Seminar: Everlasting Transition? The Balkans
of the Present, Copenhagen, 27.11.2004


a*?a*Seminar
'Everlasting Transition? The Balkans of the Present'
Date: 11.27.2004 - 10.00 A.M. till midnight
Co-ordinator: The Danish Association for International Co-operation in
co-operation with the daily 'Politiken'
Venue: Borups H?jskole, Frederiksholms Kanal 24, 1220 Copenhagen K,
Denmark
The seminar is in English.
Under the title 'Everlasting Transition? The Balkans of the Present'
the Danish Association for International Co-operation and 'Politiken'
invites you to a seminar on November 27th, focussing on the Balkans of
today. A number of experts from Denmark as well as the region will
present how 'transition' is expressed politically, socially and
culturally in the Balkans of today..

The program covers the whole day, but you are of course welcome to
join in for only some of the sessions. Check out more about the
seminar and speakers here:

Invitation - http://www.ms.dk/msbalkan/balkanseminar/invitation.htm 
Program (see below) -
http://www.ms.dk/msbalkan/balkanseminar/programme.htm
Speakers - http://www.ms.dk/msbalkan/balkanseminar/speakers.htm
Register for the seminar here:
http://www.ms.dk/msbalkan/balkanseminar/tilmelding.htm
Program
Seminar moderator: Katrine Nyland S?rensen, journalist for the 'Danish
Broadcasting Corporation' (DR)

Opening and welcome
10.00-10.30 - Bente Tops?e Jensen, International Director in the
Danish Association for International Co-operation.
'The Balkans of today - from a Nordic point of view'
10.30-13.00 - Vibeke Sperling, journalist at 'Politiken,' Dag
Halvorsen, freelance journalist, Karsten Fledelius, associate
professor at Copenhagen University, and Tue Magnussen, Communication
Co-ordinator at the Rehabilitation and Research Center for Torture
Victims.

Four Danish experts will give short presentations and discuss why the
Balkans as a post-conflict region is given less attention from the
international community, and where it is heading in coming years.

13.00-14.00 - Lunch

'When citizenship matters - the case of 'The Erased' in Slovenia'
14.00-15.00 - Jelka Zorn, Lecturer at Ljubljana University.
15.00-15.15 - Short break

'Serbia after the assassination of Djindjic'
15.15-16.30 - Sonja Biserko, Head of the Helsinki Committee for Human
Rights in Serbia.
16.30-17.00 - Coffee break
'Denial and the question of cultural transition in Bosnia-Herzegovina'
17.00-18.00 - Namik Kabil, film director and writer.
18.00-18.15 - Short break

'Ars Aevi Project - A museum of contemporary art in progress'
18.15-19.15 - Asja Mandic, curator at the Ars Aevi Museum/Centre of
Contemporary Art in Sarajevo.
19.15-19.30 - Short break
'Modernity and democracy in Serbia and Montenegro from the perspective
of basketball and traditional music'
19.30-20.30 - Zoran Naskovski, contemporary artist.
Music Lounge
21.00-00.00 - Armin and Dino, DJs from Sarajevo.

Peter Alexander Albrecht

The Danish Association for International Co-operation
Phone: + 45 7731 0079
www.ms.dk