Processes of Redefinition and Reconstruction of the Term Nation in Central Europe

International V4 conference organized jointly by
Center for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture Bratislava (CVEK) and
Institute for the Research on Social Reproduction and Integration (IVRIS)

June 8 - 9, 2007
Telč, Czech Republic

Visegrad Fund Logo

Centrum pre výskum etnicity a kultúry

Faculty of Social Studies

IISCE - Learning to Participate

KLA - Kurt Lewin Foundation - Promoting tolerance

Program of the Conference

Friday June 8^th
09.00 - 10.00	*Registration*
10.00 - 10.15	*Welcome Notes* Dr. Michal Vašečka, Masaryk University Brno René Kubášek, Deputy Director of the International Visegrad Fund
10.15 - 12.00	*Introductory Session* Dr. Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens, University of Montreal The Fetishism of Formal Law, the Circumstances of Constitutional Patriotism, and the Fate of Complex Polities Dr. Jarmila Lajčáková, CVEK Bratislava The Promise of Multiculturalism in CEE Dr. Michal Vašečka, Masaryk University Brno Nationalized Citizenship in Central European Countries
12.00 - 13.30	*Lunch*
13.30 - 15.00	*1^th Session - Concept of a Nation Revisited* Dr. Roman Vido, Masaryk University Brno Religion, Nations, and European Identity Peter Dráľ, Milan Šimečka Foundation Bratislava Do We Need Nation at All? Marcin Odelski, Wrocław School of Banking Citizenship, Ethnicity and Nation: on the Inverse Power of Words. Convergency and Divergency in Jürgen Habermas´s Concept of Citizenship
15.00 - 15.30	*Coffee break*
15.30 - 17.00	*2^nd Session - Forms of nationalism in CEE* Dr. Václav Štětka, Masaryk University Brno Media Reproduction of Nationalism in the Czech Republic: Routine, Ritual and the Realm of Popular Culture Dr. Paweł Kubicki, Jagelonian University Krakow Polish Nationalism in 21st century Raluca Goleşteanu, Graduate School for Social Research Warsaw Romanian and Polish Identifications of Nationalism in the 21st century
20.00 - 22.00	*Coffee break* Restaurant 'Pod Kaštany'

Saturday June 9^th
09.00 - 10.30	*3^rd Session - The Politics of Ethnicity - Primordial thinking in Practice* Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović, Vilnius University Making Boshnjak Ethnopolitical Identity by Creation of Bosnian Language in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Sandzak, 1993 - 2007 Damiana G. Otoiu, Bucharest University Property Restitution and Nationa(ist) Politics and Policies on Postsocialist Romania Natsanda Tadić, Nezavisne novine, Banja Luka Alexander Conevski, Bulgarian-Romanian Interuniversity Center, Rousse Nation and Identity Creation in Balkan Post-Communist Countries
10.30 - 11.00	*Coffee break*
11.00 - 12.30	*4^th Session - What does Nationalism Respond to at the Beginning of the 21^th Century in Central Europe?* Marcin Drabek - Marta Klimowicz, University of Wrocław Brave New Poland. Political Nationalism of Polish Rightwing Ruling Parties in Years 2005 - 2007. Igor Jašurek, Masaryk University Brno Nationalism in Slovakia in the Twenty-first Century. Overcoming or Reinforcing the legacy? Zoltán Kántor, Hungarian Institute of International Affair Budapest Concepts and Processes: the “Political Nation” and the “Cultural Nation” Revisited
12.30 - 14.00	*Lunch*
14.00 - 15.30	*5^th Session - Nationalism and Citizenship in Ethnoculturally Diverse Societies* Martin Škop - Barbora Vacková, Masaryk University Brno The Concept of Nationality in Courts Decisions Ionut Piturescu, National School of Political Science, Romania Dynamics of Vlach-Aromanian “Constitutional Patriotism”, a Quest Complying the Context Zuzana Loubet del Bayle, University of Paris I Federation Plans in Central Europe from 1930 to 1960: the Czechoslovak Model
15.30 - 15.45	*Final Remarks* Dr. Michal Vašečka, CVEK Bratislava
16.00 - 17.00	*Visit of the Telč castle*