Međunarodni skup ‘Rapprochement as a Paradigm Shift: Does the Wheel Come Full Circle in Ex-Yugoslavia?’

U Regensburgu će se 11-12. veljače 2011, u organizaciji Südost-Instituta
iz Regensburga i Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft iz Münchena, održati međunarodni
skup Rapprochement as a
Paradigm Shift: Does the Wheel Come Full Circle in Ex-Yugoslavia? na kojem će se, kroz povijesnu i
suvremenu perspektivu, raspravljati o različitim
oblicima suradnje na političkom, ekonomskom i društvenom polju
između zemalja bivše Jugoslavije.

Rapprochement as a Paradigm Shift: Does
the Wheel Come Full Circle in Ex-Yugoslavia?

International Workshop 11 – 12
February 2011

Organizers

Südost-Institut (Regensburg) and
Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft (Munich)

Südost-Institut, Landshuterstr. 4,
93047 Regensburg, Room 319

Convened by Irena RISTIĆ (Institute
of Social Sciences, Belgrade) and Ulf BRUNNBAUER

(Institute for Southeast European
Studies, Regensburg / Southeast Europe Association, Munich).

Contact: Mrs Petra PREß
(press@suedost-institut.de)

 

PROGRAM

Friday, 11 February, 2011

15.00 – 18.00 Panel 1: History,
Society and Memory

The
Rationale of the Workshop

Irena
RISTIĆ (Belgrade), Ulf BRUNNBAUER (Regensburg)

The Past
that Binds Us: Remembering Socialism in the Post-Yugoslav Societies

Tanja
PETROVIČ (Ljubljana)

Friendship
and Enmity

Karl
KASER (Graz)

The
Establishment of Post-Yugoslav States: Authentic Yearning or Political Entrepreneurship?

Sergej
FLERE (Maribor), (Co-author: Rudi KLAJNŠEK)

Chair
Irena Ristić

18.30 – 20.00 Welcome, Introductory
Note and Keynote Speech

Greetings

Thomas
STROTHOTTE (Rector of the University of Regensburg)

Joachim
WOLBERGS (Deputy Mayor of the City of Regensburg, t.b.c.)

Introductory
Notes: Competing Theories about Yugoslavia’s Failure

Sabrina
RAMET (Trondheim)

KEY NOTE:
Former Yugoslavia: The Impossibility to Preserve it and the Cooperation
Imperative for its Successors States

H.E.
Stjepan MESIĆ, former President of Croatia

20.00 Reception

Saturday, 12 February, 2011

9.00 – 11.00 Panel 2: Prospects of
Regional Cooperation

Regional
Cooperation and EU Integration

Marie-Janine
CALIC (Munich)

“Yugoslav”
Institutional Solutions for the Post-Yugoslav Space

Florian
BIEBER (Graz)

Regional
Cooperation as EU Integration: Central Eastern Europe and Western Balkans
Compared

Dmitar
BECHEV (Oxford)

Chair
Johanna Deimel

11.30 – 13.30 Panel 3: Economic and
Political Dynamics

Economic
Reintegration of Southeastern Europe (former Yugoslavia)

András
INOTAI (Budapest), Ivanka PETKOVA (Sofia)

T

he Role
of International Organizations in Political Cooperation and Institutional
Reintegration

Jelica
MINIĆ (Sarajevo)

The
Cooperation between Croatia and Serbia as a Means to Strengthen the
EU-Perspective of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Vesna PEŠIĆ
(Belgrade)

Chair
Wim van Meurs

13.30 – 15.00 Lunch break

15.00 – 17.30 Panel 4: Culture,
Representations and Nostalgia

Twin
Cultures and Rubik Cube Politics: The Dynamics of Cultural Production in Pre-,
Post- and Other YU Inventions

Svetlana
SLAPŠAK (Ljubljana)

Culture
as an Abused Resource: While Yugoslavia was Breaking Down, During the War and
After

Nenad
POPOVIĆ (Zagreb)

Integration
through Sports in former Yugoslavia and Today

Vjekoslav
PERICA (Rijeka)

“Something
has Survived …” – Ambivalence of the Discourse About Socialist Yugoslavia in
Present-Day Slovenia

Mitja
VELIKONJA (Ljubljana)

Chair
Sabine Rutar

18.00 – 19.00 Final Discussion

LIST OF LECTURERS

KEY NOTE: H.E. Stjepan MESIĆ, former
President of Croatia

BECHEV, Dmitar Dr., Research
Fellow at St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford / Director National
Office in Bulgaria European Council on Foreign Relations

BIEBER, Florian Prof.
Dr., Center for Southeast European Studies, Karl Franzens University, Graz

BRUNNBAUER, Ulf Prof.
Dr., Executive Director Institute for Southeast European Studies (Südost
Institut), Regensburg, member of the board Southeast Europe Association
(Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft)

CALIC, Marie-Janine
Prof. Dr., Dean Faculty for History and Cultural Studies Ludwig-Maximilians-University
Munich; member of the board Southeast Europe Association
(Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft)

FLERE, Sergej Prof. Dr.,
Faculty of Law, Sociology Department, University of Maribor

INOTAI, András Prof.
Dr., Director Institute for World Economics at the Hungarian Academy of
Science, Budapest

KASER, Karl Prof. Dr.,
Head of Department for Southeast European History, Karl Franzens University,
Graz

MINIĆ, Jelica Deputy
Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council, Sarajevo

PERICA, Vjekoslav Prof.
Dr., Faculty of Philosophy – History Department, University of Rijeka

PEŠIĆ, Vesna Dr., Senior
Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade and Member
of the Serbian Parliament

PETKOVA, Ivanka
Prof.Dr., Technical University of Sofia and Chairperson of the Economic Policy
Institute, Sofia

PETROVIČ, Tanja Dr.,
Head of Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Nova Gorica

POPOVIĆ, Nenad Publicist
and Publisher, Publishing House Durieux, Zagreb

RAMET, Sabrina Prof.
Dr., Professor of Political Science, The Norwegian University of Science &
Technology, (Trondheim)

RISTIĆ, Irena Research
Assistant, Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade

SLAPŠAK, Svetlana Prof.
Dr., Dean Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Ljubljana; Coordinator of Programs
Anthropology of Ancient World and Anthropology of Gender

VELIKONJA, Mitja Prof. Dr., Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of Ljubljana