Program

Program

6 July, Thursday

09:00 – 10:30

Opening

Opening: Florian Bieber, …
Keynote speech: Zsuzsa Csergő

Aula Magna, Babes-Bolyai University
Street Mihail Kogălniceanu, no. 1

11:00 – 13:00

Panel 1: Right Wing Populism

Daniel Gheorghe: Populism and de-Europeanisation of the EU foreign policy in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the cases of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania

Dragoș Petrescu: Rejection of the Populist Consensus? Radical-Identity Politics in Post-Pandemic Romania

Vujo Ilić: Orbán and Vucic: from disparate beginnings to shared values

Damir Mladic: Construction of Populist Narratives in Croatia after February 24, 2022

Szilágyi István: Nationalist reactions of the Romanian state towards Hungarian minority claims

Chair: Virginás Péter
Discussant: Sergiu Mișcoiu

Panel 2: Self Determination and Minority Rights

Stipe Buzar: Siberian remedies. Can there be a moral right to secede when the downtrodden is someone else?

Alexander Osipov: Staging indigeneity in Eurasia: moving in opposite directions

Martin Klatt: Minorities, self-determination, and border delineation – a Pandora’s box?

Zsolt Körtvélyesi: A More Effective European Enforcement of Minority Rights Through Collective Redress

Chair: Gabriel Bădescu
Discussant: István Székely

Panel 3: Dilemmas and Institutions of Intragroup Mobilization

Myra Waterbury: The Minority’s Minority: Pluralism and Resistance within National Minority Communities

Ágnes Kiss: The “Hungarian interests”. The informal model of minority interest representation and the limits of resistance in Ceaușescu’s Romania

Balázs Dobos: Levels of electoral mobilization in minority council and parliamentary elections: Evidence from Central and South Eastern Europe

Chair: Tibor Toró

Discussant: Levente Salat

13:00 – 14:40

Lunch break

14:20 – 16:20

Panel 4: Legal Professionals in the Late Habsburg Monarchy and the Successor States: Career and Identity Choices, Political and Civic Engagement

Martin Klecacký: At a crossroads. Career paths of German speaking justice officials in Bohemia after the dissolution of Austrian Empire

Mark Cornwall: Croatian Lawyers and their Transition out of the Habsburg Empire: Continuities and Disruptions

Francesco Magno: Transylvanian Legal Professionals and Greater Romania’s Legislative Unification (1918-1927)

Vlad Popovici – Ovidiu Emil Iudean: Changing patterns of involvement? Romanian Lawyers in Transylvania in Politics and Civil Society, before and after the First World War

Chair: Sinéad Carolan

Discussant: Gábor Egry

Panel 5: Monitoring Hungary’s Kin-State Policies

Péter Balogh: Kin-state aid, dual citizenship, and international conflict in the Ukrainian-Hungarian borderland

András Morauszki: In Good Times and in Bad Times. Grant Application Strategies of ethnic Hungarian Organizations in Slovakia and Romania

Gyöngyi Schwarcz: Extraterritorial nation-building via EU funds

Tamás Szabó: Salt office or a real forum for the representation of minority problems? The analysis of the effectiveness of the Hungarian‒Romanian Joint Committee on National Minorities

István Gergő Székely: Some dilemmas regarding Hungary’s mail ballot system from the perspective of the transborder Hungarian communities

Chair: Irina Culic
Discussant: Ovidiu Oltean

16:20 – 16:40

Coffee break

16:40 – 18:30

Panel 6: Book Panel on the Research Handbook on Minority Politics in the European Union Edited by Tove Malloy and Balázs Vizi

Participants: Ljubica Djordjević, Levente Salat, Balázs Dobos

Panel 7: Representations of Political and Professional Interests

Ploscaru Nelu Cristian: Dilemmas of nation-state building in the Romanian case: projects of political „combourgeoisie” (1830-1856)

Rizescu Victor: Exclusionary Departures towards the Fascist Re-definition of National Labor: Romanian Perceptions and Evaluations of Italian and German Developments

Sinéad Carolan: Theories of a New Class: The Science of Political Interest in Late-Communist Hungary

Chair: Martin Klatt

Discussant: Vlad Popovici

19:00 – 00:00

Welcome reception

Casa Universitarilor Babes-Bolyai University

Street Emmanuel de Martonne, no. 1

7 July, Friday

09:00 – 11:00

Panel 8: The Securitization of Transborder Ethnic Kinship: Contextual Explorations around the World (1)

Federica Prina: Russia’s ontological (in)security: domestic values versus external enemies

Ksenia Maksimovtsova: The Securitization and Desecuritization of Sanctions against Russia Imposed by the USA after the Ukraine Crisis: Insights from Popular Russian Digital Media

Zsuzsa Csergő – Tamás Kiss: Kin-state Intervention, Securitization, and Minority Policy: Hungarians and Russian-speakers in Central and Eastern Europe

Chair: Salat Levente

Discussant: Vello Pettai

Panel 9: Inherent Dynamics of Intermarriages in Europe (1)

Viorela Ducu Telegdi Csetri: Children’s Rights in Mixed Couples with a Romanian Member

Karolina Lendák-Kabók: Intermarriage as a cultural system of ideas about language relations

Gül Özateșler-Ülkücan: Socio-Cultural Formations of Identifications in Alevi-Sunni Intermarriages, Izmir, Turkey

Chair: Mihaela Hărăguș

Discussant: Tátrai Patrik

Panel 10: Identities Under Construction (1)

Lamiya Panahova: Regime-building through Nation-building Rhetoric: the Case of Azerbaijan

Zsuzsa Plainer: Minority Nation Building and Theatre Attendance in Oradea (Romania) during the 1989-ies

Cristina Petrescu: The Paradox of Romanian National Identity: Historians, History Textbooks, Historical Novels, and Cinematic Narratives

Chair: Julie George

Discussant: Ágnes Kiss

11:20 – 13:20

Panel 11: The Securitization of Transborder Ethnic Kinship: Contextual Explorations around the World (2)

Erin Kristin Jenne – Beáta Huszka – Nassim AbiGhanem: Rethinking Kin State Revisionism: Fidesz Brokerage of Hungarian Diaspora Networks since 2010

David Smith: Secure in Diversity? The Minority SafePack Initiative, Ontological (In)security and Kin-Minority Claims within the EU

Andreea Udrea: A security conundrum: kin-state engagement, identity recognition and the 2012 dispute between Romania and Serbia

Sergiu Constantin – Andrea Carlà: The Vicious Circle of Securitization Processes in the Former Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir

Chair: Levente Salat

Discussant: Myra Waterbury

Panel 12: Inherent Dynamics of Intermarriages in Europe (2)

Sara Mičkec: Minority Language Maintenance in Sorbian-German Families in Upper Lusatia

Anrdea Peinhopf: Whose ethnicity matters? ‘Mixed’ families navigating conflict in the Caucasus

Cristina Mocanu: Between written law and practice: Intermarriage in the age of slavery

Chair: Karolina Lendák-Kabók

Discussant: Viorela Ducu Telegdi Csetri

Panel 13: Identities Under Construction (2)

Kriton Kuci – Emilio Cika: Framing the nation in Albanian and Greek online newspapers

Márk Sima: The spatial concepts of the Polish and the Lithuanian nationalism

Ilir Hebovija – Ferjolt Ozuni: Patriots and tourists. Banal nationalism and tourism. The case of Albania.

Valér Veres: Changing Patterns on National Identity and Group Attitudes of Hungarian Minority Youth

Chair: Patrik Tátrai

Discussant: Zsuzsa Plainer

13:20 – 15:00

Lunch break

15:00 – 17:00

Panel 14: Book Panel on Non-Territorial Autonomy. An Introduction (2023) Editors: Marina Andeva, Balázs Dobos, Ljubica Djordjević, Börries Kuzmany, Tove H. Malloy

Participants: Balázs Dobos, Ljubica Djordjević, Tove H. Malloy, Salat Levente

Chair: TBA

Panel 15: Minority Education in CEE

Vello Pettai: Minority educational reforms in Estonia and Latvia: the twilight of Russian-language education?

Andrea Sólyom: Segregational problems in the education of Roma minority

Tibor Toró: Minority rights and diversity management in education. A possible framework for analysis

Chair: István Gergő Székely

Discussant: Zsuzsa Csergő

Panel 16: Book Panel on Attila Melegh’s Migration Turn in Eastern Europe

Participants: Kiss Tamás, Luis Escobedo

Chair: TBA

17:30 – 00:00

Panel 17: European Yearbook of Minority Issues: Two Decades of Mapping Europe’s Minority Landscape

Panelists: Zsuzsa Csergő, David Smith, Ksenia Maksimovtsova, Sergiu Constantin

Moderator: Ljubica Djordjević

Follow up: Coctail party at Onix, Street Septimiu Albini, no. 12
8 July, Saturday

09:00 – 11:00

Panel 18: Migration Turn in CEE (1)

Margit Feischmidt: Dilemmas of deservingness in current solidarity spaces understood in the context of migration turn in Hungary

Attila Melegh: Migration turn in Eastern Europe

Aziz Berdiqulov: Russian “Relocants” and Afghan Refugees in Tajikistan – not Everyone Equally Welcome?

Chair: Zsuzsa Csergő

Discussant: Irina Culic

Panel 19: Identities Under Construction (3)

Ion Popa: “A Latent Civil War”: National and Transnational in the Interwar Holy See/Catholic Anti-Secularism, Anti-Communism, and Antisemitism

Josip Lucev: Nationalism as strategy: institutional analysis of the collapse of Yugoslavia

Anna Mus: Ethnoregionalist Movement in Upper Silesia. Between a Modern Nation-Building Project and an Opposition to the Nationalising State

Andrei Miroiu – Ana Raluca Alecu: The Alliance for the Unity of Romanians and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: the Strategy of a Nationalist Party

Chair: Anca Filipovici

Discussant: Julie George

Panel 20: Armed Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Space

Giorgio Comai: Who said it first? Investigating the diffusion of the Kremlin’s buzzwords before they entered the mainstream

Gela Merabishvili: The role of competing nationalist narratives in shaping ordinary citizens’ views on the Russian-Ukrainian War in border regions of Hungary and Georgia

Florian Bieber: Civilisationalism in the Light of the Russian Aggression against Ukraine

Alan Kuperman: “Muscular Mediation” in Nagorno-Karabakh

Chair: Gabriel Bădescu

Discussant: Dragoș Petrescu

11:20 – 13:20

Panel 21: Migration Turn in CEE (2)

Luis Escobedo: How Romanian media constructed the racist Transylvanian town

Tamás Kiss: Revisiting Ditrau

Senada Šelo Šabić: What future for depopulating countries? Example of Croatia as a newest EU member state

Chair: Gabriel Bădescu

Discussant: Attila Melegh

Panel 22: Minorities Under Surveillance and in the Press in the Interwar Period and During WWII

Daniela Popescu: The German Ethnic Group (G.E.G.) under the close surveillance of the Romanian security police (Siguranța) during the 1940s

Filipovici Anca: Fighting anti-Semitism: underground Zionist youth rescue actions during the Holocaust in Romania

Manuela Ana Marin: Marin Between “Vaterland” and “Mutterland”: The Relationship of the German Ethnic Group with the Romanian State as Reflected in the Romanian Press

Csongor Molnár: Hungarians in the Banat: National activism and nation-building in the newspaper Torontál

Andrei Florin Sora: Romanian Perceptions and Public Discourse Regarding the Hungarian Minority in Transylvania during the Optants’ Dispute (1922-1930)

Chair: Attila Gidó

Discussant: Gábor Egry

Panel 23: Challanges of Census Classification and Policies in CEE

Patrik Tátrai, Ágnes Erőss, Katalin Kovály: No perfect match? Census categorization and ethnic (self-)identification in the Ukrainian-Hungarian ethnic contact zone

Ljubica Djordjević: Sensitivity of Population Census in Ethnically Diverse Societies: A View from the Western Balkans

István Horváth: Toward an inglorious end? After a century of ethnicity registration of Romanian censuses

Chair: Paul Teodor Hărăguș

Discussant: Valér Veres

13:20 – 15:00

Lunch break

15:00 – 18:00

City tour