PETER VERMEERSCH is professor of political science at the University of Leuven in Belgium (KU Leuven) and a former Senior Research Fellow of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FWO). He is currently affiliated with the Institute for International and European Policy and the Centre for Research on Peace and Development. In 2007 and 2008, he was a visiting scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. He is a graduate of the University of Leuven, but he also studied, lived and conducted research in Kraków, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest and Venice.

He is the author of The Romani Movement: Minority Politics and Ethnic Mobilization in Contemporary Central Europe (Berghahn Books, 2006) and Het Vredesfront (The Peace Front, Acco Publishers, 2011). His research focuses on ethnic mobilization, minority politics, multicultural citizenship, resurgent nationalism and party politics in Central Europe and in the Balkans. Articles by Peter Vermeersch have appeared in academic journals such as The European Journal of Sociology, Europe-Asia Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and East European Politics and Societies.

In addition he publishes essays and poetry and is strongly engaged in the vibrant and multilingual cultural scene of Brussels, the city where he lives. He is a board member of PEN Flanders and serves on the editorial board of Karakter, a Dutch-language journal that publishes essays about all aspects of science. Together with David Van Reybrouck he runs the Brussels Poetry Collective. In 2009 he edited The European Constitution in Verse, a project in which 52 poets from all over Europe participated. He was also the editor of Letters to Europe (Passa Porta, 2011), a collection of essays about Europe by writers from the four corners of the world.
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Recent and upcoming talks

» 15 May 2012
A conversation on Direct or Representative Democracy at the Subversive Forum, Zagreb.
» 9 May 2012
Duizend heuvels,  a conversation with Koen Peeters and Koen Vlassenroot, Leuven.
» 15 March 2012
Presentation at the symposium Beyond the Ballot, Dublin.
12 January 2012
» Discussion with Dick Pels on Populism and Democracy at STUK, Leuven
» 8 November 2011
Presentation of A Handbook of Dialogue, at Passa Porta, Brussels.
» 30 September 2011
Paper presentation at the ASN Moscow Conference.
» 26 September 2011
Launch of the Transpoesie project, at Passa Porta, Brussels.
» 2-4 June 2011
Conference on "The many faces of citizenship", organized by CITSEE
Recent academic articles

» Reframing the Roma: EU Initiatives and the Politics of Reinterpretation
» Backdoor Nationalism
» Contesting Europe: Strategies and Legacies in Polish Political Competition


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