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The international order has undergone profound transformations over the course of the past century. The two World Wars, decolonization, and the bipolar confrontation of the Cold War gave rise to specific adaptive strategies among both national majorities and ethnocultural minorities. Today, the global order is once again undergoing a process of change, seemingly at an unprecedented pace. Liberal democracies are facing strong pressures worldwide, while democratization no longer appears to be a one-way process. The resilience of the international order is being put to the test, while the regulatory capacity and legitimacy of international organizations are increasingly challenged by illiberal and autocratic tendencies. Even universally recognized principles governing interstate relations, such as the inviolability of borders and state sovereignty, are eroding. The international human and minority rights regime also appears to be gradually losing its relevance. Its capacity to protect the interests and rights of minority communities and to prevent the radicalization of majority nation-building processes, discrimination, and exclusion is in decline. An international environment perceived as unstable and increasingly devoid of substance may, among other things, fuel securitization discourses surrounding minority issues.Under these circumstances, some of the strategies for ethnocultural claims-making, mobilization, and the representation of minority interests that have been developed and tested over recent decades are becoming less effective or even obsolete. Faced with an unprecedented situation, minority representatives are compelled to identify innovative and adaptive solutions to protect the position and interests of the communities or groups they represent. This raises the question of how, and to what extent, minority representatives are able to mediate between or navigate different political, cultural, and institutional contexts. The strategies they adopt cannot be fully understood without considering their historical development and the long-term trajectories of nation-building, migration, and majority-minority relations.
The full program is available here: https://ispmn.gov.ro/page/conferinta-ispmn
The conference will take place at Sapientia University, Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Cluj-Napoca, 4 Calea Turzii.
The aim of the conference is to explore the consequences and implications of the changes outlined above through empirical and theoretical presentations, comparative studies, and case studies. We seek to provide researchers in the social sciences and humanities—including political science, sociology, legal studies, anthropology, ethnography, linguistics, history, cultural studies, and international relations—with an appropriate platform for presenting recent research findings on ethnocultural minorities in Central and Eastern Europe and other regions.
The conference proceedings will be held in Romanian and English. Participation in the conference is free of charge.
The conference is organized by the Institute for Research on National Minorities in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (ISPMN), together with the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies in Tübingen (IdGL), Germany, Sapientia University, Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Romania, and EURAC Research in Bolzano, Italy.
Organizing Committee: Cristian Cercel (IdGL), Sergiu Constantin (EURAC), Alice Engl (EURAC), Ágnes Kiss (ISPMN), Tamás Kiss (ISPMN), Lehel Peti (ISPMN), Daniela Simon (IdGL), István Gergő Székely (ISPMN), Tibor Toró (Sapientia).
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Calea Turzii nr. 4, 400193 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Calea Turzii 7, 400193 Cluj-Napoca, România, Cluj-napoca, Romania
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