11th Annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop
1. Diaspora as a Political and Economic Player in the States of Southeast Europe
A Home Away From Home – Conflict-Induced Diasporas: Croatian-American Identity Adventure
Anita Brkanic, PhD candidate, Department of Government, London School of Economics
How to Mobilise the Turkish Diaspora as a Political and Economic Actor in the EU Accession Process
Burcu Diraor, Phd candidate, Department of Economics, Ankara University
Integration for Peace? Reconciliation and Integration among Diasporas
Jonathan Hall, PhD candidate, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, University of Uppsala
Tenuous Ties: Diaspora Support for Political Parties in Post-Communist Serbia
Marlene Spoerri, PhD candidate in International Relations, University of Amsterdam
2. Leaders and Leadership – Old and New – in Southeast Europe
"The End is the Beginning is the End": Political Elites and Interpretations of the Collapse of Communism
Elidor Mehilli, PhD candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
The Learning Curve: Student Protests in Serbia, 1991-2000
Olena Nikolayenko, SSHRC post-doctoral scholar, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University
Building Charisma by Imagining the Nation: The Case of Nicolae Ceausescu’s Socialist Romania
Claudiu Oancea, PhD researcher, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute
Modernisation, Neo-Patrimonialism and Leader Cults in Western Balkan Countries: The Case of Hoxha-Albania
Norma Osterberg, PhD candidate in Political Science, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin
3. Westphalia, Neo-Westphalia or Post-Westphalia? Statehood in Southeast Europe
Serbia Amidst Competing Sovereignty Claims: Balancing the Westphalian Legacy with the Political Pragmatism of European Integration
Davor Jancic, PhD candidate in European Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht School of Law, Utrecht University
Parental Leave in Romania and Hungary and European Accession: Welfare State Untransformed
Borbala Kovacs, DPhil candidate in Social Policy, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford
The Emergence of Organized Civil Society as an Element of the Post-Westphalia State in South-Eastern Europe: The Transposition of EU Directive 99/70/EC into Greek Law and the Transformation of the Social Partners’ Role
Eva Theocharidi, PhD candidate in Law, University of Paris-Nanterre
The Buck Stops Where? Responsibility and EU Member-statebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Giulio Venneri, PhD candidate, School of International Studies, University of Trento
Friday, February 13, 2009
Lower Auditorium
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Adolphus Busch Hall
27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
Co-organized with the Southeastern Europe Study Group, Center for European Studies
Chairs: Elaine Papoulias, director, Kokkalis Program; Elizabeth Prodromou, assistant professor of International Relations, Boston University; Aida Vidan, preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University