Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 9, 2001

Volume 29, Number 18

Future of former Yugoslavia
is focus of international event

Outspoken critics of the politics and ideologies that dominated the former Yugoslavian region over the past decade will take part in an international conference at Yale on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 16 and 17.

Titled "The Future of the Ex-Yugoslav Area," the conference is hosted by the Council on European Studies at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and is supported by the council's federal grant. The event is free and open to the public.

The conference organizers note that the event is taking place "at the time when it is generally accepted that the cycle of post-Yugoslav wars has come to the end with the suspension of the Milosevic regime in Serbia." The conference will examine the postwar politics and societies in the ex-Yugoslav lands, their mutual relations, overall regional prospects, and the interaction between southeastern Europe and the international community.

The event is focused around four papers, which will be presented in the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The first, "The Weight of the Past," by Ivo Banac of Yale, will be at 2 p.m. on Friday. Saturday's sessions include "Civil Society and Human Rights" by Natasa Kandic of the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade, Serbia, at 9:30 a.m; "The International Community and the Former Yugoslavia" by Rusmir Mahmutcehajic of International Forum Bosnia in Sarajevo, at 2 p.m; and "Regional Integrations?" by Veton Surroi, editor of the daily newspaper Koha ditore in Prishtina, Kosovo, at 4:30 p.m.

The event will also include a book party for Drago Jancar, the foremost contemporary Slovenian author, at 5 p.m. on Friday in the Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway.

Participants include the "dissident elite" of the ex-Yugoslav area: Nenad Canak, president of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina and a member of the Serbian parliament; Ivan Zvonimir Cicak, former president of the Croatian Helsinki Committee; Zdravko Grebo, former president of the Soros Foundation in Bosnia; Viktor Ivancic, editor of the Croatian oppositional weekly Feral tribune; Miodrag Perovic, founder of the Monitor in Podgorica, Montenegro; Jovan Donev of the Euro-Balkan Institute; Teuta Arifi of the University of Skopje, Macedonia; and Slavko Perovic, the founder of the Liberal League of Montenegro.

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