PROGRAMME

Thursday, 30th January 2003

9:45 Opening
Holm Sundhaussen (Berlin)
Vice-Director of Osteuropa Institut, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Director of Department: History and Culture
10:00 Peter Haslinger (Munich)
Imagined Territories and Ethnoscapes - Ways to Conceptualize the
Role of Minorities in International Settings
Discussion
10:30 Christian Promitzer (Graz)
The Body of the Other: "Racial Science" and minorities in
Southeastern Europe
Discussion
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Vemund Aarbakke (Oslo/Athens)
Adjusting to the new international framework for minority
protection - challenges for the Greek state and its minorities
Discussion
12:00 Lunch Break
15:30 Konstantinos Tsitselikis (Salonika)
Legal aspects of religious and linguistic otherness in Greece
Discussion
16:00 Georgios Mavrommatis (Salonika/Athens)
Constructing identities for the Thracian Muslim youth: the role of
education
Discussion
16:30 Coffee break
17.00 Tasos Kostopoulos (Athens)
Counting the Other: official census and classified statistics in
Greece (1830-2001)
Discussion
17:30 Philip Carabott (London)
The politics of constructing the ‘other’: the Greek state and its
Slavic-speaking citizens, ca. 1923-ca. 1949
Discussion
18:00 End

Friday, 31st January 2003
9:30 Riki van Boeschoten (Volos/Brussels)
’Bratstvo i Jedinstvo’? Macedonian political refugees in Eastern
Europe
Discussion
10:00 Georgia Kretsi (Berlin)
From landholding to landlessness. The Relationship between the
Property and Legal Status of the Cham Muslim Albanians
Discussion
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Dora Lafazani (Athens)
Migration as a tool in state’s, group’s and individual’s strategies
Discussion
11:30 Sevasti Trubeta (Berlin/Freiburg)
'Minorization' and 'Ethnicization' in the Greek society: comparative
Perspectives on Moslem Migrants and the Moslem Minority
Discussion
12:00 lunch Break
15:00 Christian Voss (Freiburg)
Sociolinguistic perspectives for the Slavic minorities in Greek
Thrace and Greek Macedonia
Discussion
15:30 Alexandra Ioannidou (Athens)
Linguistic research in Greece: The slavic dialects in Western and
Central Macedonia. First observations and comments
Discussion
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Claudia Rossini (Zurich)
Graecophiles and Macedonophiles: The clash of identities at village
level
Discussion
17:00 End

Saturday, 1st February 2003
9:30 Thede Kahl (Vienna)
Religious, linguistic and ethnic labels. The case of the Vlachs
DISCUSSION
10:00 Evangelos Karagiannis (Berlin)
Pomaks of Bulgaria and Greece – comparative issues
DISCUSSION
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Concluding Discussion
12:00 End of the conference