This document outlines the agenda for an international conference held in Tirana, Albania on November 1-2, 2018 to discuss the life, legacy, and myth of George Castriota Skanderbeg, a 15th century military commander who led the resistance against the Ottoman Empire in Albania. The conference included sessions on new historical sources about Skanderbeg, his role as a protagonist and myth in history and literature, his relationship to Europe during the Renaissance, and new questions in the historiography of Skanderbeg.
This document outlines the agenda for an international conference held in Tirana, Albania on November 1-2, 2018 to discuss the life, legacy, and myth of George Castriota Skanderbeg, a 15th century military commander who led the resistance against the Ottoman Empire in Albania. The conference included sessions on new historical sources about Skanderbeg, his role as a protagonist and myth in history and literature, his relationship to Europe during the Renaissance, and new questions in the historiography of Skanderbeg.
This document outlines the agenda for an international conference held in Tirana, Albania on November 1-2, 2018 to discuss the life, legacy, and myth of George Castriota Skanderbeg, a 15th century military commander who led the resistance against the Ottoman Empire in Albania. The conference included sessions on new historical sources about Skanderbeg, his role as a protagonist and myth in history and literature, his relationship to Europe during the Renaissance, and new questions in the historiography of Skanderbeg.
This document outlines the agenda for an international conference held in Tirana, Albania on November 1-2, 2018 to discuss the life, legacy, and myth of George Castriota Skanderbeg, a 15th century military commander who led the resistance against the Ottoman Empire in Albania. The conference included sessions on new historical sources about Skanderbeg, his role as a protagonist and myth in history and literature, his relationship to Europe during the Renaissance, and new questions in the historiography of Skanderbeg.
On the ocasion of The Pan-National Year of George Castriota Skanderbeg
Frist Day, 1st November 2018
8.30 – Registration
First session, 9.00-11.00
New sources on George Castriota Skanderbeg Moderators: prof. dr. Pëllumb Xhufi, prof. asoc. dr. Eva Tafili Hyskaj
1. Nikolla Pano (Chicago): Skanderbeg in the United States;
2. Boban Petrovski (Skopje): The appropriation of Skenderbey by Balkan
historiographies - the (mis)use of historical sources;
3. Irakli Koçollari (Tirana): Secret Service of George Castriota Skanderbeg;
4. Machi Paizi Apostolopoulou (Athens): George Kastriota Skanderbeg: an
unknown biography in greek language (middle of XVIIIth century);
5. Anila Bitri (Tirana): Skanderbeg and his era in the 14th to 16th century Iberian peninsula; 6. David Hosaflook (Tirana): Zachary Jones’s presentation of Scanderbeg to an English Readership;
7. Anton Berishaj (Prishtina): "Gjergj Kastrioti - Skanderbeg according to
some published Yugoslav sources”.
Second session, 11.30-13.30
George Castriota Skanderbeg,
Protagonist and myth of history Moderators: akad. Jusuf Bajraktari, prof. dr. Ke Jing
1. Floresha Dado (Tirana): "Debate: Scanderbeg between history,
historical and literary myth”;
2. Paskal Milo (Tirana): Scanderbeg and European civilization;
3. Agata Rogoś (Berlin): Skanderbeg’s figure in war remembrance of
Albanian identity discourse;
4. Konstantinos Giakoumis (Tirana): the figure of George Castriota
Scanderbegin post world war II school texts;
5. Eva Tafili-Hyskaj (Tirana): The shift of a national hero, from myth to a
historical reality;
6. Petrika Thëngjilli (Tirana): Who made Scanderbeg a myth?
Third session, 15.30-17.30
The figure of George Castriota Skanderbeg in literature
Moderators: akad. Floresha Dado, prof. dr. Liman Varoshi
1. Ke Jing (Beijing): George Castriota - Scanderbeg and the Albanian
identity construction in “The Castle” / “The Siege”;
2. Kujtim Shala (Prishtina): Scanderbeg in literature;
3. Xhevat Lloshi (Tirana): Scanderbeg in nordic literature;
4. Evalda Paci (Tirana): The perception of Skanderbeg's story in some
fundamental works of Albanian literature;
5. Klara Kodra (Tirana): Fantasy and loyalty in reflecting Skanderbeg era
and figure in Arbëresh Literature;
6. Kastriot Gjika (Tirana): Literary profile of the historical figure of Gjergj
Kastrioti in the Albanian literature of the first Half of the XX century;
heros! The discovery of a new theatrical play on the return of Scanderbeg in Kruja.
Discussions, 18.00-19.00
Modeartors: prof. dr. Pëllumb Xhufi, akad. Jusuf Bajraktari and
akad. Floresha Dado Second Day, 2nd November 2018
08.30 – Registration
First session, 9.00-11.00
George Castriota Skanderbeg
and Europe during humanism Moderators: prof. dr. Ferit Duka, prof. asoc. dr. Ermal Baze
1. Italo Sarro (Rome): National and European dimension of the Albanian
resistance in the time of George Castriota Scanderbeg;
2. Edmond Malaj (Tirana): Two unknown German monographs of the first
half of the 19th century about Skanderbeg;
3. Andrea di Giuseppe (Rome): Velaria Picta Albanica: A velary with a
two headed eagle, horseman, herons at Shën Andoni, Kepi i Rodonit
4. Ermal Baze (Tirana): The social status of the woman in Albania of the XIV-XV centuries;
5. Ardian Muhaj (Tirana): The economy of Albanian territories during
Scanderbeg’s century and the European economic crisis of the later Middle Ages;
6. Dritan Egro (Tirana): The kingom of Arbër of George Castriota
Scanderbeg and the geopolitical clash on the XV Century Balkans;
Second session, 11.30-13.30
George Castriota Skanderbeg:
new questions of historiography Part I Moderators: prof. dr. Shaban Sinani, prof. dr. Aleksander Novik 1. Toni Filiposki (Skopje): Ethnonyms of “Epirotes”, “Triballians” and “Illyrians” in the biography of Skаnderbeg from Marinus Barletius;
2. Aleksander Novik (St. Petersburg): Migration of the Albanians to the
East Balkans as a Result of Skanderbeg’s Struggle against the Ottoman Empire: Albanian Settlements in Bujak and Azov Sea region;
3. Gëzim Hoxha (Tirana): New Archaeological Data on Scanderbeg's
Burial Ground
4. Gjon Berisha (Prishtina): The stance of the Republic of Ragusa on the
Anti –Otoman war of George Castriota Scanderbeg;
5. Liman Varoshi (Elbasan): The battle of Fushë-Kosovo as a prologue of
the organized anti-ottoman resistance of the whole Balkans region in the collection of Lef Nosi;
6. Teuta Shala (Prishtina): The relationship of George Castriota
Scanderbeg with the well-known families of Drishti;
7. Adem Bunguri (Tirana): New archaeological data about some
fortifications of Skanderbeg’s period in Dibra region.
Third session, 15.00-17.00
George Castriota Skanderbeg:
new questions of historiography Part II Moderators: prof. dr. Lulëzim Lajçi, Muzafer Bislimi 1. Nikë Ukgjini (Shkodra): George Castriota Scanderbeg and his era according to the albanologist Giuseppe Valentini.
2. Lulëzim Lajçi (Prishtina): Natonal – Arbëror and constituent dimension
of George Castriota Scanderbeg
3. Andi Rëmbeci (Tirana): Historic and cultural aspects of Berat during the 14th-15th centuries as seen in historical notes contained in manuscripts of the British Library of London and Magdalen College of Oxford;
4. Bedri Muhadri (Prishtina): Historical aspects of Scanderbeg’s relations
with Zeta during XV century; 5. Skënder Muçaj (Tirana): Medieval castles in the territory of arbër, dating problems and the relations with the local nobility in the XII- XV centuries.
6. Ledia Dushku (Tirana): Perception on the Ottoman Turks and the figure of George Castriota Scanderbeg under the discourse of the provisional government of Vlora;
7. Muzafer Bislimi (Skopje): Scanderbeg in the collective memory of the
Albanians of the eastern parts;
Discussions, 18.00-19.00
Moderators: prof. dr. Ferit Duka, prof. dr. Shaban Sinani and prof. dr. Lulëzim Lajçi
Zdenko Širka, Transformation in The Theology of Tradition. A Study of Justin Popovic and His Herrneneutical Presuppositions", Ostkirchliche Studien. 2018, 1-2, Vol. 67, Pp. 325-344
Zdenko Širka, Transformation in The Theology of Tradition. A Study of Justin Popovic and His Herrneneutical Presuppositions", Ostkirchliche Studien. 2018, 1-2, Vol. 67, Pp. 325-344
