MSCA Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity (IMEI) Workshop

This event is particularly notable for featuring two guest lectures from prominent scholars prof. Miri Song (University of Kent) and prof. Francesco Cerchiaro (Radboud University), adding depth and a broader perspective to the discussions.

/Concurrent with the MSCA IMEI Workshop, the Minority Studies Department is pleased to host the COST Action CA21143 Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe (TraFaDy) Working Group 3 (WG3) meeting on the 10th of May. WG3 focuses on Social Rights and Social Protection of Transnational Families. As TraFaDy’s theme closely aligns with that of the MSCA IMEI's topic, this alignment will foster significant synergy between the two groups of scholars, offering an excellent opportunity for networking./

MSCA Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity (IMEI) Workshop

9 May 2024 (Thursday)

Conference Room  (-1.75)

9:30 – 10:00 Welcoming of the Participants
Associate Prof. Zoltán Gábor Szűcs, Vice-dean; Associate Prof. Richárd Papp Director of Institute for Social Relations; Assistant Prof. Miklós Szabó, Head of the Department of Minority Studies; Prof. Emeritus Antal Örkény, MSCA supervisor

10:00 – 11:30 Guest Speaker: Miri Song
How should we conceptualize the spousal relationships of 'mixed race' people?

11:40 – 12:00 Presentation: Karolina Lendák-Kabók
MSCA Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity (IMEI) PF main outputs  

Room 0.100B 

12:00 – 13:15 Lunch Break

Room 0.100C

13:15– 15:00 Session I: Intermarriages and Identity Building – Presenting the Edited Volume (Routledge)
Session Chair: John Paul Newman

13:15 – 13:45 Dan Rodríguez – García 
Intermarriage and multiethnicity among Spanish Roma: Transgressing problematised interethnic divisions

13:45 – 14:00  Laura Szabó
Structural barriers of Roma mixed ethnic partnerships in 2011–2022,  Hungary

14:00 – 14:15 Jutta Ahlbeck, Hanna Lindberg and Mats Wickström
What’s Love Got to Do with It? Intermarriages and Finland-Swedish Minority Nationalism 1944-1980

14:15 – 14:30 Marija Mandić 
“Mixed” Marriage on Trial: The legal cases from the documentary prose of Tibor Várady

14:30 – 14:45 Patrik Tátrai, Viktória Ferenc, Julianna Kohut-Ferki, Katalin Kovály
Manoeuvring between nationalising policies: ethnic decisions in the Ukrainian-Hungarian intermarriages in Transcarpathia, Ukraine

14:45 – 15:00 Viorela Ducu and Áron Telegdi - Csetri 
Romanian mixed families: national and transnational identities

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:30 Session II: Intermarriages and Identity Building – Presenting the Edited Volume (Routledge)
Session Chair: Francesco Cerchiaro

15:30 – 15:45 Gül Özateşler Ülkücan
Negotiating with identity and cultural differences in Turkish-Kurdish Intermarriages in Izmir, Turkey

15:45 – 16:00 Anastassia Zabrodoskaja (online)
A Study of Family Language Policy and Intercultural Communication in Estonian-Russian Mixed    Households

16:00 – 16:15 Jelena Seferović
How long should the Christmas tree be decorated? Autoethnographic study on growing up in mixed    marriage along Croatia-Montenegro border

16:15 – 16:30 Martin Klatt
Intermarriages – recruitment and reproduction of minorities in an integrated borderland setting

16:30 – 16:45 Karolina Lendák-Kabók
Navigating Identity and Belonging: Young Adults from Mixed Serb-Hungarian Marriages in Serbia

16:45 – 17:30 Ethnic and Social Minorities in European Welfare, Special Issue in the European Review of History 2024 – Special Issue Launch 
Editors and Authors: Hanna Lindberg, Karolina Lendák-Kabók, John Paul Newman and Maria Adamopoulou 

18:30 Dinner for the workshop participants

10 May 2024 (Friday)

Room: 0.100C

9:00 – 9:30 Welcoming of the guests – second day

9:30 – 10:30 Guest Speaker: Francesco Cerchiaro
Displaying difference, displaying sameness: mixedness as a key to question theories on cultural diversity

Room: 0.100B

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:45 Topic: Discussion on a joint application for a COST Action | Format: Working in small groups 

Room: 0.100B

12:45 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:00 Closing of the event 

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