"(Mis)managing and (mis)understanding diversity in Macedonia"

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- by invitation only -

The workshop will explore the past and present political arrangements and adjustments to the Macedonian multiethnic, multilinguistic, multifaith population. In many ways the Republic of Macedonia is a product of the dissolution of much larger and more complex political entities and still carries many features from the Ottoman and Yugoslav (first monarchic, later socialist) past. It is a society squeezed between the remnants of the pre-modern fuzzy and meshed identities, loyalties, allegiances and the requirements of modernity for neat, unambiguously defined communities, territories, concepts. From three different academic disciplines – sociology, anthropology and history – the speakers will tackle the difficult task of clarifying the disputed, denied, and challenged emergence of the Macedonan nation-state. How is diversity managed and understood today and what are the lessons of the Macedonian case for other complex societies? This question should serve as open invitation for fruitful discussion.