Torsello, Davide - Pappová, Melinda: Social Networks in Movement. Time, interaction and interethnic spaces in Central Eastern Europe - Nostra Tempora 8. (Somorja-Dunaszerdahely, 2003)
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Research on the ethnic problematic 279 partners, including foreign institutes in Budapest, Prague and Kiev, we would like to expand our cooperative efforts with other universities and research institutes both at home (especially with Prešov University and the University of P.J. Šafárik) and abroad (for example, Masaryk University in Brno, Charles University in Prague and Silesian University in Opava). We consider it extremely important to establish and re-establish, as well as to intensify our co-operation with institutions in West-European countries (in particular in England, France, Germany, Austria, and Belgium). For the fourth year the Institute has published an electronic interdisciplinary journal, Man and Society, which presents results of research conducted by our staff. The journal also dedicates space to other social science disciplines.3 The Institute conducts research on ethnic problems - both general questions of national relations, as well as issues of single ethnic groups who currently live within the borders of Slovakia.4 In the early 1990s, the general definition of the minorities issue was characteristic of our research interests. Several research projects were undertaken within the framework of grant projects: for instance, "Minority ethnic communities in Slovakia in the processes of social transformation’’5 and “Development of ethnic minority communities in Slovakia between 1918-1990, ”6 both of which financed by the VEGA agency. In 1995, two more projects were launched under the titles “Development of ethnic minorities after the World War II and interethnic relations in Slovakia”7 and “Intergenerational memory as a mediator for forming new identities in the process of transformation of the Slovak society”.8 These projects included a number of significant events: our Institute co-organised the conference “Nation and State” in Maribor, in February 1992 and the second meeting of the Slovak- Hungarian Forum in Bratislava, in March 1992. In 1994, we co-organised with the Historical Institute at SAV, L’lnstitute d’histoire du Temps of Paris and Le Centre Française de Recherche en Sciences Sociales of Prague the final workshop of the research project “History and memory of the Second World War in Bohemia, Slovakia, France and in
