Adriano Remiddi
I am an experienced practitioner in the field of development cooperation for higher education, committed to furthering democracy and human rights education in post-conflict, developing and transitional societies. I hold a diversified experience characterized by a merger of a classic academic profile with a managerial one, gained over 10 years of both academic and work experience in Southeast Europe and most recently in the Asia-Pacific.
From 2019 I lead the EU-funded capacity building project aimed at establishing the Human Rights Centre of the National University of Timor-Leste (UNTL). Previously I worked as Academic Tutor (2013-16) and subsequently as Academic Coordinator (2016-19) of the Regional MA in Democracy and Human Rights (University of Sarajevo/Bologna) on behalf of the Institute for Central-Eastern and Balkan Europe/University of Bologna (IECOB).
Between 2011 and 2019 as a research fellow at IECOB in regional studies I also lectured internationally, published papers and articles, joined research and editorial projects, organized scientific conferences and participated in a number of panels as speaker. From 2014 I am the president of the alumni association of the joint MA in Eastern European Studies of Bologna University.
My expertise is on Post-Socialist Transition and European Integration in CEE and SEE; democracy and human rights; migration and diaspora studies.
Supervisors: Prof. Manfred Nowak, Prof. Stefano Bianchini, Prof. Mike Hayes, and Prof. Prof. Neven Andjelic
From 2019 I lead the EU-funded capacity building project aimed at establishing the Human Rights Centre of the National University of Timor-Leste (UNTL). Previously I worked as Academic Tutor (2013-16) and subsequently as Academic Coordinator (2016-19) of the Regional MA in Democracy and Human Rights (University of Sarajevo/Bologna) on behalf of the Institute for Central-Eastern and Balkan Europe/University of Bologna (IECOB).
Between 2011 and 2019 as a research fellow at IECOB in regional studies I also lectured internationally, published papers and articles, joined research and editorial projects, organized scientific conferences and participated in a number of panels as speaker. From 2014 I am the president of the alumni association of the joint MA in Eastern European Studies of Bologna University.
My expertise is on Post-Socialist Transition and European Integration in CEE and SEE; democracy and human rights; migration and diaspora studies.
Supervisors: Prof. Manfred Nowak, Prof. Stefano Bianchini, Prof. Mike Hayes, and Prof. Prof. Neven Andjelic
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Conference and Speeches by Adriano Remiddi
The event is organized by the School of Political sciences- Forlì Campus in cooperation with MIREES Alumni Association MAiA and with the network OpportuniSID and it is aimed at highlighting the training our programs offer for future international careers.
Speakers are previous students of the Forlì campus who now work at international level and who will tell their experiences and will give advices and useful indications.
The seminar featured presentations by the recognized professors, focusing on the advancement of universal freedoms in relation to the EU accession process and the importance of freedom and pluralism of the media globally and in the Balkans.
Panelist:
Professor Wolfgang Benedek, University of Graz
Lejla Turčilo, University of Sarajevo - Faculty of Political Science
The Global Campus of Human Rights
International Conference 2017 is
focused on the nexus between human
rights protection and the perspective of
reconciliation in divided societies. The
conditions under which reconciliation
and the defense of human rights are
treated depend on a variety of aspects,
according to the historical events and
individual tragedies experienced in each
country/region. Therefore, the comparative
approach is the mark for each proposed
panel of the conference. The key concepts
the conference will tackle are memory,
justice and the role of the truth and
reconciliation commissions, dealing with
the past as well as empathy, forgiveness and
the social cleavages.
The Conference is organized by the
University of Sarajevo, with the Center for
Interdisciplinary Studies, and
the University of Bologna, with the Institute
for Central-Eastern and Balkan Europe,
through their joint activity ‘’European
Regional Master’s Programme in
Democracy and Human Rights in South
East Europe (ERMA)’’
This conference is realized within the
framework of the Global Campus of
Master’s Programmes and Diplomas
in Human Rights and Democratisation,
coordinated by the European Inter-
University Centre for Human Rights and
Democratization, funded by the European
Union. The Global Campus of Human
Rights is a unique network of more than one
hundred participating universities around
the world, seeking to advance human rights
and democracy through regional and global
cooperation for education and research.
This global network is promoted through
seven Regional Programmes which are
based in Venice for Europe, in Sarajevo/
Bologna for South East Europe, in Yerevan
for the Caucasus, in Pretoria for Africa, in
Bangkok for Asia-Pacific, in Buenos Aires
for Latin America and the Caribbean, and in
Beirut for the Arab World.
On the second day of the convention, the MIREES Alumni International Association joined forces with the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture in the panel «Do(n’t) YU Remember? Rethinking the Memory of the 20th Century Wars in Former Yugoslavia», chaired by the President of the MAiA Executive Board Adriano Remiddi together with the panelists Jelena Đurejnović, Nikola Baković, Rodoljub Jovanović and with the discussant Dora Komnenović.
Fueled by decades of violence in the Region, the Balkan immigration to Australia witnessed
a fostering of the ethno-national identities and the rising of tension based on historical rivalries: especially in the 1970s isolation from homeland turned to be a “nursery of ethno-nationalism”.
Nevertheless more recently two elements are reshaping the identity of the Balkan Diaspora in Australia, weakening its nationalism and animosity. First is the switch from the assimilation policies to multiculturalism and second is the arrival in the 1990s of a new immigration cohort generated by the Yugoslav wars.
As a consequence of the joint interaction of these two factors, the Balkan
community demonstrates today to be less inclined to the nationalist mythization
of the homeland, becoming more oriented towards cosmopolitanism and political disengagement. This led to an evident softening of the inter-ethnic tensions.
Regardless of that, prejudicial media campaigns against Balkan community are still frequent. Australian media tend to amplify occasional manifestations of patriotism and public displays of ‘ethnic hatred’ carried out by Balkan people. This contributes to maintain alive the perception of Balkan groups as dangerous outsiders, politically deviated and socially distrustful. Such an image is nowadays deceptive and does not take into consideration the transformations and reconciliation processes affecting the overall community, jeopardizing the full integration of the recent cohorts of immigrants into Australia.
This panel is the result of the joint work of the Macro-regional Research Team set by IECOB/University of Bologna under the guidance of Prof. Stefano Bianchini to respond to the EU-EUSAIR CSO public consultation in 2013/14.
Lectures & Teaching activities by Adriano Remiddi
The session was delivered in Dili, Timor-Leste, on August 13th 2024 within the 32nd edition of the "Annual Human Rights and People’s Diplomacy Training Programme" by the DTP, affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Founded by Peace Nobel Laureate and Timorese President José Ramos-Horta in 1989, the annual training is one of the most established and prestigious human rights education courses in the Asia-Pacific.
During two intense weeks of classes, workshops, hands-on activities and field visits, students had the opportunity to learn about human rights standards, UN special procedures, sustainable development, lobbying and advocacy techniques, solidarity and movement building thanks to leading experts and practitioners, among them Joshua Cooper, Surya Deva, Ian Martin and Bella Galhos.
What happens when your initial working hypothesis is proven wrong after field-work and data gathering? Do not panic, because things can - and to some extend should - go wrong from the first planning to the actual working on a research idea. This is an often neglected aspect of methodology, and that has a lot to do with wrong expectations, peer-pressure and eventually integrity of the scientific work. We will offer tips and advice on what to keep in mind and what to do when your research seems to have gone out of track. And the result may eventually be even better than in the original plan!
The lectures cycle is an opportunity to link the curricular studies with concrete political, social and economic dynamics of the Eastern European space from the practitioners' experience of leading MIREES alumni.
As Eastern Europe experts we happen to ask ourselves whether we have committed to a too narrow field of specialization which may cut us out from some opportunities, e. g. those related to other world regions.
In this lesson we will see how, on the very contrary, a multidisciplinary area studies background can play a key role also when approaching brand new contexts, since it strongly prepares, intellectually and morally, to deal with diversity and the traps of flattening the complexity in search of oversimplifications.
The event is organized by the School of Political sciences- Forlì Campus in cooperation with MIREES Alumni Association MAiA and with the network OpportuniSID and it is aimed at highlighting the training our programs offer for future international careers.
Speakers are previous students of the Forlì campus who now work at international level and who will tell their experiences and will give advices and useful indications.
The seminar featured presentations by the recognized professors, focusing on the advancement of universal freedoms in relation to the EU accession process and the importance of freedom and pluralism of the media globally and in the Balkans.
Panelist:
Professor Wolfgang Benedek, University of Graz
Lejla Turčilo, University of Sarajevo - Faculty of Political Science
The Global Campus of Human Rights
International Conference 2017 is
focused on the nexus between human
rights protection and the perspective of
reconciliation in divided societies. The
conditions under which reconciliation
and the defense of human rights are
treated depend on a variety of aspects,
according to the historical events and
individual tragedies experienced in each
country/region. Therefore, the comparative
approach is the mark for each proposed
panel of the conference. The key concepts
the conference will tackle are memory,
justice and the role of the truth and
reconciliation commissions, dealing with
the past as well as empathy, forgiveness and
the social cleavages.
The Conference is organized by the
University of Sarajevo, with the Center for
Interdisciplinary Studies, and
the University of Bologna, with the Institute
for Central-Eastern and Balkan Europe,
through their joint activity ‘’European
Regional Master’s Programme in
Democracy and Human Rights in South
East Europe (ERMA)’’
This conference is realized within the
framework of the Global Campus of
Master’s Programmes and Diplomas
in Human Rights and Democratisation,
coordinated by the European Inter-
University Centre for Human Rights and
Democratization, funded by the European
Union. The Global Campus of Human
Rights is a unique network of more than one
hundred participating universities around
the world, seeking to advance human rights
and democracy through regional and global
cooperation for education and research.
This global network is promoted through
seven Regional Programmes which are
based in Venice for Europe, in Sarajevo/
Bologna for South East Europe, in Yerevan
for the Caucasus, in Pretoria for Africa, in
Bangkok for Asia-Pacific, in Buenos Aires
for Latin America and the Caribbean, and in
Beirut for the Arab World.
On the second day of the convention, the MIREES Alumni International Association joined forces with the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture in the panel «Do(n’t) YU Remember? Rethinking the Memory of the 20th Century Wars in Former Yugoslavia», chaired by the President of the MAiA Executive Board Adriano Remiddi together with the panelists Jelena Đurejnović, Nikola Baković, Rodoljub Jovanović and with the discussant Dora Komnenović.
Fueled by decades of violence in the Region, the Balkan immigration to Australia witnessed
a fostering of the ethno-national identities and the rising of tension based on historical rivalries: especially in the 1970s isolation from homeland turned to be a “nursery of ethno-nationalism”.
Nevertheless more recently two elements are reshaping the identity of the Balkan Diaspora in Australia, weakening its nationalism and animosity. First is the switch from the assimilation policies to multiculturalism and second is the arrival in the 1990s of a new immigration cohort generated by the Yugoslav wars.
As a consequence of the joint interaction of these two factors, the Balkan
community demonstrates today to be less inclined to the nationalist mythization
of the homeland, becoming more oriented towards cosmopolitanism and political disengagement. This led to an evident softening of the inter-ethnic tensions.
Regardless of that, prejudicial media campaigns against Balkan community are still frequent. Australian media tend to amplify occasional manifestations of patriotism and public displays of ‘ethnic hatred’ carried out by Balkan people. This contributes to maintain alive the perception of Balkan groups as dangerous outsiders, politically deviated and socially distrustful. Such an image is nowadays deceptive and does not take into consideration the transformations and reconciliation processes affecting the overall community, jeopardizing the full integration of the recent cohorts of immigrants into Australia.
This panel is the result of the joint work of the Macro-regional Research Team set by IECOB/University of Bologna under the guidance of Prof. Stefano Bianchini to respond to the EU-EUSAIR CSO public consultation in 2013/14.
The session was delivered in Dili, Timor-Leste, on August 13th 2024 within the 32nd edition of the "Annual Human Rights and People’s Diplomacy Training Programme" by the DTP, affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Founded by Peace Nobel Laureate and Timorese President José Ramos-Horta in 1989, the annual training is one of the most established and prestigious human rights education courses in the Asia-Pacific.
During two intense weeks of classes, workshops, hands-on activities and field visits, students had the opportunity to learn about human rights standards, UN special procedures, sustainable development, lobbying and advocacy techniques, solidarity and movement building thanks to leading experts and practitioners, among them Joshua Cooper, Surya Deva, Ian Martin and Bella Galhos.
What happens when your initial working hypothesis is proven wrong after field-work and data gathering? Do not panic, because things can - and to some extend should - go wrong from the first planning to the actual working on a research idea. This is an often neglected aspect of methodology, and that has a lot to do with wrong expectations, peer-pressure and eventually integrity of the scientific work. We will offer tips and advice on what to keep in mind and what to do when your research seems to have gone out of track. And the result may eventually be even better than in the original plan!
The lectures cycle is an opportunity to link the curricular studies with concrete political, social and economic dynamics of the Eastern European space from the practitioners' experience of leading MIREES alumni.
As Eastern Europe experts we happen to ask ourselves whether we have committed to a too narrow field of specialization which may cut us out from some opportunities, e. g. those related to other world regions.
In this lesson we will see how, on the very contrary, a multidisciplinary area studies background can play a key role also when approaching brand new contexts, since it strongly prepares, intellectually and morally, to deal with diversity and the traps of flattening the complexity in search of oversimplifications.
This modules gives an introduction to the case study method and, more specifically, to the strategies of comparative research and analysis. The focus is placed on the qualitative dimension of these two approaches, with the aim to equip the students with the necessary methodological skills to turn their research ideas into viable and relevant research projects, based on i) reasonable, logical, sound research questions and hypotheses, ii) a comprehensive theoretical framework; iii) the contextualization of the problem or phenomenon being investigated; iv) the elaboration of a suitable comparative approach through the selection of relevant variables; v) the elaboration and discussion of the main findings. The module reflects the specific requirements of the II cluster paper, but is also directed at those students who wish to take a comparative approach in their final MA theses.
The module is an introduction to the basic principles and specificities of academic writing as a useful tool for reporting research results. Attention is given to issues dealing with the presentation and reporting of research results in academic papers, such as cluster papers, MA theses or research papers to be published in academic journals. The focus is on the main aspects of academic writing style, referencing, argument-based writing, data display, issues of plagiarism, etc. The course aims at helping students write academic papers in an appropriate style, using sound and strong arguments; to be able to present research findings in a clear manner; to competently and critically read, evaluate and interpret theories, concepts and different positions from relevant literature; and to be able to formulate their own ideas, avoiding the pitfalls of plagiarism. Over the academic year the course will be integrated by weekly consultations with the academic tutors, which are intended to guide the students through their academic paper and thesis writing process.
The post-socialist and post-conflict transition and transformation process in the Balkan region witnessed a series of successes, but was also confronted with dangerous threats. The protection of minorities, the rise of citizens’ distrust toward the political performance of local élites, the limitations of media and research freedom, and the effectiveness of EU democracy promotion policies have vividly characterized the political and social discourse of the year. In this regard, the effect and hopes set out in the EU integration project and the accession negotiations have been under the spotlight.
in the history of Australia, having contributed to altering the sociocultural
landscape of the country. Settled during four main immigration
flows, over time Yugoslav immigrants witnessed the fostering of their
respective ethno-national identities, leading to the rise of animosity
and rivalry, especially among the royalist, anti-communist and
secessionist fringes. The isolation from the homeland proved to be a
“nursery of ethno-nationalism”, and the term diaspora itself assumed a
disparaging and politicized connotation. Nevertheless, challenging the
classical theories of long-distance nationalism, this paper argues that,
in the aftermath of the disintegration of Yugoslavia, diaspora members
gradually redefined their priorities, opting for disengagement from
homeland affairs and softening of inter-ethnic tensions. This dynamic
is evident in the Serb and Croat communities and can be understood as
a result of the shift from assimilation policies to multiculturalism which
occurred in the 1970s-80s, and the arrival of a new immigration cohort
in the 1980s-90s; the interplay of these two factors has been reshaping
the identity of the communities through the advance of dynamics of
cosmopolitanism, hybridization, fluidity and acculturation.
dell’umanità [1], provocando talvolta spostamenti di popolazioni
che hanno permesso di popolare interi continenti. Da queste
dinamiche non sono rimasti esclusi i territori della regione
balcanica, dove guerre, occupazioni, persecuzione e instabilità
socio-economica hanno spinto lontano dalle terre d’origine
milioni di emigranti in cerca di un riparo sicuro.