[ Conferences ]

• The University of Graz will host an international conference on
  
  European Integration and its Effects on Minority Protection in the Western
  
  Balkan Countries from 24 - 25 February 2006. For more information, please
  
  check the conference
  
  website.

• SOYUZ, the Post-Communist Cultural Studies Interest Group of
  
  Bryant University in
  
  Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA, invites to a conference on Refiguring
  
  “Socialist” and
  
  “Postsocialist” Spaces in a Deterritorializing World on 3-5 March 2006. For
  
  more
  
  information, please read the Call for proposals.

• The Center for Conflict Studies of the Philipps-Universität
  
  Marburg/Germany proposes a
  
  Spring School on Ethnic Conflicts from 6-11 March 2006 and a
  
  conference on Ethnic Conflicts in a Changing World from 10 to 11 March
  
  2006. More information on the webpages of the summer school and the
  
  conference.

• The Universities of Montpellier III/Paris 8/ Ecole Normale Superieure
  
  and the Young Researchers Group on "Morality, Politics, and International Justice"
  
  are inviting to a conference on Philosophical heritage, historical contingency
  
  and moral universality. Reception of the ICTY in ex-Yugoslavia from 14 to 15
  
  March 2006 in Montpellier and from 30 March to 1 April 2006 in Paris. For more
  
  information, please read the call for
  
  papers.

• The Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) will organize a
  
  conference on
  
  Nationalism in an Age of Globalization from 23-25 March 2006 at
  
  Columbia
  
  University/New York. There will be 100 thematic and geographic panels. For more
  
  information
  
  please check the ANS webpage and the
  
  conference announcement
  
  (pdf).

• Die Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft bereitet ein Südosteuropa-
  
  Kolloquium
  für Nachwuchswissenschaftler der Politischen Wissenschaft und
  Zeitgeschichte vor, das dem 80. Geburtstag von Ehrenmitglied Dr.
  Fritz Exner gewidmet ist. Das erste Kolloquium wird vom 30. März bis
  1. April 2006 stattfinden. Konferenzort: Bundesakademie für
  kulturelle Bildung, Wolfenbüttel. Mehr Informationen im Call for
  Papers.

• The annual conference of the British Association of Slavonic and East
  European Studies (BASEES) will be held at Fitzwilliam College,
  
  Cambridge
  University on 2-4 April 2006.

• The Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj proposes a conference on The
  
  New Frontiers of
  
  Europe. International,
  Inter-ethnic and Inter-Confessional
  Relations from 6 to 8 April 2006. More
  
  information on the conference
  
  website.

• The Oxford University Greek Society, with the
  
  support of
  
  South East
  European Studies at Oxford, is organising a graduate conference on
  Greece and the Balkans: two hundred years of coexistence, interaction
  and mutual influence in Oxford at the end of April 2006. For more
  
  information, check the
  
  conference
  
  webpage.

• The Central European University in Budapest will hold the Second
  
  CEU Graduate Conference
  
  in Social Sciences on The End of Transitions? Central and Eastern European
  
  Countries in
  
  Comparative Perspective from 5 to 7 May 2006. Fore more information please
  
  email the Conference co-ordinator Todor
  
  Arpad.

• The Common Bond Institute (CBI) and the Harmony Institute of
  
  Psychotherapy & Counseling organize their 14th Annual International
  
  Conference on Conflict Resolution in St. Petersburg, from 5 to 15 May 2006.
  Among the topics addressed are dynamics of terrorism throughout the world,
  
  trauma, forgiveness and reconciliation, as well as issues in the Middle East, South
  
  Asia, and the Balkans. Submission deadline for proposals: 10 March 2006. For
  
  more information, please check the conference
  
  webpage.

• The Institute of Economics of Wroclaw University hosts a conference
  
  on the Economic
  
  Relations in the Enlarged EU on 11-12 May 2006. Papers can be sent in until
  
  1 April 2006.
  
  For more information, email Prof.
  
  Jaroslaw
  
  Kundera.

• The European Studies Institute in Diauliai, Lithuania invites applicants
  
  for a conference
  
  on
  European Studies: between Globalisation and Regionalism (Humanitarian and
  
  Social Aspects)
  
  on 12-13 May 2006. Proposed topic areas for presentations: New European Centres
  
  and
  
  Peripheries: the Dynamics of Polycentricity in EU; The Change of Mentalities
  
  against the
  
  Background of European Integration Processes; Development of National
  
  Languages in the New
  
  EU: Facts and Prospects; National Literatures of EU: Globalisation and Pop-
  
  Culture vs.
  
  Artistry and Identity; Political Identity Crossroads: between the East-West Concept
  
  and
  
  North-South Orientation of the New Europe; Global Integration and Migration of
  
  the Work
  
  Force: New Technological and Cultural Collaboration Opportunities; New
  
  Historical Identities
  
  of EU: the Imagined Community, Propaganda and Facts. Deadline for abstracts: 15
  
  February
  
  2006. For more information, please check the conference
  
  website.

• Zenska infoteka is pleased to invite
  
  you to take part at the 10th annual
  International Seminar "Women and Politics", organized in cooperation with
  the Heinrich Böll Stiftung - Regional Office Sarajevo and Inter University
  Centre Dubrovnik.
  The Seminar will take place on May 18-21, 2006 at the Inter University
  Centre Dubrovnik. Participants are expected to prepare a research paper on the
  
  topic: women in politics and changes in gender social positions / roles (abstracts
  
  expected by 1 March 2006). For more information, please email Zenska infoteka.

• The South East European Studies section at Oxford University (St
  
  Antony's College)
  and the RAMSES 2 Network of Excellence on the Mediterranean organize a
  
  symposium on (Trans)nationalism in the Mediterranean in Oxford from 26
  
  to 28 May 2006. The symposium would like to explore, in a
  comparative perspective across the wider Mediterranean area (South East Europe,
  
  Turkey, the Middle
  East, North Africa and the littoral EU Member States), the
  question of how conflicts over borders (state, ethnic, religious,
  communal) and territory both generates cross-border identities and
  solidifies "national" or group identities. Applications can be sent in until 27
  
  February 2006. For more information, please read the call for papers (word doc.)
  
  .

• The European Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and
  Research (AT.IN.E.R.) announces its 4th international conference on
  International and European Political and Economic Affairs for 29-31 May
  
  2006. More
  
  information can be found on the conference website.

• Students from all over the world can apply to attend the III Jean
  
  Monnet International Seminar on "Intergrating Europe in a Changing World" in
  
  Rome from 3 to 14 July 2006 (application deadline 30 April 2006). For more
  
  information, check the summerschool
  
  website.

• The Franco-Austrian Centre
  
  organizes a conference on The social and economic development in
  
  Kosovo in Ljubljana on 12-13 June 2006 for political and economic decision
  
  -makers. More information on the conference webpage.

• The Centre for East European Studies of
  Warsaw University is organizing the Third Warsaw East European Conference on
  
  Twenty five
  
  years of changes in the post-communist world on 5-8 July 2006. Abstracts can
  
  be sent in
  
  until 31 March 2006. More information can be found on the conference
  
  website.

• The Institute for Strengthening Democracy in Bosnia invites paper
  
  submissions for the 9th Annual International Seminar Democracy and Human
  
  Rights in Multiethnic Societies to be held in Konjic (Bosnia-Herzegovina) from
  
  10 to 14 July 2006. More information on the conference
  
  website.

• The Max Planck-Institute for Social
  Anthropology, the Danish Institute for International
  
  Studies and the Humboldt-University Berlin are proposing a conference on
  The Artifices of Government. On the appropriation, the use, and the formation of
  states on 20-21 July 2006, bringing together scholars from history,
  
  anthropology,
  
  political
  sociology as well as sociology and political science. More information on the conference
  
  announcement website and
  
  in the call for
  
  papers.

• The Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University
  
  of Limerick will
  
  host a conference aiming at Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2006 - Visions of
  
  Europe: Key
  
  Problems, New Trajectories from 31 August to 2 September 2006. More
  
  information on the conference
  
  website.

• The 2006 ASN European Conference on Globalization,
  
  Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in
  
  the Balkans and its Regional Context will be organized by the Forum for
  
  Ethnic Relations
  
  in Belgrade on 28-30 September 2006. The conference will tackle nationalism and
  
  ethnic
  
  conflict; the development of national identity and the challenges of globalization;
  
  violence
  
  and terrorism, organized crime and illegal migrations; conflict prevention; and the
  
  protection of human and minority rights. For more information, please go to the website of the Forum for Ethnic
  
  Relations. Scholars from South Eastern Europe can
  
  apply for grants.