University College London
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Senate House, Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
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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 Macedonia’s 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