Program of Student Conference „Redefining the Nation. Ethnicity and Nationhood in Communist and Post-Communist Societies”, May 18-19, 2012 / Programme de la Conférence des étudiants „Redéfinir la nation Ethnicité et nation dans les sociétés communistes et post-communistes”, les 18-19 mai 2012

FRIDAY, MAY 18TH, 2012/ VENDREDI, LE 18 MAI 2012

Opening session

Welcome by organizers/ Allocutions de bienvenue (09:30 –10:00)

Mihai CHIOVEANU, Vice-Dean, University of Bucharest, Political Science Department / Vice-Doyen, Université de Bucarest, Faculté de Sciences Politiques,

Ioan STANOMIR, Executive President, Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMRE) / Président exécutif, Institut pour l’Investigation des Crimes du Communisme et pour la Mémoire de l’Exil Roumain (IICCMER),

… , Central and Eastern Europe Office of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie / Bureau Europe centrale et orientale de l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie,

Ilinca IORDACHE, Programme Coordinator, Konrad – Adenauer – Stiftung / Konrad – Adenauer – Stiftung,

Raluca NEGULESCU, Project Manager, Policy Center for Roma and Minorities, Bucharest / Policy Center for Roma and Minorities, Bucarest.

1^st Panel/ 1e session (10:00 – 11:30)

Topic : Nation-Building Processes and Ethno-Politics

Discussant/ discutant: Razvan DUMITRU, University College London, Department of Anthropology

• Denis DAFFLON, PhD, University of Fribourg : National Minorities in Georgia in the Context of Nation-Building and State-Building.
• David MARTINEAU, MA, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva : Explaining the Failures and Successes of Nation-Building. Comparing Moldova and Latvia after the Collapse of USSR.
• Mateusz SMOTER, MA, University of Warsaw : Le concept silésien d’une nation séparée. Histoire, culture, language / Silesian Concept of the Separate Nation. History, Culture, Language.
• Barbara MARTIN, PhD, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva : The Holodomor in Russo-Ukrainian Relations (2005-2010).

Coffee break/ Pause – café (11:30 – 11:45)

2^nd Panel/ 2e session (11:45 – 12:45)

Topic : “The Nation” in Political and Legal Discourses

Discussant/ discutante: Alexandra IONASCU, University of Bucharest, Political Science Department / Université de Bucarest, Faculté de Sciences Politiques

• Andrei Alexandru BABADAC, MA, Université Libre de Bruxelles : Parliamentarian Nationalism.  A Case-study: Hungary and Romania.
• Irina LONEAN, PhD, University of Bucharest : Citoyenneté, nation et nationalisme dans la Roumaine postcommuniste / Citizenship, Nation and Nationalism in Post-Communist Romania.
• Ekaterina NIKOLOVA, PhD, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva: Roma International: Space and Lack Thereof for “Gypsies” in Minority Rights Discourse.

Lunch / Déjeuner (12:45 – 14:15)

3^rd Panel/ 3e session (14:15 – 15:00)

Topic: Ethnic Conflict and Violence

Discussant/ discutant: Mihai CHIOVEANU, University of Bucharest, Political Science Department / Université de Bucarest, Faculté de Sciences Politiques

• Taras FEDIRKO, MA, University of Bologna : `Us’ vs. `Them’: Class and Nation in the Symbolic Order of Post-Soviet Ukraine.
• Janko BEKIĆ, PhD, University of Zagreb : When does Ethnic Conflict Occur? Three Preconditions for the Eruption of Inter-Communal Violence.

Poster session (15:00 – 15:30) – Coffee break included / Pause – café comprise

• Fiorella BELCIU & Adelina DABU, BA, University of Bucharest, Political Science Department:  Identity and Politics in the Communist Romania: Making the Case for Bessarabians.
• Anamaria Elena GHEORGHE, PhD, University of Bucharest, Political Science Department : National Identity in Central Asia.
• Alberto MANCA, BA, New York University : The Communist Master Plan for Rebuilding the Civic Center of Bucharest after the 1977 Earthquake.
• Roxana MARIN, MA, University of Bucharest, Political Science Department : Instrumentalizing Nationalism in Ceauşescu’s Romania. An Inquiry into the Post-1989 Repercussions of Nationalism in State Socialism.
• Mihai ROSU & Andrei SORESCU, BA, University of Bucharest, Political Science Department : Some Sort of Half-breed: in between Ethnic and National Identities in the Case of the Moldavian Csangos.
• Valentin STOIAN, PhD, Central European University, Budapest : XIXth Century Romanian Intellectual Anti-Semitism and its Contemporary Relevance.
• Alexandra TOADER, PhD, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi :  Rediscovering Nationalism: New Aspects of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej’s Cult of Personality in the ‘60s.
• Denisa UDREA, MA,  American Studies, University of Bucharest : Movies and Propaganda in Communist Regimes: The Myth of the Saviour and the Shaping of Romanian National Identity.

4^th Panel/ 4e session (15:30 – 16:15)

Topic: Ethno-National Narratives and Social Memory

Discussant/ discutante: Silvia MARTON, University of Bucharest, Political Science Department / Université de Bucarest, Faculté de Sciences Politiques

• Ionuţ PIŢURESCU, PhD, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest : Ethnicity, Representation and Identity Construction in the Balkans. Case-study: the Aromanian Vlachs.
• Szilard- Istvan PAP, MA, Central European University, Budapest : A qui appartient cette maison? Ethnicité et habitation dans des zones rurales contestées / To Whom does this House Belong ? Ethnicity and Housing in the Contested Rural Areas.

Movie projection / Projection de film (16:15 – 17:00): “Balkan’s Digest” (Albania, Romania, Ionuţ PIŢURESCU)

SATURDAY, MAY 19TH, 2012/ SAMEDI, LE 19 MAI 2012

Keynote speech (09:30 – 10:15)

Laure NEUMAYER, Maître de conférences en science politique, Université Paris 1, Panthéon – Sorbonne / Lecturer in Political Science, University Paris 1, Panthéon – Sorbonne : Identités nationales et identités européennes dans l’Europe postcommuniste : l’émergence de la question de la protection des minorités nationales »/ « National identities and European identities in post-communist Europe: the question of the protection of national minorities ».

Coffee break/ Pause – café (10:15 – 10:30)

5^th Panel/ 5e session (10:30 – 12.00)

Topic: Representing the Nation? Ethno-National Linguistics, Art, and Folk Art

Discussant/ discutante: Alina PAVELESCU, National Archives of Romania/ Archives Nationales de la Roumanie

• Jean- Baptiste BLANC, PhD, University of Lausanne : Langue et appartenance ethnique dans les recensements démographiques en Europe centrale.
• Caroline DAMIENS, PhD, INALCO, Paris : L’identité nationale russe face aux peuples colonisés dans le cinéma russe de l’après-communisme. Un exemple : les Yakoutes dans l’œuvre d’Aleksei Balabanov.
• Thea PILTZECKER, MA, Al-Quds Bard Honors College : “Go Now and Tell Them”: the Evolution of Bulgarian Folk Songs as Markers of Political Resistance and Cultural Solidarity.
• Magdalena KOHÁKOVÁ, PhD, Charles University, Prague: Représentation visuelles de la cité Ostrava durant la transition du communisme a l’époque capitaliste/ Visual Representation of the City of Ostrava during Transition from Communism to Capitalistic Era.

Coffee break/ Pause – café (12:00 – 12:15)

6^th Panel/ 6e session (12:15 – 13:15)

Topic: The Ethno-Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion

Discussant/ discutante: Laure NEUMAYER, Université Paris 1 – Panthéon – Sorbonne

• Arno TRÜLTZSCH, MA, Zagreb University : Contradictions of the “Return to Europe”: Citizenship Rights of Ethnic non-Croats and the Europeanization of Croatia. 1990-2011.
• Sorin CEBOTARI, MA, Central European University, Budapest : The Naturalization Process as a Possibility to Increase the Level of Trust in Estonia.
• Gabriela IONAŞCU, PhD, University of Bucharest : Le citoyen à la roumaine. La politique des réfugiés en Roumanie (1990-2012).

Lunch / Déjeuner (13:15 – 14:15)

7^th Panel/ 7e session (14:15 – 15:45)

Topic: Political Instrumentalisations of Ethno-National Rhetorics

Discussant/ discutante: Camil PARVU, University of Bucharest, Political Science Department / Université de Bucarest, Faculté de Sciences Politiques

• Laura PARKKINEN, PhD, University of Turku : Populism, Ethnicity, Soviet-Rhetoric, Rhetoric of the Past and Religion in France, Poland and Finland after Second World War.
• Raluca ABĂSEACĂ, MA, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca : La question du nationalisme dans l’ex-empire soviétique après la fin de la guerre froide.
• Sergiu DELCEA, BA, University of Bucharest : The Impact of the Nation-building Process in  the Development of the Romanian Welfare State – late 60s and early 70s.
• Cristina PREUTU, PhD, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi : Le symbole de la nation dans les discours de Nicolae Ceaușescu.

Coffee break/ Pause – café (15:45 – 16:00)

8^th Panel/ 8e session (16:00 – 17:00)

Topic: Communist and Post-Communist Politics and Images of the Nation

Discussant/ discutante: Adelina TANTARIU, Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile / Institut pour l’Investigation des Crimes du Communisme et pour la Mémoire de l’Exil Roumain

• Ioana Mara LEONTE, PhD, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca :  Joyous to Live in a New World. Communist Nationalist Discourse in Children’s Press. Case study: “Cutezătorii” (1967 – 1989).
• Gergana TZVETKOVA, MA, University of Sarajevo and University of Bologna : Memory Revived. Ways of Remembering the ‘Revival Process’ in Bulgaria in Terms of Transitional Justice.
• Alexandra STEF, MA, University College London : Official Memory of Communism and the Post-Communist Society: Constructing the New Liberal Democratic Nation?

Wrap up session / Session de clôture (17:00 – 17:15).

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