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You are invited to scroll through our online photo gallery. After heated debates, academic insight into discussed issues, and new conclusions there was still some time left for informal exchange of ideas ...


Attendance fees

The attendance fees have been calculated and are as follows: presenters' fee amounts to 150€, a member of interactive audience should pay 250€, while students have a special discount and are able to attend by paying 20€.

Final programme

Saturday, 21 June
08.00 – 9.00: REGISTRATION OF CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS
09.00 – 09.30: CIRILA TOPLAK, Director, INSTITUTE FOR ETHNIC STUDIES, LJUBLJANA: Welcome Address and Introduction to Conference

FIRST SESSION
Moderator: Mladen Klemenčič
09.30 – 10.15: SAMMY SMOOHA, HAIFA UNIVERSITY: State Policies on Diaspora: the Case of Israel
10.15 – 10.45: HANNAH STARMAN, THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, LUXEMBOURG: Judging the Diaspora: Legal Investigations into the ‘Diaspora Mentality’ in the ‘Nazi Collaborators’ Trials in Israel
10.45 – 11.00: COFFEE BREAK
11.00 – 10.30: ALVISE VIANELLO, UNIVERSITY CA’FOSCARI, VENICE: The Boundaries of Civil Society in a Diaspora-Oriented State. The Case of Israel
11.15 – 11.45: DANI KRANZ, UNIVERSITY ST. ANDREWS, LONDON: Where to Go and Where to Stay? Jews of the Third Generation in Germany
11.45 – 12.30: MODERATOR’S REMARKS AND DISCUSSION
12.30 – 14.30: LUNCH BREAK

SECOND SESSION
Moderator: Ton van Naerssen
14.30 – 15.15: MLADEN KLEMENČIČ, MIROSLAV KRLEŽA LEXICOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE, ZAGREB: State policies on Diaspora: the case of Croatia
15.15 – 15.45: DAMIR JOSIPOVIČ, INSTITUTE FOR ETHNIC STUDIES, LJUBLJANA: Inner Migration Policies in Socialist Yugoslavia and Their Consequences in the Post-1991 Period
15.45 – 16.00: COFFEE BREAK
16.00 – 16.30: KRISTINA TOPLAK, INSTITUTE FOR SLOVENIAN EMIGRATION STUDIES AT ZRC-SAZU, LJUBLJANA: ‘Being an Artist, Emigrant, Foreigner?’ Perceptions of Slovenian Culture Politics Towards Slovenians Abroad
16.30 – 17.00: NATALIJA VREČER, SLOVENIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADULT EDUCATION, LJUBLJANA: State policies towards Bosnian Refugees in the 1990s in Slovenia
17.00 – 18.00: MODERATOR’S REMARKS AND DISCUSSION
18.00: CONFERENCE DINNER

Sunday, 22 June

THIRD SESSION
Moderator: Irena Šumi
09.00 – 09.45: TON VAN NAERSSEN, NIJMEGEN UNIVERSITY: State Policies on Diaspora: the Case of the Netherlands
09.45 – 10.15: MARIANNE VAN BOCHOVE, ERASMUS UNIVERSITY, ROTTERDAM: Thick or thin: transnational political practices of migrants in the Netherlands
10.15 – 10.30: COFFEE BREAK
10.30 – 11.00: MARTINA BOFULIN, INSTITUTE FOR ETHNIC STUDIES, LJUBLJANA: Constructing a Patriotic Migrant: the Relationship Between People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Migrant
11.00 – 11.30: MAJA LAMBERGER KHATIB, UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA: The Arab Club in Slovenia
11.30 – 12.30: MODERATOR’S REMARKS AND DISCUSSION
12.30 – 14.30: LUNCH BREAK

FOURTH SESSION
Moderator: Sammy Smooha
14.30 – 15.15: IRENA ŠUMI, INSTITUTE FOR ETHNIC STUDIES, LJUBLJANA: State Policies on Diaspora: the Case of Slovenia
15.15 – 15.45: INTERACTIVE AUDIENCE PRESENTATIONS
15.45 - 16.00: COFFEE BREAK
16.00 – 17.00: DISCUSSION
17.00 – 17.20: CIRILA TOPLAK, Director, INSTITUTE FOR ETHNIC STUDIES, LJUBLJANA: Concluding remarks

New venue!

The venue has been changed. Conference will be held at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Please see attached map for details. The facilities are a short walk from the center and are easely accessible by bus no. 6.

The Faculty of Social Sciences, housed in a modern facility with state of the art lecture rooms, provides a distinguished and creative academic setting. Address: Kardeljeva ploščad 6.

Invitation

In 2005, the Institute for Ethnic Studies celebrated its 80th anniversary of scholarly work in the fields of ethnicity, nationalism, minority and border area studies. This conference, titled TRANSNATIONAL ETHNIC COMMUNITIES, is one in a series of events that mark the onstart of our ninth decade. In the following pages, all interested parties will find all the details on the conference. You are heartily invited to join us in June!
Cirila Toplak, Ph.D., Director

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