Program 2013

Monday - 5 August

MANAGING ETHNOCULTURAL DIVERSITY IN EUROPE: MACRO-POLITICAL PRACTICES AND INTERNATIONAL NORMS

08:45   Welcome Address – Prof. Norbert Kis, Vice Rector of NUPS

9:00 – 10:45    Dr. David Keane, Middlesex University

• Implementation of International Human Rights Norms

Coffee break

10:45 – 12:15  Dr. Anna-Mária Bíró, Director of the Tom Lantos Institute

• Overview of existing international norms
  (Group discussion) 6 groups, all presenting something – 20 min group + 10 min presentation + 15 minutes summary and conclusion

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30  Prof. Jennifer Jackson-Preece, professor, London School of Economics

• The evolution of European international minority rights protection regime

Coffee break

15:45 – 17:15  Prof. Stefan Wolff, professor, University of Birmingham

• Different Constitutional Perspectives of Minority Accommodation and Integration in Central and Eastern Europe

19.00   Guided tour of Budapest

Tuesday 6 August

INTERNATIONAL NORMS: EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS, MECHANISMS AND THE CIVIL SOCIETY

09:00 – 10:30  Prof. Rainer Hoffmann, professor, University of Frankfurt, former chairman of the FCNM AC,

• The Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities – lessons learnt

Coffee break

10:45 – 12:15  Dr. Balázs Vizi, associate professor, National University of Public Service

• Monitoring Minority Rights in the EU Enlargement Process

12:30 – 14:00 Lunchbreak

14:00 – 15:30  Dr. Anna-Mária Bíró, Tom Lantos Institute

• Civil society and international norms: the case of minority protection

15:45 – 17:30 Bálint-ház (Side-event)

          Máté Fischer, Tom Lantos Institute

• Presentation of the Tom Lantos Institute and its programme “Jewish life and anti-Semitism”

          Dr. Richárd Papp, Eötvös Lorand University

• Jewish communities in Central Europe: revival and inter-ethnic relations viewed through jokes

Dinner at Kőleves restaurant

Wednesday 7 August

IMPLEMENTING MINORITY RIGHTS: COUNTRY CASES (GREECE AND HUNGARY)

09:00 – 10:30  Dr. Ali Huseyinoglu, Research Fellow, Culture and Education Foundation of Western Thrace Minority (C.E.FO.M.), Komotini/Greece

• "Survival of a minority at the southeasternmost borderland of the EU: Muslim Turks of Western Thrace in Greece"

Coffee break

10:45-12:15 Dr. András L. Pap, research fellow Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

• The Hungarian Minority Protection System

12:30 – 14:00  Lunch break

14:00 – 17:00  Student Presentations

19:00   Hungarian cuisine evening and wine testing

Thursday 8 August

IMPLEMENTING MINORITY RIGHTS: COUNTRY CASES (SERBIA, KOSOVO AND ROMANIA) AND THE CASE OF A TRANSNATIONAL MINORITY: THE ROMA

09:00 – 10:30  Dr. Tamás Korhecz, President of the Hungarian National Minority Council

• Minority Rights, Decentralisation and the Effective Implementation of Norms in Serbia

Coffee break

10:45 – 12:15  Gergely Dezideriu, director of the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) in Budapest

• The Implementation of Roma Rights within the Minority Rigths Protection Regime

12.30-14.00    Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30  Prof. Levente Salat, professor, Babes-Bolyai University

• Minority rights in a nation-state: the case of Romania

15:45 – 16:30  Lars Burema, European Centre for Minority Issues, Kosovo Office (TBC)

• The direct implementation of international minority rights standards in Kosovo: mission impossible?

17:00   Meeting in the Parliament (side-event)

Friday 9 August

IMPLEMENTING MINORITY RIGHTS: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES

09:00 – 12:00

Roundtable discussion on ethnic-based decentralisation and the competences of regional authorities in CEE and SEE

Open event

12:00 – 13:00  Lunch break

14:00   Field trip to Szentendre

19:00   Evaluation, distribution of certificates, and the dinner in the garden

Saturday 10 August

Departure of participants