9.45 - 10.00 Welcome

10.00 - 11.30 - Bucharest - Dr Tim Beasley-Murray (SSEES)

• Jo Roberts (SSEES): "The Social Fabrication of 1930s Bucharest"

• Bruce O'Neill (Stanford University) "Placing Homelessness in Bucharest: Governmentality, Poverty and the Post-Socialist City"

11.45 - 13.15 - Migration - Dorota Osipovic (CEELBAS-SSEES - Research Student)

• Réka Geambasu (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj) "Rural-Urban Migration and the Creation of "The New Socialist Man" in Communist Romania"

• Raluca Prelipceanu (EUREQua, University of Paris 1, Pantheon Sorbonne) "New Patterns of Highly Skilled Mobility and Societal Transformation in Romania"

14.15 - 15.45 - Minorities - Professor Martyn Rady (SSEES)

• Sinziana Preda (Timisoara West University) "Being a Minority in Contemporary Romania: The Czech Minority in the Southern Banat"

• James Kapalo (Study of Religions, School of Oriental and African Studies) "Healing, Text and Performance: The Construction of Gagauz Religious Reality"

• Fiona Robertson (SSEES) "Youth Political Participation in Romania"

• Ed Maxfield (University of Sussex) "Basescu, the PD and Romania's Centre-Right - Towards a Post-Communist Politics?"

10.00 - 11.30 - Nation Building in Romania - Dr Rebecca Haynes (SSEES)

• Raul Carstocea (SSEES) "Romanian Anti-Semitism in the Context of the Nation-Building Project after the Congress of Berlin"

• Raluca Musat (SSEES) "The Gusti School and Nationalism in Interwar Romania - Setting Out the Questions"

11.45 - 13.15 - Nationalism in Interwar and Wartime Romania - Professor Dennis Deletant (SSEES)

• Tudor Georgescu (Oxford Brookes University) "The Interwar Transylvanian Saxon 'Movement for Renewal' and the Quest to Rejuvenate, Regenerate, and Rehomogenise an Idealised Nation"

• Chris Davis (University of Oxford) "Configuring the Ethnic Nation: Minorities, Population Transfers, and Biopolitics in Wartime Romania"

14.15 - 15.45 - Moldovan Politics and Society - Dr Peter Duncan (SSEES)

• Elena Gnedina (Queen's University Belfast) "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Moldovan Foreign Policies, 2001-2007"

• Cristina Mosneaga (SSEES) "Legal and Illegal Migration as a Challenge to the State: The Case of Moldova 1991-2006"

• Radu Cinpoes (Kingston University) TBC

16.00 - 17.30 - Romanian Politics and Society - Dr Radu Cinpoes (Kingston University)

• Sorin Denca (University of Birmingham) "European Integration and Foreign Policy in Central and Eastern Europe"

• Lara Scarpitta (University of Birmingham) "Did EU Conditionality Really Work? Anti-Corruption and Justice Reforms in Post-Accession Romania"

This page last modified Thursday 7 February 2008.