From besnik at alb-net.com  Fri Oct  1 19:56:35 1999
From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula)
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 19:56:35 -0400
Subject: [ALST-L] Lecture on Stone Age Archaeology in Albania
Message-ID: <v04003a01b41afa651af2@[165.247.70.11]>

    Archaeological Institute of America
            Worcester Society

          is pleased to present

 Investigating the Stone Age of Albania

Guest speaker: Dr. Karl Petruso, University of Texas  -- Arlington


Wednesday, 6 October 1999	   			7:30 pm
Hogan Campus Center ? Holy Cross		Room 320


Please join us in this rare opportunity to learn about the research of the
first American archaeologists allowed to excavate in Albania, a country
that denied outside access to its rich archaeological heritage for more
than 50 years. The lecture will focus on the excavation of an extraordinary
cave near the town of Konispol, part of a long-term project seeking to
document the history of human occupation within this region in antiquity.
These finds have provided us with important evidence on mankind?s crucial
transition from hunter-gatherer to a more complex society involving food
production. Dr. Petruso will also discuss the challenges faced by
archaeologists working in modern Albania, a country currently undergoing
dramatic changes.

Please join us after the presentation for an informal reception to meet
with the speaker.

LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Directions:  From 290, take the College Square Exit (#11). Merge to the
right-hand lane, which is Southbridge Street. The first street on your
right is College Street, just before the large football field at the
traffic light. Turn right onto this street and continue up the hill until
the last gate opening on your left (just before the fencing ends). Turn
left into this driveway and follow signs for parking, ahead on your right.
Parking is free in lighted lots. The parking lot is directly across from
the Hogan Campus Center.





From pulab at gusun.georgetown.edu  Tue Oct  5 15:13:40 1999
From: pulab at gusun.georgetown.edu (Besnik Pula)
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:13:40 -0400
Subject: [ALST-L] Kosova Talk
Message-ID: <v04003a01b41ffdbc8fa8@[165.247.73.87]>

Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies
Georgetown University

presents a brown bag discussion

Kosova After the War: A View from the Ground

Rebecca Kilhefner, CERES Masters Candidate
Besnik Pula, CERES Masters Candidate

At 12 Noon
Thursday, October 7, 1999
ICC 450
Georgetown University





From besnik at alb-net.com  Tue Oct  5 15:06:42 1999
From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula)
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:06:42 -0400
Subject: [ALST-L] Fwd: Fellowships
Message-ID: <v04003a00b41ffc8f491a@[165.247.73.87]>

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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:55:51 -0400
From: "Provost Office GRANTS" <GRANTS at newschool.edu>
To: BREUERI at newschool.edu, Matynia at newschool.edu
Cc: FriedlaJ at newschool.edu, UngererR at newschool.edu
Subject:  Fellowships

Agency:
 ACLS American Council of Learned Societies

Program:
 East European Studies, Fellowships

Due:
 NOV 1

Abstract:
 Fellowships for East European Studies are for research in the social
sciences and humanities relating to Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania,
Slovakia, and the successor states of the former Yugoslavia. Proposals
dealing with Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, and the former Yugoslavia are
particularly encouraged. These programs are intended to support research
undertaken outside East Europe, although short visits to the area may be
proposed as part of a coherent program primarily based elsewhere.


Web page:
 http://www.acls.org/eeguide.htm

E-mail:
 ruth at acls.org

Write:
 American Council of Learned Societies 228 East 45th Street New York,
NY 10017-3398

Phone: 	212/697-1505
Fax: 	212/949-8058

__________________________________

Grants and Sponsored Projects
Office of the Provost
New School University
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011

Tel:  (212) 229-5346
Fax:  (212) 229-5330

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From nita_london at hotmail.com  Thu Oct  7 11:41:51 1999
From: nita_london at hotmail.com (Nita Luci)
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 08:41:51 PDT
Subject: [ALST-L] Subscription  for balkans@egroups.com
Message-ID: <19991007154152.18556.qmail@hotmail.com>

>This newslist is a listserver encompassing approx. 250 scholars, activists, 
>government officials, students and others dealing with or interested in the 
>Balkans. Balkan Academic News is intended to serve as a network for the  
>exchange of academic information on the Balkans.
>
>Please send an introduction of yourself in a few lines to the moderator 
>(bieberf at ceu.hu). Once a week or so all new members will then be 
>introduced.
>
>
>How to Unsubscribe
>Send a blank email to balkans-unsubscribe at egroups.com
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>All members are encouraged to participate actively in the exchange. 
>Messages sent to  balkans at egroups.com   will be distributed to all members 
>after approval of the moderator.
>
>What we're looking for (and what not)
>We are looking for papers,  reviews, calls for papers, conference 
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From hetzer at uni-bremen.de  Fri Oct  8 01:22:55 1999
From: hetzer at uni-bremen.de (AHetzer)
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 07:22:55 +0200
Subject: [ALST-L] Balkans list
References: <199910071600.MAA12810@alb-net.com>
Message-ID: <37FD7FAF.343D5C53@uni-bremen.de>

alst-l-admin at alb-net.com schrieb:
> 
snip

> Today's Topics:
> 
>   1. Subscription  for balkans at egroups.com (Nita Luci)
> 
> --__--__--
> 
> Message: 1
> From: "Nita Luci" <nita_london at hotmail.com>

> >This newslist is a listserver encompassing approx. 250 scholars, activists,
> >government officials, students and others dealing with or interested in the
> >Balkans. Balkan Academic News is intended to serve as a network for the
> >exchange of academic information on the Balkans.
> >

Balkans Academic list is not bad, but it deals with Albania only in the
sense that she is an object of political science. Sometimes scholarly
events (panels, congresses) are announced, sometimes book reviews are
reprinted from elsewhere. But the main interest focusses on the current
conflict, i. e. Kosova and the international discussion on former
Yugoslavia's future. Since the list is strictly moderated, there is no
discussion at all. Sending a message there is like throwing a stone into
a pond. 

When subscribing to Alst-l, I hoped it would be different from Balkan
Academic list: focussing on Albanian issues and with real exchange of
opinions. 

Kind regards
AHetzer

-- 
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Dr. Armin Hetzer, Fax: (0421) 218 2614
Referat Handschriften/Rara, Slavistik & Romanistik



From besnik at alb-net.com  Fri Oct  8 01:52:26 1999
From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula)
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 01:52:26 -0400
Subject: [ALST-L] Balkans list
In-Reply-To: <37FD7FAF.343D5C53@uni-bremen.de>
References: <199910071600.MAA12810@alb-net.com>
Message-ID: <v04003a05b42335dd0a4f@[165.247.96.80]>

At 7:22 AM +0200 10/8/99, AHetzer wrote:
>When subscribing to Alst-l, I hoped it would be different from Balkan
>Academic list: focussing on Albanian issues and with real exchange of
>opinions.

Aside from postings of events, unfortunately, the ALST list isn't used as
much as I hope it would when I initially created it.

I think that all should feel welcome and comfortable to discuss any
important issue that relates to Albania and/or Albanians, especially those
in academia. I would certainly like it if there were more postings on the
list.

-Besnik





From nita_london at hotmail.com  Fri Oct  8 16:12:13 1999
From: nita_london at hotmail.com (Nita Luci)
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 13:12:13 PDT
Subject: [ALST-L] Balkans list
Message-ID: <19991008201213.7782.qmail@hotmail.com>

Hi,

Thanks for you comments. I just found out about this list so I don't really 
have an oppinion. To me it sounded interesting thus I passed the message to 
you.
But what I did do afterwards is read the old messages on their bulletin. 
It's interesting to see who is involved in the list and their oppinions...I 
wouldn't like to make gross generalizations but it seemed, to me at least, 
that the viewpoints were of a mainstream 'opposition'-especially those 
pertaining to Yugoslavia. Which got me interested in the dynamics of such a 
group and what issues if you like they find important. (don't misread the 
'they').
Mabey you have more to say about this. I would be very interested.
Thanks,
Nita

>Balkans Academic list is not bad, but it deals with Albania only in the
>sense that she is an object of political science. Sometimes scholarly
>events (panels, congresses) are announced, sometimes book reviews are
>reprinted from elsewhere. But the main interest focusses on the current
>conflict, i. e. Kosova and the international discussion on former
>Yugoslavia's future. Since the list is strictly moderated, there is no
>discussion at all. Sending a message there is like throwing a stone into
>a pond.
>
>When subscribing to Alst-l, I hoped it would be different from Balkan
>Academic list: focussing on Albanian issues and with real exchange of
>opinions.
>
>Kind regards
>AHetzer
>
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From hetzer at uni-bremen.de  Sat Oct  9 02:59:22 1999
From: hetzer at uni-bremen.de (AHetzer)
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 08:59:22 +0200
Subject: [ALST-L] Balkans Academic list
References: <199910090400.AAA11459@alb-net.com>
Message-ID: <37FEE7CA.8E33DE99@uni-bremen.de>

> Thanks for you comments. I just found out about this list so I don't really
> have an oppinion. To me it sounded interesting thus I passed the message to
> you.
> But what I did do afterwards is read the old messages on their bulletin.

The archive of that list is freely accessable at

http://www.egroups.com/group/balkans

Perhaps, one has to subscribe before, but this is no problem, and if you
click the option "read on the web only", you will avoid overflow in your
mail box. 

I monitored several discussion groups/mailing lists during this spring,
therafter I have written a paper on the topic "Albanian in Internet"
which will be read at a conference next weekend. Balkan Academic list is
not mentioned there, because English is the only language on that board,
and Albania proper is no topic of any importance. As far as Yugoslavia
(SRYu) is concerned, all opinions expressed on Balkans Academic are
extremely moderate. People who want to get familiar with the alternative
thinking of Serbian intellectuals can use that list as a starting point.
However, I did not realize that it differs from the "mainstream", as far
as Kosova is concerned. The only Serbian list where Kosova is treated in
a more realistic way is "Mostovi"
(http://www.borut.com/mostovi/rules_ac.htm). 
It is moderated too, and if people use the word Shiptari instead of
Albanci, they will get a Notice (maybe they will be excluded, if such
sins occur too often). 

On the whole, one can say, that Balkans academic list is the only one
that after July 1999 did not "dry out" as a consequence of lack of hot
news. Others, like Decani list, keep sending press releases. On eGroups
one can see the statistics without difficulty, whereas in other cases
the archives and/or statistics are less easily accessable. Generally
speaking one can say that during this year, due to the current events,
there was much change in behavior. It would be worthwhile to analyze a
couple of mailing lists from a scholarly point of views (number of
participants/postings, topics, standpoint etc.). 

Kind regards
AHetzer

-- 
Staats- und Universit?tsbibliothek Bremen
Dr. Armin Hetzer, Fax: (0421) 218 2614
Referat Handschriften/Rara, Slavistik & Romanistik



From besnik at alb-net.com  Mon Oct 11 21:51:28 1999
From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:51:28 -0400
Subject: [ALST-L] Fwd: ALBSA: Albanian Studies Site
Message-ID: <v04003a04b42844767de1@[165.247.70.191]>

An excellent resource.

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From: KreshnikBejko <kbejko at kruncher.ptloma.edu>
Subject: ALBSA: Albanian Studies Site
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:42:32 -0700 (PDT)
To: albsa at Web-Depot.COM

http://www.ssees.ac.uk/registry.htm


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From besnik at alb-net.com  Mon Oct 11 22:05:07 1999
From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 22:05:07 -0400
Subject: [ALST-L] Fwd: SSEES Albanian Studies News
Message-ID: <v04003a05b42844b68ce3@[165.247.70.191]>

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Date:         Thu, 7 Oct 1999 20:03:14 +0100
From: Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers <sschwand at SSEES.AC.UK>
Subject:      [ALBANEWS] SSEES Albanian Studies News

Nash Albanian Studies Programme News
(Centre for South-East European Studies)
School of Slavonic and East European Studies

1. Editorial
2. Lecture programme autumn 1999
3. New books on Albania


(1) The Nash Albanian Studies Programme is resuming this academic year.
If you happen to be in London, you are very welcome to attend any of the
public seminars announced below. I hope you will use the Albanian Studies
International Registry of Scholars in the Social Sciences and the
Humanities for information on international scholarly work on Albania.
You will find it on http://www.ssees.ac.uk/registry.htm. You may also
enter your own details on a questionnaire downloaded from this site. We
aim to provide an updated version of the International Registry on the
internet as soon as possible. Please send any new information you would
like included to me before November 30, 1999.

In the future postal circulars will cease and there will be only
e-mail circulars of the Albanian Studies Programme. Please let me know if
you wish someone else to be included on this mailing list, or if you wish
not to receive information. This e-mail circular will inform you of any
last minute changes and give news of  future
speakers in the seminar series.

The Proceedings of the June 1999 conference 'The Role of Myth
in History and Development in Albania' will be published in
abstract form on the SSEES web site as soon as editorial procedures allow.
The Proceedings will also be edited
in Albanian translation by Fatos Lubonja, Tirana. An English publication
of selected papers from the conference is projected with Hurst, London.

The SSEES Nash Albanian Studies Programme takes pleasure in
the fact that a new initiative in the form of the Albanian Studies
Centre, which has been developed in London by Dr Bejtullah Destani, has
come into being. We hope to be able to keep you informed on activities of
this other
centre as well.


(2) Please note the following changes to the Nash Albanian Studies
Public Seminar Series. I am organising it this year in conjunction with the
evening lectures of the Centre for South-East European Studies. In the
future it will take place fortnightly on Tuesdays at 6 p. m., in the MCR of
SSEES, 21 - 22 Russell Square. Expanding on the established theme of
Integration and Disintegration in Albania the emphasis this year will be
on economy, conflict and security as well as on the role Albania
plays within a wider regional context. Please note the first lectures of
the combined new seminar series:


Oct 12 	Michael Kaser, Oxford:
The Albanian Political Economy after the Kosovo Conflict

Oct 26 	Steven Sampson, Kopenhagen:
Post-POST communism in Southeast Europe: Projectisation and Mafia


Nov 02 	Ivan Colovic, Belgrade:
Poetry and Nation


Nov. 09 	Peter Loizos, LSE:
Ottoman Half-Lives: The End of Empire as Experienced by
Studies of Displaced Persons


RSVP to: sschwand at se1.ssees.ac.uk

Yours sincerely,

Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers
(SSEES Nash Fellow for Albanian Studies)


(3) This circular offers the possibility of announcing new books and
source material related to Albanian Studies. Advertisement fees are
subject to negotiation with SSEES. Professor Beryl Nicholson has asked us
to inform
you about the following publications:

Beryl Nicholson, Albanian society between the wars: a working
bibliography.
Centre for Scandinavian Studies Papers No.4.  1999.  40pp.  #7.00
including
postage.

Beryl Nicholson, The census of the Austro-Hungarian occupied districts
of
Albania in spring 1918. A preliminary note on the manuscript.  Centre
for
Scandinavian Studies Papers No.5.  1999.  34pp.  #7.00 including
postage.

Orders should be sent to B. Nicholson, 12 Lavender Gardens, Newcastle
upon
Tyne NE2 3DE.  Cheques should be payable to B. Nicholson.


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From besnik at alb-net.com  Tue Oct 12 00:01:24 1999
From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula)
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 00:01:24 -0400
Subject: [ALST-L] Fwd: ALBSA: Searching For Pages Torn From History
Message-ID: <v04003a00b42862ff8a83@[165.247.96.27]>

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From: IPILIKA at wellesley.edu
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 23:08:54 -0500 (EST)
Subject: ALBSA: Searching For Pages Torn From History


LATimes,           Saturday, October 9, 1999


Searching for Pages Torn From History
  Books: Kosovo library may never recover the Albanian-language works
confiscated by Milosevic.

By SCOTT MARTELLE, DAVID HOLLEY, Times Staff Writers


     PRISTINA, Yugoslavia--Mehmet Gerguri measures the library's loss not
in books so much as in
time.
     Most Albanian-language material from the 1970s and '80s is gone,
truckloads of it shipped out in
1991-92 by Serbian administrators to be shredded and turned into cardboard,
said Gerguri, the ethnic
Albanian director of the National and University Library here.
     And virtually no Albanian-language works were added during the 1990s
after 99 Albanian library
workers--including Gerguri--were fired in a Serbian purge of the work force.
     That's 30 years of Albanian books missing from the official repository
of literature, science and
technology in Kosovo province, where the population is 90% ethnic Albanian.
     Librarians have so far been unable to identify all the missing
material because that would entail
matching the massive old-style card catalog with the 650,000 volumes that
should be on the library's
shelves.
     But in a 1997 international appeal for intervention--which went
unheeded--Gerguri used witness
accounts to estimate that at least 100,000 books, more than 8,000 magazines
and six truckloads of
newspapers had been culled from the collection by the regime of Yugoslav
President Slobodan
Milosevic.
     The stacks now are largely filled with Serbian-language books,
augmented by works in English,
German, French, Russian and other foreign languages.
     The National Library, a reading library that doesn't lend books, was
the headquarters for the
province-wide network. Many of the buildings themselves were destroyed by
Serbian forces during the
mayhem surrounding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing campaign
against Milosevic this
spring, Gerguri said.
     "They wanted everything that was Albanian to be pushed away, if it was
not destroyed," Gerguri
said. "We hope we'll manage to rebuild it, and that we'll have all the
copies of the titles in Albanian."
     How to rebuild is the problem. The library plans to appeal to ethnic
Albanians to donate their private
book collections, although it's unclear how many private libraries survived
Serbian wartime looting.
     And while 68 of the former Albanian employees have returned, there's
no money for paychecks.
With no formal Kosovo government, Gerguri has no place to send the
six-month, $780,000 budget he
drafted for salaries, acquisitions and operating expenses.
     Noted Albanian historian Skender Rizaj, 70, who has published about 20
books and 200 academic
articles on world history, said he fears that the loss of the materials
will be a severe impediment to
young Kosovo Albanians who want to study their own history.
     "It will be very difficult for all students," Rizaj said as he sat at
a small plastic table on a shaded patio
at his house. "Our library was poor to begin with, compared to libraries in
London and Paris. And now
it will be even poorer, so this is a very big loss."
     The library was designed by Adrija Mutnjakovic, a well-known Croatian
architect, and was finished
in September 1981. It quickly became the subject of Serbian accusations
that it "was the center of
Albanian nationalism and counterrevolution," Gerguri said.
     The building itself occupies tens of thousands of square feet beneath
a staggered series of milky
glass domes that some--particularly Serbian critics--say were intended to
symbolize traditional white
Albanian caps encased in steel bars or chains.
     "Maybe so," Gerguri said. "But for me, these serve the function of
getting natural light. It's the best
light we could get."
     Although ethnic Albanians across Kosovo have been targeting minority
Serbs in a campaign of
violence since the bombing ended and U.N. peacekeepers moved in, Gerguri
said library workers have
no intention of jettisoning the Serbian collection.
     "We are not going to do what they did to our books," he said.






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From ngapeja at rocketmail.com  Wed Oct 13 09:05:12 1999
From: ngapeja at rocketmail.com (Isa Blumi)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 06:05:12 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [ALST-L] Concourse--KosovaTimes-Prishtina
Message-ID: <19991013130512.5596.rocketmail@web2901.mail.yahoo.com>

For the last month Kosova Times has been published
daily from its offices in Prishtina providing a vital
service to the foreign community in Kosova.  Its
English language text, 16 pages of news from around
the world and Kosova was intended to put a positive
spin to news circulating Kosova.  If done
professionally, this paper can greatly enhance the
position of Kosovars vis-a-vis the international
community.  

We are making a call to all English-speaking Kosovars
in the diaspora to consider joining this newspaper,
writing articles either from overseas or coming to
Prishtina.  Positions are varied from journalists to
editors.  This is a great opportunity for journalism
students to get first hand experience, if you are
studying business, marketing etc. again, the
experience is invaluable.  For those who wish to come
to Prishtina, to rejoin their countrymen and create a
sophisticated media in the English-language, an
attractive salary will be provided and, once again, it
is invaluable experience to those aspiring to find
jobs in the West in the future.

Please contact 

kosovatimes at hotmail.com for more information.

Positions are open immediately.


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From ngapeja at rocketmail.com  Thu Oct 14 05:18:38 1999
From: ngapeja at rocketmail.com (Isa Blumi)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 02:18:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [ALST-L] Kosova Times--Positions
Message-ID: <19991014091838.15932.rocketmail@web2901.mail.yahoo.com>

Judging from the response on my last message, it may
be wise to clarify the situation with Kosova Times. 
As noted before, it is an English-Language newspaper
published 6 days a week.  Its format is straight
forward: 16 pages consisting of sections to cater to
the international community (ie one page for British
readers of news from UK, US has two pages, business
page, four pages of sports [most readers will be
soldiers] unfortunately only one page of local news
and a commentary page.)  The positions available would
ideally involve the candidate moving to Prishtina to
either take up the position of journalist, which could
take the form of investigative journalist or "beat
journalist."  The journalist could work on longer
pieces which would not be priviledged material for
Kosova Times, the article could be marketed on the
freelance market as well.  Kosova Times at the moment
is relying on the work of local connections which
results in a rather unprofessional bit of
presentation, particularly when the readers are
veterns of western-style journalism.  There are daily
press conferences that need to be covered and from
personal experience as the English Editor of
Kosovapress when it was still a newsagency, Kosova
needs some tough-minded, fast-thinking journalist to
ask the hard questions of KFOR, UNMIK etc.  The job
holds a great deal of responsibility in this sense and
could prove an important first step into the larger
world of free lance opportunties.  I certainly got my
share of offers even though I do not pretend to be a
journalist (an historian).

Kosova Times needs someone to take over the marketing
side of the business.  While it benefited from an
initial contribution from local sources, I always
envisioned the paper to be financially independent. 
While I have left the day-to-day operations to return
to my research, I had prepared a number of proposals
to international aid agencies who all expressed
interest in helping fund Kosova Times.  There is a
need for someone to take over the financial management
of this paper, to represent the paper in meetings with
Aid agencies and handling marketing duties.  The paper
is a potential gold mine, it just needs to deal with
some basic issues of this nature.

Then there is the office of the editor-in-chief.  I am
more than willing to work with the new candidate to
"show them the ropes," the current staff is now quite
capable of dealing with the content of the paper and
have produced a number of issues without my
supervision, but they need intellectual and managerial
guidance.  The editor-in-chief would be responsible
for dealing with the local political realities that
being the only English newspaper entails, it certainly
can be an experience, but it will take someone with a
sharp mind who is confident and will not be
intimidated.  Again, Kosova Times established a very
good reputation in a short time, it was an invaluable
mouthpiece, far more effective than the silent Kosova
political community which has succeeded in destroying
any compassion people have for our political
aspirations as a people.  

I can no longer take on these responsibilities, I have
endured the period from bombing and have gone through
many months of Kosova's development in the last year. 
I must return to my research but I do not want Kosova
to lose this opporutunity.  So please, if you believe
your presence here in Prishtina would contribute to
Kosova Times and its aims, please do write at

kosovatimes at hotmail.com

and if there are any questions, still, please be more
specific as to what you want to know about the
position for which you would be considered.  I must
add, strong English is an essential requisite.

Salaries are competative with what Aid agencies are
paying here and there is a profit sharing component to
the structure of the paper that I have installed which
could make this a financially rewarding endevor for
those who get involved.

Tung,

Isa



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From besnik at alb-net.com  Sat Oct 16 14:24:07 1999
From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula)
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 14:24:07 -0400
Subject: [ALST-L] Fwd: [balkans] Book: Between the Archives and the Field. A
 dialogue on  historical anthropology of the Balkans (fwd)
Message-ID: <v04003a00b42e7259553d@[165.247.98.134]>

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Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 13:56:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Krista Marie Hegburg <kmh55 at columbia.edu>
To: othereurope at columbia.edu
Subject: [balkans] Book: Between the Archives and the Field. A dialogue on
 historical anthropology of the Balkans (fwd)


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Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 18:01:51 +0200
From: Florian Bieber <bieberf at ceu.hu>
To: balkans at egroups.com
Subject: [balkans] Book: Between the Archives and the Field. A dialogue on
    historical anthropology of the Balkans

The following book can be downloaded completely at the website below.

Miroslav Jovanovic, Karl Kaser, Slobodan Naumovic (Eds.)
Between the Archives and the Field. A dialogue on historical anthropology
of the Balkans
http://www.udi.org.yu/Projects/Archives/archives.htm

Table of Contents:


                     INTRODUCTORY
                     REMARKS

                     HISTORICAL
                     ANTHROPOLOGY:
                     A NEW
                     DIALOGUE
                     OF OLD
                     PARTNERS

                     Andrej Mitrovi?
                     OPENING REMARKS

                     Michael Mitterauer
                     FROM HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE TO HISTORICAL
                     ANTHROPOLOGY?

                     Karl Kaser
                     PERSPECTIVES FOR A HISTORICAL-ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH
                     OF THE BALKANS

                     SEX - GENDER - FAMILY - EVERYDAY LIFE

                     Predrag ?ar?evi?
                     "TOBELIJAS": CROSS-DRESSING AND CROSS-GENDERING IN THE
19th
                     AND 20th CENTURY BALKANS

                     Siegfried Gruber
                     THE DEVELOPMENT OF FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURES IN
                     SERBIA IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES BASED
                     ON THE EXAMPLE OF ORA?AC

                     Zorica Ivanovi?
                     THE WORLD IS HUGE, DO NOT MARRY AFFINALS: A
                     CONSIDERATION ON THE MARRIAGE PROHIBITION WITH THE
                     AFFANALS AMONG THE SERBS

                     Predrag Markovi?
                     SEXUALITY IN BELGRADE IN THE 20TH CENTURY

                     Miroslav Jovanovi?
                     "INSTABILITY AND INFERTILITY" - FAMILY AND MARITAL
                     RELATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN REFUGEES IN THE KINGDOM OF
                     YUGOSLAVIA: THREE THESES TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING OF
                     SOME BASIC PROBLEMS
                     (Note! Some text in Russian cyrillic!)

                     Hannes Grandits
                     "FROM A RELIABLE BORDERMAN TO A GOOD TAXPAYER" - THE
                     EXPERIENCE OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN CRISIS CIRCUMSTANCES: IN
                     KRAJINA WITHIN THE CHANGE OF THE SOCIAL SYSTEM IN THE
                     1870-ies AND 1880-ies

                     Tijana ?olak-Anti?
                     EVERYDAY LIFE AND ETHNOLOGY - "PARTIES" AND THE
                     GENERATIONAL DIVISION IN SERBIA BETWEEN THE WARS,
                     1919-1940

                     VILLAGES - MENTALITIES - TRADITIONS

                     Nikola F. Pavkovi?
                     ON THE PROBLEM OF SECONDARY ARCHAISM AMONG THE SOUTH
                     SLAVS

                     Christian Promitzer
                     ECONOMIC MODEL - MENTALITY - NATIONALITY: REMARKS
                     REGARDING THE LINK BETWEEN THE DOMINANT ECONOMIC
                     MODEL AND NATIONAL DIFFERENTIATION ON THE EXEMPLE OF
                     THE GERMAN-SLOVENIAN LINGUISTIC BORDER

                     Ljubodrag Dimi?
                     THE VILLAGE AND THE CITY IN THE SOCIETY OF THE KINGDOM OF
                     YUGOSLAVIA

                     Slobodan Naumovi?
                     THE USE OF TRADITION:POLITICAL TRANSITION AND CHANGE OF
                     RELATION TO NATIONAL VALUES IN SERBIA, 1987-1990

                     Radomir Stojanovi?
                     THE DIFFERENCE OF CONTEMPORARY EXPLANATION AND THE
                     REALITY OF THE SHOWN FILM IMAGES IN "THE CORONATION OF
                     KING PETAR I KARA\OR\EVI]"

                     (POLEMICAL TONES)

                     Radomir D. Raki?
                     "HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY"? (IF THAT IS A PROBLEM AT
ALL...)

                     INSTEAD OF A CONCLUSION

                     Karl Kaser, Michael Mitterauer
                     HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE BALKANS: AT THE
                     BEGINNING OF A DISCUSSION

                     Andrej Mitrovi?
                     "QUESTIONS OF AN INQUISITIVE MAN"

________________________
Florian Bieber
Instructor
Central European University
International Relations
and European Studies
Nador utca 9
H-1051 Budapest
Hungary

Tel/Fax: 0036-1-349 60 24
bieberf at ceu.hu
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From besnik at alb-net.com  Tue Oct 19 21:27:55 1999
From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:27:55 -0400
Subject: [ALST-L] Fwd: New Book: The Kosovo News and Propaganda War
Message-ID: <v04003a00b432cb0066f1@[165.247.98.67]>

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From: "Florian Bieber" <Bieberf at CEU.HU>
To: balkans at egroups.com
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 14:49:17 MET-1MEST
Subject: [balkans] New Book: The Kosovo News and Propaganda War

From: IPI-Barbara Trionfi <info at freemedia.at
 Organization:  International Press Institute
Extracts from IPI's new book "The Kosovo News and
Propaganda War" are now available on our web site www.freemedia.at.

Apart from the full text of the introduction to the book, which gives
a detailed and critical analysis of the media coverage of the Kosovo
war and of the book's contents, you will find a selection of articles
which analyse the media's coverage of the Kosovo war in various
countries such as UK, USA, Germany, Spain, Serbia and Montenegro
(introduction), Kosovo and South East Europe; furthermore, articles by
Will King, Managing Editor and Vice President of CNN, and Michael
Massing, The Nation, represent two different perspectives on CNN's
coverage of the war; finally a selection of reports by journalists who
reported from the field, give a good overview of the difficulties and
obstacles they had to face in covering the war.

At the official launch of "The Kosovo War and Propaganda News", which
took place in Vienna's City Hall on October 15, IPI's Director, Johann
P. Fritz, and Dr. Gerfried Sperl, Chairman of the IPI Austrian
National Committee, presented special commendations to Paul Watson of
the "LA Times" and "RTV Pancevo" for their excellence in reporting
during the Kosovo war.

RTV Pancevo became the popular independent choice in Belgrade after
B92 was closed down by the authorities. "Independent reporting in
Serbia throughout the period of the Nato airstrikes was rendered
virtually impossible," noted Dr. Sperl, who is also Editor of the
Austrian daily 'Der Standard'. "RTV Pancevo refused to succumb to
official pressure and remained committed to independent reporting,"
Sperl said. "They chose a fine line of compromise in their reporting
and mentioned all important pieces of news and stories, including the
plight of the Kosovar-Albanian refugees, but somehow they still
managed to keep broadcasting." RTV Pancevo, which earned a reputation
for carrying swift and accurate reporting, survived two close-down
attempts by the Federal Ministry of Telecommunications during the war,
said Sperl. "The team at RTV Pancevo is emblematic of a media struggle
within Serbia. They refrained from spewing hatred, they operated with
journalistic integrity and they basically made the best out of an
extremely difficult situation." In what is seen by observers as a
retaliatory strike for their independent stance, the ministry has
recently ordered the station to pay a fee of 800,000 dinars [$US80,000
approx.] for the use of its frequency.

Paul Watson was the only Western reporter who managed to stay in
Pristina for the duration of the Nato airstrikes. "We were all very
worried about him, he was in a very dangerous position," said Johann
P. Fritz, Director of the International Press Institute. "But under
these adverse conditions he still managed to get out regular,
excellent reports. Paul's stories were balanced, insightful and
enlightening and he deserves enormous credit for shedding light on
what otherwise would have been a news dark spot."

Further background information on Paul Watson and RTV Pancevo are
available at www.freemedia.at

The heated debate on the mediaAEs eroding credibility and what should
be done to remedy the situation comes to Vienna's City Hall 27-28
October, 1999. Top media executives, publishers, academics and
editor-in-chiefs from over fourteen countries are gathering at an open
forum to discuss oMedia Credibility and Self-Regulationoe. For a copy
of the online programme and further information about the conference
(registration and contact details) please visit
www.freemedia.at/ev_viennale.htm.

The International Press Institute is the global, non-profit network of
leading journalists, editors, and media executives dedicated to
defending and promoting freedom of the press and improving the
standards and practices of journalism.

Kind regards,
Barbara Trionfi

______________
Florian Bieber
Instructor
CEU
International Relations
and European Studies
Nador utca 9
H-1051 Budapest


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From besnik at alb-net.com  Tue Oct 19 23:21:44 1999
From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 23:21:44 -0400
Subject: [ALST-L] Fwd: Call for Papers: "Politica Externa" (Foreign Policy) - "
 DECONST
Message-ID: <v04003a04b432e5aeac51@[165.247.97.68]>

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From: "Florian Bieber" <Bieberf at CEU.HU>
To: balkans at egroups.com
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 10:19:31 MET-1MEST
Subject: [balkans] Call for Papers: "Politica Externa" (Foreign Policy) - "
DECONST

"Politica Externa" (Foreign Policy) the only Romanian journal on
international relations intends to edit a new issue:

" DECONSTRUCTING THE BALKANS RECONSTRUCTING THE BALKANS'

The journal accepts submissions in English, Romanian and French. We
are more than willing to translate into Romanian notable contributions
in English already published in a Western journals if the authors
either hold the copyright themselves or can direct us to the copyright
holders. Articles should be no longer than 8000 words and no shorter
than 4000.

Electronic submissions at sar at starnets.ro are especially encouraged.
Manuscripts both as a hard copy or on a floppy disk should be
addressed to Editor, Romanian Academic Society, Sandor Petofi 15,
Bucharest 1, Romania, via mail or fax at 401-222 1868. Please use
endnotes instead of footnotes in order to facilitate electronic
processing of your paper. "Foreign Policy" is a peer-reviewed journal.
We do not pay fees, but you shall receive three copies of the issue if
your article is accepted. We print 1000 copies, distributed to
libraries and organizations around the world. Deadline: November 15,
1999


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From besnik at alb-net.com  Tue Oct 19 23:22:31 1999
From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 23:22:31 -0400
Subject: [ALST-L] Fwd: OTR Civil Society in Kosovo, Issue 8 (fwd)
Message-ID: <v04003a05b432e5dcb715@[165.247.97.68]>

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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 01:23:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: The Advocacy Project <advocacy at lists.advocacynet.org>
To: kosovo at lists.advocacynet.org
Subject: OTR Civil Society in Kosovo, Issue 8

======================================================================
ON THE RECORD: //Civil Society in Kosovo//----------------------------
======================================================================
Your Electronic Link to Civil Society in Kosovo
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Volume 9, Issue 9 -- October 18, 1999
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WIRING UP KOSOVO (2)

In this Issue:

>From the editorial desk: THE DILEMMA OF HATE MAIL ON THE INTERNET

WAR IN KOSOVO, WAR IN CYBERSPACE

THE INTERNET AND THE KOSOVO HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

======================================================================
                      FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK
======================================================================


             THE DILEMMA OF HATE MAIL ON THE INTERNET

     This issue of our series is late in reaching subscribers. The
     reason has to do with censorship and propaganda.

     The issue deals with the role of the Internet during the war
     in Kosovo and NATO's bombing campaign over Serbia. It is
     important to recall that the media contributed greatly to the
     violence that accompanied the break-up of the former
     Yugoslavia in the early 1990s -- by fanning ethnic hatred,
     confirming ethnic stereotypes, and supporting nationalism.

     Can the same be said of the Internet? The last issue of this
     series (#8) suggested not. In fact, the Internet arguably
     served as an instrument of peace in Bosnia, where it helped to
     unite different ethnic groups that had been isolated by the
     war. In Serbia, the Internet provided the democratic
     opposition to Milosevic with a way to make their voices heard.

     The record is less clear when it comes to the recent war in
     Kosovo, and the NATO campaign against Serbia.

     On the one hand, the Internet once again proved its value as a
     method to voice democratic opposition. Milosevic's critics
     were instantly muzzled when the war began. As NATO bombing
     took its toll, the Internet became virtually their only means
     of communication.

     Milosevic's critics received little sympathy from NATO. NATO
     was determined to destroy Serbia's telecommunications system,
     regardless of the fact that this would also destroy the sole
     remaining means of expression (the Internet) open to those who
     opposed Milosevic. So relentless was NATO in its attacks, that
     some Serbians felt this was not only deliberate on NATO's
     part, but an indirect form of propaganda, because it
     suppressed the voice of Serbian democracy. This helped NATO to
     portray all Serbs as nationalists, solidly behind Milosevic's
     wars of aggression, which in turn made it easier to justify
     NATO's highly controversial bombing campaign.

     Many would see this as an argument in favor of the Internet.
     On the other hand, it is also clear that the Internet was used
     as an instrument of propaganda by both sides of the war.

     We give several examples in this issue. The most troubling are
     the expressions of hatred that were sent from Serbia and
     Russia to Alb-net.com, a website that serves as a clearing
     house for material on Albanians worldwide.

     Alb-net is run by four Albanians, two from Macedonia and two
     from Kosovo, and their purpose during the war was to present
     the Albanian perspective. For some months, they were assisted
     by Advocacy Project member Teresa Crawford who managed a list
     on the alb-net.com server.

     Why did Alb-net post these hateful messages by Serbs on their
     website? Teresa feels that the intention was to contrast the
     hundreds of messages that were coming in daily in support of
     the Albanians. But at the same time, there must have been an
     element of self-interest in it. These messages were intended
     to shock and to disgust, and the posters knew that they would
     confirm the stereotype of the violent Serbian -- and feed
     their own pro-Albanian propaganda. There is little evidence of
     similar messages by Albanians being posted to Serbian sites.
     Indeed in the cyberwar, Albanians exercised considerable
     restraint, knowing that this would reflect well on them in the
     battle for public opinion.

     The question for us is whether the Advocacy Project should
     reprint these expressions of hate in this issue. Some of us
     feel that by reprinting any of the messages, we are falling
     into the trap and adding to the misconception that all Serbs
     are evil and violent. They say it will make the entire series
     (already biased in favor of Albanian civil society) appear
     more biased against Serbia. In addition, there is the question
     of journalistic responsibility: we have no way of knowing if
     these messages were meant to be published for the public or if
     the apparent sender was in fact the author.

     The other argument is that if hate mail happened -- which is
     not disputed -- it cannot be ignored in a discussion about the
     role of the Internet. Whether it is offensive cannot count,
     because war and genocide are offensive and the only way for
     groups like ours to respond is by stating the facts. Once we
     start omitting offensive material on the grounds that it
     "confirms stereotypes" and "offends" readers, we are surely on
     the slippery slope to self-censorship -- and playing into the
     hands of the killers.

     We have ended up by compromising the issue. We have run four
     messages, without identifying their authors. These extracts
     have been carefully chosen to make different points. One is an
     expression of hatred, pure and simple. Another comes from
     Russia and shows the depth of Russian sympathy for Serbia. The
     third refers to NATO's campaign. The fourth questions the
     veracity and neutrality of the Alb-net website.

     It has been a useful discussion for us as a group. But it has
     also produced a difficult compromise. We would appreciate any
     thoughts and opinions from you, our subscribers. (Iain Guest)

=================================================================

                   WAR IN KOSOVO, WAR IN CYBERSPACE

On March 24, NATO began bombing Serbia, and the Serbian forces in
Kosovo accelerated their attacks on civilians and the expulsion of
refugees. Within six weeks, over 700,000 Kosovars had fled into
Albania and Macedonia.

This real war found its echo in cyberspace.

There was an eerie silence from the epicenter of the crisis, in
Kosovo itself. The destruction of electrical power sources, NATO
attacks on the communication towers, the expulsion of people, the
marauding bands of militia -- all this shut down regular
communications.

Almost all local telephone numbers were blocked, local access
numbers for the Internet were not operating and the only way to log
onto the Internet was by phoning Belgrade. One journalist who wrote
for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting <www.iwpr.org> was
able to get some information out this way, and a young Kosovar
woman achieved brief prominence after her e-mails to a friend in
Berkeley were reprinted on CNN and AOL websites. As long as
telephone links lasted between Serbia and Kosovo, activists in
Serbia called their friends in Kosovo, and put the information out
in e-mails. But as NATO attacks and the expulsions intensified,
even these tenuous connections were snapped. Darkness and silence
descended on Kosovo.

                                * * *

Inside Serbia, the Internet was used extensively during the war.
Serbians would turn on the television, witness a place being
bombed, and then log into chat rooms to inquire after relatives and
friends who might have been affected.

But this became increasingly difficult as NATO battered away at the
regional system of communications. Extended power outages also made
logging onto the Internet difficult. In Kosovo, NATO bombs
destroyed the telephone trunk links between the exchange systems,
the main intercity link towers on Mount Golesh, the center of the
Kosovo Post, Telegraph and Telecommunications in Prishtina
(Pristina), and towers in Southern Serbia.

In a highly controversial move, NATO also decided to attack media
outlets, in an effort to squash Serbian "propaganda." One of the
targets was RTS, the Belgrade television station. In April, it was
rumored that Loral Orion, a satellite company that provided links
to the Internet for two major Serbian Internet service providers
(ISPs), would break ties with them in order to comply with a US
Presidential Order banning trade with Yugoslavia. This would have
almost completely severed all ties to the Internet for Serbia. The
US Government decided that Internet connections did not qualify as
trade so the break did not in fact occur.

This combined assault provoked a lively debate on the Internet
itself. Some recalled the way Milosevic had exploited the media in
fanning ethnic hatred in the early days of the wars in Bosnia and
Croatia, and felt that NATO's attacks were justified. Others
pointed out that NATO was itself spreading propaganda, and viewed
the attacks as an unconscionable assault on freedom of speech and
expression.

                                * * *

One early casualty of the information war was the democratic
Serbian opposition, which had used the Internet so effectively
since 1996 in its struggle against Milosevic. Not surprisingly, it
came under immediate pressure from the Serbian authorities, who
closed the offices of B 92 and seized its equipment on April 2, ten
days after the start of the NATO bombing.

But NATO's assault on telecommunications and the threat to Serbia's
satellite links, combined with the draconian information law put in
place by the regime in Belgrade, threatened to deprive them of
access to the Internet, which was again proving to be something of
a lifeline. As Ivo Skoric pointed out on May 1, unlike television,
which is "top-to-bottom, one-way communication that somehow
symbolizes totalitarian structure, Internet is a
democracy-promoting media." (ivo at reporters.net)

An important analysis by AIM (Alternativna Informativna Mreza --
Alternative Media Network for the former Yugoslavia,
www.aimpress.org) suggested not only that NATO was aware of the
damage it was inflicting on Serbia's democrats, but that it was
quite deliberate.

NATO's assault, suggested AIM, was part of an attempt to portray
all Serbs as unsympathetic, in order to justify the bombing:

"Western electronic media do not hesitate to bombard us with voices
from Serbia which...present an image of a society drowned by
nationalist passions and anti-democratic sentiments with no
individuals, no opposition, and no democratic rights' culture.

"Western electronic media has also ignored half a dozen statements
made by representatives of civil society. On April 6, 17 Belgrade
NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) recalled their courageous
struggle both against war and nationalist propaganda, their support
of human rights, their struggle against the repression of Kosovo
Albanians, the necessity to respect their liberties and guarantees
for their rights, and the return of autonomy of Kosovo. They also
stressed that only through civil society institutions was any
connection and cooperation ever preserved between Albanians and
Serbs. On 16 April, another statement was signed by 27
democratically-minded intellectuals from Serbia.

"With the exception of a few Western newspapers, these courageous
and very meaningful texts went unnoticed. [The] lack of
coverage...only makes these people even more vulnerable, as they
have been repeatedly threatened, individually or collectively, to
be punished as traitors. Moreover, those journalists and activists
that the West was heralding before, but has now forgotten, feel
almost betrayed by the international community, which is shaped so
decisively by the dominant electronic media.

"[Their messages] are distributed through the Internet, the last
resource they have to communicate to the West. In the long run the
biggest collateral damage will be the shattered possibilities for
democracy in Serbia."

As if to confirm this charge of Western censorship, 20 Serb NGOs
issued a statement on April 26, warning that by severing Serbia's
satellite links, NATO would also deprive Serbian civil society of
their last means of expression:

"We, the representatives of the Yugoslav civil society...now have
to deal with other problems that could uncouple us from the world
and practically forbid our free expression and dissent.

"One threat is coming from Yugoslav Government agencies and the
controlled domestic Internet providers. For them it is important to
shut up all independent voices. For NATO it appears important to
cut off all dissenting people and groups from Yugoslavia in order
to maintain the image of Yugoslav society as if it is totally
controlled by the Milosevic regime and made only of extreme
nationalists who therefore deserve punishment by bombs.

"For us who are long time activists of human rights, minority
rights, union rights, free press rights, women's rights, peace and
democracy activists, it is vital to maintain an Internet connection
to the world in order to get information and communicate with
people about our situation.

"We are using the Internet with respect to the etiquette and urge
all Yugoslav users to avoid hostile and insulting vocabulary. We
also pledge to all our international contact people to exercise
their influence on Internet public opinion to avoid aggressive
language and hate speech in correspondences to people in
Yugoslavia. PLEASE HELP US TO STAY IN TOUCH WITH THE WORLD!"

                                * * *

If this was an argument in favor of the Internet, the opposite case
could also be made. Truth is always the first casualty in war, and
NATO certainly flooded the Internet with press releases aimed at
shoring up support for the bombing. These press releases also
served to explain away NATO's "collateral damage" bombing blunders,
such as the destruction of a refugee convoy, a commuter train in
Serbia, and the Chinese embassy. Serbian hackers tried to retaliate
by attacking NATO's home page, Albanian sites, and even the White
House home page.

Mostly, the Internet was used to express anguish and grief. The
Kosova Crisis Center (a page on the alb-net.com website) lit up
with messages: "My heart is bleeding for you. It is shameful to be
human and witness this. God be with you in the times ahead," wrote
Lisa from Washington.

Aaron, from Newfoundland, mixed humor with sympathy: "When I was a
kid I wondered how Hitler got away with what he did. It's the same
answer now. Apathy. Yes, I would fight with you. But since I'm an
old fart, I'll pray for you instead and support you with my voice
and keyboard."

Generally speaking, Albanians let their sites -- and the actions of
the Serbian forces -- speak for themselves. Mentor Cana, co-creator
of the pro-Albanian Alb-net (www.alb-net.com) used his influence
with the Albanian technical community to urge restraint and asked
them not to hack Serbian websites. Early on in the crisis, the
creators of Alb-net.com were told by a State Department official
that in the view of the US, the Albanians had already won the
information war. This was due, or course, to the horrific images
emerging from Kosovo. But it may also have been helped by the
factual presentations on Alb-net.com and the news distribution list
they created, Albanews
<http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/albanews.html.

Certainly, with an acknowledgment like that from the US government,
it was easier for Alb-net.com to get a donation from the Kosovar
Albanian Government in exile to buy new computer equipment and
expand their work.

And there was a practical use to the Internet: Alb-net.com set up a
page on their site for "Homeland Calls" ("Vendlindja Therret")
appealing to Albanian exiles for funds on behalf of the incipient
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and even provided details of bank
accounts.

Some Albanian exiles were definitely ready to take the offensive
via the Internet. At the height of the war, they threatened a
consumer boycott against the products of companies that advertised
with beograd.com, a pro-Serbian site managed from Toronto, Canada.
Beograd.com opened a special "war edition" and competed for
visitors by trying to be the first to post a NATO hit and debunk
lies by the combatants.

The consumer threat forced advertisers to withdraw their support
and starve the website of funds. This was denounced by beograd.com
as an attack on freedom of expression: "Our effort to earn money
through advertising to keep beograd.com alive has been cut short
today. An Albanian-organized campaign called advertisers around the
country whose ads appeared on our Ad Network banners, threatening
boycott of their products. Major advertisers, including Microsoft,
in turn threatened Ad Network with pulling their ads if our account
is not canceled. This morning our account was canceled.

"We find it shocking that advertisers would pull out of the news
site whose reports are timely and accurate and often quoted by
Reuters, CNN, Sky, Fox News and other major news organizations in
the country and the world, simply because our editorial position
does not appeal to one small market segment.

"We feel this is an attempt to silence beograd.com which has, after
NATO bombing of Yugoslav TV and Radio facilities, remained the only
accurate and timely source of information from within Yugoslavia.
We are attempting to attract other advertisers, but in the meantime
we appeal to beograd.com visitors to continue their financial
support so that we may stay in operation."

                                * * *

The Internet allowed trapped Serbian intellectuals to cry out. Some
responded with black humor (the time-honored response of artists
under siege). Artist Andrej Tisma organized an Internet contest for
the "humanitarian bombing of Serbia" in which contestants
contributed bomb designs. The winner was awarded with a set of
Monica Lewinsky's lips.
<http://members.tripod.com/~aaart/bomb.http>.

The Kosova Crisis Center also ran some hateful messages from Serbia
and Russia.

     [EDITOR'S NOTE: PLEASE REFER TO THE EDITORIAL ABOVE. SOME OF
     THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGE IS OFFENSIVE.)

     "Hello motherfuckers! If you don't know where to go, come to
     Serbia. We are known as land full of hospitality, sharp
     knives, strong arms to hold your necks tight and fire in our
     hearts to burn your motherfucking families all together. Right
     now, we are searching for a big, big field to prepare it for
     your last rest. Hope you won't mind if we make just one big
     hole in ground and put you together. Anyway, we are just
     sitting here and sharpen our knives, drink sljivovica and sing
     a song "Sprem'te se, sprem'te Cetnici". Hope to kill you soon.
     Your's trully Zoran and Kole (called butchers from Croatia) "

     "Happy birthday NATO ... over how many dead bodies?" Cetnik
     from Valjevo "Sasa Milovanovic"

     "Yankee!! SERBIA is not Monika!!!! From Russia and "S-300"
     with DEATH!!!! Oleg" (From Russia)

     "What a crap you put on your site. I wonder, who is paying for
     it. Definitely not "free Kosovorians" Long live Serbian
     Kosovo!!!!!! MCS" (From Russia)

Some will see these comments as an exercise of the right to free
expression, others as the propagation of hate. It is difficult
enough to find the right balance in the most self-confident of
societies, with a commitment to law, and a mature press. This was
dramatically different. Here there was a war in place, abominable
cruelties being committed, and international law being violated.
Most important, it was all playing out in a new and untested
medium.

By way of a postscript, even Serbia's first family put out their
own electronic propaganda, as was noted by Ivo Skoric:

"Milosevic's official homepage is at
<www.sps.org.yu/ljudi/smilosevic.html>. His wife's personal page
has its own domain: <www.mmarkovic.com/> ...and opens with a flower
in her hair and a calming message of peace: 'The new world is
coming. More rich, more just and more universal.' Their son, Marko
(notorious for his opulent style of living) has a page so powerful
and new, that it requires a machine capable of running macromedia
shockwave and real-video. <www.discomadona.co.yu>."

(email from Ivo Skoric, forwarded by Frank Tiggelaar,
webmaster at domovina.net, Cyberwars,
http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/justwatch-l.html)

======================================================================

          THE INTERNET AND THE KOSOVO HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

The Kosovo refugee crisis opened up new possibilities for
electronic information.

The brutal and sudden nature of the expulsions created two
immediate needs, both of which provided an opening for the
Internet. In the first place, thousands of families were split. In
the second place, they arrived in the camps without any identity
cards -- all forms of identity had been taken by the Serbians in an
attempt to condemn the refugees to permanent exile.

During the refugee exodus from Rwanda in 1994, radio had been used
by relief agencies to reunite unaccompanied children with their
families. During the exodus from Kosovo, in the spring of 1999, the
Internet was also employed.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has a mandate
to trace missing persons and 6,000 names were entered in the ICRC
website (<www.icrc.org> or <www.cicr.org>). Several Albanian relief
agencies also set up websites for split families. One was organized
by El Hilal, a Macedonia-based NGO that was established in 1991 and
profiled earlier in this series. El Hilal quickly set about serving
the refugees. It had 60 full-time workers in its 14 branches and
more than 150 sub-branches, and was able to mobilize several
hundred more at short notice. It used this network to collect over
70,000 refugee names, which were entered into a database and posted
on a web site.

This data provided the raw material for another imaginative
project. Working under the umbrella of the International Rescue
Committee, Paul Meyer developed the "Kosovar Family Finder"
project. Working with a budget of $50,000, he and several Albanian
technical experts were able to collect tens of thousands of names
from electronic databases like El Hilal's, and publish them in the
form of printed Yellow Pages; 4,000 copies were subsequently
distributed inside Kosovo and another 6,000 in the camps. Family
Finder also opened a website <www.kosovofamilyfinder.org>, which
allowed Kosovars to search for names of friends and family members.
The site received over a thousand hits a day, but it was the
combination of the printed and electronic versions that made the
list widely accessible.

International relief agencies also used the web to showcase their
work and raise funds. Some developed individual pages that followed
the journey of their workers in the field, describing first-hand
experiences in text and photo. CARE International gave a laptop to
one of their local staff workers who wrote of his return to Peja
(Pec) after living as a refugee. With the help of IBM and CARE,
this was broadcast on the web.

                                * * *

The most ambitious experiment was launched by the office of the UN
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in an effort to provide the
Kosovar refugees with identity cards.

Neither the Governments of Macedonia nor Albania had succeeded (or
bothered) to register the refugees in a consistent manner. This was
creating chaos -- and making it hard to ensure the proper
distribution of relief aid. There was also a real risk that the
800,000 Albanian refugees would return to Kosovo without documents,
making their orderly reintegration considerably more difficult.

By this stage of the refugee crisis, several computer companies had
spotted a business opportunity and contacted UNHCR with offers to
provide computers and service in return for a guarantee of sales at
a later stage. But it was left to the industry giant Microsoft to
make a donation that directly addressed UNHCR's dilemma over
registration.

Microsoft put together a consortium of its business partners
(Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Securit World Ltd., and ScreenCheck
B.V.), and made a donation of $2.4 million to develop digital
registration kits capable of taking a photo and producing an ID
card that could serve the refugee's needs in exile and be
substituted for a permanent ID card on return.

Each kit contained a laptop computer, digital camera, specialized
ID card printer, and specially designed software applications and
hardware. Initially, it was hoped that the cards would have a
magnetic strip that would allow them to be digitally scanned.

The results of the experiment are still being analyzed by UNHCR,
but like so many innovative ideas it proved much easier to conceive
than implement. Twenty Microsoft volunteers went to the camps with
laptops donated by Hewlett-Packard and Compaq.

It took a lot longer to develop the registration kits than
expected, because all kinds of questions had to be answered: Would
every individual refugee receive a card, or just the family head?
What kind of information would be needed -- date of birth? Place of
residence? Occupation? Reason for flight? Language spoken? Medical
details? Obviously, the type of information would depend on the
purpose of the card (protection, potential employment, nutritional
status, census, etc). The more information that found its way into
the form, the longer it took to input by hand.

No sooner had the process started to run smoothly, than it was
swept aside by the sudden return of the refugees in early June.
According to one report, 400,000 names were entered in a database,
but fewer than 50,000 cards issued. The information was never made
public to those people searching for family and friends on the web.
The experiment is now being analyzed by UNHCR, as part of a review
of its response to the refugee crisis.

                                * * *

The United States government also experimented with the new
information technology during the crisis. The United States
Information Agency (USIA) wanted to inform the Kosovar refugees as
well as provide them with an opportunity to keep in touch with each
other and with their families abroad. Some would see this as
humanitarian, others as ensuring that the refugees remained solidly
behind NATO's war aims.

This information campaign took several different forms. The US
subsidized the production of an online magazine for the refugees,
named "Kontakti." It also funded the establishment of several cyber
cafes in refugee camps in Poland, Germany, Macedonia, and the US
(New Jersey). Here refugees could search the web for news about
family members.

The centerpiece of this was a large satellite dish in the
Stenkovac, Macedonia refugee camp and an Internet link via
satellite. Both were owned by a private firm (Interpackit), and
were loaned to the US humanitarian effort. The USIA turned to the
International Organisation of Migration (IOM) to manage the
equipment and the link and to make the Internet available to the
refugees.

None of these initiatives were as successful as might have been
hoped. IOM's function is to transport refugees, not develop
Internet connections -- and it had more than enough work to do
transporting and evacuating refugees. It also proved much more
difficult to open cyber cafes than imagined.

To top it all, early in June the refugees suddenly began to return
to Kosovo, leaving the expensive Internet donation stranded. The
huge dish sat forlornly in the deserted camp at Stenkovac, while
the Pan-Am satellite circled high above. Quite clearly, this
presented an opportunity of some sort -- but what kind?

One thing was clear: for better or worse, humanitarian emergencies
had entered the information age.

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From kosova at mailcity.com  Wed Oct 20 22:43:28 1999
From: kosova at mailcity.com (olsi)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 19:43:28 -0700
Subject: [ALST-L] Conducting a PR research - help needed
Message-ID: <KJCBBILKMNEHAAAA@mailcity.com>

Hi list-members!

I am conducting a Public Relations Research on Public Relations Campaign and support
to Kosova's War, from the International Community, especially the Western World!

I will was very interested, if anyone can give me any additional information, on any website, containing speeches, materials etc... from the Anglo - American governments, in support of the Albanian Issue in Kosova!

thanks in advance
Olsi , Malaysia

you may reply me in this e-mail, or at: olsi at europe.com


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From besnik at alb-net.com  Wed Oct 20 23:51:54 1999
From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 23:51:54 -0400
Subject: [ALST-L] Albanian association in Romania
Message-ID: <v04003a01b4343c4ecbaa@[165.247.97.4]>

Dear friends,

I accidently discovered a curious fact. In Romania there is an association
called Unionea a Albanezilor din Romania (The Cultural Union of Albanians
in Romania).

Well, that might not be a shock. But what is interesting is that this
association has a deputy in the lower chamber of the Romanian parliament.

I was wondering if anyone had more information about this association and
the Albanian community in Romania. I know that historically there was a
strong and well organized Albanian community there; many early
Albanian-language publications came from there. How large is this community
today if it is able to gain a seat in the lower chamber of parliament?
Similar associations of Hungarians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Germans, Turks and
others have deputies in this chamber of parliament as well.

-Besnik





From besnik at alb-net.com  Thu Oct 21 12:30:27 1999
From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula)
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 12:30:27 -0400
Subject: [ALST-L] Fwd: Paper: Albanian international relations history between 1944
 and 1991
Message-ID: <v04003a01b434f00afbff@[165.247.98.56]>

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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 12:42:46 +0200
To: balkans at egroups.com
From: Florian Bieber <bieberf at ceu.hu>
Subject: [balkans] Paper: Albanian international relations history between 1944
 and 1991

The Paper "Albanian international relations history between 1944 and 1991"
by Giovanni Armillotta in Italian can be viewed and downloaded at
http://www.egroups.com/docvault/balkans/Papers  Albania_1944-1991.rtf

Florian Bieber

________________________
Florian Bieber
Instructor
Central European University
International Relations
and European Studies
Nador utca 9
H-1051 Budapest
Hungary

Tel/Fax: 0036-1-349 60 24
bieberf at ceu.hu
http://www.all.at/fbieber


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From hetzer at uni-bremen.de  Fri Oct 22 02:59:30 1999
From: hetzer at uni-bremen.de (AHetzer)
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:59:30 +0200
Subject: [ALST-L] Uniunea Albanezilor
Message-ID: <38100B52.3F549CFE@uni-bremen.de>

Someone asked about the home page of Uniunea Albanezilor. Sorry, I could
not find any. But searching in Yahoo, I had 5 hits, two of them were
valuable. In 1996 (!) the Albanian Cultural Union in Romania gained
8,357 votes in the elections for the Parliament (Camera Deputetilor), i.
e. 0,07 %. According to the Romanian election law, this seems to be
sufficient to get a seat. The number of votes, of course, does not mean
that there are only 8,000 Albanian people in Romania. However, that
number, compared with that of other minorities in Romania, shows
proportions of organization and influence. 

In Istanbul I have found a similar association (Turk-Arnavut yardimlasma
dernegi), but it does not play any role in parliamentary life, of
course. The constitutions of Turkey and Romania are too different. 

Kind regards
AHetzer

-- 
Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Bremen
Dr. Armin Hetzer, Fax: (0421) 218 2614
Referat Handschriften/Rara, Slavistik & Romanistik



From besnik at alb-net.com  Fri Oct 22 17:09:16 1999
From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula)
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 17:09:16 -0400
Subject: [ALST-L] Fwd: Symposium This Saturday on Albanian Traditions
Message-ID: <v04003a00b436820e0117@[165.247.96.254]>

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Date:         Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:49:29 EDT
From: SimonVukel at AOL.COM
Subject:      [ALBANIAN] Symposium This Saturday on Albanian Traditions
To: ALBANIAN at LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU


In Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Assassination of Father
Shtjefen Gjecov...

An international symposium on Albanian legal and cultural traditions
Saturday October 23, 1999
Forham University
Keating Building, First Auditorium
441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY
9AM

Fr. Gjecov is credited with collecting and arranging the Kanun of the
Albanians  (or The Code of Leke Dukagjini) in its first complete written form
earlier this century.  In later years, he was assassinated by Serb
extremists, and his work, as that of many Albanians, was discredited by the
Albanian communist regime for over 50 years.  This is the first international
symposium to look at his work, the Kanun, and its significance to Albanian
traditions, as well as its place in world legal and societal traditions.

The international panel of experts and the topics they will speak on at the
daylong symposium include:

Zef Pllumbi  "For God and For Country"

Leonard Fox  "An Archetypal View of the Kanun"

Kathleen Imholz  "Albania's Long Legal Tradition"

Kazuhiko Yamamato  "Ethical Structure of the Kanun:  Is it the Original Form
of Ethics in Human Society"

Ismet Ellezi  "Historical And Judicial Survey on Gjecov's Work, The Kanun of
Leke Dukagjin"

Antonia Young  "Conflict Resolution and the Kanun:  Does Albanian Traditional
Law Offer Lessons"

Pal Doci  "Gjecov's Work:  In Reflecting the Code of Dukagjin in Mirdite"

Agron Alibali  "Customary Law and Property Issues in Albania"

Anton Cefa  "Honor and the Kanun"

Speakers will speak in both English and Albanian, and there will be a
cocktail break halfway through the symposium.

For more information, call Gjonlekaj Publishing at 718-881-7777 or fax
718-881-3023.


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From fisnike at hotmail.com  Sat Oct 23 13:03:55 1999
From: fisnike at hotmail.com (Venera Bekteshi)
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 10:03:55 PDT
Subject: [ALST-L] Fwd: Symposium This Saturday on Albanian Traditions
Message-ID: <19991023170355.73298.qmail@hotmail.com>

It would be much helpful if these activities are announced more than one day 
before!

Sincerely,

a list member


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From besnik at alb-net.com  Sun Oct 24 21:23:19 1999
From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula)
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 21:23:19 -0400
Subject: [ALST-L] Fwd: conference announcement
Message-ID: <v04003a00b439616dce2e@[165.247.96.117]>

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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 19:50:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Eric Laney <kel1 at columbia.edu>
To: Undisclosed recipients:  ;
Subject: conference announcement (fwd)

* * *

Conference Announcement

"Working with Restricted Resources in the Communist Era: Archival Access
and the Historiography of Russia and East Central Europe"

The Harriman Institute, Columbia University
International Affairs Building, Room 1219
420 W. 118th Street (at Amsterdam Avenue)

	For most historians of East Central Europe and Russia, the fall of
communist regimes has meant almost unlimited access to archival
materials.  For the most part, secret archives and restricted materials
are a thing of the past. However, the legacy of the Cold War remains
inscribed in the historiography of the region, since many of its
"canonical" works were written at a time when access to archival sources
was limited. How did such restrictions affect the process of historical
research? How did it shape the region's historiography as whole?
	To answer this question, we are organizing a workshop on Friday,
November 5th from 12:15 to 4:00 pm. under the aegis of the Harriman
Institute, an agenda for which is enclosed.  We have invited scholars
who conducted research on the USSR, the Russian Empire or East Central
Europe to talk about their experiences. Following their presentations
there will be the opportunity for open discussion.
	The workshop is seen as a follow-up to the selection of short essays
published by the Slavic Review in 1993, which addressed problems
associated with the opening up of new archival sources in the former
Soviet Union. The contributors were all researchers who had experienced
the frustrations of working with restricted archives and thus wanted to
ensure that newly-available resources would be used sensibly. These
essays asked the question, "Where do we go from here?"
	By contrast, this workshop addresses the question: "Where did you come
from?"  To make sense of the region's historiography, it is essential to
consider the conditions under which historians once worked.  This is
especially true for historians of the Soviet Union and East Central
Europe. How did archival restrictions affect research agendas?   What
themes and approaches were privileged or neglected as a result of
circumstances beyond the researcher's control?  What alternatives were
historians forced to devise, and did this ultimately enrich the
historiography? How can we evaluate historical works that were based on
a limited set of records?
	Attendance is open; undergraduates and graduate students are
particularly welcome. Please join us for a light lunch at 12:15 in room
1202-1219 of the International Affairs Building (Amsterdam at 118th St.)
before the conference begins. Please e-mail Nigel Raab
(nar18 at columbia.edu) or Kate Lebow (kal28 at columbia.edu) for further
information.

* * *

Agenda

Working with Restricted Resources in the Communist Era: Archival Access
and the Historiography of Russia and East Central Europe

International Affairs Building, Room 1219
Columbia University,  420 W 118th Street

Friday, November 5th 12:15-4:00 pm.

12:15 Welcome Lunch

1:00 Introduction ? Nigel Raab

Reminiscences of a Soviet Research Library

1:10 Dr. Edward Kasinec, Chief Curator, Slavic and Baltic Division of
the New York Public Library

The Forties to the Sixties

1:25 Professor Marc Raeff

1:40 Discussion

The Sixties to the Eighties

2:00 Professor Richard Wortman

2:15 Professor Frank Hadler

2:30 Discussion

2:45-2:55 Break

Working in Changing Times ? Perestroika in the Archives.

3:00 Professor John Micgiel

3:15 Professor Mark von Hagen

3:30 Discussion

3:45 Conclusions ? Kate Lebow

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From besnik at alb-net.com  Wed Oct 27 15:46:59 1999
From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula)
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:46:59 -0400
Subject: [ALST-L] Fwd: ALBSA: Boston Event
Message-ID: <v04003a01b43d0720dc71@[165.247.98.81]>

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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:43:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Agron Alibali <aalibali at yahoo.com>
Subject: ALBSA: Boston Event
To: albsa at Web-Depot.COM

October 26, 1999

Press Release

Albanians and Jews

A special luncheon meeting in downtown Boston will
bring together the local Jewish and Albanian
communities for an intergroup discussion on
Wednesday, November 3, 1999 at 12:00 P.M. at 126 High
Street in Boston.

Sponsored by the Greater Boston Chapter of the
American Jewish Committee, the meeting will feature
presentations by Anthony Athanas, Honorary Consul
General of Albania in Boston; The Very Reverend Arthur
Liolin, Chancellor of the Albanian Orthodox
Archdiocese; Van Christo, Director of the
Frosina Informational Network; Anna Kohen, an Albanian
Jewish woman, and Agron Alibali, former member of the
Albanian Ministry of Justice.

AJC, an intergroup relations agency, took a strong
stand on behalf of the Kosovar population during the
recent Serbian attack on Kosovo.  The lunch
meeting is designed to introduce the local ommunities
to each other, and to enlighten the participants about
the historic Albanian-Jewish relationship.

Lunch provided by Anthony's Pier 4
(Reservations a MUST!)

Admission is free and open to the public.

For further information about the lunch meeting,
please call the AJC at
(617) 457-8700.

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From labova at juno.com  Sat Oct 30 23:17:59 1999
From: labova at juno.com (Agron Alibali)
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 23:17:59 -0400
Subject: [ALST-L] INTERNATIONAL LAW  WEEKEND
Message-ID: <19991031.002337.-506401.1.labova@juno.com>

  
  
THE AMERICAN BRANCH  

of the 

INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION 

presents: 

International Law Weekend '99 

"International Law in 2000: A Bridge Between the 20th and 21st Centuries"


November 4 - November 6, 1999 

Held at the House of the Association  
of the Bar of the City of New York 
42 West 44th St. 
New York City 

33 exciting panels open to all without charge or advance registration!*








* Meals and CLE credit require payment and advanced registration.  
  


INTERNATIONAL LAW WEEKEND/99 

"International Law in 2000: A Bridge Between the 20th and 21st Centuries"








The sponsors of International Law Weekend/99 invite you to participate in
an exciting program for practitioners, academics, students, government
officials, NGO members, and U.N. diplomats that explores the intricacies
of the practice of international law, both public and private. 

The three-day conference, featuring over 150 distinguished speakers on 33
panels, will be held from November 4 - November 6, 1999, at the House of
the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 42 West 44th Street,
NYC. Due to the generosity of its sponsors, the program is open to all
without charge or advance registration, except for those registered for
CLE credit, and those registered for the following events at which meals
are served: 

The Friday luncheon seminars are $16 for those who want a box lunch.
Without lunch, admission is free. 

The cost for the Friday evening cocktails and dinner at the Harvard Club
is $80 (students: $45). 

The Saturday luncheon cost is $34 (students: $20). 

Register for CLE and meals (see registration forms printed in the back of
this brochure) by Monday, October 25, 1999. Refunds will not be made on
registrations canceled after this date. 

CLE credit will be available for four of the panels, indicated with an *,
and pre-registration for these events is requested. The cost for
participants receiving CLE credit is $50 per panel. 

Conference cassettes will be available of the 33 panels and 2 keynote
speeches at a price of $10 per panel. Tapes may be ordered in advance by
filling out the form on the last page of this brochure, or purchased at
the Conference. 

There is no official hotel for the Conference; for your reference the
nearest hotels are: Algonquin: (212)840-6800, Iroquois: (212)840-3080,
Paramount: (212)764-5500, Royalton: (212)869-4400, Mansfield: (212)
944-6050. Reservations should be made early since this is traditionally a
very busy weekend.  
  


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1999
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM 
  

Opening Session: "The 100th Anniversary of the 1899 Hague Conventions and
the 50th Anniversary of the 1949 Geneva Conventions: Their Past, Current,
and Future Impact on the Development of International Humanitarian Law" 

1999 celebrates key anniversaries of the two primary instruments
regulating armed conflicts. The effect these international humanitarian
law instruments have had on providing protection to combatants and
civilians during war or occupation with be discussed and analyzed,
particularly in light of recent developments in the ICTY, ICTR, and ICC. 

Hon. Patricia Wald, US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit; future Judge,
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia 

Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni, DePaul University School of Law; Chair,
Drafting Committee, the Plenipotentiary Conference on the International
Criminal Court  

Benjamin Ferencz, Former Prosecutor, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials; Chief
Prosecutor, the Einsatzgruppen Trial 

Hon. Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, President, International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague; Presiding Judge, Appeals Chamber,
International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda


Professor Theodor Meron, New York University Law School; Visiting
Professor, Harvard Law School 

R. John Pritchard, Director, Robert M.W. Kempner Collegium; Editor, The
Tokyo Major War Crimes Trials (124 vols.) 
  

9:00 PM - 10:30 PM 
  

Complimentary Cocktail Reception Courtesy of the International Law and
Practice Section of the American Bar Association. 
  
  


FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1999
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8:30 AM - 9:00 AM  
  

Complimentary Coffee and Bagels 
  

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM 
  

"The International Criminal Court: Where Do We Go From Here?" 

This panel will explore the Statute of the International Criminal Court
adopted in Rome, as well as the Preparatory Commission drafting Elements
of Crimes and Rules of Procedure and Evidence, and discuss the impact of
the Statute and future Court on the U.S. and the world
community.Professor Leila Nadya Sadat, Washington University School of
Law 

Professor Roger Clark, Rutgers University School of Law, Camden 

Richard Dicker, Associate Counsel, Human Rights Watch 

Amb. David Scheffer, Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues, U.S.
Department of State 

Salah Suheimat, Third Secretary, Permanent Mission of Jordan to the U.N.;
Rapporteur, Preparatory Commission  

Philippe Kirsch, Chair, Preparatory Commission for the International
Criminal Court (Invited) 
  

"Recent Developments in Private International Law" 

This panel will discuss projects that are under way or recently completed
at UNCITRAL, the Hague Conference on Private International Law and other
international institutions. This will include the UNCITRAL receivables
project and the Hague judgments project. 

Houston Putnam Lowry, Esq., Brown & Welsh, PC 

Professor Peter Winship, Southern Methodist University Law School  

Harold S. Burman, Legal Adviser's Office, U.S. Department of State 

Professor Alan Swan, University of Miami Law School 
  

"Law of the Sea: Current Issues and Trends"  

This panel willset forth current issues involving law of the sea such as
environmental problems, decisions handed down by the International Law of
the Sea Tribunal, the Senate's failure to act in connection with the LOS
treaty and its implications, fishery scarcity, etc. 

Professor Barry Dubner, Barry University, Orlando School of Law  

Margaret Tomlinson, Chair, Law of the Sea Committee, ABA Section of
International Law and Practice 

Professor John Noyes, California Western School of Law 

Professor James Bailey, Lewis and Clark Law School 

Professor Samuel Pyeatt Menefee, University of Virginia School of Law 

George Taft, U.S. Department of State 
  

"The Alien Tort Claims Act" 

This panel will review the most recent US caselaw brought under ATCA and
assess how this Act can be used more effectively in the future in
providing redress for violations of international law. 

Charles Curlett, Esq., New York City 

Professor Beth Stephens, Rutgers Univ. School of Law 

Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights 

Beth Van Schaack, Center for Justice and Accountability  

Professor Catharine MacKinnon, University of Michigan Law School  

Jennifer Green, Center for Constitutional Rights  
  

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM 
  

"Multilateral Controls of Economic Sanctions" 

This panel will explore, among other things, the present and possible
future relationship between multilateral controls and unilateral economic
sanctions. 

John Murphy, Villanova Law School 

Arthur T. Downey, Esq.,Vice-President Government Affairs, Washington,
D.C. office of Baker Hughes; former Deputy Asst. Secretary of Commerce
for East-West Trade 

Professor Alan C. Swan, University of Miami Law School 


"Humanitarian Armed Intervention" 

This panel will discussthe dichotomies of humanitarian intervention both
as an intrusion into state sovereignity and integrity and as a vital tool
in some formulations of international law and humanitarian assistance.  

Professor Steve Sheppard, Columbia Law School 

Professor William Michael Reisman, Yale Law School 

Professor Louis Henkin, Columbia Law School 

Professor Sean Murphy, George Washington University Law School 

John Crook, Assistant Legal Adviser for U.N. Affairs, U.S. Department of
State  

* This is a CLE Panel offering 1.5 credit hours of CLE 
  

"Comparative Corporate Governance" 

The governance of corporations in Europe has evolved in recent years, due
partly to the growing power of institutional investors, privatization of
many state-owned companies, and restrictions on management produced by
takeover battles. This panel will review current developments in France,
Germany, and the U.K., as well as the influence of EC rules, and draw
comparisons with the U.S. 

Professor Roger J. Goebel, Fordham Law School; Director, Center on
European Union Law 

Dr. Hans-Michael Giesen, Bruckhaus, Westrick, Heller, Lober 

Ellie Kleiman, Jeantet & Associates 

Professor Arthur R. Pinto, Brooklyn Law School  
  

"Evolving Law: International Human Rights in Flux" 

This panel will canvass recent changes in how human rights treaties are
being interpreted and applied, and how some areas of the law have
undergone rapid expansion, while progress in others has been somewhat
slower. Panelists will focus on the evolution of international law
relating to children, women, war, and the environment.Valerie Oosterveld,
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law; Director, International Human
Rights Programme  

Widney Brown, Human Rights Watch, Women's Rights Division 

Professor Mark Drumbl, University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of
Law 

Katherine Liao, Columbia Law School 

Vahida Nainar, Women's Caucus for Gender Justice 
  

12:45-2:15 - BOX LUNCH SEMINARS 
  

"Cross-Border Crime and Crime-fighting" 

This panel will address issues and strategies in fighting cross-border
crime, particularly in relation to computer crime, mutual assistance, the
international war on drugs/money laundering, and the rights of the
accused in a global enforcement arena. 

Professor Diane Marie Amann, University of California, Davis, School of
Law 

Bruce Zagaris, Esq., Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe LLP 

Betty Shave, Esq., Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, U.S.
Department of Justice 

Rodrigo Labardini, Esq., Counselor for Drug-Trafficking Issues, Embassy
of Mexico 

* This is a CLE Panel offering 1.5 credit hours of CLE 
  

"Enhancing Women's International Human Rights" 

This panel willreview certain international or regional instruments or
bodies currently or potentially providing protection for women, and
analyze how they can be used under international law to more effectively
redress violations of women's human rights. 

Kathy Hall Martinez, Deputy Director, International Program, Center for
Reproductive Law and Policy 

Professor Christine Chinkin, London School of Economics, Faculty of Law 

Elizabeth Abi-Mershed, Senior Human Rights Specialist, Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights 

Jane Connors, Chief, Women's Rights Unit, United Nations Division for the
Advancement of Women 

Patricia Viseur Sellers, Office of the Prosecutor, Legal Officer for
Gender-Related Crimes, International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (Invited)  

* This is a CLE Panel offering 1.5 credit hours of CLE 
  

Luncheon Meeting of the Executive Committee of the American Branch of the
ILA  
  

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM 
  

"International Securities Regulation: Newton's Third Law in Action."  

This panel will discuss the "Big Bang" of securities activity in
cyberspace and the equaland opposite reaction in the international
regulatory universe. Three experienced pilots will take you into the eye
of the cybersecurities storm, to describe its present status and to
predict its future direction -- as well as to assess the alternatives
available to the regulators. 

Edward H. Fleischman, Esq., Linklaters 

Alan L. Beller, Esq., Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton 

Guy P. Lander, Esq., Rosenman & Colin LLP  

Michael D. Mann, Esq., Richards Spears Kibbe & Orbe  
  

"The Trials of Pan-Am 103" 

This panel will examine the international legal developments that arose
from the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988. The
panel will discuss the wrongful death suit against Pan American World
Airways, the civil action against Libya, the International Court of
Justice case brought by Libya against the U.S. and U.K., and the trial
against the two suspected Libyan intelligence officers scheduled to begin
in The Netherlands in February 2000.Mark Zaid, Esq.,Washington, DC;
Co-counsel for plaintiffs in the Pan Am Flight 103 civil suit against
Libya 

Professor Michael P. Scharf, New England School of Law; former Counsel to
the Counter-Terrorism Bureau at the U.S. Department of State 

Michel Baumeister, Baumeister & Samuels, New York; Co-counsel for the
plaintiffs in the Pan Am Flight 103 civil suit against Pan American World
Airways  

John Crook, Assistant Legal Adviser for U.N. Affairs, U.S. Department of
State 

"States, Amnesties, and International Criminal Jurisdiction" 

This panel willexamine areas of complexity in the relationship between
international and national courts in the enforcement of international
criminal law, with particular focus on jurisdiction of the ICC over
nationals of non-state parties, national amnesties and the ICC,and
competing jurisdictional claims of states and the ICTY and ICTR.  

Paul VanZyl, Esq. 

Professor Madeline Morris, Duke University Law School 

Professor Ruth Wedgwood, Yale Law School 

John T. Holmes, Counsellor, Legal Affairs, Permanent Mission of Canada to
the United Nations 

Professor William Schabas, University of Quebec  
  

"The Presentation of Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration" 

The promulgation of the new IBA rules on the receipt of evidence by
international arbitral tribunals focuses attention once again on this
critical aspect of the international arbitration process. 

Donald F. Donovan, Debevoise & Plimpton, New York 

Howard M. Holtzmann, Former Judge, Iran-US Claims Tribunal, New York 

Jack Berg, Experienced Maritime Arbitrator, New York 

Joseph E. Neuhaus, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York 

Abby Cohen Smutny, White & Case, Washington, D.C. 

* This is a CLE Panel offering 1.5 credit hours of CLE 
  

4:15 PM - 5:45 PM 
  

"Pending Litigation of Native Americans' Rights in New York and Hawaii" 

This panel will explore current indigenous peoples rights litigation,
including cases pending in upstate New York and before the U.S. Supreme
Court. It will also discuss work done in the United Nations to
protect/promote these rights. 

Professor Sherri Burr, University of New Mexico School of Law  

Hon. John Carey, New York State Trial Judge 

Arlinda Locklear, Esq., Counsel for the Oneida Tribe 

Sam Deloria, American Indian Law Center 

Harry Sachse, Esq., Counsel in Rice v. Cayetano 
  

"The Proposed Hague Judgements Convention" 

This panel will address the subjects covered by the latest draft of the
convention on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of
Judgements in Civil Matters, issues regarding jurisdiction and
recognition of judgments, and proposals for a federal implementing
statute to supersede the patchwork of state law concerning foreign
judgments. 

Conrad Harper, Esq., Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett 

Professor Andreas F. Lowenfeld, New York University Law School 

Professor Linda Silberman, New York Univ. Law School 
  

"Disability and International Law" 

This panel will explore the current status of disability in international
legal fora and instruments, as well as propose suggestions to increase
and implement the rights of disabled persons and to improve their status
in the 21st Century. 

Akiko Ito, Social Affairs Officer, DESA/DSPD/Programme on Disability,
United Nations 

Professor Alison Dundes Renteln, University of Southern California 

Professor Theresia Degener, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of
California, Berkeley 

Professor Charles Siegal, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP 
  

"The Law and Politics of the Pinochet Case" 

This panel will consider the law and politics of the Pinochet case in
terms of the background, the case itself, and the implications of the
various judgments for the future development and enforcement of
international criminal law. 

Professor Michael Byers, Duke University School of Law; Member of legal
team representing Amnesty Int'l et al.James Cameron, University of
London; Baker & McKenzie; Member of legal team representing Pinochet 

Reed Brody, Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch  

Professor Richard Wilson, American University, Washington College of Law 
  

6:15 PM - 9:30 PM 
  

Cocktail Reception (Sponsored by the American Society of International
Law) and Dinner at the Harvard Club (27 West 44th St.) (Reservation and
Prepayment Required). Keynote Speaker: Hon. John Carey: "The Struggle for
Law in the United Nations." Having spent 33 years as editor of UN Law
Reports, Judge Carey will examine who is and who is not promoting the
rule of law in the SC, GA, and other UN bodies, and with what results. 
  


SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6
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8:30 AM - 9:00 AM  
  

Complimentary Coffee and Bagels  
  

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM 
  

"Genocide: Recent Developments and Prosecutions" 

This panel will review the most recent developments in regards to
prosecuting genocide in international and national fora.  

Professor William Schabas, University of Quebec at Montreal 

Jan Perlin, Counsel to Guatemala Commission for Historical Clarification;
American University, Washington College of Law 

Pierre Prosper, U.S. Department of State; Former Prosecutor in Akayesu
case in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda 

Brenda-Sue Thornton, U.S. Department of Justice; Former Prosecutor in
Kayishema case in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda 
  

"Human Rights, Development, and the Environment: Some Asian Experiences" 

This panel will explore the human rights impact of economic globalization
in Asia. It will also examine the interlinkages between protecting and
promoting human rights, environment, and sustainable human development.
It will examine specific cases (and responses) and assess such
experiences against the backdrop of international standards and
mechanisms developed within the U.N. 

Clarence Dias, International Center for Law in Development 

Ali Qazilbash, Pakistani lawyer and activist  

Sidney Jones, Executive Director, Asia Watch  


"Innovations in Teaching International Law: International Law Clinics" 

These panelists will share their experiences in working in international
law clinics, and discuss how to set up a clinic, the pros and cons of the
different specialty areas, grading policies, and the responsibilities of
the clinical supervisor. 

Professor Valerie Epps, Suffolk University Law School 

Professor Michael Scharf, New England School of Law 

Professor Deborah Anker, Harvard Law School 

Professor Patty Blum, University of California at Berkeley, School of Law


Professor Richard Wilson, American University, Washington College of Law 

Professor George Edwards, Indiana University School of Law 
  

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM  
  

"The Development of International Law" 

This panel will review both how international law is developed and recent
developments in international law, with special emphasis on UN bodies or
treaties. 

Ted McWhinney, President, Institut de Droit International 

Allegra Pacheco, Human Rights Attorney, Israel 

Bruce Broomhall, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights 

Benedict Kingsbury, Visiting Professor, New York University School of Law
(Invited)  
  


SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6 (con't) 
  

"The European Union: New Challenges" 

With the entry into force of the Treaty of Amsterdam on May 1, 1999, the
European Union confronts new challenges, new powers and new issues. This
panel will discuss the preparations for enlargement of the EU to include
five new Central European countries plus Cyprus, the development of  

the Trans-Atlantic partnership with the US, the new legislative fields of
action in Justice and Home Affairs, and current developments in the
Economic and Monetary Union.Richard Lutringer, Esq., Morgan, Lewis &
Bockius LLP 

Professor Roger J. Goebel, Fordham Law School; Director, Center on
European Union Law 

Wouter Wilton, Director of Press and Public Affairs, Delegation of the
European Commission to the U.N.  

Professor George Bermann, Director, European Legal Studies Center,
Columbia Law School 

Professor Kurt Schelter, former Secretary of State, Ministry of the
Interior, German Federal Republic; University of Munich Law Faculty 
  

"The World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement System: Better Late Than
Never?" 

This panel, sponsored by the Committee on International Trade ABCNY,
willconsider the developments over the last three years of the WTO
Dispute Settlement System. 

Stephen De Luca, Middlebrooks & Shapiro, PC, Parsipany, NJ;
Member,Comm.on Int'l Trade (ABCNY) 

Terence P. Stewart, Managing Partner, Stewart and Stewart, Washington, DC


Amelia Porges, Senior Counsel for Dispute Resolution, Office of the U.S.
Trade Representative (Invited) 

Professor Raj Bhala,George Washington University Law School  

Professor William Davey, Former Director, Legal Affairs Division, WTO;
University of Illinois College of Law 

Hugo Paemon, Delegation of the European Commission, Washington DC
(Invited) 
  

"Self Determination After Kosovo and East Timor" 

This panel will explore the concept of self-determination as it applies
to peoples within larger societies, including  
indigenous peoples, particularly in light of the NATO intervention in
Kosovo and recent events in East Timor. It will also examine the Supreme
Court of Canada's advisory opinion on the right of Quebec to secede from
the federation. 

Professor Valerie Epps, Suffolk University Law School 

Professor Ved Nanda, Univ. of Denver College of Law 

Professor Paul Williams, American University, Washington College of Law 

Professor John Quigley, Ohio State Univ.College of Law 

Professor Lorie Graham, Suffolk University Law School 


12:30 PM - 2:00 PM  
  

Luncheon With Keynote Speaker EDWIN WILLIAMSON, Sullivan & Cromwell;
Legal Advisor to the Department of State during the Bush Administration
(Regis. & Prepayment Rqrd). 
  

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM  
  

"Current Trends in Expatriation: Its Effects on Nations' Sovereignty,
Citizenship & Non-Loyalty" 

U.S. citizens are moving assets offshore and some are giving up their
citizenship. This panel will examine the causes and effects of this
trend, how it is affecting the US and other nations, the government's
role in reversing the trend, and what management can do to counteract.  

Hon. George G. Janis, Administrative Law Judge, NY 

Joseph Testa, President, Testa Financial Management, Inc. 

Amb. Edward R. Finch, Former U.S. Special Ambassador Jerome Schneider,
author of book on money havens 
  

"Liability for Environmental Harm in Antarctica" 

This panel will discuss the on-going negotiations for an international
legal instrument on liability for environmental harm in Antarctica. It
will describe the current status of the negotiations and the prospects
for reaching agreement.  

Professor Dinah Shelton, Notre Dame Law School 

Professor Alexandre Kiss, President, European Council on Environmental
Law 

Don MacKay, Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs, NZ  

Evan Bloom, US Department of State (Invited) 

Alan Hemmings, Antarctic and Southern Oceans Coalition 
  

"International Humanitarian Law & International Trials: In Pursuit of
International Justice" 

This panel will review the progress made in international humanitarian
law in light of the ICTY and ICTR, and will consider how this development
may impact the establishment of other bodies to redress past or
contemporary atrocities.Dr. Kelly Askin, War Crimes Research Office,
American University, Washington College of Law 

Professor Ruth Wedgwood, Yale Law School 

Craig Etcheson, International Monitor Institute 

Professor Hurst Hannum, Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy 

Judge Navanethem Pillay, President, International Criminal Tribunal for
Rwanda (Invited) 

Carla Del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal 

Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda (Inv.) 
  

"Foreign Direct Investment: Future Directions" 

Panelists from academe, practice and government will explore the
ramifications of the collapse of the OECD negotiations for a Multilateral
Agreement on Investment, seek to predict the course of future regulatory
attempts, and survey developments, including in dispute settlement. 

Professor Jos? Alvarez, Columbia Law School 

Professor David Wirth, Boston College of Law 

Dan Price, Esq., Powell, Goldstein 

Jonathan Fried, Assistant Deputy Minister, Canadian Dept. Foreign Affairs
and International Trade  
  

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM 
  

"The Death Penalty in the World Community: Bringing the U.S. Into the
21st Century" 

This panel compares international and U.S. trends on the abolition of the
death penalty, including the U.N. Resolution for a Moratorium on
Executions and the ABA Resolution for a Moratorium and draft protocols. 

Professor Dorean Koenig, T.M. Cooley Law School 

Professor William Schabas, University of Quebec; President, "Hands Off
Cain" 

Ronald Tabak, Co-chair, ABA Death Penalty CommitteeJane Rocamora, Suffolk
University School of Law; Amnesty International, 

Professor John Quigley,Ohio State University Law School 

Asma Jahangir, U.N. Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions (Invited) 
  

"The Imprint of Kosovo on International Law" 

This panel will cover a wide range of issues concerning the impact of the
international response to Kosovo on the development (or regression) of
international law. Panelists will discuss secession, post-war
re-construction, sovereignty, humanitarian intervention, and humanitarian
law.  

Professor Julie Mertus, Ohio Northern Univ. Law School 

Professor Diane Orentlicher, Director, War Crimes Research Office,
Washington College of Law  

Professor Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University School of Law 

Professor Gerry Simpson, London School of Economics; Visiting Researcher,
Harvard Law School 

Belinda Cooper, World Policy Institute 
  

"Genetically Modified Food: Friend or Foe?" 

This panel will consider the various responses to genetically modified
food, including the actions taken by the EPA and the US to this
phenomenon. 

Professor Ved Nanda, Univ.of Denver College of Law 

Professor Nicholas Robinson, Pace University Law School 

Professor Steve McCaffrey, McGeorge School of Law  

Dan McGraw, EPA Counsel 
  

5:30 PM - 6:15 PM  
  

Closing Cocktail Reception Sponsored by the International Law and
Practice Section of the New York State Bar Association. 

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