17-20 iunie 2010: Conferinţă - Politici minoritare în Europa regiunilor

Conference on ‘Minority Politics within the Europe of Regions’ in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár, Klausenburg), Romania.

The ECPR Standing Group on Federalism and Regionalism, together with the Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania and the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (ISPMN), will organize an international conference entitled ‘Minority Politics within the Europe of Regions’ on 17-20 June 2010.

Within the European space, issues related to ethno-regionalism and the legal status of national and ethnic minorities are covered by several models, such as federalization, self-rule and autonomy. In the recent decade these models and their consequences influencing European architecture have been widely studied in all sorts of theoretical and empirical frameworks. After the expansion of the EU with the Central and Eastern European countries in 2004 and 2007, and with the coming integration of the Western Balkans and possibly other states from Eastern Europe, there has been a proliferation of multi-ethnic regions and national and ethnic minority cases within or in the close vicinity of the Union. Researchers and speakers from a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines, including social and political sciences, history, linguistics, law, economy and area studies will be invited to present empirical and theoretical studies on the minority issue in the European space. The organizers will especially welcome studies on ethno-regionalist politics, as well as on institutional arrangements and policies concerning national and ethnic minorities in the new Member States and the Eastern parts of Europe.

Abstracts Approved by the Scientific Committee

Official Program of the Conference

Conference organizers:

Klaus Detterbeck, University of Magdeburg, ECPR Standing Group on Federalism and Regionalism

István Horváth, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca

László Marácz, University of Amsterdam

Márton Tonk, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca