*INTERNATIONAL WINTER COLLOQUIUM 2008
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*"When the Theory on Non-Discrimination and Activism Meet"*
International component of the Summer School on Non-Discrimination, Social Inclusion and European Citizenship as a part of the Ohrid Summer University
* **CALL FOR APPLICATIONS*
The Institute for Social and Humanities Research "Euro-Balkan" , Skopje supported by the German Foreign Office-Embassy of Federal Republic of Germany in Republic of Macedonia is announcing the INTERNATIONAL WINTER COLLOQUIUM 2008 "When the Theory on Non-Discrimination and Activism Meet", to be held from 26-30 November, 2008 in Ohrid, Macedonia. The Colloquium will offer eminent lectures from the Balkan region, insightful discussions, workshops on specific topics, and social and cultural activities.
The overall goal of the International Winter Colloquium 2008 is to decrease acts of discrimination against culturally and socially marginalized groups , LGBT persons and people with disabilities. The Winter Colloquium 2008 will explore that neglected, but extremely important, nexus between culture, the economy, human rights and human development. While paying great attention to a rights discourse as a significant instrument to formulate political and social grievances, the colloquium will be structured around the recognition that the solution to true equality is not simply in giving the same formal rights to those who have been excluded. Special attention will be given to understanding the social, economic, political and cultural context in which the social exclusion and subordination of these groups of people take place, especially where this marginalisation is exacerbated by extreme poverty and ethnic status (Roma women and Roma LGBT people, and disabled people
belonging to marginalised ethnic groups), and the means to combat these types of abject discrimination. The course will advocate for a social inclusion approach to fighting discrimination in Macedonia and the region, since it is the only proactive, human development approach to social well-being that calls for more than the removal of legal and formal barriers or risks to participating as valued, respected and contributing members of Balkan societies.
The International Winter Colloquium will broadly cover the three following topics: 1. Contemporary debates on Non-discrimination: Perspectives of social inclusion; 2. Queer Activism and Theory in SEE: The challenges of inclusion; and 3. Culture, difference and human rights. Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Ivo Banac, Prof. Dr. Jelisaveta Blagojevic and Prof. Dr. Mirjana Najcevska;
Working language of the colloquium will be English.
*Eligibility: * Postgraduate students, human rights activists and members of socially and culturally marginalized groups from South-Eastern Europe committed to the idea of social inclusion and actively seeking to address problems related to implementation of human rights legislation, discrimination and social exclusion in the Balkan societies.
*Application and selection process:* Interested applicants will submit their biographical information (CV and letter of motivation) through the available application form The applications of most suitable candidates, active in the field of human rights and non-discrimination, will be carefully and objectively assessed and selected.
Please find the application form on www.euba.org. mk or contact the responsible person. *Deadline for application submissions is 3rd November 2008*. Filled application to be sent to the e-mail: ohridsummeruniversi ty@gmail. com . Results from the selection process: 10thNovember 2008
Project Manager: Prof. Dr. Katerina Kolozova
Project Coordinator: Jana Lozanoska L.LM
Contact person: Jana Lozanoska
Address: Blvd. Partizanski Odredi 63
1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Tel/Fax: +389 2 3075 570
Mobile: + 389 70 715 353
E-mail: jana.lozanoska@ gmail.com
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