ECMI Events
Every year the ECMI organizes a number of events both in Flensburg and in the regions of our Regional offices. Conferences, seminars, workshops, lectures and other types of events are usually announced ahead of time on our main homepage or on the pages of the Regional offices.
Recurrent events include
The annual Advisory Council Conference
The annual Minority Roundtable
For all events that the Centre has participated in month for month, see below.
Events 2009
Conferences, Seminars, Lectures and Events
Additional events are in preparation and will be announced as soon as possible.
January 2009
07 January
Internal Presentation by Leon Martins, ECMI Intern on “State Language and Minority Languages in the Baltic States (Lithuania)”.
15 January
Annual Meeting of the Bund Deutscher Nordschleswiger (BDN), Sankelmark
29 January
Internal Research Meeting: Presentation by Ms Bilge Yabanci, University of Lund on “Representation of Minorities in the Executive…
29 January
External Research Meeting: Presentation by Professor Dr. Robert Millar, University of Aberdeen on “Dialextalised Languages – the State Perception of Regional Languages: Case Studies of Scots, Occitan and Low German”
February 2009
03 February
Meeting of the DialogForumNorden, Flensburg
11 February
Reception at the Foreign and Commonwealth office, London
25 February
Conference Lecture on “The Final Status of Kosovo: Implication for Self-Determination”, University of Leeds
27 February
Conference Lecture on "International Law in Conflict Management in Diverse Societies", The Royal College of Defense Studies, London
March 2009
12 March - 14 March
Training for the Georgian Ministry of Reintegration: “Minority Governance in Europe” under Council of Europe Programme, Tbilisi, Georgia
15 March
Lecture on “Ethnic and National Minorities in Europe – Cultures, Borders, Governance”, State University of Tbilisi, European Studies
19 March - 21 March
ECMI Presentation on “Europe’s Dilemmas in Dealing with Eurasia’s Non-Recognized States”, University of Bath, European Research Institute (ERI), UK
24 March
OSCE Mission to Moldova Public Lecture Program, Autonomy, Federalization, Devolution: Power Sharing Models in the OSCE Area – ECMI Lecture on: “Power Sharing and Democracy, Free University of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova
24 March
Lecture on “Minorities in Europe – Cultural Survival Strategies and Strengths”, Peoples University, Flensburg
28 March
Conference on “The Kosovo Precedent: One Year on”, Lecture on “Kosovo and Remedial Secession” at the Lancaster University Law School, UK
April 2009
14 April
Internal Presentation by Rada Krstanovic, ECMI Intern on “Cultural Rights in language Protection in Serbia”
20 April
ECMI Board Meeting
22 April - 25 April
ECMI panel on “Ethnic and Multi-Ethnic Parties: Strategies of Political Recruitment” including 4 papers: Oleh Protsyk (ECMI) “Why not Ethnic Minority Parties in Moldova and Ukraine?”; Konstantin Sachariew (U Rostock, Germany) “Recruitment of Party Elites in Bulgaria”; Marius Matichescu (University of Montpellier, France) “Party Strategies of Ethnic Recruitment in Romania”; Monica Caluser (Babes-Bolyai Uninversity, Romania) “Recruitment for Minority Reserved Seats in Romania”, at ASN Conference, Columbia University, New York
May 2009
19 May
Internal Presentation by Emanuela Ignatiou-Sora, ECMI intern and PhD Candidate on “Legal Aspects of Minority Language Enhancement in Romania”
19 May
Internal Presentation by Velimir Delovski, ECMI intern on “Minority Representation in Macedonia”
28 May - 30 May
ECMI presentation on “Model of Minority Language Enhancement in Europe – a Universal Model?” at the Bi-Annual ICML XII (Int. Conference on Minority Languages), Tartu, Estonia
June 2009
04 June
External research meeting and public Lecture by Mr Mindaugas Kuklys, Dr. Phil. Candidate, Institute of Sociology, University of Jena on “Ethnic Control, Ethnic Democracy or Ethno-Liberal Democracy? Political Elites and Ethnic Minorities in the Baltic-States after 1990”
10 June
Consultation on the Enlargement – Minority Issues, European Commission, Brussels
12 June - 14 June
University of Flensburg Seminar on “Multilingualism, Culture and Language Contacts in Europe – Danish Culture in the European Perspective”, ECMI Flensburg
16 June
Participation at the Schleswig-Holstein Foundation Day, Kiel, Germany
16 June - 17 June
Membership Meeting of Specialized Information Network (FIV-IBLK), ECMI, Flensburg
22 June - 24 June
Training event on “Digital Preservation – The Planets Way”, Royal Library Copenhagen, Denmark
23 June - 25 June
CoE-DANIDA-ECMI “Rule of Law & Minority Governance Programme”, Steering Committee Meeting, Tbilisi, Georgia
26 June - 28 June
University of Flensburg Seminar on “Multilingualism, Culture and Language Contacts in Europe – Danish Culture in the European Perspective”, ECMI, Flensburg
27 June
Public lecture/External research meeting by Prof. Dr Uffe Østergård "The Role of Nation States in the EU", International Institute of Management, Flensburg
Lecture “Ethnic and National Minorities in Europe – Language and Culture Diversity”, European Studies, University of Flensburg
July 2009
23 July
Internal Presentation by Katarina Djokic, ECMI Intern on “Political Participation of Ethnic Minorities in Serbia and the Developments on the Political Parties Landscape during the last Years”
23 July
Internal Presentation by Sylva Svejdarova, ECMI Intern on “Minority Languages in the Czech Republic”
September 2009
01 September
ECMI welcoming new Director of the Institute: Dr. Tove Malloy
02 September - 06 September
Annual UACES Conference, Angers, France
02 September - 11 September
Conference of American Political Science Association, ECMI Presentation on “Parliamentary Representation”, Toronto, Canada
Queens University: Consultations and presentation on ECMI’s Minority Representation Project
10 September - 11 September
Training on Minority Governance for the Georgian Council of Minorities, Public Defender’s Office, Tbilisi, Georgia
14 September
Training on Minority Governance for the local authorities of the Kakheti Region, Georgia
15 September - 16 September
Training on Minority Governance for the new Minority Issues Coordination Commission, State Ministry, Tbilisi, Georgia
15 September - 19 September
Annual EINIRAS Conference, Madrid, Spain
23 September
Meeting of the Dialog Forum Norden, Jaruplund Højskole
24 September - 26 September
Training on “Political Participation” for Georgian officials, Tbilisi, Georgia
28 September
Presentation on ECMI’s work at the “Nord-Ost-Institut”, Lüneburg
October 2009
01 October
Visit of representatives from the “Minority at Risk” project
02 October
Presentation on ECMI’s work at the IFSH/KoFries, Hamburg
06 October
ECMI Board Meeting
28 October - 30 October
Partnership for Diversity, EBLUL Conference on “Transmission of Culture through Transmission of Language”, Leeuwarden, Frysland, The Netherlands
November 2009
20 November
Conference on "Ethnic Democracy" in Hamburg, co-operation with Friedrich Naumann Stiftung
December 2009
08 December - 10 December
Georgia CoE – Danida – ECMI Steering Committee Meeting and training on “Minority Governance” for the new Georgian Ombudsman staff, Tbilisi, Georgia
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