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On the
occasion of the tenth anniversary of the
«Istituto per l’Europa Centro-Orietale e
Balcanica»,
which
falls on 21st December 2005,
we are pleased to offer a
brief account of the main activities organized by the IECOB during the
year 2005.
MIREES Master’s
Programme 2005
Second edition of the
Interdisciplinary Master in East European Researches and Studies (MIREES),
Forlì,
Italy
The two year postgraduate programme has begun
again: the MIREES master’s is organized by the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of
Bologna, Polo Scientifico Didattico of the
Forlì Campus, "R.Ruffilli" Faculty of Political Science, in collaboration
with the Institute for Central, Eastern and Balkan
Europe.
MIREES
Diploma is an international document jointly released by the
University of Bologna, the University of Ljubljana and the Daniel Berzsenyi College in Szombathely. The agreement on a joint
diploma with the University of Kaunas is approaching its final
stage: for the time being there is an agreement on a double diploma with
this university.
Some MIRRES grants were generously offered to the students by CEI
University Network, Carisbo Foundation and Italian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
For further
information:
Istituto per
l’Europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica - Università di Bologna
Via
Marchesi 12
47100 Forlì (FC)
Italy
2005/2006 Sixth edition of the
European Regional Master in Democracy and Human Rights in South East
Europe, Sarajevo,
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
The European Regional M.A. in Democracy and Human
Rights in South East Europe was established through the joint efforts of
eleven participating universities and research centres, coordinated by the
Centre for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies of the University of Sarajevo in cooperation with the University of
Bologna through its
Centre for East, Central and Balkan Europe.
The 2005/2006 edition that started
in October 2005 is co-financed by the European Commission and the Italian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
For further
information:
Centre for
Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies,
University of
Sarajevo
Zmaja od
Bosne 8
71 000 Sarajevo
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
MIREES Series of
Conferences
The MIREES series of conferences is a specific opportunity for
undergraduate, Erasmus and MA students to broaden their knowledge of
current analysis in politics, economics, history and sociology. Among the many speakers invited
during the past year, we recall:
Bronislaw
Geremek, Member of the European Parliament and
former Foreign Minister of Poland, who honoured the MIREES
Programme with a key-note speech on «The Security of Europe: between
European Policy and Euro-Atlantic Solidarity»
Pal Csaki, Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia, who introduced the case study
«Slovakia in the Enlarged Europe
and its Neighbours»
Silvia Gourova, Deputy Mayor of Kalinigrad, who presented «The Kaliningrad
experience»
R. Craig Nation, US Army War College, who introduced
«UN-Russia Relations: from
Competition to Cooperation?»
Alberto Chilosi,
University
of Pisa, «The European
Neighbourhood Policy: a Substitute for
Membership or a Consolation
Prize?»
Francesco Caccamo, University of Chieti, «The East European
Settlement at the Paris Peace
Conference»
George
Kolankiewicz, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL,
«Being and Belonging - Diaspora,
Identity and Citizenship in the Expanding Europe»
Richard Pipes, Professor of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University,
«Public Opinion in Putin's
Russia»
Siegfried Geyer, Director of the Medical department , Medizinische Hochschule
Hannover, President of the European Society for Health and Medical
Sociology, «The East-West division in
European Health Policies»
Laszlo Nyusztay, Hungarian Embassy in Rome, and
Laszlo Csorba, Hungarian
Academy in Rome, «Country Presentation:
Hungary and its Role in the
European Union»
D. Mario Nuti, London
School of Economics and
University “La
Sapienza”, Rome,
«The Introduction of
the Euro in Central Eastern
Europe»
Ellen Nolte, London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine, London,
«Health
and European healthy systems’
performance»
Paolo Foradori, University of
Trento, «UN-Russia and crisis management
in the Caucasus. The experience on the
ground of a UN official»
Diaconu Vitalie, Visiting researcher from the University of Chisinau,
«European Union
Enlargement and the Impact on Non-Accession Countries: the Case of
Byelorussia, Ukraine
and Moldova».
The 2006 programme of conferences and meetings organized by MIREES is
available at www.eurobalk.net
Conferences,
Courses and Summer Schools organized by the
IECOB
The European Theory and Form of Politics
The IECOB, in cooperation with the Fondazione Garzanti and the Faculty
of Political Science, Forlì as well as Punto Europa, Forlì, organized a
conference on the European theory and form of politics on the
5th of April . The Conference aimed at investigating the
European Constitution, the values promoted by the European Union and the
future of an Enlarged European Union in the new geopolitical context. A
volume edited by Giuliana Laschi will be published in 2006 with
contributions by Mario Telò, Biagio De Giovanni, Andrea Manzella, Jimmy
Milanese, Sonia Lucarelli, Giuliana Laschi, Filippo Andreatta and
Ferdinando Fasce.
Cultural Tourism in
Bulgaria: the
School of
Tourism
The IECOB, in partnership with the University of
Bologna, the University of Plovdiv, the New Bulgarian University of Sofia,
the Municipal Institute of Ancient Plovdiv, the Ethnographic Museum of
Plovdiv, and the Institute of Folklore of the Bulgarian Academy of Science
hosted the first activity of the project «Cultural Tourism in Bulgaria»-
the School of Tourism, from the 30th May to the 5th
June 2005.
The project is jointly led by Matilde
Callari Galli, Giovanna Guerzoni, Anna Krasteva and Irena
Bokova.
For further
information:
Dessislava
Krasteva
Corso della
Repubblica 88/A
47100
Forlì,
Italy
Phone: +39
0543 36304/ 23000
Fax: +39
0543 377088
XI Cervia International Summer
School
The IECOB, in partnership with the Italian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Central European Initiative and the
Municipality
of Cervia hosted the
XI edition of the Cervia International Summer School on «Beyond the
Enlargement. The Wider Europe and the New
Neighbourhood» from 5th to 16th September 2005. A new competition for the
2006 International Summer School will be launched
soon.
For further
information:
Dessislava
Krasteva
Corso della
Repubblica 88/A
47100
Forlì,
Italy
Phone: +39 0543
36304/ 23000
Fax: +39 0543
377088
3rd Tallinn Summer School
in Social, Political and Cultural Studies
The Estonian
Institute of Humanities, Tallinn
Pedagogical University, in cooperation with the Hungarian
Institute in Tallinn, Budapest University
of Economics, University of
Bologna-IECOB, School of
Slavonic and East
European Studies-University College London organized the 3rd
Tallinn Summer School on the relations among modernity, colonialism,
nationalism and decolonization using an inter-disciplinary approach and
making geographical comparisons. It was held in Tallinn from the
16th to the 22nd of August. On behalf of the IECOB,
Patrizia Dogliani, lecturer in Contemporary History at the SSLIMIT,
participated in the Summer School, giving two seminars: «Nation, Identity, Nationalism and ethnic and linguistic minorities
in Italy during the 20th century in a European comparative
perspective» and
«Comparative History of Socialism / Comparative
History of Nationalism since the end of the19th century: some
methodological questions».
Further
information on the 4th Summer School will be available soon at
www.eurobalk.net.
The Influence of CIS
Revolutions on the Political Crisis of Russia: Possible Outcomes and
Prospects
The Europe and the Balkans International
Network, in cooperation with the United Democratic Center of Moscow,
the Associazione
Italiana Slavisti and the Fondazione Garzanti, promoted an
International Round Table on the influence of CIS revolutions on the
political crisis of Russia. This two-day Round
Table, which took place in Forlì on 18th-19th
November, gathered over forty experts from Russia, Italy and other European
countries.
Panels organized
at International Conferences
2005 World Convention of the
Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Columbia University
The IECOB took part to the 2005 World Convention organized by the
Association for the Study of Nationalities that was held at Columbia
University from 14th to 16th April with the Panel: «On the Versailles shadows?
The legacies of Versailles and the Yugoslav peace treaties»,- CHAIR:
Stefano Bianchini (University of Bologna, Vice-President ASN); PANELISTS:
Francesco Caccamo,
(University of Chieti);
Dusan Janjic
(Institute of Social Science, Belgrade) The Legacies of Versailles in the
Balkans Lessons learned from
International Presence: Kosovo and Macedonia, R. Craig Nation (US Army War
College, Carlisle) After Dayton: US
and European Geopolitical Ambitions to SEE, Francesco Privitera (University
of Bologna) National Sovereignty vs. EU Integration: the challenges
for the Balkans; DISCUSSANT: Henry Huttenbach (City College of New
York, USA)
In addition,
Francesco Privitera chaired the Panel on «Ethnic mobilization, conflict, and
institutions»
For
further information:
Association for the
Study of Nationalities
Harriman
Institute
Columbia University
1216 IAB, 420 West 118th
Street
New York, NY 10027
Tel.: 212 854
8487
Fax: 212 666
3481
VII ICCEES World Congress, Humboldt
University - Berlin, 25-30 July 2005
The IECOB-Europe and the Balkans International
Network has partecipated to the VII International Council for Central and
East European Studies World Congress with a Panel
entitled «Beyond the EU-Enlargement: EU and the New
Neighbourhood Policy» - CHAIR: Stefano Bianchini
(University of Bologna, Italy); PANELISTS: Francesco Privitera(University
of Bologna, IECOB, Italy) The Long Run to Stabilisation of Western
Balkans. The State of the Art of the EU Enlargement Process in the
Region; Carla Tonini (University of Bologna)
Poland and EU Policy towards Belarus and Ukraine; Victor
Bojkov (London School of Economics and Political Science, Bosnia
Hercegovina) Comparing Regional Policies: Stability Pact and
Visegrad Group
Furthermore, Stefano Bianchini took
part as speaker to the «Panel entitled Dogs that
Barked and Dogs that Didn't: Ethnic Strife and Ethnic
Peace in Post-Communist Europe» -
CHAIR: Andre Liebich
(Graduate Institute of International Studies, Switzerland);
PANELISTS:
Stefano Bianchini (University of Bologna,
Italy) Serbia-Croatia-Bosnia: Ethnic Conflict and
Non-Conflict; David
Crowe (Elon
University, USA) Roma in conflict; Sabol, Steven (University
of North Carolina, USA) Kazakhstan: Ethnic Conflict and
Non-Conflict.
CECOB Special Research
Project
Luisa Chiodi has coordinated the
research team set up by the fellows Andrea Filippo Saba, Silvia
Francario, Marco Pasini and Boris Vtlacil in a one-year research
project that led to two written report on the decentralized
cooperation activity in Bosnia-Herzegovina (with a specific study on the
Unsko-Sanski Canton) under the request of the “Regione Emilia
Romagna” and the “Provincia di Bologna”.
The Research Project was under
the supervision of Stefano
Bianchini and Francesco Privitera and enjoined the local support
of Dragoljub Stojanov, University of Sarajevo, along with three research
fellows, Adnan Efendic, Zeljko Racic and Marijana
Milic.
IECOB Library: new
and modern Headquarters
The IECOB library has
been moved to its new Headquarters in Via Laziosi, 15, Forli. The IECOB
library includes up to 3,000 volumes and magazines -in more than ten
languages- to cover the needs connected to the study of Central and
Eastern European Countries and the Balkans in the fields of politics,
economics, history, sociology and anthropology. The library caters for
MIREES and other MA students of the University of Bologna.
MIREES Library
c/o Palaretti Palace
Via San Pellegrino Laziosi,
15
Phone: 0039 0543 374141
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