I’ll be flying to Croatia in a few days for a three-day symposium on contemporary student activism.

The meeting, “Student Protests of 2009: Methods, Context, and Implications,” (or, in the original Croatian, Studentski Prosvjedi 2009: Metode, Kontekst, I Implikacije) is being sponsored by the Sociology students’ organization at the University of Zagreb, which saw a series of student occupations last spring. The upcoming event grew out of that experience, and out of the broader wave of student activism that’s been sweeping Europe in recent months. (The call for papers can be found here.)

I’ll have more to say about the symposium before it happens, and I’ll be blogging and tweeting about it while it’s going on, but for now here’s the schedule:

Friday

Does the Actual European Bologna strategy Respond to the European Students’ Aspirations?, Guillaume Sylvestre, France

The Struggle to Free Higher Education, Luka Matic, Croatia

Bachelor of Ass, Marcel Mansouri, Germany

Opening Banquet

Saturday

Politics in Education, Adis Sadikovic and Gorica Stevanovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina

From Democracy to Social Issues? Student Protests in Serbia Since the Early 1990s, Dorde Tomic, Germany

American Student Organizing in an Age of Social Networks, Angus Johnston, United States

The Student Protests as a Test for Civic Society, Kristiyan Vladislavov Hristov and Diana Boykova Velcheva, Bulgaria

Transitional Education, Azra Hadzihajdic and Emin Eminagic, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sunday

Affective Politics, Zdravko Popovic, Croatia

Types of Protest Participants: An Empirical Analysis, panel presentation, Croatia

Croatian Student Protests and Video Cameras: The Importance of Filming as Much As Possible, Igor Bezinovic, Croatia

Short Film

Roundtable Discussion