The post-1989 Springtime of National Minorities? Minority Mobilisation, Human Rights Activism and the Accommodation of Ethnocultural Diversity in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe conference organized by the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University (CEU) and the Tom Lantos Institute (TLI) and the Institute for Minority Studies, Centre for Social Sciences HAS

Budapest, Hungary

6-7 June, 2019

Online application form: https://goo.gl/forms/dff1qCB9cUvVOsDD2

Deadline for proposals: February 28, 2019.

The conference aims to explore and evaluate the evolution of minority agency and its effectiveness in Central Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union. It assesses the mobilization strategies of minority actors and the success of their claims-making since the end of the Cold War. It investigates the efficiency and robustness of minority policy regimes which were set in place with the aim of accommodating ethnocultural diversity in these regions.