The post-1989 Springtime of National Minorities? Minority Mobilisation, Human Rights Activism and the Accommodation of Ethnocultural Diversity in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe

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), Tom Lantos Institute (TLI), Institute for Minority Studies, Centre for Social Sciences, HAS

Central European University, 6-7 June, 2019

 

June 6, Thursday

9:15-9:30 | Registration   

9:30-9:45 | Opening          

9:45-11:15 | Keynote          

Karl Cordell, School of Law, Criminology and Government, The University of Plymouth

National Minorities in Europe and the Rise of Populism

 

Panel 1

11:30-13:00

Ethnic Minorities, Identities and Politicization

Chair: István Gergő Székely, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities

Panelists:

Edina Szöcsik, University of Basel

Minority language rights, ethnic polarization and turnout

Benjamin McClelland, Central European University / Columbia University

Ethnic and non-ethnic in competition: party branding and voter support in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Marc Guinjoan, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Revisiting the Linz-Moreno question. Identities, causal antecedents and support for secession

Daniel Bochsler, Central European University, Nationalism Studies and Political Science

The breakdown of the communist empires: The founding elections of 1990 in comparison

 

Panel 2

Populism, Memory and Minority Rights: Central and Eastern European Issues in Global Perspective (book panel)

14:00-15:30

Chair: Alan Stephens, publishing advisor, former Publishing Director of Kluwer Law International/Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Authors/Editor:

Anna-Mária Bíró, Tom Lantos Institute, Director

Ágnes Daróczi, minority researcher, activist, journalist, editor

Tamás Kiss, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities

Arie Nadler, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Social Sciences

István Gergő Székely, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities

Gergely Romsics, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös Loránt University, Faculty of Social Sciences

Discussants:

Corinne Lennox, Human Rights Consortium, School of Advance Studies, University of London

Mónika Kovács, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Education and Psychology

Szabolcs Pogonyi, Central European University, Nationalism Studies Program

Iulius Rostas, Central European University, Romani Studies

 

Panel 3A

15:45-17:15

Kin-state Activism and Minority Mobilization

Chair: Zsuzsa Csergő, Queen’s University, Department of Political Studies

Panelists:

Ionut Chiruta, Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu

Converging minority trans-border mobilization through nationalistic
and populistic frameworks

Tibor Purger, Rutgers University, Department of Political Science

Populist politics and minority protection: the individual cases and comparable efforts of Hungary and Serbia

Laura Royer, University of Glasgow, University of Tartu and Jagiellonian University

Hungarian minorities in the Carpathian Basin: a geostrategic tool in
the hands of the Hungarian government?

Adriana Cupcea, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities

Religion in Turkey kin state policy in the Balkans. The Diyanet in
the Muslim community in Dobruja (Romania)

 

Panel 3B

15:45-17:15

Romania and the Quest for European Identity Philo-Germanism without Germans (book panel)

Chair: Andreea Carstocea, European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany

Author:

Cristian Cercel, Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University Bochum

Discussants:

Karl Cordell, University of Plymouth

Margit Feischmidt, HAS CSS Institute for Minority Studies

Tibor Toró, Sapienta Hungarian University of Transylvania

 

Panel 4

17:30:19:00
From Soviet to post-Soviet Ethnic Politics and Policies

Chair: Balázs Dobos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Minority Studies

Panelists:

Kiryl Kascian, International Centre for Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies (ICELDS)

From oppression to inclusion: self-perception of the Polish minorities
in Belarus and Lithuania before and after the collapse of the USSR

Alexander Osipov, International Centre for Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies

The Soviet nationalities policy at the USSR’s demise: was 1989 the turning point and who did initiate the turn?

Hanna Vasilevich, International Centre for Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies, Czechia and Queens' University Belfast, UK

Between formalism and reality: reconfiguration of the language
policies in post-Soviet countries

Karolis Dambrauskas, The Institute for Ethnic Studies, Lithuanian Social Research Centre

Turning minorities into proprietors or long and winding road
Back to late Socialism: Lithuanian Poles and land restitution process in post-socialist Lithuania
              

 

June 7, Friday

 

Panel 5

9:15-10:45

Old Minorities as the New Others

Chair: TBA

Panelists:

Catherine Lourdes Dy, Université Libre de Bruxelles and Peace Action, Training, and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR)

Integration of ‘minority’ minorities in Romania: experiences and
discourses of Filipino and Thai marriage migrants in Romania

Margit Feischmidt, HAS CSS Institute for Minority Studies

Ildikó Zakariás, Márton Hunyadi: Solidarity or Fear towards Refugees among Hungarians in Germany

Emese Kővágó, ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences

Characteristics of the commemorations of the 1944 massacres in Vojvodina

Ewa Michna, Institute of Maerican Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University &

Katarzyna Warmińska, Department of Sociology, Cracow University of Economics

Between culture and politics. Changes in the sphere of ethnic relations in the contemporary Poland

 

11:00-12:30            Keynote lecture

Corinne Lennox, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Transnational Social Mobilisation by Minority Groups: Expanding or Fragmenting the Minority Rights Regime? 

 

Panel 6A

13:30-15:00

Political Representation and Participation of Minorities

Chair: Philip Howe, Adrian College (Adrian, MI) / Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Panelists:

Andreea Carstocea, European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany

The identity conundrum: post-1990 policies for the political representation of national minorities in Romania and their unexpected consequences

Lilija Alijeva, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Minority right to effective public participation: a comparative case

study of the Russian-speaking minority in independent Estonia and Latvia

Edgár Dobos, HAS CSS Institute for Minority Studies

Bosnian Serbs as „kin majority”: self-determination claims and practices of differentiation

Ivan Laskarin, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, International Relations Department

Independentist and irredentist secessions: a new perspective on external self-determination and minority claim-making

 

Panel 6B

13:30-15:00

Unequal Accomodation of Minority Rights – Hungarians in Transylvania (book panel)

Chair: Anna-Mária Bíró, Tom Lantos Institute

Authors/Editors:

Tamás Kiss, author, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities

István Gergő Székely, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities

Tibor Toró, Sapienta Hungarian University of Transylvania

Discussants:

Luis Escobedo, University of the Free State, South Africa

Szabolcs Pogonyi, Central European University, Nationalism Studies Program

Edina Szöcsik, University of Basel

Erin Jenne, Central European University, Department of International Relations

 

Panel 7
15:15-16:45

Minority Activism, Education and Self-Determination

Chair: Zoltán Kántor, Research Institute for Hungarian Communities Abroad / Pázmány Péter Catholic University

Panelists:

Tamás Kiss, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities &

Tibor Toró, Sapienta Hungarian University of Transylvania

Kiss Tamás - Toró Tibor: The educational paradigm of the Transylvanian Hungarian elites

János Fiala-Butora, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy

Minority activism for bilingual signs in Slovakia: all in the same boat?

András Morauszki, Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Minority Studies, Budapest

Government-funded minority institutional systems in Central Europe

Balázs Dobos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Minority

Studies the effectiveness of non-territorial autonomies of Central and South
Eastern Europe