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The German and Hungarian Minorities’ Cultural Societies

Identity Management and Civil Society Structures in Slavonia/Baranya (CRO), Slovenia (SLO) and Vojvodina (SCG)

Start Date: August 2005

Project duration: 8 months

Summary:
Contemporary minority research stands as a transdisciplinary hinge connecting minority politics, legislation of minority rights and minority organisations of the civil society. It describes tendencies of harmonization, acculturation and assimiliation as well as different forms of cultural contacts in multiethnic and multilingual areas.
The present project focuses on the German and the Hungarian minority in above mentioned areas. The research intends to concentrate on the identity management of the German/Hungarian speaking population. Nonetheless, not only the identity construction of the individuals and the “we-collective” (identity management from inside) will be studied in the framework of this project, but also the influence of “the others” (identity management from outside): the majority population, the other minorities living in the area and the German/Hungarian institutions adopted from abroad.
These contacts will facilitate the integration of minority cultural societies into a network, and at the same time they will serve as a bridge connecting scientific and civil society activities.
The representatives of the scientific partner organisations and a selection of representatives of minorities’ cultural societies will present their activities to the public at the IRICS-conference (“Innovations and Reproductions in Cultures and Societies”; Vienna, December 9.-11. 2005), in the framework of section “Minorities' Identity Management in the Alpine-Danube-Adriatic Region”
(see: www.inst.at/irics/sektionen_g-m/hermanik.htm#ref ).
http://www.inst.at/trans/16Nr/14_4/14_4inhalt16.htm

Coordinator
Klaus-Jürgen Hermanik, Mag. Dr.klaus-juergen.hermanik@uni-graz.at Division / institute: CSBSC Center for the Study of Balkan Societies and Cultures at the Department for Southeast European History. University of Graz / Mozartgasse 3, 8010 Graz
email:csbsc@gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at Department for Southeast European History at Graz University

Project Partners:

• Inštitut za Narodnostna Vprašanja / Institute for Ethnic Studies

Erjavčeva 26 1000 Ljubljana
email:INV@inv.si www.inv.si/s1_vhod_a.HTM

• Ethnolinguistic and Sociolinguistic Research of Refugees and Multiethnic Communities on the Balkans contact:Biljana.Sikimic@sanu.ac.yu Balkanološki Institut SANU, Knez-Mihailova 35/4, 11 000 Beograd

web address/url: www.sanu.ac.yu/ciril/Instituti/balkan.htm