From msauve at altavista.net Wed Jan 10 20:54:02 2001 From: msauve at altavista.net (Mike Sauve) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 19:54:02 -0600 Subject: [ALST-L] Help with Albanian translation, please Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20010110195145.02cc8df0@ZBL6C000.corpeast.baynetworks.com> I have a small document (10-15 words) which I believe to be written in Albanian. If someone would be willing to confirm this, and translate it for me, I would be very thankful. If you will help, please contact me directly at msauve at altavista.net Thank you, Mike Sauve From Lanksch at t-online.de Thu Jan 11 00:59:49 2001 From: Lanksch at t-online.de (lanksch) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:59:49 +0100 Subject: [ALST-L] Help with Albanian translation, please References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010110195145.02cc8df0@ZBL6C000.corpeast.baynetworks.com> Message-ID: <14Gam5-0zAYWuC@fwd04.sul.t-online.com> Just send it to me Hans-Joachim Lanksch Mike Sauve schrieb: > > ** ALST-L - Albanian Studies Discussion List ** > I have a small document (10-15 words) which I believe to be written in > Albanian. If someone would be willing to confirm this, and translate it > for me, I would be very thankful. If you will help, please contact me > directly at msauve at altavista.net > > Thank you, > Mike Sauve > > _______________________________________________ > Alst-L mailing list: Alst-L at alb-net.com > http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/alst-l From williamtaylor at neca.com Thu Jan 18 17:54:52 2001 From: williamtaylor at neca.com (William R. Taylor) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:54:52 -0800 Subject: [ALST-L] AMERICAN CONFUSION FROM VIETNAM TO KOSOVO MARCH 2-MARCH 4, 2001 Message-ID: (Please post, and distribute to your email lists) AMERICAN CONFUSION FROM VIETNAM TO KOSOVO Coping with Chaos in High Places A weekend program Based on a forthcoming book of the same title March 2-4, 2001 Woolman Hill, New England Quaker Center, (address at end) "In these days of confusion in experts, we all need to become experts in confusion." Goals: I'll introduce a model of confusion dynamics, the vicious cycle in which sources of confusion (information overload, complexity, ambiguity, etc.} evoke ineffective coping tactics (lies, jargon, spin, oversimplification, polarization.) These tactics worsen the original sources, and some confounded elites then begin emitting lethal decay products. We'll run OPERATION MEDICI, a simulation exercise illustrating the dynamics via a three-country political and military crisis. I'll apply the model to the Johnson administration's confusion during the decision to escalate the US involvement in the Vietnam War in 1965. We'll examine my successes and failures in using fuzzy cognitive maps to forecast events in real time during the US/NATO bombing campaign against Serbia, 1999. (Those predictions are still on my site -see below.) Participants will test for themselves whether a knowledge of confusion dynamics can increase empathy between opposing factions. The presenter: I'm William R. Taylor, M.D., a retired civilian psychiatrist with twenty years' experience in tracking confusion dynamics in the media and in my own life. I spent two years in the Vietnam era as a Navy psychiatrist in Philadelphia, caring for Marines, sailors and their families. You'll find an earlier version of confusion dynamics, and the 1999 Kosovo forecasts, on my site: http://users.neca.com/williamtaylor Participate! To register and to get more information, call USA (413) 774-3431 or email WoolmanH at gis.net _________________________________ WOOLMAN HILL New England Quaker Center 107 Keets Road Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From besnik at alb-net.com Fri Jan 19 13:26:06 2001 From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:26:06 -0400 Subject: [ALST-L] FW: CSEES Seminar Programme Spring Term 2001 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ------ Forwarded Message From: Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:02:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: CSEES Seminar Programme Spring Term 2001 CENTRE FOR SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London SPRING TERM 2001 SEMINAR PROGRAMME ----------------------------------------------------------------- SEMINARS IN SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES in conjunction with the Nash Albanian Studies Programme Middle Common Room, SSEES, 21 Russell Square Tuesdays 6 p.m. wine served 23 January 2001 [Room NG14] Dina Iordanova (University of Leicester): Is there a Balkan cinema? 1 February 2001 [Thursday] Katherine Verdery (University of Michigan/Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin): Unmaking socialist property: land restitution in Transylvania 6 February 2001 James Gow (King's College London): Slovenia into the EU: from the NATO Slo-Lane to a Smug-Free zone? 20 February 2001 Paul Stephenson (University College, Cork): The legend of Basil the Bulgar-slayer 27 February 2001 Albert Doja (University of Hull): Nation-building, identity, and religion among Albanians 6 March 2001 Jasmina Lukic (Central European University, Budapest): Gender and war in South Slavonic literatures of the 1990s 13 March 2001 Mark Mazower (Birkbeck College, London): Do the Balkans have a history? 21 March 2001 [Wednesday] Sarah Green (University of Manchester): Identifying the neighbours: puzzles of authenticity on the Greek-Albanian border ------------------------------------------------------------- WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINARS Senior Common Room, SSEES, 21 Russell Square Wednesday lunch-times, 1 - 2 p.m. 17 January 2001 Matthew Frank: Mid-twentieth century population transfers: The Greco-Turkish model and the transfer of the Germans in the 1940s 24 January 2001 Galia Valtchinova: Suffering, religion, and politics: exploring the lives of seers in Bulgaria and Macedonia, 1940s-1990s 31 January 2001 Barbara Potrata: From tangible to intangible: the case of Slovenian New Age entrepreneurs 7 February 2001 Slobodan Cvejic: Success of the democratic social movement in Serbia 21 February 2001 Bogdan Barbu: Political power and American culture in communist Romania, 1945-1971 28 February 2001 Alex Bitis: Resettlement of Balkan peoples into Russia after the 1828-9 Russo-Turkish war 7 March 2001 Diana Fotescu: Queen Marie of Romania, n?e Princess of Edinburgh 14 March 2001 Dusan Djordjevich: The emergence of the "Serbian Question" in Yugoslavia in the 1930s ALL ARE WELCOME! ------ End of Forwarded Message From ngapeja at rocketmail.com Fri Jan 26 10:02:01 2001 From: ngapeja at rocketmail.com (Isa Blumi) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 07:02:01 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALST-L] Southeast European Politics (SEEP) 2/2000 Message-ID: <20010126150201.9830.qmail@web1611.mail.yahoo.com> I tried for months while in Kosova, almost two years ago, to get Washington Post, NYTIMES and others to cover this story...finally it is coming to light. I still live with this war in me and justice must be served. What happened inside Kosova was pure evil. Thursday January 25 11:09 PM ET US Report Says Serbs Burned Ethnic Albanian Bodies WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Serbian security forces incinerated the remains of hundreds of ethnic Albanians in a lead refinery during the 1999 hostilities in the Yugoslav province, a U.S. radio reporting team said on Thursday. The report on National Public Radio said the secret operation to gather the victims of the ``ethnic cleansing'' of Kosovo and destroy them at the mining complex of Trepca was part of efforts to conceal potential evidence of war crimes by the Serb armed forces. The report quoted members of the Serbian police, army and intelligence services as saying they dug up corpses in mass graves and burned them in the furnace of the lead refinery, which is near the ethnically-divided northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica. Thousands of ethnic Albanians and others are still missing in the province, where a ferocious assault by Serb security forces to drive ethnic Albanians from their homes was halted and reversed by a NATO bombing campaign. One Serbian fighter identified only as Branko told the reporters: ``The point was not to hide the bodies in mass graves but to totally destroy them. It would be as if these people never existed.'' He also said: ``I think our people understood that sooner or later some of these Western organizations like the Hague tribunal might come into Kosovo. We needed a good way to destroy the evidence.'' The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, based in the Hague, has indicted former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes in Kosovo. The documentary was made by American Radio Works, a joint project by Minnesota Public Radio and National Public Radio News. The reporters said their sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the operation was coordinated by an elite unit of the Serbian security service, under orders from close associates of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. Representatives of the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force in Pristina could not immediately be reached for comment __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ From besnik at alb-net.com Tue Jan 30 09:23:27 2001 From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:23:27 +0200 Subject: [ALST-L] ALPSA web site Message-ID: Dear friends and colleagues, I am very happy to announce the launch of the Albanian Political Science Association's web site. It includes detailed information about ALPSA, a list of its officers, and its ongoing programs. The site can be found at http://www.alpsa.org. Last year, ALPSA successfully organized a three-week Summer School in Political Science and International Relations in Tirana, with courses taught by renown professors from North American and European universities. ALPSA's current programs are the following: - Two-week Graduate Courses in Public Administration and Local Governance in Prishtina (March 2001), taught by renown professors of public administration and political science; - Best Graduate and Undergraduate Paper Awards, with prizes of up to US$350; - Travel and Supplementary Research Grants of up to US$500; - The publication of the Journal of Southeast European Politics (www.seep.ceu.hu), together with Central European University and the Independent Macedonian Political Science Association; - Four-week Summer School in Political Science and International Relations (Tirana and Prishtina, Summer 2001). Individual announcements for these programs will follow. For more details on these programs, the association and its objectives, and how to become a member, please visit ALPSA's web site. Sincerely, Besnik Pula