Conference Programme
PSA Specialist Group Ethnopolitics, IPSA Research Committee Politics and Ethnicity, & ESRC Project Exclusion amid Inclusion: Power-Sharing and Non-Dominant Minorities
Political Representation in Divided Societies
Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent
Brussels, 15-16 November 2018
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Thursday, 15 November (Lecture room 1)
09.00 COFFEE, REGISTRATION
09.15 Opening remarks by Timofey Agarin and Welcome by Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels, Director of BSIS
09.30-11.15 Panel: Political Leadership in Divided Societies Chair Allison McCulloch
Manufacturing tolerance? Political discourse, electoral campaigns and the expression of inclusive, pro-minority views
Mr Mihail Chiru Catholic University of Louvain
Power-Shifting in Divided Societies: Non-Titular Leadership in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Moldova Compared
Ms Deanna Soloninka University of Edinburgh
Unwanted minorities – normalization of relations as borders adjustment between Serbia and Kosovo
Mr Stefan Surlic University of Belgrade
Personality and territory arrangements in Belgium: reserved seats and descriptive representation in Brussels regional parliament
Mr Régis Dandoy University of Ghent and Ms Chloé Janssen Vrije Universiteit Brussel
11.15 COFFEE BREAK
11.30-13.00 Panel: Consociations and Control Chair Aleksandra Zdeb
Lebanon’s Corporate Consociation: Peace for Some, Exclusion for Others
Mr Drew Mikhael Queens University Belfast
Acculturation Attitudes of the State and the Question of Social Exclusion of the Romani Minority in Macedonia
Ms Iva Dodevska Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
Rejecting ethnic identity through the census: The case of Bosnian civic campaigns
Mr Laurence Cooley University of Birmingham
From Pillars to Verticals of Power: Are Consociations Plagued by Political Clientelism?
Mr Timofey Agarin Queen’s University Belfast
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.30 Political Representation and its Challenges Chair Timofey Agarin
Ethnicity Matters: Theorizing the Specificity of Ethnic Conflict and Violence
Mr Alexandre Raffoul swisspeace/University of Basel
What’s vital about vital interests? Veto rights and minority protections in consociational settings
Ms Allison McCulloch, Brandon University
The Role of Minority (or Community) Rights Legislation in Addressing Exclusion in the Western Balkans
Ms Elizabeth Craig University of Sussex
Is there Political change afoot in Northern Ireland: A critical evaluation of Power-Sharing of Sinn fein and the Democratic Unionist Party
Mr Callum McNeill-Keay Liverpool Hope University
15.30 COFFEE BREAK
15.45-16.45 Keynote Ms Joanne McEvoy, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
‘Taking Stock of Power-Sharing Research: Where Next?’
[18.00 CONFERENCE DINNER: Le Quartier Latin, 212 Boulevard Général Jacques, 1050 Ixelles]
Friday, 16 November (Auditorium)
09.00 COFFEE
09.15-10.45 Panel: Political Parties and Political Representation Chair Drew Mikhael
Ideology and Party System Change in Consociational Systems: The Case of Non-nationalist Parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mr Soeren Keil Canterbury Christ Church University
How can power be shared with micro-minorities?
Ms Aleksandra Zdeb University of Graz & Queens University Belfast
Trying to fit in BiH and Macedonia. Representing non-ethnic communities in ethnic politics
Ms Arianna Piacentini CAS SEE University of Rijeka
Europeanizing the party politics of minority - kin-state relations
Mr Patrick Utz University of Edinburgh
11.00 Closing Remarks (Allison McCulloch)
[12.00-14.00 EAI Business meeting (organisers only)]