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1Dorina DragneaAssociate researcher at the Institute of Romanian Philology ʽBogdan Petriceicu Hașdeu᾿ (Republic of Moldova), Vice-president of the Balkan History Association (Romania)Calendar holidays as mediums of common past and fractured memories. On the basis of the documents in the Folklore Archive in Chișinău, Moldova
2Gheorghe Onișoru / Ștefan PuriciProfessor Head of Department of Human and Social Politics Sciences, Stephen the Great University from Suceava, Romania / Professor Vice-Rector “Stephen the Great Mare” from Suceava, RomaniaBuilding the memory of the resistance under the communist regime in Romania through oral history sources
3Zekirja ShabaniPhD student at Istanbul University, Department of History, Istanbul, Türkiye; Researcher at the Albanology Institute, Prishtina, KosovoThe Ottoman Period in Kosovo: Interpretations of the Past and Contemporary Perspectives
4Alexandru SimonRomanian Academy, Centre for Transylvanian Studies, Cluj-Napoca.Kaloiannes in Anti-Ottoman Warfare? Frescos, Chronicles and Needs
5Branimir JankovićAssistant Professor Department of History University of ZagrebDivided memories of Yugoslavia in post-Yugoslav countries and within them
6Iulia-Alexandra OpreaBalkan History Association, Bucharest- associate member
Center for Middle East and Global Order, Berlin – associate fellow
Turkey’s “Gönül Coğrafya” – (Re)Imagining Past and Present
7Wojciech SzczepańskiMember of the Balkan Studies Commission of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Branch in Poznań and Balkan History Association, Bucharest  Divided or common post-Yugoslav memory  of Yugoslavness?
8Kurdi KrisztinaUniversity of Budapest ELTE Department of East European HistoryDivided memories of displacements – A hungarian love story in Baranya county in the 1980’s
9Kinga BiałekPhD Candidate, Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies, University of Wroclaw, PolandZones of Memory and Oblivion in Nicosia: Exploring the Ottoman Heritage and Its Presentation in Museums
10Orlin SabevProfessor Institute of Balkan Studies with Centre of Thracology Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, SofiaThe Memory of Vassil  Levski, The Bulgarian National Idea and The Ottoman State: The Contradictory Past
11Jasmina RadicNational Library of SerbiaThe Sacrificed Image of WWI. Shaping the Collective Memory during the Interwar Period in Yugoslavia
12Keziban AcarDepartment of History at Manisa Celal Bayar University in Turkey.Russian and Cossack Remembrance of Refugee Life in the 1920s
13Novák Attila Senior researcher Thomas Molnar Institute for Advanced Studies Ludovika University of Public Service BudapestHungarian-Jewish coexistence and dissent in the 20th century
14Nikola ZečevićPh.D. candidate at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and research assistant at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of MontenegroWorld War I in Montenegrin Memory: A Tale of Two Narratives
15Enriketa Pandelejmoni (Papa)Prof. Asoc. Faculty of History & Philology
University of Tirana, Albania
Divided Memories in Albania: Shaping Collective Memory of Internment and Labor Camps
16Eleonora Naxidou-Stamatia FotiadouInstitute of Balkan Studies with Center for Thracology / Democritus University of ThraceContested Paths of Memory and Legacy in Greek and Bulgarian Narratives  
17Annita AntoniadouAdjunct lecturer on History and Cultural Heritage Cyprus University of TechnologyOutlining unknown aspects of the symbiotic city of Limassol during the dawn of Cyprus’ independence based on firsthand memory studies and narratives.
18Ersi (Kerasia) MalagiorgiUniversity of ThessalyRe-drawing the boundaries of the privilege of suffering: Claiming inclusion in the Shoah as national memory in contemporary Israel
19Kateřina KrálováCharles University & Czech Academy of ScienceReflecting on the Host Country: Greek Civil War Child Refugees in Czechia, Poland, and Hungary – Memories Connected and Divided
20Claudiu-Lucian Topor / Andrei ChirilăProfessor / PhD student Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Faculty of HistoryWartime remembrance among Romanian political elites Refugee memoirs from Moldova and notes under military occupation (1916-1918)
21Danilo ŠarenacSenior researcher, Institute for Contemporary HistoryFrom Cordial Friendship to Vicious Hate. The Failed Project of Commemorating the Serbian military assistance to the siege of Edirne 1912-1913
22Erkjad KajoDoctoral Fellow in Global History at the University of Pavia in Italy and a Research Associate at the Association for Global Political Thought at Harvard University      War, Memory, and Identity: Greek and Albanian Divided Memories on ‘Northern Epirus’
23Umit EserAssistant Professor History Department Necmettin Erbakan University TurkeyConflicting Representations of Alafranga: French Influence in the Collective Memory of the Ottoman Literati
24Ayca BaydarDepartment of History, Kastamonu UniversityThe making of an alternative hero: The myth of Resid Pasa as a nostalgic account of the past
25Elias G. Skoulidas / Kriton KuciUniversity of Ioannina / Mediterranean University of AlbaniaMemories and Myths about a Contested Minority during and after the “Socialist” Period in Albania
26      Εleni PaschalidouPhD candidate of Balkan Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia  Common past – conflicting remembrance: the different policy of memory on the Greek Civil War’s Soldiers           
27      Merve DoganDr. in History at Biruni University/TürkiyeMigrations from the Balkans after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78        
28      Alexandros Solomos BalatsoukasDoctoral Fellow in Global Intellectual History,   JLU UniversityNavigating Divided Memories: Greek and Turkish Museums on the War of 1919-1923      
29Snezhana DimitrovaProfessor South West University Blagoevgrad Bulgaria        Bulgarian Communist, and Communist Reformist, Historiography of WWI: The Contradictions of the Legacy      
30Aikaterini YannoukakouLibrarian @General State Archives-Historical Archives of Macedonia  Being visibly invisible:The case of Thessaloniki’s Ottoman monuments
31Areti MakriHead of the Library-Reading Room at the General State Archives of Greece in Thessaloniki.From Epirus to Romania and back to homeland: a travelogue of a young Civil War child and the formation of his political identity    
32Lazaros VasileiadisPhD candidate of Balkan Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of MacedoniaShared Traumas and Interconnected Histories: The Exchange of Armenian and Greek Refugees by the Soviet Union and Greek State during the Interwar Period
33Aleksandar R. MiletićInstitute for Recent History of Serbia BelgradeChallenging Grand Narratives? Shared Memories of Serbian-Albanian Coexistence in Kosovo in the 20th and 21st Centuries  
34John MazisProfessor of History
Hamline University
When Memory Fails
35Urška LampeInstitute IRRIS for Research, Development and Strategies of Society, Culture and Environment,Centre for Oral History (Čentur, Slovenia)Post-second World War contested memories in Slovenia: reflection on
conflicting narratives and methodologies of research
36Burcin Gercek / Mazlum VesekPhD candidate in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University USA / independent scholar on literature and cinema in TurkeyTjvjik: a story of a lost world, oblivion and usurpation
37Constantina-Eleni Bazani Master student of University of Macedonia Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies / Master’s Degree Program in History, Anthropology and Culture in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe)The relationship between collective memory, history and the works of Svetlana Alexievich
38Melina ForisHonorary Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment of the Institute of Education, UCL.Official history and Family memory about the recent past in Cyprus