KEY NOTE SPEAKERS

Dumitru OTOVESCU, professor and Dean of Faculty of Social Science, University of Craiova, director of Social Institute Oltenia. His research specialties focus on: General Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Social Rural and Urban Monography. Research pools. He has coordinated over 50 field research, over 20 books and volumes, over 80 studies and published articles.
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Daniel CHIROT, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. His research specialties focus on: ethnic conflict and conflict resolution, political tyranny, socio-political change and comparative historical sociology, Eastern Europe and post-communism.
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Robert Leonardi, Jean Monnet Senior Lecturer in European Union Politics and Director of the European Institute at London School of Economics. His research specialties focus on: European Policy, Italian Politics, Planning; Policy, Politics, Regional Government.
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Cristian PARVULESCU, (b. January 9, 1965) is a Romanian political analyst, activist, journalist, and essayist. He is an assistant professor at the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA) in Bucharest, and became its Dean in December 2005. Pārvulescu is an active figure in the Romanian post-1989 Revolution non-governmental organization scene. He has been president of Pro Democratia since 1999, is a founding member of the Romanian Political Science Association, and counselor for the World Bank Comprehensive Development Frame Program. He has published a series of articles, studies and papers, and has taken part in a large number of seminars, debates, congresses, conferences, symposia and round tables.
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Michael HECHTER, Foundation Professor of Global Studies, has taught at the Universities of Washington, Arizona and Oxford. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences and the Russell Sage Foundation, and was a visiting professor at the Universities of Bergen and Llubljana. Hechter's research revolves around three distinct themes. The first concerns the causes of nationalism and group solidarity. This work attempts to account for the political salience of cultural distinctions, especially in advanced societies. A second theme advances rational choice explanations of macrosocial outcomes. A third concerns the role and measurement of individual values in social theory. He is presently working on a book on the causes and consequences of alien rule.
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