Papers presented
David J Smith
Minority Cultural Autonomy in Estonia: Wholly Symbolic or Potentially Instrumental?, paper presented at the ESRC Project Seminar on National Minority Rights and Democratic Political Community: Approaches, Challenges and Perspectives, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca /Kolozsvár, 19-20 May 2017.
Practices and Challenges of National-Cultural Autonomy in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Federal Union of European Nationalities Annual Congress (Chair and Participant) – Cluj-Napoca /Kolozsvár, 19 May 2017.
The Quadratic Nexus in Action: Revisiting the Russia-Baltic Relationship, paper presented at the Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention, Columbia University – New York, 4-6 May 2017.
Minority Politics and Multinational Regions in the EU Borderland, paper presented at the EUCE Speakers Series public panel on Minority Politics and Kin-States in Multiethnic Regions, as part of the workshop Between the EU and Eurasia: Borders, Social Movements, and Shifting Identities, Montreal, McGill University, 29-30 September, 2016.
National-Cultural Autonomy in Ethnically Diverse Societies: Theoretical Approaches and Practical Challenges in Modern and Contemporary Europe, invited keynote address at the conference ‘Dependency and Autonomy in Intercultural Relations’, MINERVA Centre, University of Leipzig – Leipzig, 6-8 June 2016.
Opening Remarks and National Councils in Serbia, papers presented at the conference Non-Territorial National-Cultural Self-Government: The Ukrainian Perspective, Kuras Institute – Kyiv, 2-3 June 2016.
National-Cultural Autonomy Today: To What End and for Whom?, paper presented at the Association of the Study of Nationalities 21st Annual Convention, Columbia University – New York, 16 April 2016.
Ethnic Minority Activism in Europe from a Transnational Perspective, paper presented ((with Marina Germane and Martyn Housden) at the Association of the Study of Nationalities 21st Annual Convention, Columbia University – New York, 16 April 2016.
Why Remember Paul Schiemann?, invited keynote address at public seminar to mark the launch of Latvian and Russian-language translations of John Hiden’s work Defender of Minorities: Paul Schiemann 1876-1944, Riga City Council – Riga, 26 February 2016.
Restored Cultural Autonomy in Estonia? Reassessing the Nature and Origins of the 1993 NCA Law, paper presented at the 7th Annual CRCEES Research Forum – Glasgow, 4-5 June 2016.
Rise, Fall and Revival: A Century of Transethnic Coalition-Building in Europe, paper presented at the conference Trans-ethnic Coalition-Building within and across States, Uppsala University – Uppsala, 7-9 January 2015.
Across the Lines: Nationality Rights and National Autonomy between the Russian, German and Allied Conceptions. The Principle of Nationality during the First World War, paper presented at the Lithuanian Institute of History – Vilnius, 11-12 December 2014.
National-Cultural Autonomy and the Construction of Political Community: Insights from the Baltic, paper presented at the conference Partitionism, Minorities and Collective Identities in the Construction of a Europe of ‘Small’ Democracies, 1912-2012, University of Cambridge – Cambridge 25-26 September 2014.
Judit Molnar Sansum
Can the Roma Community Benefit from Nationality Self-Government in Hungary?, paper presented at the Conference National Minority Rights and Democratic Political Community: Approaches, Challenges and Perspectives, organised by the University of Glasgow and Babeş-Bolyai University – Cluj-Napoca / Kolozsvár, 19-20 May 2017.
Ethnic Diversity, Autonomy and Political Community in Central and Eastern Europe – Preliminary Results of the Romanian Case Study, paper presented at Rights in Diverse Societies: Gender, Migration and Ethnopolitics in the EU – Belfast, 18-19 November 2016.
Nemzetiségek, autonómia, és politikai közösségek Közép- és Kelet-Európában. A magyarországi helyzet [Nationalities, Autonomy and Political Community. The Hungarian Case Study], paper presented at the Institute for Minority Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, 30 August, 2016.
"Régi" és "új" kisebbségek (nemzetiségiek és bevándorlók) - Integráció és kultúrális autonómia [“Old” and “New” Minorities (nationalities and immigrants) – Integration and Cultural Autonomy], paper presented at the 8th National Hungarian Geography Conference] – Eger, 26-28 August 2016.
Practical Experiences of National-Cultural Self-Government in Central and Eastern Europe - The Hungarian Case, paper presented at the conference Non-Territorial National-Cultural Self-Government: The Ukrainian Perspective, Kuras Institute – Kyiv, 2-3 June 2016.
Ethnic diversity, Autonomy and Political Community in Central and Eastern Europe’ – the Hungarian case, paper presented at the 21st Annual World Convention of the Association for Study of Nationalities – New York, 14-16 April 2016.
The Practice of Minority National-Cultural Autonomy in Hungary: German and Roma National Self-governments in Baranya and Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén Counties, paper presented at the conference ‘Patterns of Integration of Old and New Minorities in a Europe of Complex Diversity’. Cluj / Kolozsvár, 8-9 October, 2015.
Intercultural Strategy of the Hungarian Roma – Convergences and Divergences of Geography in Europe, paper presented at the Fifth EUGEO Congress on the Geography of Europe – Budapest, 30 August-2 September 2015.
The Origins of National Cultural Autonomy in Hungary: supporting ethnic Hungarians abroad or promoting minorities in Hungary?, paper presented at the 7th Annual CRCEES Research Forum, University of Glasgow – Glasgow, 4-5 June, 2015.
Federica Prina
Russia’s National Cultural Autonomy: Multiplicity in Conformity, paper presented at the Conference National Minority Rights and Democratic Political Community: Approaches, Challenges and Perspectives, organised by the University of Glasgow and Babeş-Bolyai University – Cluj-Napoca//Kolozsvár, 19-20 May 2017.
Russia’s Non-Territorial National Cultural Autonomy and Minority ‘Voices’: Effective, Symbolic, or Other? paper presented at the 22nd Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University – New York, 4-6 May 2017.
Non-Territorial National Cultural Autonomy in Russia: Minority Voices or Non-Voices?, paper presented at the BASEES Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge – Cambridge, 31 March - 2 April 2017.
National Minorities' Institutions in Russia: National in Form, Putinist in Content, paper presented at the Cambridge Central Asia Forum Seminar Series, University of Cambridge – Cambridge, 11 November 2016.
Russia, National Cultural Autonomy and (A)Political Community, paper presented at the 21st Annual World Convention of the Association for Study of Nationalities, Columbia University – New York, 14-16 April 2016.
Practical Experiences of National-Cultural Autonomy: Estonia, paper presented at the conference Non-Territorial National Cultural Self-government: The Ukrainian Perspective, Kuras Institute – Kyiv, 2-3 June 2016.
Moldova: Soviet Legacies, the ‘State Language’ and Linguistic (In)justice, Conference ‘Russian Speakers in the Post-Soviet Space: Comparative Approaches’, organized by the University of Glasgow and the University of Tartu – Tartu, 8-9 October 2015.
Russia’s National Cultural Autonomy and Ethnic Federalism: Where Non-Territoriality Meets Territoriality, paper presented at the 9th ICCEES World Congress - Makuhari, Japan, 3-8 August 2015.
The Origins of National Cultural Autonomy in Russia: Equality of Opportunities or Assumptions of Sameness? 7th CRCEES (Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies), paper presented at the Annual Research Forum, University of Glasgow – Glasgow, 4-5 June 2015.
Combining Territoriality and Non‐Territorial National Cultural Autonomy: The Case of Russia’s Tatars, paper presented at the conference ‘New Modalities for Democratic Autonomy for Minorities that do not entail Dismembering States’, organised by Ankara University and Queen’s University Belfast – Ankara, 15-18 May 2015.
Russia’s National Cultural Autonomy: Real of Fictitious Participation?, paper presented at the conference National-Personal Autonomy, Non-Territorial Autonomy, Cultural Autonomy, University of Vienna – Vienna, 8-10 January 2015.
Territory and Conflicts: Law as a Solution? (Discussant), International symposium Law, Territory and Conflict Resolution, University of Verona – Verona, 21 November 2014.