Thursday, 22 March 2018
14:30 – 15:00
Welcome: Oto Luthar (Ljubljana), Tanja Petrović (Ljubljana)
Workshop introduction: Thomas Lindenberger (Dresden), Ana Kladnik (Dresden)
15:00 – 16:45
Panel: Socialist Legacy of Voluntarism
Chair / comments: Ildiko Erdei (Belgrade)
Nikola Baković (Giessen)
Get to Know Your Country in Order to Love It. Partisan Tourism as Catalyst for Translocal Volunteering in Socialist Yugoslavia
Julia Nietsch (Paris)
Volunteering for the Kosovo-Albanian “Parallel Structures”: the Case of the Mother Teresa Society
Anna Matthiesen (New York)
NGOs, Virtual Voluntarism and the Legacy of Radne Akcije in Serbia
16:45– 17:15 Coffee break
17:15 – 19:00
Panel: Volunteering and the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s
Chair / comments: Fabio Giomi (Paris) and Igor Duda (Pula)
Jelena Rupčić (Pula)
Influence of Political Changes on Volunteering during the 1980s and 1990s on the Example of the Red Cross in Pula, Croatia
Zlatiborka Popov Momčinović (Sarajevo)
Question of ‘Volunteering’. The Context of Women's Activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ana Ljubojević (Zagreb)
"Starting an Avalanche"? Transformation of Youth Voluntarism in Serbia
19:15 Dinner
Friday, 23 March 2018
9:15 – 10:45
Panel: The Role of Voluntarism and Voluntary Associations within the Community Safety Structures around 1990
Chair / comments: Damijan Guštin (Ljubljana)
Rade Rajkovčevski (Skopje)
Voluntarism through Implementation of the Concept “All in Defence, All in Protection”: Ideology or Way to Developing a Sustainable Model of Civil Protection
Ana Kladnik (Dresden)
Voluntary Associations and the Reorganisation of the System of Protection and Rescue in Slovenian Local Communities around 1990
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45
Panel: Perception of Voluntary Work and the post-Socialist Transformation
Chair / comments: Reana Senjković (Zagreb)
Brunilda Zenelaga and Klodiana Beshku (Tirana)
Dealing with the Will to Voluntarism. The Role of the State during the Transformation of the Political System in Albanian Society
Tanja Petrović (Ljubljana)
Reframing Voluntary Labor in post-Socialist Serbia
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30
Roundtable: Volunteering and the History of Southeastern Europe between 1980-2000
Moderator: Ana Kladnik (Dresden)
Jure Gašparič (Ljubljana), Ljubica Spaskovska (Exeter), Tatjana Rakar (Ljubljana), Tanja Petrović (Ljubljana), Thomas Lindenberger (Dresden), Philipp Ther (Wien)