Student Conference:
“Twenty years of democracy
Perspectives on post-communism in Central and Eastern Europe”
Friday, April the 16th, 2010/Vendredi, le 16 avril 2010
Opening session
Welcome by organizers/ Allocutions de bienvenue (11:00 – 11:45)
Prof. Cristian PREDA, Bucharest University, Dean of the Political Science Department/ Université de Bucarest, Doyen de la Faculté des Sciences Politiques
Prof. Jean-Michel DE WAELE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Director of CEVIPOL, Center for the Study of Political Life/ Université Libre de Bruxelles, Directeuur du CEVIPOL, Centre d’Étude de la Vie Politique
Coffee break/ Pause – café (11:45 – 12:00)
Political and Academic Evaluation of the Past/ Réévaluation politique et académique du passé ( 12:00 – 13:30)
Discussant : T.A. Damiana OTOIU, Bucharest University, Political Science Department/ Université de Bucarest, Faculté des Sciences Politiques & CEVIPOL (Centre d’Étude de la Vie Politique/ Center for the Study of Political Life)
1. Cristina Andreea GOLOMOZ -University of Bucharest, FSP; ERASMUS – IEP Bordeaux – La réévaluation du passé. À la recherché d’une “juste” mémoire
2. Mihaela POPA - University of Bucharest, FSP, ERASMUS – ULB- Réévaluation politique et académique du passé communiste
3. Alina-Carmen CIOLCĂ -University of Bucharest, FSP- Fascisme : étiqueter le pluralisme postdécembriste ?
4. Ioana MIHAILESCU -Institut Supérieur d’Architecture de la Communauté Française – Bruxelles- L’espace publique postcommuniste roumain: transformations et continuité
Discussions
Lunch / Déjeuner (13:30 – 15:00)
Building Democracy in Ex- Communist spaces / La construction de la démocratie dans les espaces ex-communistes (I) (15:00 – 16:30)
Discussant : Prof. Alexandra IONESCU, Bucharest University, Political Science Department/ Université de Bucarest, Faculté des Sciences Politiques
1. Adriana IORDACHE & Valentin STOIAN -Central European University, Budapest- The Role of Intellectuals in the Process of Democratic Consolidation: Romania and Hungary
2. Adam PUCHEJDA -Warsaw University- The social imaginary of Polish Democratic Elites and its Impact on Democracy in Post-Communist Era
3. Noemi Eleonora SALANŢIU -Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Political Science Department- Cultural Elites versus Political Elites in Post Communism:Researching Intellectuals’ Representations of Politics during 2000-2008
4. Mihai ROŞU & Andrei-Dan SORESCU -University of Bucharest, FSP- A Rawlsian Reading of the Romanian Constitution: “Political Liberalism” and Acknowleged Diversity
Discussions
Coffee break/ Pause – café (16:30 – 16:45)
Building Democracy in Ex-Comunist Spaces /La construction du democratie dans les espaces ex-communistes (II) (16:45 – 18:15)
Discussant : Prof. Alexandra IONESCU, Bucharest University, Political Science Department/ Université de Bucarest, Faculté des Sciences Politiques
1. Alexandru VOLACU -SNSPA, Political Science Department- The Particularities of Eastern-European Multi-dimensional Cleavages and their Impact on the Reconfiguration of the Post- Communist Institutional systems
2. Adrian-Vasile GEORGESCU -University of Bucharest, FSP- The Paradox of Democracy – 1990 elections vs 2009 elections
3. Alina Alexandra BOT – School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of International Politics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany – Effects of EU Minority Protection Conditionality on Romania
4. Daniela-Mihaela SPINU - Bucharest University, FSP- Female migration and its implications upon the Romanian Society. Case study – Female migration from Vadu-Soreşti, Buzău County
Discussions
Saturday, June the 17th , 2010/ Samedi, le 17 avril 2010
(Re)emergence and Development of Civil Society/ Le (ré)apparition et le développement de la société civile dans les espaces ex-communistes (I) (10:00 – 11:15)
Discussant : Assist. Prof. Camil PARVU, Bucharest University, Political Science Department/ Université de Bucarest, Faculté des Sciences Politiques
1. Rodica TABACARU – Faculty of Sociology, International Relations, University of Bucharest – The Role of Civil Society in Promoting Democracy
2. Ana PAVLOVIC - Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade – Rise and Fall of Civil Society in Eastern Europe
3. Teodor Simeonov SLAVEV- University of National and World Economy – Sofia, Bulgaria – Civil Society – Reality or Myth within Eastern Europe, 20 years later?
Discussions
Coffee break/ Pause – café (11:15 – 11:30)
(Re)emergence and Development of Civil Society/ Le (ré)apparition et le développement de la société civile dans les espaces ex-communistes (II) (11:30– 12:45)
Discussant : Assist. Prof. Alexandra IONASCU, Bucharest University, Political Science Department/ Université de Bucarest, Faculté des Sciences Politiques
1.Fanny SBARAGLIA- Université Libre de Bruxelles-Organisations Non-Gouvernementales aujourd’hui en Roumanie. Le cas des ONG de lutte anticorruption et de promotion de la démocratie
2. Irina CREŢU & Ana Maria DUCUŢĂ- University of Bucharest, FSP- Civil Society, Now and Then. Comparison Romania-Poland
3. Olga KONONYKHINA – State University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia – Russia’s Civil Society in International Comparative Perspective
Discussions
Wrap up session / Session de clôture (12 :45 – 13 :15)
