Ethnological understandings of cultural diversity in Central European urban spaces

Sponsored by Visegrad Found


29 March 2007

Morning

08.00-11.00
Arrival and registration of guests

11.00-11.15
Welcome
Dr Margit Feischmidt
(Research Fellow, ENMRI-HAS and Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Pécs)

11.15-12.00
Lunch buffet

Afternoon

12.00-12.30
Professor Ayse Caglar (Head of Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University):
Migration, cultural diversity and urban scale

12.30-12.45
Professor Júlia Szalai (Institute of Sociology, HAS and Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University):
Why (and how) ethnicity and class be studied together?

12.45-13.00
Dr Éva Kovács (Institute of Sociology, HAS and Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Pécs):
Why (and how) ethnicity can be studied in communities?

13.00-13.15
Professor Enikõ Magyari Vincze (Babeº-Bolyai University):
Why (and how) ethnicity and gender be studied together?

13.15-13.45
Open discussion

13.45-14.00
Break

14.00-14.30
Dr Gabriela Kilianova and Mgr. Michaela Ferencová (Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences):
Issues, methods and outcomes of ethnological studies on cultural diversity in Slovakia (with a special emphasis on ethnicity and collective memory)

14.30-15.00
Dr Pavel Kubicki and Dr Marcin Galent (Institute of European Studies, Jagellionian University):
Issues, methods and outcomes of ethnological studies on cultural diversity in Poland (with a special emphasis on the memory of Jewish communities and intercultural communication)

15.00-15.30
Open discussion

15.30-16.00
Coffee break

16.00-17.00
Authors meet critics: Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town, Princeton University Press, 2006

Chair: Professor András Kovács (ENMRI-HAS and Central European University)

Authors:
Professor Rogers Brubaker (Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles)
Dr Margit Feischmidt (Research Fellow, ENMRI-HAS and Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Pécs)
Dr Jon Fox (Department of Sociology, University of Bristol)
Discussants:
Professor Maria Kovács (Head of Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University)
Professor Antal Örkény (Head of Minority Studies Program, Eötvös Loránd University)
Dr Dan Rabinowitz (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, CEU)
Dr Marius Lazãr (Center for the Study Interethnic Relations and Department of Sociology, Babeº-Bolyai University)
Dr István Horváth (Center for the Study Interethnic Relations and Department of Sociology, Babeº-Bolyai University)

17.00-18.00
Open discussion

19.00
Dinner

30 March 2007

9.30-10.00
Dr Michal Vasecka and Radka Klvanova, MA
(Institute for Research on Social Reproduction and Integration, Masaryk University)
Issues, methods and outcomes of ethnological studies on cultural diversity in the Czech Republic (with a special emphasis on Roma and their reactions to social exclusion)

10.00-10.20
Dr Zdenìk Uherek
(Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences)

10.20-10.50
Dr Györgyi Bindorffer (ENMRI-HAS):
Issues, methods and outcomes of ethnological studies on cultural diversity in Hungary (with a special emphasis on ethnic identities and German speaking minorities in Central Europe)

10.50-11.15
Open discussions and Coffee

11.15-12.45
Brainstorming on possible collaborative comparative researches
Introduced by Gabriela Kilianova and Margit Feischmidt

  

Organized by the Ethnic and Minority Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ENMRI-HAS)