University College London
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Senate House, Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
Telephone 44 (0)20-7862-8579
Fax 44 (0)20-7862-8640
E-mail: e.tahiraj@ssees.ucl.ac.uk - http://www.ssees.ac.uk
Nash Albanian Studies Programme organises
Albanian Studies postgraduate conference
May 25, 2005
Venue: School of Slavonic and East European Studies
21-22 Rusell Square, WC1E 7HU
Senior Common Room, Second Floor
Welcome 10.30-11.00
Director of SSEES, Professor George Kolankiewicz
The Ambassador of the Republic of Albania in the UK, HE Kastriot Robo
The Nash Albanian Studies Programme Eda Tahiraj
Politics and Identity 11.00 13.00
Chair: Bejtullah Destani
Discussion: 12.20-13.00
Nicola Guy (Durham University)
Fixing the Frontiers: Ethnography and the Albanian Boundary Commissions of 1913-1914
Hannah Marshall (SSEES)
Finding the words of the past and understanding them in the present: Memory, language, and Albanian identity in Anri Sala's Intervista
Ana Pavlovska(SSEES)
Sources of ethnic tensions in Macedonia and post- conflict
reconciliation
Timothy Less (Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
Engaging Macedonias Albanians - The view from the Foreign
Office
Lunch Break 13.00- 14.00
Migration 14.00- 15.30
Chair: Nicola Mai
Discussion: 15.00 15.30
Juli Vullnetari(Sussex)
Migration and development in Albania
Panos Hatziprokopiou (Middlesex)
Patterns and processes of Albanian immigrants' integration in Greece
Dimitris Dalakoglou(UCL)
Material Culture of Albanian Migration
Coffee Break 15.30 15.45
Urban Transformations and Life Style 15.45 17.15
Chair: Stephanie Schwander Sievers
Discussion: 16.45 17.15
Luan Deda (UCL)
Tirana urban changes
Rigels Halili (SSEES)
Changing of urban life in a small Albanian town
Gen Fujii (UCL)
Cars that create built environment: a case in Gjirokaster
Conclusions and suggestions for future research
Round Table 17.15 18.00
Chair: Peter Siani-Davies
Drinks
For further information please contact E.Tahiraj@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
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