2nd Joint PhD Symposium on South East Europe
Co-organised by LSEE, Goldsmiths Centre for the Study of the Balkans
and UCL's Centre for South East European Studies
On Monday, 18 June 2012, Goldsmiths, University of London hosted the 2nd Joint PhD Symposium on South East Europe. Click here| for the Programme of the Symposium.
Following on from the first conference, which was hosted by LSEE, in June 2010, the event was once again a joint initiative between LSEE-Research on South East Europe (London School of Economics), the Centre for the Study of the Balkans (Goldsmiths), and the Centre for South-East European Studies (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London).
As was the case with the previous symposium, the event was specifically designed to bring together emerging scholars working on the region across a wide variety of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. Contributions therefore came from history, politics, economics, international relations, European studies, sociology, law, anthropology and cultural studies. Yet again, the event proved to be extremely popular. This time it attracted over 50 speakers from across the United Kingdom, Europe and North America.
Chaired by staff from the three institutions, as well as other leading regional scholars, the day was organised into four sessions (two in the morning and two in the afternoon), each of which were divided into four parallel panels. These panels covered an extensive variety of subjects, such as institutional development, regional economic challenges, far right politics, religion and culture, crime and corruption, minorities and migration, foreign policy, civil society, gender, nationalism and conflict.
For more details please click here|.
The next symposium will be hosted by SSEES-UCL in 2014.