I. Session: The Influence of Ottoman and Turkish Perception in Balkan States’ Nation Building Processes / Chair: Aydın Babuna

Dimitar V. Atanassov, "Nation-building processes in the Balkans: a non-canonical interpretation"

Anna Alexieva, "Bulgarian National Culture: Debates during the National Revival Period. 'Ex-centrism', 'ego-centrism', Ottoman Context"

Danilo Serenac, "The Final Push Against the Eternal Enemy: The Serbian Preparations for the First Balkan War"

Adriana Cupcea, "Approaches of the Turkish and Tatar Identity in Dobruja (Romania) throughout the 20th Century: From Religious Community to Ethnic Community"

Ledia Dushku, "Provisional Government of Vlora, Deottomanization Process and the Albanian society"

 

II. Session: Ottoman and Turkish Image in Balkan Literature and Historiographies / Chair: Büşra Ersanlı

Genciana Abazi-Egro, "On Concept of Turk in 18^th Century Albanian Literature"

Dritan Egro, "The Perception and Image of the Ottomans and Turks in Official Books of Albanian History"

Thalia Dragonas, "'The Turks are good?': Greeks constructing the national 'other'"

Anna Frangoudaki, "The image of Ottomans and Turks in Greek School History"

Ramiza Smajić, "Perception of the terms 'Turkish' and 'Ottoman' in the post-Yugoslav period in the Balkans"

 

III. Session: Impact of Ottoman Heritage in Relations between Turkey and Balkan States / Chair: Zuhal Mert Uzuner

Emanuel Plopeanu, "Turkey neutrality as seen by the Axis. Romanian hopes and Turkish influences (1939-1944)"

Metin Ömer, "Perceptions of the Turkish Emigration from Dobruja to Anatolia in the Bucharest-Ankara Interwar Relations"

Antoanela Petkovska, "Macedonia in the Interaction between the European and the Ottoman Heritage"

Sanja Arezina, "Turkish Foreign Policy towards Serbia in the context of Current International and Regional Trends"