ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2010 

Social, Political and Economic Change in the Western Balkans

25-27 June 2010, Durrës, Albania

Programme | List of participants

Keynote speakers

Nicolas Hayoz | Yvana Enzler | Ermal Hasimja | Clarissa de Waal

Abstracts: Yvana Enzler | Clarissa de Waal | Ermal Hasimja

-----------

Workshop I: EU, Conflict Management and Democracy

Discussants/Moderators: Daniel Bochsler | Nenad Stojanovic

Abstracts

• Faculty of Law/Department of Political Science, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje: The role of the European Union in democratic consolidation and ethnic conflict management in the Republic of Macedonia
• Centre for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies (CIPS), University of Sarajevo: State or nation building? Visions, controversies and perspectives of political transition in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• FORUM Skopje: Federalization or unitary state: the permanent dilemma of multiethnic societies. The case of the Republic of Macedonia
• Dominik Tolksdorf: The difficulties of the European Union in supporting the state-building process and Europeanization of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Gezim Selaci: Legitimacy of international transitional administration in Kosovo
• Marius Calu: Beyond liberal peacebuilding: the role of the EU in Kosovo and the question of sovereignty
• Mateja Peter: Constructing Democracy through outside intervention: the authority and priorities of the High Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina over time

-----------

Workshop II: Development, Migration and Inclusion

Discussants/Moderators: Gianni D'Amato | Bashkim Iseni

Abstracts

• National Institute of Statistics of Albania (INSTAT): The socio-demographic changes of the family and child development in Albania
• Advanced Studies Center, Tirana: Study over the affect of remittances on the social cohesion
• Development Solutions Associates, Tirana: Assessing land rights security in the context of agriculture and social development in rural Albania
• Centre for Regional Policy Research and Cooperation Studiorum, Skopje: Equity in health in Macedonia: socio-economic, financial and human security aspects
• South East European University (SEEU), Tetovo: Brain drain and the role of Diasporas in promoting knowledge and empowering the marginalised in the Balkans
• Citizens Association REACTOR: «Research in action», Skopje Generation «Getting Nowhere»: the transitions of the unemployed youth in transitional Macedonia
• Erka Caro: Migrant adjustment to urban communities in Albania: Impact of internal migration and urbanization process
• Andrew Graan: On doing nothing: epidemic unemployment, youth citizenship and urban sociality in Skopje, Macedonia

------------

Workshop III: Identities, Ethnicity and Conflicts

Discussants/Moderators: Christian Giordano | Albert Doja

Abstracts

• Mediacentar, Sarajevo: (Un)covering Karadzic: a case study on media (re) production of national ideologies in the former Yugoslavia
• University of New York, Tirana: Beyond ethnic divisions: the underestimated dimension of social divisions in the Balkans and their impact on social cohesion and democracy
• Center for Social and Cultural Repair, Banja Luka: Construction of national and ethnic identities among youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Analytica, Skopje: Between the internal and external ‘other': deconstructing Macedonian national identity (did not attend)
• Radovic Srdjan: «Turbine of globalization » vs. «The Balkans as it once was»: Notions on Europe and Serbia amid post socialist transformation 
• Herbert Preiss: Conflict at the Interface: national divisions, class inequalities and hegemonic struggles in Kosovo and Northern Ireland
• Darko Karacic: Changes in history education in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina: A path to reconciliation
• Sofiya Zahova: Historiography on Montenegrin ethnic past and politics of identity in Montenegro

Workshop IV: Gender and Knowledge Production

Discussants/Moderators: Lea Sgier | Milica Antic

Abstracts

• Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla: Construing cultural identity and key developments within modern national projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Gender Studies, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje: Gender practice of the Universities in the Republic of Macedonia: inclusion/exclusion of women in the decision making structures and processes
• Euro-Balkan Institute for Social and Humanities Research, Skopje: The nation-state and the institutions of academic knowledge: production and legitimation of dominant discourses of/on knowledge about society
• Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tirana: Monitoring Albanian steps towards gender equality: gender quotas in politics
• Centre for Research, Art and Civic Engagement «The City» (Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Pro Femina (Belgrade, Serbia): Towards transformative politics: intersecting knowledge production and social activism (BH, SRB)
• Centre for Interdiscplinary Postgraduate Studies (CIPS), University of Sarajevo: Feminisms in post-socialist Muslim contexts
• Brikena Qafa-Osmani: Women's voices, Women's pain: experience of marital violence among women in Berat City, Albania
• Enkelejda Sula-Raxhimi: Socio-cultural roots of poverty, violence and their occurrence among Roma women

Workshop report

------------

Workshop V: State Structures, Elites and Civil Society

Discussants/Moderators: Nicolas Hayoz | Arben Hajrullahu

Abstracts

• Center for Research and Policy Making, Skopje: Mapping the leaders in Macedonia and Albania: elite potential for promoting positive social change
• Department of Political Science, University of Prishtina: Civil society in Kosovo since 1999
• Ilire Agimi: The struggle between politics and reform in state building: the Kosovo case
• Jelena Loncar: Development of state-civil society relations in Serbia after democratic changes in 2000
• Fernando Casal: Party System institutionalization in new Western Balkan democracies, sources and consequences
• Malgorzata Rusiecka: The key factors shaping the democratization process in selected countries of former Yugoslavia