Draft Programme, 20.01.2009

Location:
Renner Institute, Vienna

Date:
Friday, 6 February, 10h30 - 15h00

An activity of the PSE Slovak - Hungary Working Group

10h30
Welcome by Jan Marinus Wiersma, Vice-President of the PSE Group

10h45 - 11h45
History and national identity
Chair: Jan Marinus Wiersma

Speakers:

• Štefan Šutaj, Chairman of the Common Slovak-Hungarian commission of historians;
• László Szarka, Director of the Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities;
• Milan Zemko, Institute of Historical Studies, Slovak Science Academy;
• Ignác Romsics, Professor of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 11h45 - 12h45
  Reconciliation: The Role of Civil Society
  Chair: Jan Marinus Wiersma
    
  Speakers:
• Ladislav Deák, Institute of Historical Studies, Slovak Science Academy;
• Mónika Lamperth, President Táncsics Foundation

12h45 - 13h45
Lunch discussion
Chair: Hannes Swoboda, Vice-President of the PSE Group
Speech by Pál Závada, Hungarian Slovak novelist
   

13h45 - 15h00
Concluding Discussion
Chair: Hannes Swoboda

An introduction will be given by Erich Fröschl, Renner Institute