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CONFERENCE
PRESENTATION
SOCIAL SCIENCES
AND THE QUESTION OF INTERCULTURALISM: AN ASSESSMENT
date: 18-21
October 2001 venue: University of the West Timisoara
This
conference is to assess the state of the art of interculturalism
and to provide new avenues for research in Romania. This
assessment is based on the existing materials collected
by the Intercultural Institute (Timisoara) and the Research
Centre on Inter- ethnic Relations (Cluj), consisting of
both published and unpublished texts of scholars and researchers.
Similar assessment done in other countries of Southeast
Europe will be presented by institutional partners
i.e. Ethnobarometer--International Research
Network on Interethnic Politics and Migration (Rome) and
the Institute of Sociology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
(BAS) in Sofia, in order to provide a point of comparison.
Structure of the Programme
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Opening
session: Interculturalism and Minority Policies
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| Session
1: |
Minorities
and intercultural relations in Romania: historical
background and recent developments |
| Session
2: |
Presentation
of case studies: Transylvania and the Banat |
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Session 3 |
The social sciences and the question
of ethnicity: results of past research; situation
and resources |
| Session
4: |
Comparative
assessment in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Macedonia |
| Session
5: |
Conclusions:
emerging issues and future research |
Provisional Programme
Thursday 18
Opening
session: 15:00 - 16:00
Chair: Christian
Giordano, Stefan Buzarnescu
Ovidiu
Gant, Department for Inter-ethnic
Relations, Romanian Government
Other official addresses
The institutional
framework: a Partnership Project with the Swiss National
Science Foundation (SNSF), Francois
Ruegg
Session 1: 16:30
- 20:30
Minorities
and intercultural relations in Romania: historical background
and recent developments
Chair: Adrian
Severin, Alessandro Silj
Presentations:
Gabriel Andreescu,
Dan Oprescu
Discussants: Mircea
Toma, Delia Grigore, Rudolf Poledna, Eniko
Magyari, Calin Rus
Friday
19
Session 1 (cont)
: 9:00 - 10:00
Session 2: 10:30
-12:30 / 14:30-16:30
Case studies:
Transylvania and the Banat
Chair: Rudolf
Poledna and Calin Rus
Transylvania: Alina
Mungiu, Zoltan Biro, Nandor Magyari, Corina Iosif, Ileana
Benga
Banat:
Stefan Buzarnescu, Gabriela Coltescu,
Smaranda Vultur, Barna Bodo
Session 3: 17:00
- 18:30
The social sciences and the question of ethnicity: results
of past research; situation and resources
Chair:
Vintila Mihailescu
Eugen
Baican, Mircea Toma, Mihai Surdu, Mircea Kivu, Margit Feischmidt.
Saturday 20
Session 3
(cont) : 9:00 - 12:30
Session 4: 14:30
- 18:30
Comparative assessment
: Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Albania, Romania
Chair: Edouard
Conte and Alessandro Silj
Dobrinka Kostova,
Miljenko Dereta, Kristina Balalovska, Gilles de Rapper,
Rudolf Poledna, Calin Rus
Session 5: 10:00
- 13:00
Conclusions:
emerging issues and future research
Chair: Christian
Giordano and Francois Ruegg
Allessandro Silj, Calin Rus, Rudolf
Poledna and others
Co-ordinators:
IP Project
network: Prof. Dr. Christian Giordano &
Dr. Francois Ruegg, Institute of Ethnology, Fribourg
Dr.
Alessandro Silj, Ethnobarometer
International Research Network, Rome
and Eastern European network: Dr. Dobrinka Kostova, Institute
of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS)
A project sponsored by the Swiss
National Science Foundation
with the support of Ethnobarometer
International
Research Network
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