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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€.
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
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.