Workshop ” Working On The Hydro-Homefront – Actors Of Water In Wartime In Central And Eastern Europe, 20-21 St Centuries“
12 March, 2026, CERCEC, EHESS.
Location : Campus Condorcet. Centre des Colloques, place du Front populaire, room 3.01. Aubervilliers
Workshop is organized with the support of CNRS, the ANR ExilEst project at the Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique (ISP) and the Center for Russian, Caucasian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies (CERCEC), a joint research unit between CNRS and EHESS.
Workshop Program
10:30–12:30 Session 1 – Rivers as Mediators, Consolers, DividersThe Danube River and Its Management in Cold War Europe — Francesco Magno (Sciences Po, Paris)
The Danube Delta and the European Commission of the Danube (WWI) — Constantin Ardeleanu (Institute for Southeast European Studies / New Europe College, Bucharest)
Life in an Age of Death: War and the River in Bosnia and Herzegovina — Azra Hromadžić (Syracuse University)
Discussant: Laurent Coumel (INALCO, Paris)
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–16:00 Session 2 – Urban Water in War and Postwar
Wartime Water Provisioning during the Siege of Sarajevo (1992–1995) — Larisa Kurtović (University of Ottawa)
Water in Wartime through Berlin’s Infrastructure History — Timothy Moss (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Electric Zone: Infrastructure and Life along the Enguri River — Görkem Aydemir‑Kundakci (KU Leuven)
Discussant: Marc Elie (CERCEC–EHESS, Paris)
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