“Diálogos sobre migraciones, estereotipos, memoria e intercambio cultural desde la Antigüedad hasta el presente”
El Instituto de Historia Antigua y Medieval (Facultad de
Filosofía y Letras - Universidad de Buenos Aires) invita al ciclo de
encuentros:
“Diálogos sobre migraciones,
estereotipos, memoria e intercambio cultural desde la Antigüedad hasta el
presente”
“Dialogues about
migration, stereotypes, memory and cultural exchange from the Antiquity to the
Present”
El ciclo de encuentros propone la reflexión en torno a
los ejes mencionados (migraciones, estereotipos, memoria, intercambio
cultural), problemáticas de gran actualidad, que nos llevan a repensar nuestro
pasado en pos de comprender el mundo contemporáneo. La actividad propone
generar diálogos y debates activos centrados en distintos períodos históricos
con el fin de examinar la construcción de las diversas identidades o facetas de
la identidad a partir de la presentación de casos específicos, pero también de
la posibilidad de encontrar elementos en común o puntos de contacto entre las
estrategias, modos, causas y consecuencias de la definición de dichas identidades.
El cuarto encuentro, a realizarse el jueves 9 de
septiembre de 2021 a las 14 hs., reúne presentaciones de especialistas que se
centrarán en desarrollos de la Edad Moderna y Contemporánea, por un lado, la
Dra. Nada
Nada Zečević (Goldsmiths University of London) y, por otro, la Dra.
Sara
Bernard (University of Glasgow) y el Dr.
Agustin Cosovschi
(Université Paris Nanterre / CETOBaC) con la moderación del
Lic. Matías Figal (CEG-UNTREF/CONICET). La actividad es abierta al público, virtual y
gratuita.
ABSTRACTS:
Dra. Nada Zečević (Goldsmiths
University of London), “When wine turns
into vinegar: othering in Italian religious colleges hosting students of the
Balkan origin (17th-18th c.)”: My presentation focuses on student-teacher relations documented in
religious institutions (collegi) that educated Greek, Albanian and Slavic
students in Italy 16-18th c. These students were Christians who
originated from diverse parts of the Ottoman Balkans and the surrounding areas
(namely, Hapsburg Hungary, and Ruthenia/today’s Ukraine), or the offspring of
the Christian refugees who had emigrated from the Balkans to the Apennines
after the fall of Constantinople (1453 and its aftermath). Grafting upon their
ancestral Orthodox Christian traditions, these students attended their colleges
as Catholic neophytes or observants of the Christian Union, amalgamating their
“present” and “past” religions in their regular daily interactions, often
reflecting there also some immediate experiences or shared memories of Judaism
and Islam. With this background and the Roman-Catholic education which they
received in the colleges, the students were highly deemed as prospective
mediators in the full subjection of their communities to the supremacy of the
Roman Pontiff, and the missionary propagation of the Roman Catholicism in the
Orthodox (“schismatic”) and Muslim (“infidel”) East.
No doubt, complex passages and
dynamic individual transformations which the students experienced during their
education in the Italian colleges influenced their networks and other outputs
of their unique cultural exchange. Some of these interactions, however, had
serious setbacks and these were usually marked by open conflicts. Sometimes
seen as students’ “in-ward” rivalries, the most notorious of these conflicts
appear to have been, in fact, the students’ “outward” confrontations with their
teachers, rectors and colleges’ supervisors (delegated by the Propaganda
Fide/Jesuits), which sometimes even ended in extreme situations such as
students’ expulsions from colleges, their secret escapes back home, or even
full-scale rebellions.
My survey of the colleges’
documentation and communications about their students’ academic progress and
their behaviour shows that some of the mentioned student-teachers’ tensions may
have been additionally prompted by the general rigidness of the education
process or the colleges’ religious discipline. However, this evidence also
makes it clear that far the largest number of the documented tensions was
critically heated by prejudice and socio-cultural biases which both sides
mutually reflected against one another. The content and tone of these
expressions of othering - even though they are greatly lacking informal
perceptions that must have circulated orally among individual colleges’ members
- show several typical forms of mutual (systemic) labelling, in which negative
images of a religious Other prevailed – of the teachers and colleges’
leaderships/supervision as oppressors of the students’ “authentic” (past)
selves, and of the students as an undisciplined, ungrateful, and
civilisationally inferior group that threatened the colleges’ order and the
ultimate missionary spread of Catholicism in the East.
Dra. Sara Bernard (University of Glasgow) y Dr. Agustin Cosovschi (Université
Paris Nanterre / CETOBaC), “Cooperation, Migration and Development: Mobilities Between Yugoslavia and the Southern Cone
in the Postwar Period”: Drawing on archival sources, the economic
press and technical reports, in this presentation we offer a number of new
insights into socialist Yugoslavia’s attempts to bolster cooperation with South
American countries in the 1950s and 1960s and we underline the role of
migration in this cooperation.
Firstly, we
analyze the ideological and economic underpinnings of such endeavors in the
context of Yugoslavia’s attempts to widen its network of political and economic
partners in the “Third World”. Moreover, we examines official policies toward
Yugoslav diasporas in South America, particularly focusing on the cases of
Chile and Argentina. Finally, we identify a number forms of political and
academic mobility that arose directly out of the diverse forms of cooperation
that Yugoslavia managed to establish in the Southern Cone in the early Cold
War, including academic exchange, political travels, and support for South
American political refugees.
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Saludos
cordiales,
Comisión
Organizadora.
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