Anamaria Remete TEMA EMMC 2nd year Ethnicity Revisited: the Case of Higher Educated Younger Generation Roma in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe Abstract This research aims to explore the self perception of ethnicity of younger generation Roma in Central and Eastern Europe. The sample population is represented by two groups of higher educated Roma. First those who were beneficiaries of the university scholarships granted by the Open Society Institute's Roma Initiatives. Second those who are working in Roma-focused NGO advocacy organizations. The organisations are: the Open Society Institute-Budapest, European Roma Rights Centre also in Budapest, the European Roma Information Office in Brussels and the European Roma and Travellers Forum by the Council of Europe in Strasbourg . This strategy of the Open Society Institute and the above mentioned NGOs has only a short history, which will be discussed further in the study. The self perception dimension is going to be analyzed through the application of the concept of "everyday ethnicity" as developed by scholars Rogers Brubaker, Paloma Gay y Blasco and Carol Silverman in order to gain insight into the dynamics of the factors that come into play in the process of creating meaning for young and higher-educated Roma in countries from Central and Eastern...

The life expectancy development during the past 150 years has been remarkable in many parts of the world. These developments, however, have been very different across countries. In Europe, the diverse historical and political changes lead to clusters of regions that followed different mortality developments. The aim of this study was to examine how countries that entered the European Union in 2004 and 2007 differ in terms of mortality from continuous members of the EU and from Eastern European countries that have never joined the EU. Moreover, I studied a possible convergence in mortality indicators between these groups of countries. The data used to explore mortality conditions in those groups of countries was derived from two sources: The Human Mortality Database and European Health for All Database. Descriptive statistics and calculations of average yearly pace of change for groups of countries have been applied for each mortality indicator. Furthermore, regression models have been conducted to estimate the impact of belonging to a country group on mortality indicators, adjusted for some macro-level indicators of economic progress and health expenditure. The results verified previous research implying the importance of period factors which can affect mortality in the short term. For all mortality indicators, accelerated improvements between 1995 and 1999 have been found in countries who became EU members in 2004. Moreover, life expectancy convergence was observed for life expectancy at birth but not for the older ages which could imply that the positive progress affected older ages to smaller degree. My findings confirm the importance of social environment and imply that the process of joining the EU possibly could reduce social stress and affect mortality conditions positively.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universität der Bundeswehr, Hamburg (Germany), 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-192).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2004. / Adviser: Roger I. Simon.

In the end of the 1980s and in the beginning of the 1990s Europe and the world witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the mid-1990s the member states of the European Union decided to enlarge the Union towards the Eastern Europe. Thus European integration entered into an unprecedented phase. Integration of the Eastern Europeans with the Western Europe contributed to the debates on the notions of European identity and the idea of Europe. Adherence of the East Europeans to the ideals of the Western European civilization brought up some questions about the changing identities and shifting boundaries of Europe. Various theories deal with the problems of identity in general and European identity in particular. However to a great extent they are limited within a rigid description of self-other relationship. They do not intend to investigate the real motives or purposes behind these transformations of the prevailing identities and shifting of the boundaries of Europe. So, it will be argued that, in order to understand construction/reconstruction process of the new European identity, one should also take into consideration the more dynamic effects on changing European identity and shifting borders of Europe.

Matteo Colombi und seine Co-Autoren verfolgen mit Stadt, Mord, Ordnung ein anspruchsvolles Ziel, nämlich den osteuropäischen Krimi und seine teilweise exotisch wirkenden Schauplätze von allen Seiten zu beleuchten: „Kann man behaupten, dass jede ost- und mitteleuropäische Stadt ihre spezifische Topographie des Verbrechens produziert, die sich aus der Geschichte und Geographie des Ortes speist?“, so eine der zu untersuchenden Fragen. Der Sammelband dokumentiert die Ergebnisse der internationalen Konferenz „Stadt – Mord – Ordnung. Urbane Settings in der Kriminalliteratur aus Ost-Mittel-Europa“, die vom 25. bis zum 26. 03. 2010 am Geisteswissenschaftlichen Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO) in Leipzig stattfand. Insgesamt sind es dreizehn Aufsätze von Slavisten, Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaftlern, Narratologen und Komparatisten, in denen das Thema umfassend behandelt wird, denn die Konferenz stand in Zusammenhang mit dem von Alfrun Kliems geleiteten DFG-Projekt „Imagination des Urbanen in Ostmitteleuropa. Stadtplanung – Visuelle Kultur – Dichtung im 20. Jahrhundert“ (2006–2010), in dessen Rahmen Stadtlandschaften nach der Wende untersucht wurden. Dies schließt eine Betrachtung der politischen, gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Veränderungen dieser Zeit mit ein, die auch im Kriminalroman repräsentiert und verarbeitet werden.

Julie/Julia stands out in several ways. What had begun, in 2002/2003, as a highly popular blog, in which New Yorker Julie Powell tracks her experience of cooking all the recipes in Julia Child’s classic cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cookery, became one of the first notable, commercially successful "blooks"—a neologism that denotes blogs adapted into books. As a visible sign of this achievement, The Ju-lie/Julia Project was awarded with the inaugural “Blooker Prize” in 2006. A few years later, Julie/Julia again pioneered in being the first blog (or blook, for that matter) to be adapted into a Hollywood movie, Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia. In the following, I want to discuss Julie/Julia, and its adaptations from blog to book to film, as an instructive case study of life writing in the digital age.

This thesis deals with cultural differences and creation of marketing campaign according to the nationality of the consumer. The theoretical part discusses the principles of marketing campaign, intercultural marketing and cultural diversity. Two researches will be carried out in this work: the first research aims to determine whether advertising enters into a stylish and cultural conflict with the social environment, the second research aims to make recommendations for creating marketing campaigns for selected countries based on secondary data.