Contemporary Citizenship: the Politics of Exclusion and Inclusion

Program of the International Seminar:

NATIONS – STATES AND XENOPHOBIAS: IN THE RUINS OF EX-YUGOSLAVIA

Piran (Hotel Piran), Slovenia, May 13–14, 2005

The seminar is organized by the Peace Institute, Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, Ljubljana and Croatian Political Science Association, Zagreb.

Thursday, May 12

Arrival of Participants

17:00 Departure of Mini Bus from Ljubljana to Piran

19:30 Dinner (Restaurant Pavel)

Friday, May 13

10:00 – 10:10 Welcome of the Organizers

Mojca Pajnik, Ljubljana

First Session: Populism, Nationalism, Racism: Yugoslav Experiences (Moderator: Veronika Bajt)

10:15 – 11:15

Tonči Kuzmanić / Ljubljana / Not Nationalism but Populism: Yugoslav Experience
Vladimir Lame / Tirana / Nationalism and Democracy in ex-Yugoslavia

11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00

Petar Milat / Zagreb / State of Exception and the Emergence of Racism: Zoran Đindić’s "Yugoslavia – an Unfinished State”

12:00 – 12:45 Press Conference

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch (in the Hotel Piran)

Second Session: Constructing “the Other” in the Process of Nationalising States (Moderator: to be announced)

14:00 – 15:30

Slaviša Raković / Sarajevo / We are not like them: Denial of the Other in Serbia, Croatia and BiH
Tija Memišević / Sarajevo / Bosnia Herzegovina: Ethnic Identities vs. Citizen Identity and the State-Building
Veronika Bajt / Ljubljana / Contemporary Slovenia and the “Other”: A Nationalising State and Intolerance

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee/Tea Break

16:00 – 17:30

Goran Forbici / Ljubljana / A Word or Two on Contemporary Racism
Dane Taleski / Bonn / Images of Macedonia: Perceptions of Macedonians and Albanians toward the Nation State
Vjekoslav Butigan / Niš / Xenophobia and the Culture on the Balkans

19:30 Dinner (Bife Ivo)

Saturday, May 14

First Session: Xenophobia and Post-Socialism (Moderator: Tonči Kuzmanić)

10:00 – 11:00

Gorazd Korošec / Ljubljana / Post-socialism, Birocratic Cynical Reason and Xenophobia
Halima Sofradžija / Sarajevo / Xenophobia as a Political Fact
(Contemplating Xenophobia in a Political Philosophy Frame)

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee/Tea Break

11:15 – 12:45

Emina Hiseni, Deme Hoti / Priština / “Act in Such a Way that Your Actions can be Considered a Universal Law”
(Immanuel Kant)
Sabina Autor / Ljubljana / Tolerance – Between Identity and Neutrality
Vlasta Jalušič / Ljubljana / Racist and Totalitarian Elements in the Yugoslav Conflict and their Effects on the Post-conflict Situation

12:45 – 14:15 Lunch (Restaurant Pavel)

Second Session: Mass media: Post-Yugoslav Situation (Moderator: Mojca Pajnik)

14:15 – 15:15

Sabina Mihelj / Loughboro-ugh / Mass Media and Nationalising States: The Case of Mass Media in Yugoslav Successor States
Maja Turnšek / Slovenia / Not the Content, the Attitude Matters!
Media Representation of “Others”

15:15 – 15:30 Coffee/Tea Break

15:30 – 16:30

Igor Kanižaj, Berto Šalaj / Zagreb / Ethnic Minorities in Croatian Dailies
Tanja Kovačič / Varšava, Dutovlje / An Analysis of the Media Coverage in Ethnic Conflict: Reporting about the Massacre in Srebrenica by Independent media B92 and Pro-state Radio-Television Serbia

16:30 - 17:00 Closing Session (Evaluation)

Mojca Sušnik, Ljubljana

18:00 Departure of Mini Bus from Piran to Hotel City Turist in Ljubljana

Sunday, May 15

Departure of Participants

The organization of the international seminar was made possible by the East East Program: Partnership Beyond Borders Program (OSI) and Slovenian Research Agency.