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PROGRAMME

International Conference

GREAT WAR, SERBIA, THE BALKANS AND GREAT POWERS

Belgrade, September 24 to 25, 2014

09:00 ‐ 09:30 Opening session 10:00 HISTORIOGRAPHY Moderators: Ana Stolić, Milan Terzić Yves Raic EVOLVING ANGLO‐SPHERE HISTORIOGRAPHY ON THE GREAT WAR IN THE POST‐DAYTON ERA: IS SERBIA A VICTIM OR A ROGUE STATE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GREAT WAR? Mile Bjelajac UNINTERRUPTED DISCUSSION OVER THE BALKANS AS CAUSE OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR Jörg Echternkamp IN THE WAKE OF WORLD WAR II. COMMEMORATION, HISTORY AND REPRESENTATION OF WORLD WAR I IN WEST GERMANY

* WAR AND DIPLOMACY Moderators: Yves Raic, Yaroslav V. Vishnyakov Snezhana A. Radoeva BULGARIAN‐SERBIAN RELATIONS IN THE FOCUS OF THE EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY (1913 – 1915) Biljana Stojić FRENCH POLICY IN THE BALKAN PENINSULA ON THE EVE OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR Cosmin Ionită THE DIPLOMACY OF NEUTRALIZATION. RUSSO‐ROMANIAN RELATIONS IN JULY CRISIS 1914 Efpraxia S. Paschalidou GREECE'S PROLONGING NEUTRALITY PERCEPTION DURING WORLD WAR I; THE STANCE TOWARDS SERBIA Tom Simoens BRAVE LITTLE BELGIUM. A NEUTRAL COUNTRY AMONG GREAT POWERS Discussion 14:30 SERBIA AND IT'S ALLIES Moderators: Jörg Echternkamp, Milić J. Milićević Vasiliy Kashirin COMBAT EFFECTIVNESS OF THE SERBIAN ARMY ON THE EVE OF WORLD WAR ONE: ASSESSMENTS OF THE RUSSIAN GENERAL STAFF EXPERTS FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF THE BALKAN WARS

Gordana Jović Krivokapić FRENCH YUGOSLAV PROJECT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY: FRENCH SLAVIC STUDIES IN MISSION TO CIVILIZE Aleksey Timofeyev RUSSO‐SERBIAN MILITARY COOPERATION AT THE BEGINNING OF WORLD WAR I Mirjana Zorić ALLIED MEDICAL AND HUMANITARIAN AID TO SERBIA DURING THE WORLD WAR I Nadine Akhund THE CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE IN THE GREAT WAR: PERCEPTIONS AND THE IMPACT OF THE BALKANS Andrey L. Shemyakin FROM ISLAND OF CORFU TO RUSSIA: NIKOLA PAŠIĆ IN ST. PETERSBURG AND MOSCOW 1916

* SERBIAN ARMY DURING THE GREAT WAR Moderators: Andrey Shemyakin, Alexey Timofeev Stevan Radojčić, Saša T. Bakrač, Dejan Đorđević GEOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR Slobodan Đukić SERBIAN ARMY COMMAND IN WAR YEAR 1914 Dalibor Denda SERBIAN POW’S IN WORLD WAR I Milić J. Milićević SERBIAN ARMY COMMANDING OFFICERS DURING THE ČEVRTNIJA BATTLE 1914 Danilo Šarenac MILITARY JUSTICE AND THE SERBIAN OFFICERS AT THE SALONIKA FRONT Aleksandar Životić EXPERIENCES OF SERBIAN ARMY FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND SHAPING OF THE ART OF WAR IN YA/YPA (1949‐1954) Discussion

09:00 THE SOCIETY Moderators: Catherine Horel, Miljan Milkić Božica Mladenović ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN THE MILITARY‐GENERAL GUVERNMAN OF SERBIA 1916‐1918 Barbara Ahammer PROPAGANDA IN THE WORLD WAR I Radoslav Raspopović SITUATION IN THE MONTENEGRO ACCORDING TO THE ROYAL CABINET PROTOCOL FROM 29 DECEMBER 1915 TILL THE CEASE OF ITS FUNCTIONING IN MONTENEGRO 19 FEBRUARY 1916 Ana Stolić ‘THE WORLD WILL HAVE TO COUNT ON THE PATRIOTISM OF SERBIAN WOMEN’. THE PATRIOTISM OF SERBIAN WOMEN AND THE QUESTION OF CHANGE IN GENDER ROLES DURING THE GREAT WAR Biljana Vučetić AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION ON SERBIA DURING THE WORLD WAR I Tetsuya Sahara THE MACEDONIAN ORIGIN OF “BLACK HAND” AND THE SARAJEVO INCIDENT * NATIONAL QUESTION Moderators: Milan Micić, Tetsuya Sahara Yaroslav V. Vishnyakov SERBO‐CROAT RELATIONS IN SERBIAN VOLUNTARY CORPS IN RUSSIA (1916–1917) Zvezdan Marković SLOVENIANS IN AUSTRO‐HUNGARIAN ARMY IN WORLD WAR I Blaž Torkar THE ISONZO FRONT AND SLOVENIAN TERRITORY DURING FIRST WORLD WAR Mark Stefan Peters „THE GOOD OLD SERBS“: GENERAL SARKOTIĆ, THE SOUTH SLAV QUESTION AND THE SERBIAN PEOPLE IN WORLD WAR I Milan Gulić DALMATIA ON THE DAWN OF GREAT WAR Aleksandar Stojčev MACEDONIAN FRONT 1915 – 1918 AND ATTEMPTS FOR RESOLUTION OF MACEDONIAN QUESTION Discussion

MEMORIES Moderators: Rositza Rousseva, Blaž Torkar Sofija Božić THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN THE MEMORIES OF DR. MILAN PECIĆ AND DR. MILUTIN VELIMIROVIĆ – A REVIEW OF TWO UNPUBLISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY Momčilo Isić MILOŠ MOSKOVLJEVIĆ ON THE BEGINNING OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE SERBIAN ARMY AT THE THESSALONIKI FRONT Milan Micić HISTORICAL MEMORIES OF SERBIAN VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS’ DESCENDANTS ABOUT THE EVENTS IN THE WORLD WAR I Nenad L. Lajbenšperger MONUMENT AND THE OSSUARY OF GUČEVO – PART OF ITS HISTORY * AFTER THE WAR Moderator: Dmitar Tasić Milovan Pisarri WORK OF THE INTER‐ALLIED COMMISSION FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF BULGARIAN WAR CRIMES IN SERBIA DURING WORLD WAR I: FROM SKOPJE TO PARIS Arpad Hornyak EFFORTS OF HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT FOR ESTABLISHING INDEPENDENCE AND PRESERVING INTEGRITY OF HUNGARY IN THE LAST MONTHS OF 1918 Discussion Closing session

International Conference “Great War, Serbia, the Balkans and Great Powers” Belgrade, September 24 to 25, 2014 Strategic Research Institute, Ministry of Defence e‐mail: [email protected] [email protected] The Institute of History, Belgrade e‐mail: [email protected]