Friday, 8 December
9.30–13: Opening and Keynote-speaches
Ulf BRUNNBAUER/Georgia KRETSI (Osteuropa-Institut, Free University of Berlin): The case for the conference
Leo LUCASSEN: Migrations in Modern Europe [Keynote on Comparative Perspectives]
Ivo BAUCIC (Omiš, Croatia): "Gastarbeiter" and Migration Research in Yugoslavia
Janine DAHINDEN (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland): Current Concepts and Theories of Miration Research and their Use for Post-Yugoslav Migrations
Evangelos KARAGIANNIS (Ethnological Seminar, University of Zurich): Critical analysis of recent migration research concepts
15–19: Migration History
Michael G. ESCH (Berlin): Migration Research as Social History (theoretical input)
Ulf BRUNNBAUER (Osteuropa-Institut, Free University of Berlin): Yugoslav History as Migration History
Marjan DRNOVSEK (Institute for Slovenian Migration, Ljubljana): Continuties and Changes in Emigration from Slovenia, 19–20th centuries
Dubravka MLINARIC (Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb): Social and Economic Causes for and Consequences of Emigration from Croatia (19./20. centuries)
Discussant Boris KANZLEITNER (Belgrade)
Saturday, 9 December
9.30–13.30: Political and Economic Mobilization of Migrants
Georgia KRETSI (Osteuropa-Institut, Free University of Berlin): Political Mobilization of Migrants: the Case of Kosovo
Manuela BOJADZIEVA (Frankfurt am Main) “Für sie ist Nation Luft”: Immigration practices and resistance on the example of migration from Yugoslavia
Mirjam HLADNIK (Institute for Slovenian Migration, Ljubljana): From a dollar bill in an envelope to a petition for the White House: The significance of Slovenian migrants in the United States for back home
Discussant: Paul HOCKENOS (Internationale Politik, Berlin)
15–19: Networks and Migration
Pascal GOEKE (Institute for Human Geography, University of Frankfurt/Main): When networks become relevant: Forms of migrant families and social change (theoretical input)
Robert PICHLER (Department for Southeast European History, University of Graz): Transnational Networks of Albanian Emigrants from Macedonia
Jasna CAPO-ZMEGAC (Institute of Ethnological and Folklore Research, Zagreb): Family Networks Spanning Nation-States: Croats Between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina and Germany
Aleskandra PAVICEVIC (Institute of Ethnology, Serbian Academy of Sciences, Belgrade): In and out of the Emigrant’s World: Death in Tramontane Country
Discussant: Bojan ALEKSOV (Berlin/Budapest).
Sunday, 10 December
9.00–13.00: Legal-Political Conditions and Migrant Actions
Sevasti TRUBETA (Osteuropa-Institut, Free University of Berlin): Discovering a Shady Side of Europe – Preventing its Expansion: EU-Politics and Roma Migration (theoretical input and case study)
Edvin PEZO (Southeast-Institute, Munich): Political Pressure and Opportunities for Emigration of Muslims from Interwar Yugoslavia
Sasa BOZIC (Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb): Policies of Citzenship and Migrant Creativity: Emigrants from Croatia in Australia, Northern America and Europe Compared
Anne JUHASZ (Institute of Sociology, University of Zurich): Citizenship, Migration and Family – the Case of Yugoslav Migrants
Dženita SARAC (Institute of History, Sarajevo): How Fellow Citizens became Immigrants: Bosnians in Slovenia
Discussant: Mila MANCHEVA (Berlin/Sofia).