Co-Existence in Europe - 2000
The Relationship of the Minority as a Cultural Unit to the Culture of the Majority

International Cultural Conference on European Minorities
Gödöllő (Hungary) November 17-18, 2000

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DRAFT PROGRAMME

Friday, November 17, 2000

Venue: Szent István University, Gödöllő, Main Building, ground-floor banquet-hall

09.00- Conference Opening– Dr. Zsolt Visy - Deputy Secretary of State for Culture, Ministry of National Cultural Heritage, Head of the Hungarian Co-ordinating Commission of the campaign “Europe, a common heritage”
-10.00 Welcome Speeches
10.00-10.20 Christoph Pan, Professor, Director, Institute of Minorities in South-Tyrol (Italy)
10.20-10.40 Ethnic groups in Europe: Josef von Komlóssy, Vice President, Federal Union of European Nationalities (Switzerland) - Can a small ethnic group survive both the nation-state and the globalisation?
10.40-11.00 Dr. Mihály Hoppál, Director, European Folklore Institute (Budapest)
Minority and local culture in a global world
11.00-11.20 Coffee break
11.20-11.40 Pekka Aikio, President of Saami Parliament (Finland)
Cultural self-determination of Saami in Finland
11.40-12.00 Art Leete, Research Director, Estonian National Museum (Estonia)
The study of Arctic peoples in Estonia
12.00-12.20 Tatjana Minniahmetova, Candidate, University of Tartu (Estonia)
Belief system, as a factor of preserving traditional culture of an ethnic group of the Udmurts (an example of Kams’ör)
12.20-12.40 Tatjana Deviatkina, Professor, Saransk University (Mordvin Republic - Russia)
The assimilation attempts of the Mordvin traditional ceremonies
12.40-13.00 Contributions
13.00-15.00 Lunch break
15.00-15.20 Luminita Drumea, Senior Researcher, Institute of Inter-Ethnic Studies, Academy of Sciences of Moldova (Moldova)
Folklore relations as a factor of the approach of nations and cultures
15.20-15.40 Ihor Poshyvailo, Deputy Director, Ukrainian Centre for Folk Culture (Ukraine)
Ukraine: Problems of national identity in multicultural environment
15.40-16.00 Eva Davidova, Museum of Gypsy Culture, Brno (Czech Republic)
The cultural situation of the Roma and their chances in the European integration
16.00-16.10 Break
16.10 –16.30 Kepa Fernández de Larrinoa, Professor, University of the Basque Country (Spain, Basque)
Frenchness and Basqueness within popular culture in rural French- Basque Society
  Dr. László Felföldi, Head of Department, Institute of Musicology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest)
Interrelation Between Majority and Minority Cultures in the Mirror of Traditional Dances
16.50-17.30 Contributions
17.30-18.00 Coffee Break
18.00-19.30 Round-table discussion with the presidents of the national self-goverments of the national and ethnic minorities living in Hungary
20.00-22.00 Reception for the Guests of the Conference

Saturday, November 18, 2000

09.20-09.40 Dr. Iljas Hadzibegovic, Head of Department, University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
National minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina during Austro–Hungarian rule
09.40-10.00 Tomislav Isek, Professor, Institute for History, Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
The position of the language of the minorities (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian) in the regions dominated by a nation
10.00-10.20 Paskal Gilevski, Director, National University Library, Skopje (Macedonia)
The present-day situation of the Macedonian minority in the world
  Dr. Vera Krzisnik-Bukic, Scientific Counsellor, Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Cultural associations of the Slovene minority in the new states in the area of former Yugoslavia
10.20-10.40 Dr. Jakob Finci, Head of the Jewish Community of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Bosnia-Herzegovina
10.40-11.00 Contributions
11.00-11.20 Coffee break
11.20-11.40 Dr. Martha Fata, Scientific Principal Contributor, Research Institute of Danubian Germans, University of Tübingen (Germany)
The role of the historical migration of the Germans in Europe and its impact on the 20th century
11.40-12.00 Dr. Gerhard Seewann, Scientific Principal Contributor, South-East Institute, University of Munich (Germany)
The identity of the Germans in Hungary and efforts made to maintain the identity in the past and in the present
12.00-12.20 Roland Atz, Vice President, Autonomous Region Trentino-South-Tyrol (Italy)
The German-speaking minority in South-Tyrol; secession from the motherland, lost hopes and the process of the birth of a multilingual society in the new Europe
  Karen Margrethe Pedersen, Associate Professor, Danish Institute for Border Region Studies (Denmark)
Minority education and intercultural education in the Danish-German border region
12.40-13.00 Contributions
13.00-15.00 Lunch break
15.00-15.20 Dr. István Szűcs, Scientific Pro-Rector of the Hungarian University of Partium (Romania)
The situation of education in Hungarian language in Romania today
15.20-15.40 Dr. Ernő Raffay, Scientific Pro-Rector of Károli Gáspár Protestant University (Budapest)
Hungarians in the Diaspore - Chances and possibilities of the preservation of the mother language and culture
15.40-16.00 Mircea Sabin Gherman, President, proTRANSILVANIA Foundation– Transilvania-Banat League (Romania)
“The European type regionalism - a chance for the preservation and development of the minorities’ identity”- solutions, mentalities
16.00-16.20 Bojan Brezigar, President, European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages (Brussels)
Protection of linguistic minorities in the European Union
17.00 Concluding word - Dr. Péter Szendrő, Rector of the Szent István University, Gödöllő
18.30 Visit to the Royal Castle of Gödöllő
20.00 Reception