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“Mediating Europe: BY, Between, Beyond”
Programme of the AEGEE "EU & Europe" conference 2-5 June 2004, Minsk, Belarus.
Wednesday 2 June
Arrival of particpants, Citytour, cultural program
Thursday 3 June
11:00 Opening and Welcoming Speech by AEGEE-Minsk and European Humanities University representatives:
- Dmitri Korenko (AEGEE-Minsk Chair)
- Vice-rector prof. Vladimir Dunaev
- Deputy of the vice-rector in International Affairs, Alexander Mikheishin
- Forum "Europe-2004" coordinator, d-r Svetlana Kurochkina
- Coordinator of the CASE center, Irina Shulenkova
- presentation of the project “EU & Europe” (Theijs Van Welij, AEGEE)
11:30 Welcoming speech of the European embassies representatives:
- Stephane Baudé, responsible for scientific and technical cooperation (French Embassy)
- Wolfgang Faust, 3rd secretary (German Embassy)
- Andrzej Chuchryta, 2nd secretary (Polish Embassy)
- Welcoming words from “BelEurolines” company.
12:00-12:30 Questions and discussion (Moderation: Dmitri Korenko)
15:30-16:00 Presentations of the participants:
- Post-soviet Transformations in Belarus (Natalya Riabova, EHU)
- Post-soviet Transformations in Ukraine (Veronica Golovataya, EHU)
- Questions and discussion. Moderator: Sarah Cramsfey
16:10-16:40 Between the Lion and the Crocodile: Toward our Mediation Between Empires. Lecture by Alexey Lalo, associate professor of the Department for Culture Studies, EHU.
16:40-16:50 Coffee break
16:50- 17:20 Participants presentations:
- Belarusian-Czech relations (Yuri de Boer, Charles University, Prague)
- Belarus, Ukrain & Moldova and the EU (Theijs van Welij, University of Utrecht)
- Dutch vision on the latest enlargement of the EU and the European Neighbourhood Policy (Olwin Schrauwen, University of Amsterdam)
- EU Neighborhood Policy Towards Newly Western Independent States (Dudko Inga, BSU)
- EU enlargement and its consequences for Belarus (Matveev Vladzimir, BSU)
- EU institutional reforms in connection with EU enlargement (Kalenik Veronica, BSU)
- Development of cooperation between EU and the Republic of Belarus: 1990-2000 (Vorotnitskaya Tatsyana, post-graduate, Department for International Relations (BSU)
18:00-18:30 Questions and discussion. Summary.
Friday 4 June
11:00-12:00 Presentations of the participants (moderator: Sarah Cramsfey)
- The Approach of Newly Independent States to Treaties and Pacts signed by their predecessors. (Oksana Grishkevich, Institute of the State and Law, Minsk)
- Euroregions Seen as Forms of Integration for Border Region Territories (Evgeny Zapadniuk, Gomel State University)
- Border Regions: the Ideal Conditions for Business Development (Natalya Kadol, Gomel State university)
- Consequences Produced for Border Region Countries by the Establishment and Enlargement of the European Union (Evgeny Tsoy, BSU of Transport).
- The way out is the policy of isolation? Tatyana Kisel, Master Degree Program in International Relations, EHU.
12:00-13:00 Round-table discussion “Mediative role of Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine for European Identity” (Moderator: Sarah Cramsfey)
15:00-16:45 Debate: “New Berlin Wall in Europe”
16:45-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-19:30 Discussion on: present characteristics of Belarus, Belarussian Identity, Europe, European Identity and
7 steps towards common European Neighbourhood Policy (educational, cultural, tourist, civil, mobility (visa), economic, political aspects).
Moderators: Dmitri Korenko & Theijs Van Welij.
19:30-20:00 Evaluation and closing of the conference.
Saturday 5 June
12:00 Excursion to Zalsvl’
20:00 Departure of the participants
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