08.30 – 12.00 Registration
09.00 – 10.15 Opening of the conference. Welcome and introduction
10.15 – 10.30 Morning tea / Coffee break
10.30 – 12.00 Plenary session 1
12.00 – 12.15 Midday tea / Coffee break
12.15 – 13.30 Plenary session 2
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 16.30 Parallel section 1
16.30 – 17.00 Afternoon tea / Coffee break
17.00 – 17.45 Plenary session 3
17.45 – 18.00 Break
18.00 – 20.00 Parallel section 2
20 – Conference Gala Dinner
Saturday 26.03.2011
08.30 – 12.00 Registration
09.00 – 11.00 Parallel section 3
11.00 – 11.30 Morning tea / Coffee break
11.30 – 13.30 Plenary session 4
13.30 – 13.45 Closing of conference
13.45 – 14.45 Lunch
15.15 – A guided walk to the historical Centre of Oradea
Friday, 25th of March 2011
Moderator: Hatos Adrian
10.30-11.15
Örkény Antal - Székelyi Mária, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest: Diasporas along the Eastern Borderland of Europe
11.15-12.00
Alexander Chvorostov - Natalia Waechter, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna: ENRI-East: Moving People - Moving Borders. Interplay of European, National and Regional Identities of Trans-Boundary Ethnic Groups in Central and Eastern Europe
Moderator: Biró-Kaszás Éva, Bălţătescu Sergiu
12.15-12.45
Vajda Mihály, Eszterházy Károly Főiskola, Eger: European Identity and Nationalism
12.45-13.30
David Bartram, University of Leicester, United Kingdom: Migration, Identity, and Happiness
Moderator: Hatos Adrian
17.00-17.45
György Csepeli - Gergő Prazsák, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest: New authoritarianism
Saturday, 26th of March 2011
Moderator: Bălţătescu Sergiu, Biró-Kaszás Éva
11.30-12.10
Don Kalb, University of Utrecht, Netherlands & Central European University, Budapest: Must the EU destroy itself? On finance, demos and ethnos in the new old Europe.
12.10-12.50
Losoncz Alpár, University of Novi Sad: Do the European identity-patterns change our perception of identity?
12.50-13.30
Vasile Muscă, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca - Partium Christian University, Oradea: The problem of a national philosophy
Chair: Hatos Adrian
Friday, 14.30-16.30, Saturday, 09.00-11.00
Room: Bordeaux
Chairs: Bögre Zsuzsanna, Bernáth Krisztina
Friday, 14.30-16.30, 18.00-20.00
Room: Madera
Chair: Bălţătescu Sergiu
Friday, 18.00-20.00, Saturday, 09.00-11.00
Room: Piemonte
Chair: Murányi István, Leslie Laczko
Friday, 14.30-16.30, 18.00-20.00
Room: Toscana
Chair: Biró-Kaszás Éva, Tamás Valastyán
Friday, 14.30-16.30
Room: Piemonte
Saturday, 09.00-11.00
Room: Porto, Madera
Chair: Demeter Attila, Zakota Zoltán
Friday, 18.00-20.00
Room: Bordeaux
Saturday, 09.00-11.00
Room: Toscana
Chair: Bujalos István, Kassai Beáta
Friday, 14.30-16.30, Saturday, 09.00-11.00
Room: Porto
Chair: Hatos Adrian
Room: Bordeaux
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
Dr. Călin Gurău (GSCM - Montpellier Business School) – Rareş Crişan: Cultural Diversity and Social Integration in Higher Education Institutions: an Exploratory Study of French Business Schools
Dr. Hatos Adrian, University of Oradea, How does Ethnic Composition Influence Social Capital? Models of Social Capital in Collectivities around the Hungarian-Romanian Border
Andrea Petres, PhD candidate, Budapest Corvinus University: Ethnic Interest Networks in the Transylvanian Academia. The case of the “Hungarian University” in Romania
Dr. Tudor Piţulac - Adriana Bondor, Petre Andrei University of Iaşi: Social Capital Within the Limits of Communitarian Bonds
Room: Bordeaux
Sorana Săveanu – Tomina Săveanu, PhD candidates, University of Oradea: Ethnic Diversity and Social Trust
Marius Tătar, University of Oradea: Ethnic Diversity, Strategic Mobilization and Electoral Participation: The Case of Romanian Parliamentary Elections of 2008
Riina Tõugu, Phd student, Tallinn University: Social Trust of the Minority – Institutions, Inequality or Interaction?
Dr. Artur Lakatos, George Bariţiu Academic Institute, Cluj-Napoca: National Identity and Economic life: Romanian, Hungarian and Saxon Capital in the Banks of Cluj, 1944-1948
Chairs: Bögre Zsuzsanna, Bernáth Krisztina
Room: Madera
Dr. Dariusz Wojakowski, University of Scences and Technology, Kraków: Europe – Region – Town: Cultural Roots in Narrations at Southern Polish Borderland
Dr. Ştefan Gaie, University of Oradea: The New Public Art
Mihaela-Lucia Ion, PhD candidate, University Valahia, Targoviste: The Cultural Identities of a Work of Art
Dr. Teofil-Ioan Stiop, Universitatea din Oradea: The Border(less) project. The Video Art and the problems of identity in the context of interrogating the border concept
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
Dr.Bögre Zsuzsanna, Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem, Budapest: Biographies and Identity Construction
Room: Madera
Dr. Rozália Klára Bakó, Sapientia University – Szigety Tünde, PhD candidate, University of Bucharest: Threatened Identities: Mobbing as a Form of Violence in Organizations
Monica Stroe, National School of Political Sciences and Public Administration Bucharest (SNSPA): Heterorepresentations of Saxonness and their political meanings in Transylvania
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)
Sándor Kőmüves, University of Debrecen: Identity in the Context of Severe Dementia
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
Székedi Levente - Mátyási Rita, Partium Christian University: Regional Identity in Public Discourses
Krisztina Bernáth, PhD candidate, University of Bucharest - Partium Christian University: Local identity in Multiethnic Cross-Border Area
3. Social identity and well-being
Chair: Bălţătescu Sergiu
Room: Piemonte
András Csaba Györbiró, Partium Christian University: Political Turning Points And Changes in Social Identity in Hungary Between 1914-1919
Claudia Oşvat, University of Oradea: Support Networks for Parents With Disabled Children: the Influence on Their Well-being
Delia Ştefenel, University of Western Macedonia, Greece: Subjective Well-being and Acculturation Among Romanian Immigrants in Greece
Dr. Győző Pék, University of Debrecen, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Psychology: Identity and Meaning of Life in Geriatric Care
Katarzyna Hamer, Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Science, Institute of Psychology, Chodkowska University of Management and Law, Warsaw, Poland: Social identities and well-being in Poland
Schifirneţ Constantin, National School of Political Science and Administrative Studies: The Europeanization of National Identity Through the Media in Society of Tendential Modernity
Room: Piemonte
Laura Nistor, Sapientia University Cluj-Napoca, Department of Social Sciences – Petru Iluţ, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca: 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
Mihail Chiru, PhD candidate, Central European University - Sergiu Gherghina, Leiden University: Spinning the European Wheel: Welfare, Democracy, and Identity Layers Among the EU Citizens
Orlando Pandolfi, Foundation ECN, NGO: Strengthening Identity: Tourism and Local Heritage for Empowerment The Cases of Easter Island in Chile and Lunigiana in Italy
Petra Vagyi - Judit Molnár, University of Debrecen, Psychology Institute: What Makes Healthy Adults Healthy?
Victor Nicolaescu, Faculty of History, University of Bucharest: The European Identity of Welfare and the Economic Crisis
Sergiu Bălţătescu, University of Oradea: National Pride and Identification and Subjective Well-Being in a Romanian/Hungarian Neighboring Region.
4. Identities, representations and prejudices
Chair: Murányi István, Leslie Laczko
Room: Toscana
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. István Murányi, 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. Melinda Dinca, West University of Timisoara: The Construction of Social Identity
Room: Toscana
Dr. Şerban Olah, University of Oradea – Dr. Gavril Flóra, Partium Christian University: Identity Construction and Religiosity in Roma Communities living in the Border Region of Romania and Hungary
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
Julia Lectorova, Perm State University: Political Symbolism of European Union as a Practice of Creating Identity
Teodora Popa, University of Oradea: Ethnic Identity and Prejudices
Zsuzsa Plainer, ISPMN (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
Chair: Biró-Kaszás Éva, Tamás Valastyán
Room: Piemonte
Dr. Attila Pató, University of New York: A little Great Nation
Dr. Dan Patroc, University of Oradea: Is There Such a Thing as European Philosophy today? Some Possible Answers
Dr. Daniela Maci, University of Oradea: East European Identity Versus West European Identity
Dr. Gábor Kovács, Institute for Philosophical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences: America and Europe – Different Modernities, Different Identities?
Dr. Éva Biró-Kaszás, University of Debrecen: Arendt on Narrative Identity
Room: Porto
English Section II:
Dr. Gabriela Goudenhooft, University of Oradea: Rethinking the European Identity
Dr. Yaroslav Pasko, Donetsk State University of Management: On the Specificity of Values Life in Ukraine. The Problem of European Heritage in Post-Soviet World
Teodor Negru, Al. I. Cuza University of Iaşi: Cultural Identity and Globalization
Emilia Świętochowska, Jagiellonian University: Bonds of Transnational Solidarity vs. Cultural Diversity. Perspectives on European Citizenship as Common Political Identity.
Room: Madera
German Section:
Dr. Florica Ştefănescu, Universitatea din Oradea – Teodora Eissler, Realschule Horb: Siebenbürgen als ein „kleines Europa“
Dr. László Levente Balogh, University of Debrecen: Identitäten im politischen Opferdiskurs
Dr. Nino Popiashvili, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi state University, Georgia: Postsowjetische Kulturidentitet und Europeische Discurse
Dr. Tamás Valastyán, University of Debrecen: EUROPA-REDEN. Kants, Novalis’ und Nietzsches Vorschläge zur Interpretation von Europa
Dr. Brigitta Balogh, Partium Christian University, Oradea: Das Ideal der Freiheit und das Problem der Wahl der Identitaet
Chair: Demeter Attila, Zakota Zoltán
Room: Bordeaux
Dr. Gusztáv Molnár, Partium Christian University, Oradea: Identity Formation in a European Border Area
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
Laura Parkkinen, PhD candidate, University of Turku, Finland: Building up identity: La France and EU in the Speeches of Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal
Dr. Márton-Attila Demeter, Babeş-Bolyai University: Aspects of National identity
Dr. Gennadii Korzhov, Donetsk State University of Informatics and Artificial Intelligence: Regional Identity in the Making of Regions as Sociopolitical Spaces: The Case of Donbas
Room: Toscana
Jiří Krejčík, Charles University, Prague: Building European identity: India as a model?
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
Nadiya Trach, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy": Language Policy in Contemporary Ukraine: National Identity vs. Multilingualism
Zoltán Zakota, Partium Christian University: The Nation State vs. EU and the Regions
Chair: Bujalos István, Kassainé Sólyom Beáta
Room: Porto
Alina Alexandra Bot, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany: Effects of EU Minority Protection Conditionality on Romania
Dr. Asta Maskaliunaite, Baltic Defence College: Hierarchies of identities in a Stateless Nation Community. Case of Spanish Basque Country
Dr. Bogdan Lucian Jora, The Academy of Romania: Cultural Diplomacy Trough the Representation of National History - Aspects from a Research Agenda
Dr. Dragoş Dărăbăneanu, University of Oradea: Influence of Social Institutions on Public Opinion
Dr. Gizella Horváth, Partium Christian University: European Identity and the Presence of Religious Symbols in Schools
Room: Porto
Dr. István Bujalos, University of Debrecen: Institutions and Identity. How the Principles for Institutions are to be Applied?
Dr. László Nemes, University of Debrecen: Salons, Cafés and Pubs: The European Tradition of Doing Philosophy in Public
Dr. Robert D. Reisz, West University Timişoara: Academic Identity and Neo-liberal Higher Education Reform
Beáta Kassainé Sólyom, PhD student, University of Debrecen: Experience of Alterity and the Role of Language in Multiculturalism
Tamás Mezei, Debrecen University: Free Using of the Own Body