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DEC
10
Europe's Muslim Citizens: Lessons from the 19th and 20th Century Balkans
Date:
Friday, 10 Dec 2021
Time:
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location:
online
Department:
Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Event Details:

In 1878, over a million Ottoman Muslims became citizens of other European states. They had not moved. The borders did. This talk explores Muslims' varied responses to the shattering of the Ottoman world and the political reordering of Europe. It raises questions about the nature of citizenship and political belonging in modern Europe and the ways that Muslims became transformative agents in the development of European states and societies from the 1880s to the 1940s. The history of nation-building, legal negotiation, and the European project looks different when told from the perspective of Europe's Muslims. The talk concludes by asking us to reconsider some of our assumptions about what is European history and who is European.

Emily Greble is Associate Professor of History and German, Russian and East European Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include Islam in Europe, the transition from empire to nation-state, civil conflict, and local responses to socialism. She is the author of Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe (Oxford, 2021) and Sarajevo: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler's Europe (Cornell, 2011).

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