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