Accepted papers

(The names of first/presenting author are shown).

Authors of accepted papers are kindly asked to register until 22nd of February by completing the Registration form.

1. Cultural Diversity and Social Capital

Chair: Dr. Adrian Hatos

• 1. Dr. Marius-Mircea Crișan, West University of Timisoara: Dracula and Oradea: The Image of the City in Bram Stoker’s Readings and in his Working Notes for the Novel

  2. Zinaida Feldman, City University London: Social Media and Cultural Diplomacy

  3. Dr. Calin Gurau (GSCM - Montpellier Business School) – Rares Crisan: Cultural Diversity and Social Integration in Higher Education Institutions: an Exploratory Study of French Business Schools

  4. Dr. Hatos Adrian, University of Oradea, How does Ethnic Composition Influence Social Capital? Models of Social Capital in Collectivities around the Hungarian-Romanian Border

  5. Didar Kassymova, KIMEP: The (re) Production of the Social Capital in the Post-soviet Kazakhstan:  a Case Study for the Korean Family

  6. Andrea Petres, PhD candidate, Budapest Corvinus University: Ethnic Interest Networks in the Transylvanian Academia. The case of the “Hungarian University” in Romania

  7. Dr. Tudor Pitulac, Petre Andrei University of Iasi – Adriana, Bondor, Petre Andrei University of Iasi: Social Capital Within the Limits of Communitarian Bonds

  8. Diana Radut-Seliste, Unic. Of Craiova: The Romanian Orthodox Church’s Contribution to Local Stocks of Social Capital in Dolj and Gorj Counties

  9.  Sorana Săveanu – Tomina Săveanu, PhD candidates, University of Oradea: Ethnic Diversity and Social Trust

  10. Marius Tatar, University of Oradea: Ethnic Diversity, Strategic Mobilization and Electoral Participation: The Case of Romanian Parliamentary Elections of 2008

  11.  Riina Tõugu, Phd student, Tallinn University: Social Trust of the Minority – Institutions, Inequality or Interaction?

  12. Dr. Artur Lakatos, George Baritiu Academic Institute, Cluj-Napoca: National Identity and Economic life: Romanian, Hungarian and Saxon Capital in the Banks of Cluj, 1944-1948

2. Qualitative Methods in the Research on European, National and Regional Identity

Chair: Dr. Bögre Zsuzsanna, Bernáth Krisztina

• 1. Dr. Dariusz Wojakowski, University of Scences and Technology, Kraków: Europe – Region – Town: Cultural Roots in Narrations at Southern Polish Borderland

  2. Dr. Gheorghe Şişeştean, University of Oradea: Inter-Religious Marriages and Identity Constructions in the End of the 19th Century in Transylvania (the case of Şimleu Silvaniei town)

  3. Dr. Rozália Klára Bakó, Sapientia University – Szigety Tünde, PhD candidate, University of Bucharest: Threatened Identities: Mobbing as a Form of Violence in Organizations

  4. Dr. Ştefan Gaie, University of Oradea: The New Public Art

  5. Dr. Teofil-Ioan Stiop, Universitatea din Oradea: Proiectul Border(less). Arta video și problematica identității în contextul chestionării conceptului de graniță

  6. Dr.Bögre Zsuzsanna, Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem, Budapest: Biographies and Identity  Construction

  7. Krisztina Bernáth, PhD candidate, Partium Christian University:  Local identity in Multiethnic  Cross-Border Area

  8. Mihaela-Lucia Ion, PhD candidate, University Valahia, Targoviste: The Cultural Identities of  a Work of Art

  9. Monica Stroe: Heterorepresentations of Saxonness and their political meanings in Transylvania

  10. Sándor Kőmüves, University of Debrecen: Identity in the Context of Severe Dementia

  11. Miruna Troncota, (SNSPA) National School for Political and Administrative Studies: The Western Balkans revisited – An Island of “Otherness” in Europe? Building Identity in an Era of Post Identity

3. Social identity and Well-being

Chair: Dr. Sergiu Bălţătescu

• 1. Andras Csaba Gyorbiro, Partium Christian University, Political Turning Points And Changes in Social Identity in Hungary Between 1914-1919

  2. Claudia Oşvat, University of Oradea: Support Networks for Parents With Disabled Children: the Influence on Their Well-being

  3. Delia Stefenel, University of Western Macedonia, Greece: Subjective Well-being and Acculturation Among Romanian Immigrants in Greece

  4. Dr. Győző Pék, University of Debrecen, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Psychology: Identity and Meaning of Life in Geriatric Care

  5. Elena Simeonova, UNWE, Department of Political Science: The Well-being of “Think-ademic” Identity: The Bulgarian Think-tank Experts v/s Academics

  6. Katarzyna Hamer, Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Science: Social identities and well-being in Poland

  7. Laura Nistor, Sapientia University Cluj-Napoca, Department of Social Sciences: Inferring us From Others – Turning us Towards Others. Self-transcendence Values in Hungary and Romania on the Basis of the European Social Survey’s PVQ module

  8. Mihail Chiru, PhD candidate, Central European University: Spinning the European Wheel: Welfare, Democracy, and Identity Layers Among the EU Citizens

  9. Nadezhda Zamyatina, Moscow State University, Dep. for Geography: Social identity as a Factor of a City Sustainable Development

  10. Orlando Pandolfi, Foundation ECN, NGO: Strengthening Identity: Tourism and Local Heritage for Empowerment The Cases of Easter Island in Chile and Lunigiana in Italy

  11. Petra Vagyi, University of Debrecen, Psychology Institute: What Makes Healthy Adults Healthy?

  12. Schifirneţ Constantin, National School of Political Science and Administrative Studies: The Europeanization of National Identity Through the Media in Society of Tendential Modernity

  13. Sergiu Baltatescu, University of Oradea: National Pride and Identification and Subjective Well-Being in a Romanian/Hungarian Neighboring Region.

  14. Victor Nicolaescu, Faculty of History, University of Bucharest: The European Identity of Welfare and the Economic Crisis

4. Identities, Representations and Prejudices

Chair: Dr. István Murányi

1.       Alena Chudžíková, Comenius University, Slovakia: Representations of National Identity in the Political Discourse in Slovakia

2.       Dr. Eric Weaver, The South Slav Journal: The Social Psychology of Radical Nationalism: Ramifications of International Research on the Study of Hungary's Extreme Right

3.       Dr. Istvan Muranyi, University of Debrecen: The National Attitudes and Prejudices in Eastern Hungary

4.       Dr. Leslie Laczko, University of Ottawa: Local, National And Continental Attachments:   North America and Europe Compared

5.       Dr. Melinda Dinca, West University of Timisoara: The Construction of Social Identity

6.       Dr. Mikhail Suslov, Russian Institute for Cultural Research: Geopolitical Visions and Identity-Making in Late Imperial Russia in Comparative Perspective, 1880-1917

7.       Dr. Serban Olah – Dr. Gavril Flora, Partium Christian University: Identity Construction and Religiosity in Roma Communities living in the Border Region of Romania and Hungary

8.       Flórián Sipos, University of Debrecen: "St. Stephen with arms tied behind his back" - On the world view of the National Army of Guardsmen Heritage Protectional and Civil Guard Organization

9.       Julia Lectorova, Perm State University: Political Symbolism of European Union as a Practice of Creating Identity

10.   Raul Carstocea, University College London: The Role of Anti-Semitism in the Ideology of the ‘Legion of the Archangel Michael’ – A Psychoanalytic Interpretation

11.   Teodora Popa, University of Oradea: Ethnic Identity and Prejudices

12.   Zsuzsa Plainer, ISPMN (The Romanian Institute for Researching National MInority Issues), Cluj-Napoca: From a Working Class Area to a “Gypsy Block of Flats” – Prejudices and Territorial Stigma in a Romanian Urban Ghetto

5. Identity and the Idea of Europe as Philosophical Problems 

Chair: Dr. Éva Biró-Kaszás, Dr. Tamás Valastyán

German Section:

• 1. Dr. Albina Mikhaleva, Institute of Philosophy and Law (The Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Branch): Zum Problem der Identität im europäisch-muslimischen Gedanken: Tariq Ramadan

  2. Dr. Brigitta Balogh, Partium Christian University, Oradea: Das Ideal der Freiheit und das Problem der Wahl der Identitaet

  3. Dr. Florica Stefanescu, Universitatea din Oradea – Teodora Eissler, Realschule Horb: Siebenbürgen als ein „kleines Europa“

  4. Dr. László Levente Balogh, University of Debrecen: Identitäten im politischen Opferdiskurs

  5. Dr. Nino Popiashvili, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi state University, Georgia: Postsowjetische Kulturidentitet und Europeische Discurse

  6. Dr. Tamás Valastyán, University of Debrecen: EUROPA-REDEN. Kants, Novalis’ und Nietzsches Vorschläge zur Interpretation von Europa

English Section:

• 1. Dr. Attila Pató, University of New York:  A little Great Nation

  2. Dr. Dan Patroc, University of Oradea: Is There Such a Thing as European Philosophy today? Some Possible Answers

  3. Dr. Daniela Maci, University of Oradea: East European Identity Versus West European Identity

  4. Dr. Éva Biro-Kaszás, University of Debrecen: Arendt on Narrative Identity

  5. Dr. Gábor Kovács, Institute for Philosophical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences: America and Europe – Different Modernities, Different Identities?

  6. Dr. Gabriela Goudenhooft, University of Oradea: Rethinking the European Identity

  7. Dr. Yaroslav Pasko, Donetsk State Unversity of Management: On the Specificity of Values Life in Ukraine.The Problem of European Heritage in Post-Soviet World

  8. Teodor Negru, Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi: Cultural Identity and Globalization

  9. Emilia Świętochowska, Jagiellonian Univeristy: Bonds of Transnational Solidarity vs. Cultural Diversity. Perspectives on European Citizenship as Common Political Identity.

6. Levels of identity: Europe, Nation, Region

Chair: Dr. Attila Demeter, Zoltán Zakota

1. Dr. Sinkwan Cheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong: “Deutsche Kultur” versus European Civilization: Nationalism and Translation in Europe in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century 

2. Dr. Gusztáv Molnár, Partium Christian University, Oradea: Identity Formation in a European Border Area 

3. Laura Parkkinen, PhD candidate, University of Turku, Finland: Building up identity: La France and EU in the Speeches of Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal 

4. Dr. Márton-Attila Demeter, Babeş-Bolyai University: Aspects of National identity 

5. Attila-Gyula Kiss, Partium Christian University: Theories of Language Ideology and Their Applicability in the Study of Identity, Multilingualism and Minority Languages in East Central Europe 

6. Dr. Gennadii Korzhov, Donetsk State University: Regional Identity in the Making of Regions as Sociopolitical Spaces: The Case of Donbas 

7. Jiří Krejčík, Charles University, Prague: Building European identity: India as a model? 

8. Dr. Béla Mester, College of Nyíregyháza: Can be a Political Community Rational under Conditions of the Late Modernity? Today’s World Crisis as a test of the European Identity 

9. Mariya Nazukina, Perm state university: The European discourse in regional identity in Russia 

10. Nadiya Trach, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy": Language Policy in Contemporary Ukraine: National Identity vs. Multilingualism 

11. Dr. Lucie Tunkrova, Fatih University: Constructing Identities: Turkey and the European Union 

12. Zoltán Zakota, Partium Christian University: The Nation State vs. EU and the Regions

7. Institutions and Identity 

Chair: Dr. István Bujalos, Beáta Kassai

• 1. Alina Alexandra Bot, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany: Effects of EU Minority  Protection Conditionality on Romania

  2. Burcu    Diraor, Prime Ministry State Planning Organisation: Role of Diaspora Politics in Preserving the National Identity Abroad: Case for Turkish Diaspora in Europe 

  3. Dr. Asta Maskaliunaite, Baltic Defence College: Hierarchies of identities in a Stateless Nation Community. Case of Spanish Basque Country

  4. Dr. Bogdan Lucian Jora, The Academy of Romania: Cultural Diplomacy Trough the Representation of National History - Aspects from a Research Agenda

  5. Dr. Dragoş Dărăbăneanu, University of Oradea: Influence of Social Institutions on Public Opinion

  6. Dr. Gizella Horváth, Partium Christian University: European Identity and the Presence of Religious Symbols in Schools

  7. Dr. Istvan Bujalos, University of Debrecen: Institutions and Identity. How the Principles for Institutions are to be Applied?

  8. Dr. László Nemes, University of Debrecen: Salons, Cafés and Pubs: The European Tradition of Doing Philosophy in Public

  9. Dr. Robert D. Reisz, West University Timisoara: Academic Identity and Neo-liberal Higher Education Reform

  10. Mrs. Beáta Kassainé Sólyom, PhD student, University of Debrecen: Experience of alterity and the Role of Language in Multiculturalism

  11. Tamás Mezei, Debrecen University: Free Using of the Own Body

  12. Tina Gažovičová, Comenius University, Bratislava:  Ethnic Nations and the Integration of Immigrants in Education

Contributed Papers

• 1. Alexandru Boboc-Cojocaru, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University Iasi: The Pomaks: A Case Study of Identity Formation in South-East Europe

  2. Burcu Diraor, Prime Ministry State Planning Organisation: Role of Diaspora Politics in Preserving the National Identity Abroad: Case for Turkish Diaspora in Europe

  3. Daniela Lames,  PhD candidate, I.I.S.D. Academy of Sciences of Moldova: The Balance of Citizenship and Globalization in The European Union

  4. Dr. Andrea Müller-Fabian,  Babeş-Bolyai University, The well-being of Female Inmates

  5. Dr. Cristi Iftene, Ovidius University of Constanta: Ethnic  Autonomy: Between Preserving Cultural Rights and National Suveranity

  6. Dr. Cristina Matiuta, University of Oradea: Education as a Tool for Building the European Identity: Considerations on European Dimension of Romanian Educational System (or> section 2?)

  7. Dr. Gavriş Aurora, University of Oradea , Wiews on Migration / Well-being in Romanian Public Discourse

  8. Dr. Gheorghe Dejeu, univ. Oradea: Ecumenism or Schism

  9. Dr. Lioara Coturbaş, University of Oradea: Masked Identities in Mircea Eliade’s The Forbidden Forest

  10. Dr. Simona Obreja, University Complutense de Madrid, Spain: Citizenship in national and European dimensions

  11. Dr. Sorin Vlad Predescu, West University of Timisoara: Social Regeneration and Social Capital   when mainstream it’s not enough

  12. Loredana Radu, National School of Political and Administrative Studies - College of Communication and Public Relations: European Identity, Public Sphere, and the Community of Communication. An Analysis of the Romanian Mass Media Discourse on EU Affairs

  13. Mihaela Ciobanu Grasu, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University Iași, Doctoral School: Social Capital in Inclusive Education

  14. Nicolae Dinu, National School of Political and Administrative Studies Bucharest: The Church in the European public space - from identity discourse to inter-religious reconciliation

1. Sebastian Nastuta, "Petre Andrei" University of Iasi: The Impact of a New Religious Identity on Well-Being