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Official Program of the Conference
14/06/2010 07:40 AM

Here you can find the official program of the international conference entitled "Minority Politics within the Europe of Regions" held between June 17-19, 2010 in Cluj-Napoca.

Thursday, June 17
8⁰⁰ - 19⁰⁰ Arrival of the participants, registration Hotel Victoria (54-56, 21 Decembrie 1989 Boulevard) See on Google Maps
18³⁰ - 19⁰⁰ Registration Sapientia University (4, Matei Corvin st) See on Google Maps
19⁰⁰ Welcome reception Sapientia University (4, Matei Corvin st) See how you get from the hotel to the reception on Google Maps
Friday, June 18
9⁰⁰ - 12³⁰ Panel I - Language Rights and Cultural Policies Targeting Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe Óváry Hall, Sapientia University Panel chair: István Horváth
9⁰⁰ - 9²⁰ László MARÁCZ (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Language Policies in Central and Eastern European States with Hungarian Minorities: Implications for Linguistic Rights Protection of National Minorities in the EU 9²⁰ - 9⁴⁰ Lilla BALÁZS (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology/ETH Zurich, Switzerland) The Implementation of Minority Language Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: Towards a Conceptual Framework of Analysis 9⁴⁰ - 10⁰⁰Goran BANDOV (University College of International Relations and Diplomacy, Zagreb, Croatia) The Protection of Language for National and Ethnic Minority Groups in the Republic of Croatia 10⁰⁰ - 10²⁰ Magdalena GRZYB (Jagiellonian University Kraków, Faculty of Law and Administration, Poland) Linguistic Diversity as a Human Right. The Baltic States' Approach 10²⁰ - 10⁵⁰ Coffee break 10⁵⁰ - 11¹⁰Bronislav TOTSKYI (Kyiv-Mohyla academy, Department of Law, Ukraine) "Regional and Minority Languages" in the Ukrainian Legislation 11¹⁰ - 11³⁰ Mykola RIABCHUK (Ukrainian Center for Cultural Studies, Kyiv, Ukraine) Making Sense of Ambiguity: Minority-Majority Relations in a Post-Soviet Country 11³⁰ - 11⁵⁰ Michael HORNSBY (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Department of Celtic, Poland), Tomasz WICHERKIEWICZ (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Department for Language Policy and Minority Studies, Poland) To Be or not to Be (a Minority)? The Case of Kashubians in Poland 11⁵⁰ - 12¹⁰ Magdalena ZDRODOWSKA (Jagiellonian University Kraków, Department of Visual Arts, Poland) Minorities' Representation in Polish Media Sphere. The Case of a Regional Television in Podlasie Region
12³⁰ - 14³⁰ Lunch break
14³⁰ - 17⁰⁰ Panel II - Ethno-regionalism, Stateless Nations, Autonomies and Federalism in Western Europe Óváry Hall, Sapientia University Panel chair: László Marácz
14³⁰ - 14⁵⁰ Klaus-Jürgen NAGEL (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Spain-Catalonia) Between "independence in Europe", a "Europe of a Hundred Flags"and a "Europe of or with the Regions". Conceptualizing the Relation between Stateless Nations and European Integration in Western Europe (1945-2010) 14⁵⁰ - 15¹⁰István SZILÁGYI (Pannon University of Veszprém, Department of Social and International Studies, Hungary) Spain: From the Autonomy Model to Federalism. The Case of Catalonia 15¹⁰ - 15³⁰ Ivan SERRANO BALAGUER (Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain - Catalonia) Constitutional Preferences, National Identity and Electoral Behavior: The Three Circles of Nationalism 15³⁰ - 16⁰⁰ Coffee break 16⁰⁰ - 16²⁰ Sergiu CONSTANTIN (European Academy Bolzano/Bozen, Institute for Minority Rights, Italy - South Tyrol) Minority protection and asymmetric autonomy arrangements in Italy: The case of South Tyrol 16²⁰ - 16⁴⁰ Britt A. CARTRITE (Alma College, Michigan USA) "New" Nations in "Old" Europe: Ethnogenesis and Ethnopolitical Mobilization in the Shetland and Orkney Islands of Scotland
17⁰⁰ Free program
Saturday, June 19
9⁰⁰ - 12⁰⁰ Panel III - The Political Representation of Minorities and the Prospects of Autonomy in Central and Eastern Europe Óváry Hall, Sapientia University Panel chair: Ivan Serrano Balaguer	9⁰⁰ - 12⁰⁰ Panel IV - The Troubled Pasts and Presents of Ethnically or Religiously Divided Societies. Facts, Myths and Discourses Hall 2A, Sapientia University Panel chair: Sergiu Constantin
9⁰⁰ - 9²⁰ Berenika KOŹBIAŁ (Jagiellonian University Kraków, Institute of European Studies, Poland) The Roma Minority in Processes of Integration. An Overview of Main Problems and Proposed Solutions 9²⁰ - 9⁴⁰ Edina SZŐCSIK (Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS), ETH Zürich, Switzerland) Is the EU an Ally of Ethnic Minority Parties in Central and Eastern Europe? Long Standing Illusions and New Perspectives 9⁴⁰ - 10⁰⁰ Maryana KACHYNSKA (Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine) Police Activity in the Sphere of Minorities' Electoral Rights Observance 10⁰⁰ - 10³⁰ Coffee break 10³⁰ - 10⁵⁰ Andrei AVRAM (Moldova-Institut, Leipzig, Germany) Territorial Autonomy of the Gagauz in the Republic of Moldova (1994-2009): a Case Study 10⁵⁰ - 11¹⁰ Edina Ildikó ŢIPŢER (Central European University Budapest, Department of Public Policy, Hungary) The Szekler Autonomy Initiatives 11¹⁰ - 11³⁰ Csaba Máté SARNYAI (Károli Gáspár University Budapest, Faculty of Arts, Department of General Humanities, Hungary), Tibor PAP (University of Szeged, Hungary) Personal Autonomy and/or National Councils in Vojvodina (presentation in Hungarian)	9⁰⁰ - 9²⁰ Tibor TORÓ (Sapientia University Cluj, Department of European Studies, Romania) Discursive Aspects of Regional Identity Construction in Banat 9²⁰ - 9⁴⁰ Barna BODÓ (Sapientia University Cluj, Department of European Studies, Romania), Zoltán Alpár SZÁSZ (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj, Faculty of Political Science, Public Administration and Communication, Romania) Regional Discourse and Identity 9⁴⁰ - 10⁰⁰ László ÖLLŐS (Forum Institute Šamorín/Somorja, Slovakia) National Reconciliation 10⁰⁰ - 10²⁰ Fahri TÜRK (Trakya University Edirne, Department of International Relations, Turkey) The Historical and the Present Status of the Turkish Minority in Bulgaria 10²⁰ - 10⁴⁰ Coffee break 10⁴⁰ - 11⁰⁰ Eleni VELIVASAKI (Amnesty International Greece) Accommodating Religious Pluralities. The Case of Greece 11⁰⁰ - 11²⁰ Jeroen TEMPERMAN (Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Netherlands) Recognition/Registration Policies towards Religious Minorities: A Comparative Legal Analysis and a Human Rights-based Analysis 11²⁰ - 11⁴⁰ Maik SCHMERBAUCH (Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany) Aspects of the Spiritual Welfare of the Catholic Church to the German Catholic Minority in the Polish Diocese Kattowitz in the Interwar Years 1922-1939 11⁴⁰ - 12⁰⁰ János Kristóf MURÁDIN (Sapientia University Cluj, Department of European Studies, Romania) Recommencement without Prospects. The Transylvanian Museum Society between 1944 and 1950
12⁰⁰ - 14³⁰ Lunch break
14³⁰ - 17⁰⁰ Panel V - Ethnopolitics and Minority Protection in Romania Óváry Hall, Sapientia University Panel chair:
14³⁰ - 14⁵⁰ István HORVÁTH (Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj, Romania) Ethnopolitics and Minority Protection in Romania - The Last Two Decades 14⁵⁰ - 15¹⁰ Attila VARGA (Romanian Chamber of Deputies, Bucharest, Romania) The Draft Law on the Status of National Minorities in Romania (presentation in Hungarian) 15¹⁰ - 15³⁰ Miklós BAKK (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj, Faculty of Political Science, Public Administration and Communication) Recent Developments Regarding the Romanian Constitution (presentation in Hungarian) 15³⁰ - 15⁵⁰ Coffee break 15⁵⁰ - 16¹⁰ István Gergő SZÉKELY (Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj, Romania) The Political Representation of National Minorities in Romania 16¹⁰ - 16³⁰ József BENEDEK (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj, Faculty of Geography, Romania) Region-building processes in Romania 16³⁰ - 16⁵⁰ Benedek NAGY (Sapientia University Miercurea-Ciuc, Faculty of Economic and Human Studies, Romania) Szeklerland: the Touristic Way to Autonomy
16⁵⁰ - 17³⁰ Coffee break
17³⁰ - 18⁰⁰ Assessment, closing remarks Óváry Hall, Sapientia University
19⁰⁰ Closing Reception Sapientia University
Sunday, June 20
9⁰⁰ - Field trip to Rimetea/Torockó, Alba/Fehér County Departure from Hotel Victoria

Contact

If you encounter any problems during your stay in Cluj (e.g. difficulty to find the hotel etc), do not hesitate to call István Gergő Székely +40-745-847-766

Papers participating without presentation:

Pieter H. van der Plank
A history of collective minority rights in the European historical context

Sébastien Gobert
(Central European University Budapest, Department of Nationalism Studies)
The backstage of a success story. Minority Protection in Lithuania

Balázs Majtényi (Institute for Legal Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences),
András László Pap (Institute for Legal Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Minority Regimes at Work - Hungarian Experiences on the Interrelated Complexities of Data Protection and Minority Protection

Tove H. MALLOY (European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany)
Minority Rights and the Dynamics of Europeanization: Convergence in the Regional Governance of the Danish-German Border Region

Ana PAVLOVIĆ Center for Society Development, Belgrade, Serbia)
Contemporary Minority Protection in Europe: Collision and Harmony between National and International Law