzi Soytürk (Turkey)

》Observation of Ottoman Religious Heritage Legacy on Elbasan City than and now – Brunilda Basha (Albania)

》Collective Memory and Spatial Layering on the Post-Communist Cities in the Balkan Peninsula – Gremina Elmazi (North Macedonia)

Session IV

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Ali Pajaziti

》Representation of the ‘Turk’ in Yugoslav films – Omer Merzic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

》Representation of Muslim Woman in the Balkan Media – Denada Dosti (Albania)

》Analizë semiologjike e karikaturave të publikuara në gazeta: Zgjedhjet e 14 shkurt në Kosovë – Festim Rizanaj (Kosovo)

Session V

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Mevludin Ibishi

》Politics is Metaphysical? Yes and No – Arxhend Blakçori (Kosovo)

》Post(memory). How the next generation “remembers” the war – Katarzyna Wasiak (Poland)

》Slipping into failure – Bosnian Multiculturalism since Yugoslavia, Through Sejdić and Finci, until Žižek – Nikola Lero (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Session VI

Moderator: Dr. Deniz Memedi

》Kuşak – Yol Projesi Bağlamında Çin Halk Cumhuriyeti ve Sırbistan İlişkileri – Hatice Demirci (Turkey)

》Turkey’s Balkans Policy in the Context of Soft POWER – Dolunay Yusuf Baltürk (Turkey)

》The changing Political Climate in the Balkans and the Transformative Power of the EU – Dilek Kütük (Turkey)

Session VII

Moderator: Doc. Dr. Bujamin Bela

》A review of the Financial Development – Capital Flows nexus in Balkan Countries – Ebubekir Mollaahmetoğlu (Turkey)

》Albania’s case: The Covid-19 economic and health impact of disease – Loreta Isaraj & Rikela Fusha (Albania)

》Arnavutluk’ta Vehhabi/Selefi Zihniyetin Yayılmasında Nasruddin el-Albani’nin ve Suudi Vakıfların Etkisi – Ecenur Pekçetin (Turkey)

》Soya Dönüş (Asimilasyon Siyaseti) Siyaseti Kapsamında Bulgaristan Türkleri ve Naim Süleymanoğlu – Aynur Huseynova (1984 – 1989) (Azerbaijan)

Session VIII

Moderator: Dr. Ahmet Köroğlu

》The Future of the Justice System in the Digital World of GPT-3 AND Artificial Intelligence – Republic of North Macedonia – Ardita Ilazi & Emir Kurtishi (North Macedonia)

》Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Process: Case Study Kosovo – Tringa Dreshaj (Kosovo)

》Dijital Yerliler ve Manipülasyonla Gelen Değişim – Furkan Düzenli (Turkey)

》The Concept of Order in Hasan Kafi Akhisari’s Thought – İsmail Yazıcı (Turkey)

》An Analysis of Time in Virginia Wolf’s novels in Light of the Quranic Chapter Asr – Laureta Rexha (Kosovo)

SPECIAL SESSION | SKOPJE ACADEMY

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Musa Musai

》Analizë e përzgjedhjes së stilit të lidershipit në zhvillimin e bizneseve në Republikën e Maqedonisë së Veriut – Anila Murati (North Macedonia)

》Revolucionarizimi mjekësor i trajtimit të sëmundjeve të pashërueshme nëpërmjet inxhinieringut gjenetik (CRISPR-Cas9 dhe kanceri) – Besar Rufati (North Macedonia)

》Bilişim Hukukunda Robotların Konumu ve Yapay Zekanın Ceza Muhakemesinde ki Rolü – Hanife Etem (North Macedonia)

》Analizë e gjendjes psikologjike të të burgosurve në burgjet e Republikës së Maqedonisë së Veriut (Idrizovë), në periudhën 2015-2021 – Liber Emini (North Macedonia)

》Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyete Üç Matematikçi: Hüseyin Tevfik Paşa, Salih Zeki bey ve Kerim Emin – Zehra A. Sadiki (North Macedonia)

》Divorcet gjatë periudhës së pandemisë Covid-19 në rajonin e Shkupit – Mersie Ramadani (North Macedonia)

On the third day of the Congress, together with the participants was realised a trip to Ohrid.

We thank the participants, moderators of the sessions, institutions and all those who were part of this Congress, wishing them success and prosperity.