Programme Day 1
Wednesday, January 7
University Main Building (Universitetshuset)
| 12.30-13.30 | Registration. (Outside Hall 9) |
| 13.30-14.00 | Welcome address (Hall 9) |
| 14.00-15.30 | Panel Session 1 |
| Panel I: State-Minority Relatshinships (Hall 9) Chair: David Smith (University of Glasgow) |
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| Marina Germane (Uppsala University/University of Glasgow) 'Minority coalition-building and the nation-state' |
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| Boriss Cilevics (Parliament of Latvia) 'Ethnic dimension of political competition and cooperation in the Baltic States' |
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| Oksana Myshlovka (Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) 'The crisis of Russophone Ukraine: investigation of the failure of Russophones to build credible representation in independent Ukraine' |
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| Panel II: Coalition-Building and Ethnic Conflict Regulation: Grassrotes Initiatives and Local Approaches (Hall IV) Chair: Vytautas Petronis (Lithuanian Institute of History) |
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| Malkhaz Toria (Ilia State University) 'Informal Actors and the perspective of Georgian-Abkhazian conflict resolution' |
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| David Matsaberidze (Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi University) 'Application of soft power for inter-ethnic cooperation: pros and cons of prospective economic relations between Tbilisi and secessionist regions of Georgia' |
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| Carol Jean Gallo (University of Cambridge) 'Participatory action research and inter-ethnic conflict transformation in the Democratic Republic of Congo' |
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| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.00-17.00 | Plenary Lecture (Hall 9) |
| Peter Vermeersch (University of Leuven) 'Presence and Representation: Roma interest and group formation on the European level' Chair: Marina Germane (Uppsala University/University of Glasgow) |