Int Conf on YU - Bradford - detailed programme

Wed Mar 22 00:20:47 UTC 2000

Apologies for the large cross-posting

Below is the final draft of the International Conference on Yugoslavia at
Bradford University this coming weekend.

Some seminars/workshops will surely change in minor ways - the broad programme
is fixed.

Registration at this stage is best performed at the door - prices are £20 waged
and £8 unwaged.

Other events are taking place over the weekend - including a film and vigil -
see next mail message.
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The Yugoslav Crisis: International Responses and the Way Forward

 University of Bradford
25-26 March 2000

Draft Timetable

Saturday

0930 Registration and Coffee

1030 Plenary

Welcome speech: Deputy Lord Mayor of Bradford

Keynote Speakers: Father Sava, Decani Monastery, Kosovo; Paul Oestreicher, International Consultant, Coventry Cathedral, Stephen Henthorne, Defense Studies Foundation; Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times

1200 Seminars/Workshops

a) Strategic and International Issues: The Road to Kosovo

Chair: Tom Gallagher, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford

Alex Bellamy
Department of International Politics, University of Aberystwyth
The Path(s) to Peace? Reassessing the Kosovo Settlements

John Allcock
Research Unit in South East European Studies, University of Bradford
Rural ressentiment and the break-up of Yugoslavia

Zoran Lakic
University of  Montenegro, Yugoslavia
Breaking or Disintegration of Yugoslavia?

b) The Aid and NGO Response

Dragica Milinkovic
Centre for Advanced Legal Studies, Belgrade
Civil Society, Civil Disobedience and NGOs in Serbia

Sanja Cosic
Danas
The Yugoslav Independent Media: the impact of NATO bombing and survival

David Chandler
Leeds Metropolitan University
The Lessons of Bosnia

c) Challenging Nationalism 1

Chair: John Allcock, RUSEES, University of Bradford

Dennis Browne
Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, USA
Cultures of Deliberation and Expediency: an alternative to the nationalist paradigm

Ana Devic
Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, USA
The Multilayered Amnesia of Yugoslavia's Breakdown: Social Sciences Troubled Vision of Nationalism

1330 Lunch

1430 Seminars/Workshops

a) Strategic and International Issues 2: International Perspectives

Chair: Dr Phil Wright, University of Sheffield and Sheffield Committee for Peace in the Balkans

Dragan Simeunovic
Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade
Kosovo War in Yugoslavia: State and Perspective

Luca Ratti
Centre for European Studies, University of Southampton
NATO Enlargement to the Balkans: The View from Rome

Ekaterina Stepanova
Moscow Centre, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Russia in the Kosovo Crisis

b) Strategic and International Issues 3: Implications

Wim van Meurs
Centre for Applied Policy Research, University of Munich
The Stability Pact: European Ideals and Regional Realities

Chad Staddon
Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol
Militarism and Nature at the Millennium: the environmental consequences of the 1999 NATO campaign in FRY

Zoran Kusovac
Sentinel Regional Security Assessment, Janes
Disintegration, Division, Integration: Strategic Prospects for Balkans States and Sub-State Entities

c) Direct Aid and Community Development

Anya Hart
IVS/Balkan Sunflowers

Denis Rustovitz
Chairman, Edinburgh Direct Aid
Success and Failure in Rebuilding Shattered Communities in Bosnia and Kosovo
d) Peace Activism

Chair: Alan Brooke, West Yorkshire Committee for Peace in the Balkans

Dick Withecombe, Greater Manchester Committee for Peace in the Balkans

Dick Pitt, Sheffield Committee for Peace in the Balkans

Nigel Chamberlain, Press and Information Officer, CND National

Green Party representative

e) Challenging Nationalism 2: Media

Irena Ristic
University of Passau
Western media and NATO's Yugoslav War

Bob Jiggins
Research Unit in South East European Studies, University of Bradford
Truth and Reality: the Media War in the West

Sanja Pecujlic-Mastilovic
BKCW Mental Health Trust, London
'Disposable Identities: A personal account of media formation of national identity'

1600 Coffee

1630 Plenary and Panel Discussion

Respondents

Alexsandar Lopasic, Stephen Henthorne

1730 Closing Remarks

2000 Theatre Production '...is normal!', Bradford Alhambra Studio Theatre

2200 Music and Dancing, Small Hall, Richmond Building

Sunday

1000 Plenary with Keynote Speakers

Felicity Arbuthnot, Journalistt; Bob Marshall Andrews MP QC;  Larry Hollingsworth, former Head of UNHCR, Bosnia

1130 Seminars/Workshops

a) Economic Issues

Chair: Marko Milivojevic, RUSEES, University of Bradford

Boris Young
USA
An Emerging Political Crisis: Self-management and Market Reform in Yugoslavia During the Early 1980s

Margaret Cobble
University of Plymouth, UK
Bosnia: neo-liberal development Strategies and Consequences for Economic and Human Development

Phil Wright
University of Sheffield
The Effects of Sanctions on Yugoslavia

b)  Municipalities and Peace-Building

Chair: Ted Brown, Projects Manager,  City of Bradford Council

Peter Redfern, External Liaison Manager, City of Bradford Council

Marija Caric
Association of Free Cities and Municipalities, Yugoslavia

Diana Beckley, Norfolk and Norwich  Novi Sad Association

Gordana Ciric
University of Novi Sad
Universities in Serbia: Status during the Crisis and a View towards the Future

c) Environment 1: General Environmental Impacts of the War

Chair: Dr. Chad Staddon

Pekka Haavisto
UNEP, Geneva
The Joint UNEP/UNCHS(Habitat) Balkans Task Force

Richard Clarke, Marija Anteric
Birkbeck College and Kings College, University of London
Conflict and Environment in the Former Yugoslavia

Radoje Lausevic
Serbian Ecological Society, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
The Environmental Effect of NATO<?PC850(146)>s War

d) Conflict Prevention and Reconciliation

Chair: Dr. Andrew Rigby, University of Coventry

David Steele
Centre for Strategic & International Studies, Washington
Religious Communitites' Role in Conflict Prevention and Resolution

Svetlana Kijevcanin
Group MOST/Centre for Anti-War Action, Belgrade

1300 Lunch

1400 Seminars/Workshops

b) Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Dusan Ignatovic, YUCOM, Belgrade
Draft Evaders and Deserters

Beth Logan

c) Environment 2: Post-War Environmental Reconstruction

Chair: Dr. Chad Staddon

Jennifer Braswell
Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe, Hungary
The REC's Involvement in Balkan Reconstruction

Valentina Mileusnic Vucic
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Environment Issues in the Context of Economic Sanctions Against Yugoslavia and War Destruction

Catherine Euler
CADU, UK
Depleted Uranium and the Kosovo War

d) Women and Peacework

Jane Gregory
Women's Aid to former Yugoslavia

Pat Sanchez
Women's Aid for Peace

e) War and Yugoslav Culture

Chair: Dr David Norris, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Nottingham

prof. dr. Ljilijana Bogoeva
Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Belgrade
The Representation of the Yugoslav Crisis in Film and Drama

prof. dr. Ratomir Ristic
University of Nis
Witnessing the rise of nationalisms and the teaching of literature

Dragan Radovanovic
Sculptor, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

Bojan Bem
Painter, Belgrade

Ray Brown
Broadcaster and Playwright
Leeds

1530 Coffee

1600 Plenary

Marija Caric, Association of Free Cities and Municipalities; Joan McQueenie Mitric, journalist, USA; prof . dr. Miroljub Radojkovic, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade

Conference Organiser (UK)

Bob Jiggins
RUSEES, University of Bradford & West Yorkshire Committee for Peace in the Balkans
Tel: +44 (0)7050 615511 Fax: +44 (0)7050 644569 Email: r.jiggins at bradford.ac.uk

Conference Organiser (Yugoslavia)

Svetlana Djuric
New Balkan Initiatives, Belgrade
Email: lanadj at sezampro.yu

Conference Floor Manager

Richard Johnson
Tel: +44 (0)1484 863726 Mobile: +44 (0)7944 253405 Email: volp at tande.com

Private Accommodation Manager

Rachel Sweeting
WYCPB
Tel: +44 (0)1484 842428 Email: westview at dircon.co.uk

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Bob Jiggins

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