07-04-2011

ECMI organises three panels for the 2011 ASN World Convention 14th – 16th April, New York (USA)

2011 ASN World Convention
14th – 16th April,
New York (USA)

European Centre for Minority Issues will organise three panels on the occasion of the 16^th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), which takes place in Columbia University, New York, from 14 to 16 April, 2011. For more information see: www.nationalities.org

 

Thursday, 14 April
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

PANEL K8

Under Siege: Inter-Ethnic Relations in Abkhazia (Roundtable)

 

CHAIR

Tove H. Malloy

(European Centre for Minority Issues/ECMI, Flensburg, Germany)

 

PARTICIPANTS

Tom Trier

(ECMI in the Caucasus, Tbilisi, Georgia)

David Szakonyi

(Columbia U, US)

David Aprasidze

(Ilia State U, Tbilisi, Georgia)

Irakli Khintba

(Abkhazian State U, Sukhum/i)

 

Friday, 15 April
5:10 p.m. – 7:10 p.m.

PANEL R1

 

Non-Territorial Autonomy: Interpretations and Modes of Practical Application

 

CHAIR

Jan Asmussen

(European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany)

 

PAPERS

Bill Bowring

(U of London, UK)

The Paradox of National-Cultural Autonomy in Russia:

An Experiment Doomed to Fail, but Thriving after Fifteen Years

 

Alexander Osipov

(European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany)

Minority Representation and the Issues of Authenticity and Efficiency:

The ‘Peoples’ Congresses’ in Russia

 

Federica Prina

(U College London, UK)

National Cultural Autonomy in Russia: Reality or Fiction?

 

DISCUSSANT

Karl Cordell

(U of Plymouth, UK)

 

 Saturday, 16 April
5:10 p.m. – 7:10 p.m.

PANEL TH1

Reconciliation, Education and State-building in Europe

 

CHAIR

Alexander Osipov

(European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany)

 

PAPERS

Karl Heinrich Pohl

(Christian-Albrechts U, Kiel, Germany)

Educational Policies and National Reconciliation in Schleswig-Holstein

 

Martin Klatt, Nina Jebsen

(Syddansk U, Sønderborg, Denmark)

The Negotiation of National, Regional and Minority Identity

during the Plebiscites following the First World War

 

Simone Lassig

(Georg-Eckert-Institut, Braunschweig, Germany)

Reconciliation, History Education and Politics of Memory:

Textbook Commissions in post war Europe (1945-present)

 

Michael Vasecka

(Centre for Research of Ethnicity and Culture, Bratislava, Slovakia)

The Educational System and Non-Reconciliation in Slovak-Hungarian Relations

 

Balazs Vizi

(Research Institute of National and Ethnic Minorities, Budapest, Hungary)

Education in Bilateral Relations:

A Lost Way for Reconciliation between Hungary and Its Neighbors

 

Jan Asmussen

(European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany)

(Re)Education and Democratization Policies in Post-war Germany:

A Model for Successful State-building?

 

DISCUSSANT

Tove Malloy

(European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany)