Disputed territories on the EU border: historical and anthropological aspects

International Scientific Conference

Program

September 7, 2018, Bucharest

9.00 - 10.00 - Registration of participants and guests of the conference

10.00 - 10.30 - Opening of the conference

Greetings:

Irina Leskova, Vice-President of ICSS

Alexander Prigarin, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Scientific Committee for the Humanities of ICSS

Sergey Nazariya, Doctor of History, Professor, President of Association ‘Pro Moldova’

10.30 - 12.00 - Presentations (moderators: Chilla Fedinets, Petko Hristov)

Alexander Prigarin, Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Department of Ethnology,   I.I. Mechnikov Odessa National University (Ukraine, Odessa)

Bessarabia or Budjak: discussions about toponyms in historical memory and social conjecture

Sergey Nazariya, Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Chisinau State University, President of Association ‘Pro-Moldova’ (Moldova, Chisinau)

The Bessarabian events of 1918 and 1940 from the standpoint of international law and their interpretation in historiography

Petr Lozovyuk, PhD, professor, head of the department of Anthropology at the University of Western Bohemia (Pilsen, Czech Republic)

Controversial nations on disputed lands. The ethno-social processes of the Middle European space

Marina Martynova, Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Director of Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (IEA) at Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), (Russia, Moscow)

Ethno-cultural processes in the Republika Srpska at the present stage

12.00 - 12.30 - coffee break

12.30 - 14.00 - Presentations (Moderators: Marina Martynova, Alexander Prigarin)

Chilla Fedinets, Institute for the Study of Minorities of the Center for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest, Hungary)

The place of Western Ukraine in the domestic political and foreign policy debate at the present stage

Mikhail Zan, Associate Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Faculty of Political Science, Transcarpathian National University (Ukraine, Uzhgorod)

Modern Challenges of the Ethnopolitical Stability of Transcarpathia: Mass Media Discourse and Anthropological Reality

Sergey Gakman, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Deputy Director and Head of the Department of Scientific and International Activities of the Chernivtsi Regional Center for Retraining and Advanced Training of Government Officials, Local Governments, State Enterprises, Institutions and Organizations (Ukraine, Chernivtsi)

Ukrainian and Romanian cliches concerning the history of Bukovina of the twentieth century

Vyacheslav Dykhanov, Professor of the Humanitarian Institute of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, doctoral student of Pultusk Academy of Humanities, Poland, majoring in political science (Russia, Kaliningrad)

Factors of self-identification of divided peoples in polyethnic regions based on the example of Bessarabia

14.00 - 15.00 - lunch

15.00 - 16.30 - Presentations (moderators: Sergey Nazariya, Sergey Gakman)

Immanuel Ness, PhD, Professor of the Department of Political Science. City University of New York (CUNY), Brooklyn College (USA, New York)

Political and media representations of Eurasia in the US: national chauvinism and its political consequences

Petko Hristov, PhD, Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore with the Ethnographic Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria, Sofia)

Niya Spasove, Institute of Ethnology, Folklore with the Ethnographic Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria, Sofia)

Seasonal labour (Gurbet / Pecalbarstvo) in the central part of the Balkan Peninsula (Chopluk) as a trans-national exchange

Alexander Ganchev, Associate Professor, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Popov Odessa Academy of Telecommunications (Ukraine, Odessa)

Between the countries: The fate of the Bulgarians of Bessarabia on a geopolitical scale

Roman Starchenko, PhD, Deputy Director for Science, IEA RAS, (Russia, Moscow)

Regional identity and language competencies of the population of Transnistria

Natalia Nechaeva-Yuriychuk, PhD, associate professor of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University (Ukraine, Chernivtsi)

Modern Challenges of National Identity in the Conditions of the Borderlands

16.30-17.00 - coffee break

17.00 - 18.30 - Presentations (moderators: Vyacheslav Dykhanov, Mikhail Zan)

Valentin Beniuk, Ph.D. in History, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Rector of the State Institute of International Relations of Moldova (Moldova, Chisinau)

Bessarabia - Republic of Moldova: Historical continuity and modern ideological discussions

Denis Yermolin, Academic Secretary of the MAE (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia, St. Petersburg)

Neighborhood communities of Pristina (Kosovo): Narratives, barriers and everyday practices

Dmitry Gromov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, N.N. Miklouho-Maclay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS (Russia, Moscow)

‘The language of enmity’ of the Ukrainian-Russian political crisis

Irina Trushkova, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Vyatka University (Russia, Kirov)

Elena Trushkova, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Vyatka University (Russia, Kirov)

Old Believer communities in Moldova and Romania: The strokes of everyday history in the 21st century

18.30 - 19.00 - Completion and Summing-up