Program of Conference
21st –27th September
21st September – arrival at Pécs
22nd September – Conference day in Pécs
8.30 – 9.30 Registration, opening ceremony, an evening reeception.
Centre for Regional Studies – Pécs, Papnövelde u. 22.
10.00 Opening – Dr. Gyula Horváth director general of Centre for Regional
Studies (CRS), Hungarian Academy of Sciences
10.20 Information about the conference (Dr. Zoltán Hajdú)
10.30 – 12.30 Paper session I. chaired by Dr. Zoltán Hajdú
(for the list of presentations, see the Annex),
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 18.00 Paper session II. chaired by James W. Scott
20.00 Welcome reception in Pannon ház, Anna u.
23rd September – Field trip
7.30 Pécs – Vukovar (Croatia) – Subotica (Serbia-Montenegro) – Szeged
(Hungary) – Bekescsaba
Departure Hotel Millenium Kálvária u. 58.
Lunch organised for all participants in Bezdán
15.00 Reception at the Town Hall of Subotica; an introduction of the
cooperation between two border cities: Subotica and Szeged, a sightseeing
tour in Subotica – Arpad Pap
17.00 –20.00 A sightseeing tour in Szeged
24th September – Conference day in Békéscsaba - Hotel Fenyves-Garzon
9.00 Opening – Nikoletta Szilágyi, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Bekes
County, Paper session I. Chaired by Petri Virtanen
12.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 18.00 Paper session II. Chaired by Macej Smetkovski
20.00 Welcome reception in Hotel Fenyves
25th September – Field trip
8.00 Békéscsaba – Szalonta (Romania) – Oradea (Romania)– Debrecen (Hungary)
Departure Hotel Fenyves
11.00 Reception at the Christian University of Partium Oradea (Romania)
12.00–13.00 Sightseeing in Nagyvárad (Oradea)
Lunch organised for all participants in Biharkeresztes(Hungary)
14.30 Introduction of the Bihar-Bihor Euroregion by the mayors of Biharkeresztes
and Bors;
17.00 A sightseeing tour in Debrecen
26th September – Conference day in Debrecen - Debrecen
University Agricultural Centre, Main Building - Böszörményi út 138.
9.00 – 13.00 Paper session I. (for the list of presentations, see the
Annex) Chaired by Katarzyna Krok
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 18.00 Paper session II. Chaired by Olga Mrinska
20.00 Welcome reception – Hosted by Dr. Nagy János prorektor University
of Debrecen
27th September – Field trip
8.00 Debrecen – Nyíregyháza– Záhony – Ungvár(Ukraine)–Debrecen
Departure Fényház Szálló Böszörményi u. 138.
Uzgorod (Ukarine) Introduction of the Hungarian and Ukrainian Cross
Border Cooperation (lecture)
Lunch organised for all participants
18.00 Closing of the Conference
Annex I.
Program of Conference Sessions
22nd September PÉCS
11.20 – 12.30 Chairman Zoltán Hajdú
1. James Wesley Scott
Department of Geography, Free University of Berlin
Dimensionality as an Element of EU Geopolitics: Partnerships with
the “East” and “South”
2. Doris Wastl -Walter* – Monika Váradi**
*Professor of Human Geography University of Bern
**Research fellow, Research Institute Budapest Centre for Regional Studies
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Eu-Enlargement-Border Perspectives
3. Petri Virtanen
University of Joensuu, Karelian Institute, Finland
Enlargement and its Impacts on Internal/External Borders of the EU
4. Roos Pijpers – Henk van Houtum
Nijmegen Centre for Border Research, Department of Human Geogaphy, University
of Nijmegen, Netherlands
Bordering migration: the making of new border regimes with regard
to east-west economic migration in an enlarging European Union
5. István Mezei
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre For Regional Studies Central and
North Hungarian Research Institute, Miskolc Department
European Regions as a Means of Resolving Asymmetric Conditions
6. Hardi Tamás
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Regional Studies West-Transdanubian
Research Institute, Győr
A theorethical model of formational transborder region
Discussion
14.00 – 18.00 Chairman James W Scott
7. George Petrakos* and Eleftherios Topaloglou**
*Chairman of the Department of Planning and Regional Development, University
of Thessaly, Greece
**Regional Planner (M.Sc.) and a Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Planning
and Regional Development, University of Thessaly, Greece.
Policy and market dynamics of cross-border co-operation in the Northern
Greek borders”
8. Jevgenia Viktorova
Master Student, Department of International Relations, University of St
Andrews
Mapping the borders of ‘civility’: Political conventions and political
violence in Northern Ireland
9. Ladis K. D. Kristof
Department of Political Science, Portland State University, Portland,
Oregon, USA
Bukovina as an Antechamber to Central Europe
10. Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Kharkiv National University, Ass. Prof (Ukraine) / University of Vienna,
Institute for East Lise Meitner Fellow (Austria)
Cross-border cooperation and transformation of regional identities
in the Ukrainian-Russian borderlands: Towards a Euroregion “Slobozhanshchyna”?
11. Michael Schack
Danish Institute of Border Region Studies, Danmark
Theorising Borders, Boundaries and Identities within Processes of
Political and Economic Integration
12. Szónokyné A. Gabriella
Lecturer, Szeged University, Dept. of Economic and Human Geography
Yugoslavian Enterprises in the Border Zones of the Southern Great
Plain Region in Hungary at the Turn of the Millenium
13. Bokor Béla
Experiences of Hungarian Minorities Abroad's cultural cooperation
- in relate a Foundation
14. Ágnes Pál
Lecturer, Training Collegue, Szeged, Hungary
Danube-Körös-Maros-Tisza Euroregion
15. Barbara Hooper, Ph.D.
University of Nijmegen, Centre for Border Research, Netherlands
The Rule of Law and the Rule of Force: Trans-Border Policing and Trans-Border
Violence in the EU (Or, Producing the EU as an Area of Freedom, Security
and Justice)
Discussion
24th September – Bekescsaba
9.00 – 12.00 Chairman Petri Virtanen
16. Heather Nicol
Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences University of West Georgia
Canada-US Border Arrangements Post September 11: A New Security Agenda?
17. Ilkka Liikanen
Director of the Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, Finland
"Karelian Political Mobilization and Russian
Nationbuilding. Reflections on Rebordering of Post-Soviet Political Space".
18. Heikki Eskelinnen
Department of Geography and Karlian Institute University of Joensuu, Finland
Challenging path dependency: reflections on economic developments
in the Finnish-Russian border region
19. Lassi Heininen
Senior Scientist and Docent, University of Lapland, Arctic Centre
Environmental threats and concepts of security as factors in trans-boundary
and regional cooperation of North Europe - case study of a nuclear problem
20. Ingmar Oldberg
Assoc. dir. of research, FOI, Stockholm
Russian-Baltic border problems in a
comparative perspective
21. Thomas Lunden
Baltic and East European Graduate School Södertörn University College
What is national in planning? Border zones as symbolic places.
The case of Haparanda - Tornio on the Sweden - Finland border.
22. Josef Langer
Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Klagenfurt,
Austria¤
Discussion
14.00 – 18.00 Chairman Macej Smetkovski
23. Andreas Uhrlau
Wissenschaftliche Politikberatung
Cross-border co-operation practices in the German-Polish and Hungarian-Austrian
Euroregions
24. Janet Henshall Momsen
University of California, Davis.
Borders as Determinants of Social Capital: Differences among rural
entrepreneurs in East and West Hungary
25. Margareta Lelea
Graduate Group in Geography University of California, Davis
Case Study: Women Entrepreneurs Along the Hungarian Border in Arad
County, Romania
26. Jovan Romelic, – Pavle Tomic
University of Novi Sad, Department of Geography, Tourism&Hotel Management,
Serbia and Montenegro
The tourist attractons border area of Serbia toward Hungaria and Romania
as the factor cross border tourist travel
27. Marina Todorovic*
Research Fllow,Geographical Institute "Jovan Cvijic", Serbian
Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade.
Potentials and limitations of regional develpoment and cooperation
in South-East Europe
28. Gerhard Heimpold
Halle Institute for Economic Research Dept. Regional and Urban Economics
Halle (Saale), Germany
Do regions along opening borders need a specific regional policy?
- the case of the German-Polish border"
29. Hans-Joachim Bürkner
Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning Germany
Regional development in times of economic crisis and population loss:
The German-Polish border region in distress
Discussion
26th September – Debrecen
9.00 – 12.00 Chairman Katarzyna Krok
30. Dimitriy Ziminn
University of Joensuu, Finnland
Finnish-Russian border areas: a socio-economic profile
31. Margit Saere
Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation Estonia
Enlargement and its Impacts to the new External Borders of the EU:
case study of the Estonian-Russian border region
32. Olga Mrinska, Kyiv, Ukraine,
Department for International Development of the United Kingdom
Kyiv Office at British Embassy Deputy Kyiv. National Taras Shevchenko
University, Geographical faculty, Lecturer
Enlarging EU – its Influence on External and Internal Borders of the
New Neighbours. Case of Ukraine
33. Gyula Szabó, – Gábor Koncz
Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Regional Studies „Alföld” Institute
Debrecen Department
Local-governmental aspects of the trans-boundary interaction in the
Hungarian-Romanian border region
34. Gábor Kozma
lecturer, Department of Social Geography Debrecen University
The role of the Hungarian-Romanian border region in the regional policy
of Hajdú-Bihar county
35. János Sallai
lieutenant colonnel, College for Police Officers, Hungary
Geography of Crime in Hungarian-Ukrainian Border Region
Discussion
14.00 – 18.00 Chairman Olga Mrinska
36. Alla Skvortova
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Ethnic Studies, Academy of Science
of Moldova
Insiders and Outsiders: Impact of the EU Enlargement on the Moldovan-Romanian
Relations
37. Maciej Smetkovski
Centre for European Regional an Local Studies, Warsaw University
The local dimension of polish-Ukrainian co-operation – the case study
38. Katarzyna Krok
Centre for Europena Regional an Local Studies, Warsaw University
Transborder co-operation in Polish –Ukrainian transboundary region:
old expiriences-new prospects
39. Gulnara Roll
Scientific Officer for Economics, Social and Human Sciences INTAS, Brussels
40. Zsolt Radics
Department of Social Geography Debrecen University
The Effect of European Enlargement on the Free Trade in Central Europe"
41. Zoltán Bujdosó
Department of Social Geography Debrecen University
The Impact of County Border on the Attraction Zones of Towns
42. István Balcsók - László Dancs
Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Regional Studies „Alföld” Institute
Debrecen Department
Legal and illegal customs of undertaking work along the Hungarian-Ukrainian
border
43. Csaba Patkós
Department of Social Geography Debrecen University
The Roots of a New "North Great Plain" Identity"
44. Lórtánt Dávid – Csaba Patkós
Department of Physical Geography Debrecen University
A touristic development along the Hungarian-Romanian Border
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