31 October 2011 Final

12th FINNISH COLLOQUIUM OF SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN

STUDIES
Helsinki, 1718 November 2011
Venue: Tieteiden talo, Kirkkokatu 6

Programme:

Thursday, 17th November, auditorium 505

9:30 Welcome

I session, chair: Jouko Lindstedt

9:40 KEYNOTE: Robert Phillipson (Copenhagen Business School): Language policy in

European integration: Balkan prospects and neoimperial linguistic constraints
10.40 Coffee break
11:00 Dragana Cvetanovi: Rap repertoire rap text as a linguistic laboratory
11:30 Sebastian Huluban: The closing and un-closing of imperial frontiers: Habsburg
tsarist military frontier policies in South Eastern Europe up to 1848
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Book launch: It-Eurooppa matkalla lnteen: Itisen Keski-Euroopan, Baltian ja
Balkanin historiaa ja politiikkaa

II session, chair: Jouni Jrvinen

14:00 KEYNOTE: Anelka Mihajlov (University of Novi Sad, Serbia): Western Balkan
environmental security: Regionally and locally
15:00 Emma Hakala: Environment and security in the Western Balkans: The role of
international organizations in regional environmental cooperation
15:30 Break
15:45 Nora Repo: Macedonian Islam and a societal body with fractures
16:15 Johanna Virkkula: Bosnian internet discussions about names
18:00 Dinner at the restaurant Gustus & Vera (Fabianinkatu 37)
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Friday, 18th November, auditorium 404

III session, chair: Max Wahlstrm

9:00 KEYNOTE: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (University of Roskilde and bo Akademi

University Vasa): Kurds in Turkey still no linguistic human rights?
10:00 Lauri Tainio: "We are right, we will win!" Communicative suffering as a
means of political struggle in Turkey
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Jouko Lindstedt: In the Balkans, do as the Romans do
11:30 eljko Jozi: Linguistic (un)reality in contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina
12:00 Lunch

IV session, chair: Jouko Lindstedt

13:00 KEYNOTE: Antony Todorov (New Bulgarian University): The Euro zone and the
Schengen space: Is Bulgaria prepared?
14:00 Arjan Myftari: Perspective and challenges of EU enlargement in the Western
Balkans: Looking Europe, seeking the union?
14:30 Break
14:45 Tanja Tamminen: Assessing EUs peace mediation activities in the Balkans: the
Pristina-Belgrade dialogue as an example
15:15 Vesna Adi & Brendan Humphreys: The Serbian Coen brothers
15:45 Farewell