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A. Jakir: "This is where we belong" - "European Union" and "Europeaness" in contemporary debates in Croatia - T. Zimmermann: Fortress Europe and the gorges of the Balkans: From Jakob Pillipp Fallmerayer to Tanja Ostoji c´ s EU-slip

Introducing the Balkans to Europe
D. Norris: Mind the gap! The Balkans as literary trope - A. Avdagi c: The early encounters with Europe and narrative models of mediation - I. Zivan?cevi c- Sekerus / P. Sekerus: The evolution of one image: from indigenous Morlachs to Hollywoodish Borats - J. Sujecka: Conceptions of the Balkans. The linguistic, the historical and the mental Balkans - S. Nasevski: Inclusive character of Balkan identity regarding identity of Europe, in the perspective of European integration - D. Hasanbegovi c: Stories for Europe: Bosnian fi lm and the cultural codifi cation of trauma

"Europeanization" of the Balkans
D. Spasojevi c / J. Kleut: Europeanization discourse of Serbian political elites: Pes?canik and Nova srpska politi?cka misao - M. Popadi c: Serbian ID for Europe: visual identity of the new Serbian passport - M. Komel: Splitting Eurobalkanism: Europaization of the Balkans, Balkanization of Europe - a short psychoanalytical observation - D. Mel?ci c: Europe and the Balkans: Some Theses Concerning the History of (National) Discourses - A. Ioannidou: The new anti-European tendencies in Greece due to the economic crisis

Identities "in-between"
N. Makuljevi c: Politics of perception: Europe and the Balkans between orientalism and occidentalism - B. Skvorc: Miroslav Krleza between Mitteleuropa and the Balkans - D. Beganovi c: Radomir Konstantinovi c im Kontext der jugoslawischen 60er - T. Brajovi c: Imagining Europe: (anti)utopian memory of the ´millennium´ trilogy by Vojislav Despotov - K. Kulavkova: The memory of the Balkans stereotypes in the western European context

War and Confl icts from the Balkan and European Perspective
E. Kazaz: Skender Kulenovi c´s war poems: Remembering a European War from a Balkan perspective - A. Basi c: The Bombing of the Sarajevo town hall, National and University Library of Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992- 2012): Erasure of Memory Before the Age of Digitalisation - D. Gruhonji c: Srdjan Aleksi c´s case and reconciliation in the region - J. Nießer: "The dilemma about reconciliation" - Investigating a transnational approach to dealing with the past in postjugoslav societies (RECOM) - A. Bohn: Images of the Balkans in times of war. Film propaganda from the German Empire to National Socialist Germany

Women and the Balkans/Woman on the Balkans
K. Lindemann: Explaining Bosnia - Milena Preindlsberger-Mrazovi c and Austria´s own "Orient" - M. Ciglene?cki: The Balkan Beauty - Elsa Oeltjen Kasimir (1887-1944) - R. Senjkovi c: Miss YU: Socialist female beauty - I. Cirovi c: Images of violence against Balkan women in the 19th century European culture - A. Demiragi c: Is there an authentic woman´s response to the war?: Women´s writings about the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Representing the Balkans in art and popular culture
G. Kirn: Between Yugoslav and Post- Yugoslav memorial spaces - B. Murovec: True art on the "right" side - L. Reinkowski: Yugoslav pop / rock culture of the 1980s and Euro-Balkan Identity - S. Fietkau: Balkan pop or Eurotrash - Yugoslavia and Its Successor States in the Eurovision Song Contest - N. Louveau: YU-splendor reloaded - N. Avramovska: Europe and another Europe on the European Theatre - J. Murasov: Vegeta: The idea of Yugoslavia and the taste of the region

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Tanja Zimmermermann is Junior Professor of Slavic Literatures at the University of Konstanz. Her research interests are media policy and memory studies, the East-West transfer in literature and visual culture from 19th to the 21th century. Most recent publication: ed. Balkan Memories. Media Constructions of National and Transnational History, Bielefeld: Transcript 2012. Aleksandar Jakir is Professor of 20th century History at the Faculty of Philosophy - University of Split. His research interests are contemporary history of Southeastern Europe. He works on different aspects of the political, cultural and social history of Dalmatia, Croatia and Yugoslavia during the 20th century, with emphasis on the process of formation of modern national identity.

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