Friday, February 8th, 2008 

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

Tenth Annual Graduate Student Workshop

To read a submission from one of this year's three panels, click on the paper's title below.

The State of Public Health in Southeast Europe: Current Challenges, Policies, and Possible Solutions
Chair: Monique Bertic, Associate Director for International Advancement, Harvard School of Public Health

Health Disparities in Serbia: A Focus on Malnutrition in Roma Children
Teresa Janevic, Columbia University

The Ongoing Reform in the Turkish Public Health Sector: Experiences and Future Prospects
Taylan Acar, Ph.D. candidate, Bogaziçi University/Bosphorus University, Department of Political Science and International Relations

Introducing a Marketing Orientation in Bulgarian Public Hospitals: A Step Towards Better Public Health Services
Petya Trendafilova, Ph.D. candidate, Medical University - Sofia, Faculty of Public Health

The Impact of Institutions on Health Care System Development in Central-Eastern Europe
Gabriela Cretu, Ph.D. candidate in Political Studies: Institutions and Public Policies, University of Milan

Democratic Consolidation and Economic Reforms in Southeast Europe
Chair: Elaine Papoulias, Director of the Kokkalis Program

Institutional reforms in South Eastern Europe: A comparative analysis during transition
Martin Mendelski, Ph.D. candidate, ESCP-EAP Berlin, European School of Management

The Role of Trade Unions in Economic and Political Reforms after 1988: Serbia and Slovenia Compared
Tibor Meszmann, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science, Central European University

The Political and Institutional Foundations of Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Countries
Arpad Todor, Ph.D. University Institute, Florence, Italy

A New Approach to Intra-electoral Government Accountability: The Case of Bulgaria
Gergana Yankova, Ph.D. candidate in Government, Harvard University

Multiculturalism in the Balkans                  
Chair: Dr. Elizabeth Prodromou, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Boston University

Intercultural Pasts as Problem in the Construction of National Programs of "Cultural Heritage" in Modern Southeast Europe
Maximilian Hartmuth

Multiculturalism, Feminism, and Minority Rights in Europe
Ana Frank, Ph.D. candidate, Programme of Policy Analysis - European Aspects, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Education and Politics: Society as Conceptualized in Textbooks: The Albanian Case
Falma Fshazi, Ph.D. candidate, Bogaziçi University/Bosphorus University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History

European Integration and Yugoslavia's Successor States: The End of Ethnic Conception of Citizenship?
Igor Stiks, Ph.d. candidate, program in Intercultural and International Studies, Northwestern University

The "New" Multiculturalism in Turkey: Problems of Transformation into an Immigration Country and the Governance Response
Onur Unutulmaz, MPhil in Migration Studies, University of Oxford