Featured Events

Please use the following links for further information on the featured events for this conference.

 

Keynote Address – Friday, March 11, 5:30pm

Franke Institute for the Humanities (1100 East 57th Street)

A Sea of Difference? Regime Collapse and Migrations from Albania to Italy, 1945-1992

Pamela Ballinger, (University of Michigan)

Prof. Ballinger is the Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights at the University of Michigan.  Her research interests include: human rights, refugees and displacement, memory, fascism, seascapes and coastal issues, Italy, and Croatia/ex-Yugoslavia. She is the author of numerous publications including History in Exile (Princeton University Press, 2002).

 

 

Special Session – Roma and the Politics of Difference in Postsocialist Europe Saturday, March 12, 10:30am 

FRANKE INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES (1100 EAST 57TH STREET)

Roma Relocations As Fractions Of Communal Life Recalibrations

Luciana Aenasoaie (University Of Michigan)

Poverty Is Not Grounds For Asylum! Economic Crisis, Cultural Intimacy, And The Politics Of Romani Difference In Post-Socialist Serbia

Alexander Marković (University Of Illinois, Chicago)

Running Water In The Land Of Spitting Dragons: Logics Of Romani Neighborhood Infrastructure

Elana Resnick (University Of Michigan)

The “Threat” Of Difference In Hungary

Heather Tidrick (University Of Michigan)

 

Invited Roundtable – Postsocialist Left and Right Politics                               Saturday, March 12, 11:45am 

Moderator: Andrew Graan

Featured Participants

On Hungary – Margit Feischmidt (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Center for Social Sciences)

On Russia – Julie Hemment (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

On Ukraine – Alexandra Hrycak (Reed College)