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(published in: Nov, 2021)
The Association for the Study of Nationalities was held in a virtual format (5-8 May 2021). The panel “A Quarter of a Century of the Dayton Peace Accords: Success or Failure—or Both?” was chaired by Francine Friedman (Ball State University).
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(published in: Oct, 2019)
On Thursday, 2 May 2019, the Association for the Study of Nationalities national convention hosted a panel entitled “Imagining the Balkans in a Post-Western Global Order” chaired by Francine Friedman(Ball State University).
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(published in: Sep, 2019)
On 5 May 2018, the Association for the Study of Nationalities hosted a panel entitled “World War I and the Invention of Self-Determination” Francine Friedman (Ball State University) was chair of the panel.
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(published in: Jan, 2018)
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(published in: Nov, 2017)
From 11th to 15th September 2017 at the premises of the CEUB University Residential Center of Bertinoro in Santa Sofia-Italy, took place the 23rd CEI International Summer School “Envisioning Moving Frontiers: Migration Management, Minority Protection and the Enhancement of Territorial Cooperation.”
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(published in: Nov, 2017)
he conference ''Liquid Reconciliation: Global Perspectives, Glocal Realities'', focusing on the nexus between human rights protection and the perspective of reconciliation in deeply divided societies, was held in Sarajevo from the 4th to the 6th of April 2017.
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(published in: Sep, 2017)
As a student of the Master program MIREES, within the Faculty of Political Science, at the University of Bologna, last May I received the scholarship to work at the International Specialized Exhibition EXPO 2017 in Astana, Kazakhstan, following an interview that had tested my knowledge of English and Russian languages.
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(published in: Sep, 2017)
On 4 May 2017, Francine Friedman (Ball State University) was the chair of a panel entitled “The Eastern Question….Again” at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Nationalities in New York City at Columbia University.
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(published in: Jul, 2017)
During 2015 one of the biggest corruption scandals, if not the biggest, in the short history of the Republic of Macedonia broke out and exposed how the right-wing populist party VMRO-DPMNE (Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity), which was in power since 2006 (2006-2016) managed to acquire huge amounts of wealth and become one of the wealthiest political parties in Europe.
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(published in: Jul, 2017)
On 23 May 2017, MIREES students listened to an Open lecture by Dr. Matteo Tondini, legal advisor for EUNAVFOR MED (European Union Naval Force Mediterranean) otherwise known as Operation Sophia.
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(published in: Jul, 2017)
On 12th of May 2017, professor Itir Toksöz, who is currently teaching at the Department of International Relations at Dogus University (İstanbul), lectured the MIREES' students on the key role of art, when studying international relations. Professor Toksöz divided the lesson in three parts: in the first section, she analyzed international relations through movies and visual art, then, she considered the use of songs, video clips and lyrics and, lastly, she addressed the topic of the connections between international relation and science fiction.
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(published in: Jul, 2017)
On the 12th of April 2017, Professor Ben Tonra of the University College of Dublin delivered a speech on the controversial issue of the Common European Defence Policy, discussed as part of a larger debate in addressing the new security challenges.
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(published in: Jul, 2017)
On 11th of April 2017, Michela Ceccorulli, PhD, teaching at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Bologna, lectured the MIREES’ students on the tricky topic of the refugee crisis, focusing the attention on the position of Visegrad states.
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(published in: Jul, 2017)
On October 21th 2016, Sam Potolicchio, Distinguished Professor in Political and Social Communications at the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University, USA, and at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, in Moscow, Russia, held two MIREES Open lectures titled “How to become a wise decision maker in a complicated world” and “The Secrets to persuasion”.
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(published in: Apr, 2017)
After the end of the World War II the Russo-Japanese relations experienced many ups-and-downs. Today it is clear that the two countries are frankly trying to move on and strengthen their ties.
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(published in: Mar, 2017)
On December 14th 2016, Dora Komnenović, MAIA alumna and PhD Fellow at Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Justus-Liebig University in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), delivered an open lecture to MIREES students about episodes of book cleansing carried out both by Croatian and Slovenian libraries throughout the 1990s.
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(published in: Mar, 2017)
On October 7, 2016, professor Oleg Ivanovich Zaznaev (Kazan Federal University) held a workshop on “Constitutional and political manipulations in post-Soviet countries: the success and failure of ‘tricks’ of regimes”.
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(published in: Mar, 2017)
South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria. Nagono-Karabakh. De-facto states. Frozen conflicts. Most students of Eastern Europe know that these places exist and maybe a bit about the conflicts among the former Soviet republics that brought them into being, but our knowledge tends to end there, at the borders of these odd little territories.
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(published in: Jan, 2017)
Intimate Migrations is a project about the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender migrants from Central Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Former Soviet Union (FSU) in Scotland.
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(published in: Nov, 2016)
On October 9th Andrzej Wajda, the famous Polish film and theater director, died. He was known for his use of the cinema as an instrument for teaching ordinary people the truth about recent Polish history.
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(published in: Nov, 2016)
On the 29th of October 2016, at the premises of the Rectorate of the University of Sarajevo took place the 15th anniversary graduation Ceremony of the European Regional Master’s in Human Rights and Democracy in South East Europe. Widely known simply with its acronym, ERMA is a double degree programme by University of Sarajevo (CIS) and the University of Bologna (through the Institute for Central Eastern and Balkan Europe
IECOB), co-financed by the European Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy.
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(published in: Nov, 2016)
The final graduation ceremony of the MIREES program was held at the Salone Communale of the Municipality of Forli on the 23 of September 2016. The students of the 2014-2016 generation of the LM MIREES (Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe), awarding a joint diploma of the Universities of Bologna, St. Petersbourg State U., Vytautas Magnus at Kaunas and Corvinus U. of Budapest, celebrated the accomplishment of their two-years' degree.
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(published in: Oct, 2016)
From June 30 to July 2, 2016 Vytautas Magnus University hosted in Kaunas, Lithuania, the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) European conference titled «Europe, Nations, and Insecurity: Challenges to Identities».
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(published in: Oct, 2016)
From 12th to 17th September 2016 at the premises of the CEUB University Residential Center of Bertinoro in Santa Sofia, Italy, was held the 22nd CEI International Summer School ”Minorities, Kin-States and Territorial Cooperation.” The Summer School is the result of the long standing cooperation between CEI, University of Bologna and the Institute for Eastern Central and Balkan Europe (
IECOB).
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(published in: Sep, 2016)
From the 4th to 10th of July of 2016, the Transparency International School on Integrity (TISI), an annual state-of-the-art anti-corruption and accountability training for future leaders in Vilnius, Lithuania, took place.