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  • Thinking of the Balkans as a whole? Interview with Bernard Lory, historian of margins and mediation 14/07/2025
    Assen Slim*
    Thinking of the Balkans as a whole? Interview with Bernard Lory, historian of margins and mediation
    A historian of the margins and mediation, Bernard Lory has profoundly renewed the academic approach to the Balkans at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) by combining historical rigor, dialogue between languages, and a cross-disciplinary view of identities. From Bitola to the gypsy condition, from environmental history to literary translation, Bernard Lory outlines a patient, cross-disciplinary, and resolutely humanist Balkanological method. This interview looks back over a singular career, shaped by curiosity, doubt, and the desire to think ...
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