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Ethnic Minorities, Nationality and History

Paisiy Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
18-20 October 2006

18 October

Welcome

Prof. John Eade. (Roehampton, London, UK). The Bulgars are coming? Representing 'Immigrants' in the British Media
Debates

Prof. Plamen Makariev. (University of Sofia, Bulgaria). The Acknowledgement as politic to the national minorities
Debates

Prof. Zhivko Ivanov. (Plovdiv University, Bulgaria). Balkan “specific” and integration. Films and history (Kusturica “The life is miracle”, Teo Angelopoulos “Ulysse's Gaze”, Ivan Nichev “Bay Ganyo”)

Debates

Gancho Kolaksyzov, Ognyan Fortunov. (International Organisation of Migration, Plovdiv, Bulgaria). Forced migration and minorities

Debates

Prof. Chris Flood. (Roehampton, London, UK). The Dialectic of Swamping and Absorption: Perceptions of Prospective Bulgarian and Romanian Immigration to the UK as Vehicles of EU Integration

Debates

Prof. Vittore Collina. (University of Florence, Italy). Efforts to create a nation: the Italian “Lega Nord”

Debates

Milena Katsarska. (University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria). Intercultural Citizenship Addressing Marginalization and Discrimination in Textbooks in Bulgaria.

Debates

End of afternoon panel

19 October

Mgr. Ian Innerhofer. (University of Salzburg). Language politics and the development of national identity.

Debates

Prof. Peter Vodenicharov. (South Western University of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria). Personal Names and Identities of Muslims of West Rodopi Mountain.

Debates

Dr. Andreas Pribersky (University of Vienna, Austria). EU- enlargement: a need for a redefinition of the national identity of new member states?

Debates

End of morning panel

Fenya Dekalo. (Free University of Varna, Bulgaria). “Jewish News”. The propaganda of religion freedom among Bulgarian Jews.

Debates

Prof. Irina Tchongarova. (Plovdiv University, Bulgaria). Intermarriages, Third Culture and Quest for Identity.

Debates

Dr. Suman Gupta. (Open University, London, UK). Bulgarian Properties for the British Market.

Debates

Goran Blagoev. (Bulgarian national television). The Muslim Rituals “Kourban” (Bulgarian national television).

Debates

Prof. Aleksander Mikołajczak. (University of Poznan, Poland). Polish Islam in the intercultural dialogue.

Debates

End of afternoon panel

20 October

Debates: National Identity and Ethnic Minorities
Moderator: prof. John Eade

Debates: EU enlargement, Balkan nations and minorities
Moderator: Dr. Andreas Pribersky

End of panel

Closing speech


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