Wednesday, November 11th, 2015 Germany, the EU, and the Hungarian "Alternative"

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Zsuzsa Csergő is Associate Professor of Political Studies at Queen’s University, Canada. She specializes in the study of nationalism in contemporary European politics, with particular focus on post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. Professor Csergő is the President of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN). She is currently working on a comparative project about minority integration in the enlarged European Union. Her book about majority-minority conflict over language use in Romania and Slovakia was published by Cornell University Press in 2007. Her articles have appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Foreign Policy, Nations and Nationalism,East European Politics and Societies, and other journals.

Frank Hadler is Research Coordinator and Project Director of the Geisteswissenschafliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO) at Leipzig University, Germany. Publications on the history and culture of East Central Europe and the history of historiography inlclude most recently, Lost Greatness and Past Oppression in East Central Europe: Representations of Imperial Experience in Historiography since 1918 (Leipzig, 2007).

Mark Kramer is director of the Cold War studies program at Harvard University and a senior fellow of Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Brown Universities and was formerly an Academy Scholar in Harvard’s Academy of International and Area Studies and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Kramer is the author or editor of several books and has written nearly 200 articles on a variety of topics. He has worked extensively in newly opened archives in all the former Warsaw Pact countries and several Western countries. He has been a consultant for numerous government agencies and international organizations.

Attila Marján, economist, Ph.D. in international relations has 14 years of experience working for EU institutions. He also was counsellor for Hungary’s chief negotiator during the country’s accession talks with the EU. He has some twenty years of experience in university education and academic research in EU studies and international relations. He is habilitated doctor of the Budapest Corvinus University. He is a former public policy scholar of the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson Center. Between 2012-2014 he was European research director of the Hungarian Institute of International Relations and head of the International and EU Department of the National University of Public Service in Budapest where he is now associate professor.

Peter Smuk is Associate Professor in the Department of Constitutional Law and Political Sciences and Vice-Dean for Education of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the Széchenyi István University in Győr, Hungary. He received his Ph.D. in law at the Széchenyi István University in 2008. His principal research has been concerned with rights of opposition, parliamentary procedures, freedom of political expression, and deliberative democracy. He is the author of more than 70 articles in Hungarian and other languages, four monographs, and has presented papers in more than 30 conferences in several countries.