Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 9, 2001

Volume 30, Number 10

Council on European Studies sponsoring conference on problems faced in Balkans during World War II

Young scholars from Europe and the United States will gather on campus for a conference examining World War II in the Balkans on Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 12 and 13.

"A Young Scholars' Conference on the Second World War in the Balkans" will include three panels that are grouped around the problems of wartime Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia, as well as the international interplay, says Ivo Banac, who is organizing the event. M. Attila Hoare, who recently earned his Ph.D. at Yale and is now at Cambridge University in England, and Mark Biondich, a recent Ph.D. recipient from the University of Toronto who is now working in the War Crimes Section of the Department of Justice in Ottawa, Canada, are coordinating the conference.

Among the topics that will be examined are "Assimilation and Annihilation: Ustasha National Ideology and the Serb Question, 1941-1945," "Post WWII Anti-Communist Guerilla Movements in the Croatian Republic of Yugoslavia," "Ethnicity and Exile: Serb-Croat Tensions and the Struggle for Legitimacy" and "Stalin and the Macedonian Question, 1941-1945." Visiting speakers include Paul I. Jukic of the Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, and Laurie West Van Hook of the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.

The conference will take place 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Monday and 9 a.m.-noon on Tuesday. All sessions, which are free and open to the public, will be held in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St.

"A Young Scholars' Conference on the Second World War in the Balkans" is sponsored by the Council on European Studies, part of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. For further information about the event, call (203) 432-3423.

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