[ALBSA-Info] Conference on Macedonia

[aalibali at law.harvard.edu]

Centre for South-East European Studies,

School of Slavonic and East European Studies,

University College London

Macedonia Macedonias:

Changing Contexts in the Changing Balkans

14-16 June 2001

Convenors: Peter Siani-Davies, Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers,

Vesna Popovski & Zhidas Daskalovski


Thursday 14 June 2001

Venue: First Floor, 21 Russell Square, London.

9.00

Registration

9.45

Welcoming Address

10.00

Perspectives on the Past

Professor Victor Friedman (University of Chicago)

Nations and nationalism in Gjorgji Pulevski s trilingual dictionary: what 
the Nineteenth Century can tell the Twenty-First


Dr Nikola Jordanovski (Sts Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje)

Between the necessity and the impossibility of a national history

11.30

Coffee/Tea

12.00

Interethnic Relations

Goran Janev (Oxford and Sts Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje)

Macedonia s ethnic politics and the informal political organisation of 
Albanians and Macedonians


Vassiliki Neofotistos (Harvard University)

Beyond stereotypes: the porousness of ethnic labels in the Republic of 
Macedonia


Discussant: Dr Hugh Poulton

1.30

Lunch

2.30

Historical Perspectives

Professor Stefan Troebst (Leipzig University)

"Fuehrerbefehl" Adolf Hitler and the proclamation of an independent 
Macedonian state in September 1944


Professor Bernard Lory (INALCO, Paris)

The first collective use of Macedonian as an ethnonym


Dijana Despodova (Central European University, Budapest)

National myths in contemporary Macedonian historiography and literature

Discussant: tbc

4.30

Tea/Coffee

5.00

Film: Next Year in Lerin (UK, 50 mins.) Introduced by the Director Jill Daniels


Films: Macedonia seen by&Six contemporary documentaries, including One day 
in the life of& (Director: Igor Pop Trajkov, 12 mins.)

6.30

Wine

Friday 15 June 2001

Venue: Room 336, Third Floor, North Block, Senate House, Malet Street, 
London. WC1E 7HU.

9.30

Communication: Negotiating Boundaries

Dr Keith Brown (Brown University)

Brokering the Balkans: the abuses of culture in Macedonia


Dimitar Bechev (St Antony s College, Oxford)

Dot-com antagonisms: the Macedonian question on the web


Rozita Dimova (Stanford University)

 From privilege to burden: tautological limitations of the name Macedonia


Discussant: Dr Jane Cowan (Sussex University)

11.30

Coffee/Tea

12.00

Foreign Policy Perspectives

Dr Dejan Jovic (University of Stirling)

Macedonian foreign policy dilemmas


Dr David Phinnemore (Queen s University Belfast)

Macedonia and the European Union: security and regional cooperation through 
the stabilisation and association agreement


Discussant: Maja Trajkovska (Journalist & LSE)

1.30

Lunch

2.30

Conflict Prevention and the Outside World

Dr Alice Ackermann (Lancaster University)

The evolution of conflict prevention norms: the case of Macedonia


Andrew Loomis (Search for Common Ground in Macedonia)

Politics and identity in Macedonia: intrinsic versus extrinsic understandings

Discussant : Adelheid Feilcke-Tiemann (Deutsche Welle)

4.00

Tea/Coffee

4.30

Security: the Domestic Perspective

Islam Yusufi (Assistant National Security Adviser to the President of 
Macedonia)

Visions for Macedonian Security


Dr Teuta Arifi (Sts Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje)

Albanians in Macedonia: division or integration?


Professor Ljubomir Frckoski (Sts Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje)

The paradox of Macedonian stability and identity

Discussant: Gabriel Partos (BBC)

6.30

Wine

Saturday 16 June

Venue: Room 336, Third Floor, North Block, Senate House, Malet Street, 
London. WC1E 7HU.

10.00

Spillover

Dr Kyril Drezov (Keele University)

Collateral damage: the impact of the Kosovo War in Macedonia


Arsim Zekolli (Political Analyst, Skopje)

Macedonian-Kosovar interactions in the 1980s and their implications for today

11.30

Coffee/Tea

12.00

Interethnic Relations and the Politics of Representation


Farimah Daftary (European Centre for Minority Issues)

The role of the local NGO sector in promoting inter-ethnic communication


Brenda Lee Pearson (International Crisis Group)

Census 2001


Discussant: Isak Ramadani (Journalist, Skopje)

1.30

Lunch

2.30

Communication: crossing boundaries

Dr Christian Voss (University of Freiburg)

Macedonian linguistic and ethnic identity in Aegean Macedonia


Dr Gilles De Rapper (University of Marne-la Vallee)The son of three fathers 
has no hat on his head: minority status and personal strategies in a 
Macedonian village of Albania and among Albanians of Macedonia

Discussant: Dr Galia Valtchinova

4.00

Tea/Coffee

4.30

Visions of the future?


Professor Vladimir Ortakovski (Sts Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje)

The Albanian minority in Macedonia


Jenny Engstrom (LSE)

Towards positive peace in Macedonia: resolving the tensions between 
individual and collective rights


Zhidas Daskalovski (SSEES)

Changing notions of citizenship and nationality: Macedonia's political 
identity and the Macedonian Albanians three scenarios for the future


Discussant: tbc

6.00

Wine

Conference Board: Wendy Bracewell, Zhidas Daskalovski, Vesna Popovski, 
Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, Peter Siani-Davies and Stefan Troebst

Conference Administrator: Nevenka Martin