[ALST-L] Fwd: Symposium This Saturday on Albanian Traditions

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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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