PAPERS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Krasteva, Anna. Human rights and human security in times of securitization.- Universality and applicability of human rights, Sofia, Sofia University, 10.12.18.
Krasteva, Anna. How to rethink and to teach human rights in post-democratic time? Academic address to the Graduation ceremony of the European regional master in democracy and human rights in SEE. Sarajevo, 27.10.18.
Krasteva, Anna. Les citadins comme citoyens dans la cite ou l’émergence de la citoyenneté créative, verte et contestataire.- Villes en transformation : défis, (pre)visions, perspectives. Sofia, 18-20.10.18.
Krasteva, Anna. Si la crise migratoire n’existait pas, populistes de l’Est et de l’Ouest l’aurait inventée.- L’Europe face au défi démographique : enjeux et perspectives, Iasi, 17-18.10.18.
Krasteva, Anna. “Migration 2.0: entre information, manipulation et mobilisation.- Colloque « Medias et migration » de l’ UPF (Union de la Presse Francophone), Tsaghkadzor, Armenie, 9-12.10.18.
Krasteva, Anna. Femmes et leadership. Papier à la table ronde “Les femmes doivent-elles s’imposer pour réussir?”.- Les élites féminines dans l’espace francophone. Erevan, 11-12.09.18.
Krasteva, Anna . Old and new Us and Others in times of refugee crisis. Paper at “Us and Others”, Silver lake, Serbia, 28-29.08.18.
Krasteva, Anna . Balkan migrations: from forced displacement to migration & development nexus. Paper at “Us and Others”, Silver lake, Serbia, 28-29.08.18.
Krasteva, Anna. Keynote paper If the migration crisis did not exist, (East European) populists would have invented it or the (im)possibility of the migration&development nexus.- Mobility, migration, and the remaking of East-European identities in a post-Brexit Europe, Leipzig, 26-27.06.18.
Krasteva, Anna. The decline of facts or the newspeak of post-democracy.- Between facts and fake: building resilience to misinformation, Sofia, 28.05.18.
Krasteva, Anna. The future of the European institutions/policies.- A glance at (post)crisis scenario. Brussels, 3.05.18.
Krasteva, Anna. If thee refugee crisis did not exist, populists of all colors would have invented it: Bulgarian perspectives.-Refugee crisis two year later: the past and future of the Balkan route. Belgrade, 26.04.18.
Krasteva, Anna. If Borders Did Not Exist, Euroscepticism Would Have Invented Them.- European Public Policy Conference, Sofia, 13-15.04.18.
Krasteva, Anna. Facts will not save from fake or the Newspeak of the post-crisis post-democracy.- The shape of things to come: a post-human world in te post-truth era, Fulbright conference, Sofia, 13.04.18.
Krasteva, Anna. From civil society without citizenship to green, contestatory and solidary citizenship.-The role of practices at the intersection of civic rights and democracy. Sofia, 23-24.03.18.
Krasteva, Anna. Return – policies, practices, imaginaries.- Return and autobiography, Sofia, 20.03.18.
Krasteva, Anna. Re/De/Constructing the Migration & Development Nexus.- Workshop within the Bulgarian presidency of the Council of the EU of Working Party on Development Cooperation (CODEV) and Working Party on Humanitarian Aid and Food Aid (COHAFA) , Borovets, 18-20,03.18
Anna Krasteva. Facts will not save from fake or the Newspeak of the post-crisis post-democracy.- European societies after crisis, Munich, 12.03.18.
Anna Krasteva. Solidary citizenship in (post)crisis migration situation: European and Bulgarian civic actors and activism.- Migration and human security in post-crisis Bulgaria. European and national, political and civic perspectives. Sofia, 1.03.15
Anna Krasteva. Border politics and the Balkan refugee route: political discourses, images and imaginaries.-Border and migration management conference, Ankara, 21-23.02.18.
Anna Krasteva. Russians in Bulgaria: four waves – four types of integration.- Inclusion and exclusion of migrant communities sharing similar cultural backgrounds with their host societies, Berlin, 20.11.17
Anna Krasteva. Facts will not save (the youth) from fake. Citizenship will.- World Forum for Democracy, Panel “From fake to facts: how to strengthen ties among research, policy and society to counter populism”, Strasbourg, 8-10.11.17.
Anna Krasteva. Moderation and closing speech at the conference ‘Between the worlds: people, spaces and rituals” Sofia, 31.10.17.
Anna Krasteva. European Regional meeting on Development of value based statements. Bratislava, 30.10.17.
Anna Krasteva. E-citoyennete: devenir citoyen a l’ere numerique.- Cours inaugural a l’ESFAM, 2.10.17.
Anna Krasteva. Communication and (post)democracy: the triple populist innovativeness.- Democratic resistance to authoritarian trends in Europe today: legacies, framing and action, Belgrade, 23-24.09.17.
Anna Krasteva. Moderation and opening speech at Restructuring identities v managing minorities, Bertinoro, 15.09.17.
Anna Krasteva. Conspiration et corruption – les deux méga-discours de la transition post-communiste ratée.-Corruption et politique : histoire et sociologie, Avignon, 4-6.09.17.
Anna Krasteva. Refugees and migration in Bulgaria:challeges and solutions.- Bulgaria in the context of migration and challenges to European cohesion, Fulbright seminar in Bulgaria, Sofia, 24.07.17
Anna Krasteva. Youth between far-right populism and human rights.- Interrogating populism from the perspective of vulnerable minorities. Budapest, 17.07.17.
Anna Krasteva. La citoyennete creative post-communiste (conference pleniere). Questionner le tournant creatif : dispositifs, processus et representations, Varna 7-9.06.17.
Anna Krasteva. Civic activism in time of securitization- Securitization and human rights : human security in time of insecurity, Bangkok, 22-26.05.17
Anna Krasteva. Sofia – close city, open city.- Looking beyond the crisis: impact of mass migrations on the local, regional, national and EU governance. Dubrovnik, 11-14.05.17
Anna Krasteva. Mainstreaming of extremism: human rights activists marginalized, violators of human rights heroized. Reflections from the Balkan migration route.- Liquid reconciliation: global perspectives, glocal realities, Sarajevo, 4-6.04.17.
Аnna Krasteva. Les mobilisations citoyennes entre la sécurisation et les droits.- Etat de droit, droits et sécurité humaine en temps d’insécurité, Sofia, 20.03.17.
Anna Krasteva. Political uses of religion in post-communist post-secular Bulgaria.- Bulgarian –american conference “Defense of freedom of religion and fight against the discrimination and religion based violence”, Sofia, 14.03.17.
Anna Krasteva. Migration, religion, European identity.- Religion and migration in the Mediterranean and Europe: research methods, analytics, and policy implications, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, US, 26-27.01.17.
Anna Krasteva. The role of national minorities in Serbia’s cooperation with Bulgaria and Romania.- Bilateral relations and the status of national minorities, Belgrade, 3.01.17.
Krasteva A. Can we have security without freedom of movement.- Saving the European peace project: human security in times of crisis, Athens, 21-13.10.16.
Krasteva A. L’(e-)citoyennete contestataire ou la jeunesse entre l’extremisme et l’engagement.-Forum francophone de la jeunesse, Sofia, 13.0.16.
Krasteva A. Migration policy during migration crisis: (dis)balances in the perspective of human security.- The refugee crisis – challenges to Bulgarian institutions. Prevention and countering the corruption and organized crime, related to the refugee problem. Sofia, 26.09.16.
Krasteva A. The post-communist rise of national populism.- Decline or eclipse of democracy in Europe’s new democracies? Belgrade, 24-25.09.16.
Krasteva A. Migration and Balkan borders in a European and human rights perspective.- European values and security faced with migration and refugee cries – a perspective from the civil society. Skopje, 20.09.16.
Krasteva A. Far-Right Youth. -Breaking down or re-building the walls.- Migration crisis, refugees and security in Southeastern Europe, Bertinoro, 16.09.16.
Krasteva A. The refugee crisis: political and civic perspectives.- workshop of RreCriRe (Horizon 2020 project), Aix en Provence, 14.09.16.
Krasteva A. Civic engagement with refugees.- Syrian refugees ad civic response in Turkey: from humanitarian aid to human security. Istanbul, 25.06.16.
Krasteva A. Crossing borders: the Balkan refugee road.- Intractable human rights situations and failed international responses to crisis, Venice, 9-14.05.16.
Krasteva A. La jeunesse extrême droite - enfants ou soldats des crises.- 25 ans de crises, contestations, mobilisations, 25.04.16.
Krasteva A. La critique des élites : de la radicalité à l’humour.- Le pouvoir des mots : reseaux, radicalisation, derision, Sofia, 14.03.16
Krasteva A. Human trafficking/smuggling and migration challenges.- Countering transnational organized crime conference. Tbilisi, 8-9.03.16.
Krasteva A. The Bulgarian post-communist migration model in a comparative perspective.-The EU as a forum of labor migration - entrepreneurship, exploitation, dignity, Forli, Italy, 3-4.12.15.
Krasteva A. Citoyenneté contestataire: indignation, Internet, imagination. -Partis, élections et mouvements sociaux. Bucarest, 13-14.11.15.
Krasteva A. If borders did not exist Euroscepticism would create them: post-communist bordering discourses and images.- Borders and bordering in contemporary Europe. - Euroborderescapes policy and impact conference, London, 10-12.11.15.
Krasteva A. Protests and new mobilisations: the emergence of new contestatory postcommunist citizenship.- “The State is Us…” Protest against large-scale (construction) projects in Southeastern Europe, Munich, 4-5.11.15.
Krasteva A. Dealing with vulnerability of long-established and newly emerged marginalized groups through public policies and citizen mobilisations. Public hearings of the Committee on Regional Developent of the European Parliament, Brussels, 14.07.15.
Krasteva A. Euroropeanizarion of Balkan/Bulgarian borders.- Eurobordescapes workshop, Villard de Lans, France, 18-19.05.15.
Krasteva A. From greening of the activist Self to ‘Friends of refugees’ or the building of the post-communist contestatory citizenship.- Counterforces to populism, racism, Othering, Helsinki, April 27, 2015.
Krasteva A. Bulgarian radical right.- Perspectives on countering violent extremism for the transatlantic community and beyond. Austin, April 20-21, 2015
Krasteva A. Culture, innovation, développement. Synthèse du colloque international Culture, innovation, développement, Sofia, 20.03.15.
Krasteva A. Populist shifts, rise of extreme right and Othering in Europe: challenges and anti-discrimination strategies. The Bulgarian case.- Populist shifts, rise of extreme right and Othering in Europe: challenges and anti-discrimination strategies, Brussels, 4.03.15.
Globalization, citizenship, new mobilizations.- Int conference “Citizenship and human security”, Istanbul, 25.01.05.
Les frontières sur investies: symboliquement, esthétiquement et politiquement.- Frontières et mobilités, Grenoble, 15.01.15.
Post-transition challenges: the populisms.- 25 years of changes: limits and periodization of the Bulgarian transition, institutions and quality of democracy in Bulgaria, Sofia, 13-14.12.14.
Nouvelles politiques publiques et/ou nouveaux citoyens.- Les études européennes aujourd’hui : enjeux, objectifs, moyens, Paris, 6-8.11.14.
Mobile Balkans: from ‘exit’ to ‘voice’.- Migrations, violence and human rights: the international action against trafficking in human beings, Sarajevo, Oct 24,2014.
Being a Bulgarian abroad (from migration to mobility).- Balkan and Baltic states in united Europe, Sofia, 1-3.10.14.
Migration in white: from ‘classic’ migration to cosmopolitan transnationalism.- Bulgarians abroad, foreigners in Bulgaria, Sofia, 29 – 30.09.14
Politics and poetry of borders: western and eastern images and imaginaries.- First world conference “Post-cold war borders. Global trends and regional responses”, Joensuu, Finland and St
Petersbourg, Russia, June 9 – 13, 2014.
The anti-capitalist impetus of eastern-european populisms.- Autocracy and market economy. The transformation in Eastern Europe and East Asia in comparison, Vienna, 15-17 May, 2014.
Participation at the debate “The dual transformation revisited after 25 years: connections between demo-/autocracy and market economy”.- Autocracy and market economy. The transformation in Eastern Europe and East Asia in comparison, Vienna, 15-17 May, 2014.
L’Europe face à ses nouveaux citoyens mobilises.- L’Europe face à ses nouveaux citoyens : des mobilisations aux élections, Sofia, 16.04.14.
Mobile citizens : European challenges vs Balkan experiences.- Demography, multiculturalism, citizenship, LCC International University, Klaipeda, 4-5.04.14.
Pour une francophonie transversale, innovante et ouverte.- L’état des lieux de la francophonie en Bulgarie, Sofia, 25.03.14.
Frontières dynamiques: de la solidification politique à la liquéfaction symbolique.- Frontières et francophonie, Sofia, 16.03.14.
Challenges and chances for security: Bulgarian and Balkan perspectives.- On the future of Southeast Europe, International security and economic issues: perspectives from the region, St
Edward’s University, Austin, US, 24-26.02.14.
Re/de/construire les sciences sociales par les politiques scientifiques européennes, Caen, 3-4.02.14.
Migration, retour, mobilité : les expériences diversifiées des médecins bulgares.- Migration et sante. Enjeux, tendances et impacts. 29-30.11.13.
Citoyennete europeenne, societe civie et media (moderateur) .- Citoyennete europeenne ou Europe citoyenne, Szeged, 8.12.13.
Du populisme souriant au populisme attaquant.- Mobilités, diversité et populisme identitaire, Cluj, 17-18 octobre 2013.
New populism: from attracting all to excluding some.- Managing diversities. Democratic challenges for a plural society on the way to a European citizenship. Bertinoro, 12-13.09.13.
La nouvelle citoyenneté numérique: acteurs, réseaux, engagements.- Francophonie et citoyenneté numérique, Sofia, 16.10.13
Lines, spaces, borders: images and imaginaries.- European border studies conference, mapping conceptual change in thinking European borders, Bergamo, 3-5.07.13
La rue et l-e-rue.-La rue et l’e- rue, Sofia, 10.06.13.
Internationalisation des sciences sociales (participation a la table ronde).- Quelles sciences humaines et sociales pour le 21 siècle ?, Caen, 6-7.12.12.
Multilingualism and the individual (participation in the round table).- Language rich Europe. Multilingualism for stable and prosperous societies, London, 3-4.12.12.
Mobile brains: Balkan perspectives.- Les migrations intra-européennes à l’aube du XXI siècle. Perspectives pluridisciplinaires. Bordeaux, 29-30.11.12.
Les étudiants bougent: migration ou mobilité scientifique?- Les programmes européens de formation et de recherche dans l’enseignement supérieur : état des lieux et perspectives sur l’espace euro-méditerranéen, Bordeaux, 27.11.12.
Bulgarian doctors in the international health mobility.- Doctors and mobility, Sofia, 22-23.11.12.
Anciennes and nouvelles minorités en Bulgarie: politiques, représentations, théorisations.-Issues of cultural diversity in post-socialist Europe, Fribourg, 15-16 November, 2012.
Lignes dans les espaces, lignes dans les esprits.- Les nouveaux paradigmes des frontieres, Sofia, 8.11.12.
Bulgarian emigration: social and political perspectives.- The social and economic impact of emigration on South-Eastern and Central Europe – liberal perspectives, Bucharest, 27-28.10.12.
Gender stereotypes in education and labor market.- Teacher trade union actions challenging gender stereotypes and gender segregation in the labor market, Warsaw, 11-12.09.12.
Les indignés d’Internet.- Media, Internet, démocratie, Paris, 5.06.12.
Frontières étatiques vs frontières mentales.- Frontières, démocratie, Respublica, Paris, 4.06.12(http://www.sfsic.org/evenements/2154-colloque-frontieres-democratie-a-res-publica)
Bulgarian and Balkan migrations in a comparative perspective.-Migration from and towards Bulgaria (1989 – 2011), Jena, 27-28.04.12.
Francophonie et société civile.-Francophonie et démocratie, Sofia, 20.03.12.
Espace public et Erasmus dans une triple perspective.- Espace public et Erasmus, Paris 8, 12.03.12.
Balkan migrations: types and trends.- Immigration policies and securities in Southern Europe and the Balkans during the current crisis, Athens, 19.12.11.
Les circulations migratoires dans les Balkans.- Aux frontières orientales de l’Europe : migrations et mutations dans les espaces postcommunistes. Réalités et représentations. Paris, 9-10.12.11.
Marges et frontières: regards de la périphérie.- Centre-périphérie, Paris, 1-3.12.11.
Commentator at the panel Migration as challenge and chance for Serbia.- Democracy in unstable social spaces. Vienna, 22.11.11.
Commentator at the panel Social and employment impacts of emigration.- Social and economic impact of migration: Central and East-European perspectives, Warsaw, 7-18.11.11.
Balkan migration models.- Paper at the international conference Migration and identity: historical, cultural and linguistic dimensions of mobility in the Balkans, Sofia, 14-15.10.11.
Competences, mobilities, development.- Paper at the Workshop on emigration issues in the Western Balkans- joint approach to lonking migration and development of the countries of origin. Sarejevo, 13-14.11.
Politics and responsibility: post-communist perspectives.- Paper at the seminar “Responsibility personal and social: Foundations of life in a global age”, Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Washington DC, 21.09.11.
Participation in the seminar “Responsibility personal and social: Foundations of life in a global age”, Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Washington DC, 22.08 – 24.09.11 (http://www.crvp.org/seminar/2011/seminar-11-participants.htm)
L’émergence du citoyen postcommuniste.-Transition démocratique et mutations institutionnelles.- Tunis, Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain, 20.05.11.
Penser et traverser les frontières.- Au-delà les frontières : l’UE entre intégration et relations externes, Forli, 13-14.05.11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wuOTLwrH-U&list=PL0F6DA49FB6B700FE&feature=plcp&context=C301e810FDOEgsToPDskKkEGajF5k6s3rf1L Bs7pWT.
La confiance – une découverte postcommuniste.- La confiance altérée. Montréal, 5-6.05.11.
De la citoyenneté postcommuniste a l’e-citoyenneté.- Citoyennetés et nationalités en Europe, Banska Bystrica, 27-28.04.11.
Ethnicity and democratization – the Western Balkans on its way to the EU. Participation in the round table at the international conference Democratization and Europeanization in the Western Balkans: ethnic diversity as a factor of democratic consolidation, Vienna, 25-26.11.10.
Krasteva A. Migration and employment in Southeastern Europe: European, regional, national, local perspectives. Plenary paper at the international conference Migration and employment: European and regional perspectives, Sofia, 3-5.11.10.
Krasteva A. Francophonie et démocratisation: l’expérience postcommuniste.- Francophonie, fédéralisme et institutions, Montreux, Suisse, 15-16.10.10.
Krasteva A. and V. Ivanova. Labor migration in Bulgaria: employability capacities in urban environment.- Global migration and multiculturalism: religion, society, policy and politics, Surrey, 28-29.06.11 (Book of abstracts, p. 74)
Krasteva A. and V. Ivanova. Labor migration in Bulgaria: employability capacities in urban environment.- Global migration and multiculturalism: religion, society, policy and politics, Surrey, 28-29.06.11 (Book of abstracts, p. 74)
Krasteva A. Being a legal migrant in Bulgaria.- Migrant legality and employment in contemporary Europe. Amsterdam, 9-12.06.10.
Krasteva A. La condition migrante (post)communiste.- Séminaire de recherche de l’Institut d’études avancées, Nantes, 29.04.10.
Krasteva A. Balkan mobiles.- Migration, pluralisation, ethnicisation des sociétés contemporaines. Bruxelles, 26-28.04.10.
Southeastern European migrations: from forced displacement to labor migration.- Internal and international migrations: a comparative perspective, Beijing, March 23-24, 2010.
Participation in the workshop Active aging of migrant elders across Europe. Good practice exchange programme for voluntary organizations. Mannhiem, 15-17.06.09.
Participation a la conference internationale Dialogue des civilisations et diversité culturelle. Kairouan, 2-4.06.09.
Genre et migration en Bulgarie.-Migration to, from and in Southeastern Europe. 5th InASEA conference, Ankara, 21-24.05.09.
Being a citizen: not a profession, but a commitment.- New actors in a new environment: accession to the EU, civil society and multi-level governance, Sofia, 15-16.05.09.
Les pays postcommunistes: de la migration comme contrainte à la mobilité comme liberté.- Les nouvelles configurations de la mobilité humaine, 26-28.11.08, Ponta Delgada.
Participation at the round table “Elargissement et/ou approfondissement de l’OIF, identité linguistique et politique » at the conference “L’identité francophone a l’heure de la mondialisation”, Paris, 13.11.08.
Minorities and security in Bulgaria.- Minorities, regional stability and security in Southeastern Europe, Istanbul, 27-28.10.08.
New minorities, borders and migration.- Empires and nations. Joint conference of Sciences Po and Association for the Studies of Nationalities, Paris, 3-7.07.08.
Conflit, confiance et démocratie en Europe de l’Est.- La Chine et l’internationalisation de la sociologie, Paris, 30.06 – 3.07.08.
Labor migration flows in the republic of Bulgaria.- Labor migration flows in South Eastern Europe, Belgrade, 26-27.06.08.
Balkan migrations in a comparative perspective.- Migration from and to South Eastern Europe. Sofia, 2-3 June 2008.
Co-organizer of the international conference “Integrating (new) immigrants: European experiences”. Sofia, 16-17 May 2008.
Integrating immigrants in Bulgaria.- Integrating (new) immigrants: European experiences. Sofia, 16-17 May 2008.
Organization and moderation of the round table “Being a Bulgarian in Austria” (Red house, Sofia, 26.03.08).
Organization and moderation of the round table “The political carrier” (NBU, Sofia, 25.03.08).
Participation in the British Council Living Together London Summit, London, 12-15.03.08.
CERMES : review of gender and Balkan immigrant perspectives.- Engaging NGOs to facilitate immigrant perspectives, Sofia, 18-19.02.08.
Le scandale politique.-La confiance et le conflit, Paris, 15-16.02.08.
Les femmes immigrées en Bulgarie.-4e Forum Européen de la culture et de la société
« Nationalité, citoyenneté, identité, intégration », 10-11.12.07, Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg.
13 paradoxes of the Bulgarian ethnic model.- Political representation and participation of minorities in the Balkan democratization process, Sofia, 30.11-1.12.07.
Temps, reformes, politiques sociales: avatars (post)communistes.- Les temps des politiques sociales, Fribourg, 22-23.11.07.
Ordre territorial et ordre politique.- The social construction of European territories : borders, region-building and performance. Luxemburg, 20-21.09.07.
Espaces publics (Introduction et présidence).- Université européenne d’été Actualités du concept d’espace (philosophie, arts, sciences humaines), Lyon, 12-21.07.07.
Universities as civil societies actors.- Institutions of research and tertiary education in Central and South Eastern Europe – developments, structures and perspectives for their integration into the European higher education and research area, Graz, 29-30.06.07.
European public sphere. What research agenda in an enlarged union?-Adapting to integration in an enlarged European Union. Sofia, 31.05-1.06.07.
Refugees and immigrants in Bulgaria: between securitarian and human rights concerns.- Migreurop’ workshop, Ljubljana, 28-28.05.07.
Participation at the round table „Die Europaische Union, Bulgarien und Rumanien zwischen Euphorie und Katerstimmung – Anfang oder Ende des Reformprocesses?” 24.05.07, Haus Wittgenstein, Wien.
Migration flows in the Republic of Bulgaria.- Migration flows in Southeastern Europe, Belgrade, 27-28.02.07
Politiques migratoires: expériences belges et défis postcommunistes.- L’influence belge en
Roumanie et en Bulgarie, Bucarest, 30.11-2.12.06.
The case of Bulgaria.- I n : Institutions of research and tertiary education in East and South East Europe – developments, structures and perspectives for their integration into the European higher education and research area, Graz, 24-25 November 2006.
Le français – enjeu identitaire ou diplomatique en Bulgarie.- Géopolitique de la langue française, Paris, 6-7 novembre 2006.
Nationalism and polulism in Southeastern Europe.- ASN conference “Globalization, nationalism and ethnic conflicts in the Balkans and its regional context”, Belgrade, 28 – 30.09.2006.
Europeanisation and institutionalization of migration policy.- The impact of the European Union: case of Bulgaria, case of Turkey, Izmir, 25-27.05.06.
Comment penser le passage de la société fermée a la société ouverte. L’émergence de nouveaux domaines en sciences sociales.- La place des lettres et des sciences humaines dans la société du XXIe siècle, Sofia, 18-20.05.06.
L’individualisme post-communiste.- La reconnaissance dans les sociétés contemporaines, Lyon, 5-6.12.05.
Immigration in Bulgaria : theoretical and political challenges.- Irregular migration, informal labor and community in Europe, Istanbul, 1-2.12.05.
Le citoyen post-communiste.- Identité et citoyenneté, Coimbra, 22-23.11.05.
The political leader like a star.- Hypermodernity and education, Sofia, 22.04.2005.
Francophonie et démocratisation post-communiste.- Situation linguistique de l’Afrique et du monde arabe, Oran et Mostaganem, 10-11.01.05.
Mondialisation et démocratisation: regards de l’Europe et de ses périphéries.- Forum des écrivains et intellectuels francophones, Ouagadougou, 17-20.11.2004.
De l’ethnicité à l’immigration en Bulgarie.- Les migrations de l’Est vers l’Ouest : entre mobilité et installation. Bruxelles, 1.10.04.
La sphère publique post-communiste face à la nouvelle diversité culturelle.- XVIIe congrès international des sociologues de langue française « L’individu social », Tours, 5-9 juillet 2004.
Borders, security and migrations: the European dimension compared.- Functional borders abs sustainable security: integrating the Balkans in the European Union, Forli, 5-6.12.03.
Minorities, European integration, immigration: three challenges to the post-communist nation state.- 35th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 20-23.11.03.
Société pluriculturelle et processus d’unification européenne.- Gouvernance et Europe sociale : les conséquences sociales, économiques et institutionnelles dans la région européenne la moins favorisée. Molyvos, 31.10-1.11.03.
Identité, ethnicité, appartenance.- La place des sciences de l’homme dans la construction d’un espace culturel et politique européen. Colloque bulgaro-italien. Sofia, 18-19.09.03.
Le conflit politique post-communiste.- Conflits, confiance, démocratie, Sofia, 5-7.09.03.
Notre Autre: l’Europe vue par sa périphérie.- Altérité et société, Athènes, 7 – 12.05.03.
La protection sociale des personnes âgées: les nouveaux défis internationaux. Le cas de la Bulgarie (co-autheur D. Kanev).- Le défi social du développement, Geneve, 25.02 – 01.03.2003.
L’organisation administrative des Etats post-socialistes: le défi de la légitimation démocratique face aux héritages (modératrice).- Refonder les territoires, Lyon, 30 – 31.01.03.
Identités ethno-politiques et ethno-religieuses.- Les autres lieux du politique. Dijon, 27.09.02.
Identités minoritaires, identités politiques: trois cas de figure.- Petites sociétés et minorités nationales, 21- 24 août, 2002, Ottawa.
Discussant of panel 5 “Cultural analysis of contemporary nomadism ” and of panel 36 “ Between conflict and mediation : the Bulgarian ethnic model ”.- Nationalsim, identity and regional cooperation : compatibilities and incompatibilities ”, 5-9.06.02, Forly, Italy.
Expérience identitaire.- Construction d’identités, construction de sociétés. Abbaye de Royaumont, 4-5 juin 2002.
Francophonie et société civile.- Le français, langue du monde, Bruxelles, 19 – 20.2002.
Transition démocratique et université.- Enseignement de la sociologie et contextes locaux , Saint Louis, 27.01 - 2.02.2002.
Corruption and social values.- Corruption and the succes of the transition, Sofia, 6.11.01.
Minorities in post-communist states; Ehnic and political identities (discutant).- Nationality and citizenship in post-communist Europe, Paris, 9-10.07.2001.
Le modèle ethnique bulgare.- La Bulgarie et l’intégration européenne, Bruxelles, 21.04.2001.
Intercultural museum and education.-Cultural tourism in Bulgaria, Forli, November 17 - 18, 2000.
Cultural identity.-Cultural identity, pluralism, globalization, Catholic University of America, Washington D.C., September - November 2000.
Ethnicity and power. Factors for shared identities and exclusion.-Balkan connections, Turin, October 18 - 20, 2000.
Les problèmes ethniques dans le discours politique bulgare.-Une société monde, XVIe congres de l'AISLF, Québec, 3-7.07.2000.
Workshop Civil society and cultural diversity, Ohrid, 18-20.03.2000.
Identités communistes et postcommunistes.- Transition et (re)construction des sociétés, Ohrid, 16-18.03.2000.
Social and political actors of the transition.- Ten years of the post-communist transition, 10-12 February 2000, Bertinoro.
Cultural differences and post-communist public space.- Intercultural communication and civil society, Sofia, 30-31.10.99.
Le discours de guerre ou la nostalgie de la pensée binaire.- La pensée binaire, Louvain-la-Neuve, 13-14.10.1999.
Participation at the Round Table "Ten Years after the Transition: Looking Backward and Forward".-4th European Conference of Sociology "Will Europe work?", Amsterdam, August 18 - 21, 1999.
L'identité bulgare.- Mutations des sociétés en Bulgarie et au Québec. Sofia, 30 Juin - 1 Juillet 1999.
Lectures bulgares de l'idée de l'Europe au XX siècle.- Territoires européens, diversité/différence, différenciation/intégration. Paris, 9 Avril 1999.
Ethnocultural dilemmas of the Bulgarian intellectual discourse.- The ethnocultural situation in Bulgaria - 8 years later, Sofia, 29 - 30.01.1999.
Public space and citizenship.- Public sphere and individual responsibility, Belgrade, December 13-15, 1998.
Multiculturalisme ou intégration: dilemmes (post)communistes.- Identité(s): multiculturalisme, intégration?.- Grenoble, 6 - 9 Décembre 1998. Is a (post)communist politics of identities possible?- Sixth conference of the International
Society for the Study if European Ideas “Twentieth Century European Narratives: Tradition and Inovation”, Haifa, 16- 21 August, 1998.
Politique des idées ou politique des identités.- Les sciences sociales face à la question des minorités et de la diaspora en Europe. Strasbourg, 11 - 14.12. 1997
L’identité culturelle bulgare.- Identité culturelle, coexistence culturelle: Thessalonique carrefour pluri-culturel, Thessalonique, 1-3 Octobre 1997.
Politics of presence and politics of ideas.- Int. conference Political language in Britain and Bulgaria, Sofia, 13-14.09.1997.
Ethnocultural difference and power: a Bulgarian case study.- IPSA XVII World Congress Conflict&Order, Seoul, August 17 - 21, 1997.
Histoire et changement: un nouveau mythe postcommuniste?- L’école d’été en sciences sociales “Approches des structures temporelles dans les sciences humaines”, Cluj, 22-30.07.1997.
Attirés ou exclus: le destin des petits groupes minoritaires.- La démocratie à l’épreuve de l’ exclusion, Istanbul, 3-5.07. 1997.
Europe and the constituting of modern Bulgaria (in collaboration with G.Dimitrov) .-Europe@Balkans international network conference, Bologna, 5 - 7.12.1996.
Les Bulgares musulmans: une identité crucifiée.- Colloque Les oublies des Balkans, Paris, 24 - 26.1996.
Ourselves as strangers and vice versa.- Nat. conference Bulgaria in XXI century, Veliko Tirnovo,18 - 20.10.1996.
Attraction and punishment: a case study of minority - majority relations.- Int. congress Memory, history and critique: European identity at the millennium, Utrecht, 19 - 24.08.1996.
Groupes minoritaires et espace public.- Congrès de l’AISLF, Evora, 8-12.07.1996. Attitudes
culturelles et (re)écriture de l'histoire.- Séminaire de l'Unesco "Interaction entre l'école et le milieu culturel", Bankia, 1 - 3. 11. 1995.
Identités et différences. - Colloque int. "Les Balkans - carrrefour ethnique et culturel: aspects culturels et éducationnels", Sofia, 27 - 30.05.1995.
Identités et mémoire.- Séminaire de l'AISLF "Relations interethniques et apparition de nouveaux acteurs sociaux", Sozopol, 15 - 20.05.1995.