European Minorities
in Cross-Disciplinary Perspective
Plenary talks from Dieter Halwachs,
Patrick Stevenson
and Stefan Wolff
26 June 2009, Council Chamber, Whitworth Building 
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Programme
9.00 |
Registration and Coffee |
9.25 |
Welcome address |
9.30 |
On Time, Place and Space in Language Biographies Professor Patrick Stevenson, Southampton |
10.15 |
Anneleen Vanden Boer, Brussels |
10.45 |
Women's Rights and Minority Group Rights in the EU Rachel Minto, Bristol |
11.15 |
Coffee break |
11.30 |
The Past is the Future: power, identity and cultural capital in Highland Sardinia Melody Cox, Oxford |
12.00 |
Autonomy as a legal mechanism of minority protection Gulara Guliyeva, Birmingham |
12.30 |
EU conflict management vis-à-vis `frozen conflicts' in the former Soviet Union Professor Stefan Wolff, Nottingham |
13.15 |
Lunch (Christie Bistro) |
14.15 |
Plurality, Minorities and the National State |
15.00 |
A six hundred-year-old Turkic minority in Europe: The Karaim Zsuzsanna Olach, Uppsala |
15.30 |
Translating minor European cultures into English Svetlana Skomorokhova, Warwick |
16.00 |
Coffee break |
16.10 |
Round-table: do minorities matter? |
17.00 |
Wine reception (Christie Bistro) |
Publication
Students are invited to submit their papers for inclusion in the special issue of the JMCE Yearbook 2009. All articles will be peer-reviewed by an advisory board.
Grants
A number of grants are available for PhD students to help with travel and accommodation costs. Priority will be given to students whose abstracts are selected for presentation.
Registration
Please email the organisers at jeanmonnet
manchester.ac.uk if you would like to attend the conference.
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