Intern. conference of historians on Macedonian identity

11.09.2008
The International conference of historians on the Macedonian identity through history was held in the "Saints Cyrill and Methodius" University, organised by the Institute of National History in Skopje, Macedonia celebrating its 60th anniversary.

Emminent participants were Professor Keith Brown, Professor Victor Friedman and Professor Anastasia Karakasidou.

Victor Friedman is the Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, as well as a Professor in the Linguistics Department and an Associate faculty member of the Department of Anthropology and the Division of the Humanities.

He has over 200 publications and author of the first book on modern Macedonian ‚The Grammatical Categories of the Macedonian Indicative (Slavica, 1977), published in the United States, as well as important articles analyzing why Macedonian is the site of such conflict: he explains that a dialect is often thought to belong to one language group for political and cultural reasons, just as a territory is.

Keith Brown is a sociocultural anthropologist specializing in the study of twentieth-century Macedonia. Professor Brown received his doctorate from the University of Chicago and taught at Bowdoin College and the University of Wales before joining the Watson Institute.

Anastasia Karakasidou is a social anthropologist. She received her doctorate degree from Columbia University in 1992. She has published a book entitled Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990 with University of Chicago Press (1997), as well as a number of articles on the ideology of nationhood in Greece and the Balkans.

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