Program 2023

Global Minority Rights Summer School 2023

Decolonization and Minority Rights

July 10-15, 2023

(all times refer to Budapest time, UTC +2)

 

Sunday, July 9

Arrival Day

 

Dinner

Butler Terrace – Ludovika Campus

 

Monday, July 10

Introduction to Decolonization, International Minority Protection, and the United Nations

9:00-9:20

Welcome and Introductions

Room “A-B” Orczy street Dorm

 

Welcome address

Gergely Deli, rector, University of Public Service – Ludovika

 

Introductions

Anna-Mária Bíró, Tom Lantos Institute

Balázs Vizi, University of Public Service – Ludovika

Corinne Lennox, Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London

 

 

9:20-10:00

Participant Introductions

Room “A-B” Orczy street Dorm

 

10:00-12:00

Introduction to Decolonization and Minority Rights

Room “A-B” Orczy street Dorm

 

Mohammad Shahabuddin, Birmingham Law School

 

12:00-13:00

Lunch

Educational Building Ludovika Campus

 

13:00-15:00

International Minority Rights

Room “A-B” Orczy street Dorm

 

Corinne Lennox, Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Anna-Mária Bíró, Tom Lantos Institute

 

15:00-17:00

Mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues

Room “A-B” Orczy street Dorm

 

Fernand de Varennes, UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues

 

Tuesday, July 11

Africa and the Middle East

9:00-11:00

Minority Protection and Decolonization in Africa

Room “A-B” Orczy street Dorm

 

Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua, University of Ghana

 

11:00-12:00

Participant Presentations

Room “A-B” Orczy street Dorm

 

Lucrezia Giordano, Reproduction, agency, and resistance among Sahrawi women: Is a decolonial analysis possible?

 

Djuma Saleh, The Swahili Community

 

Omod Oguok, Minority Rights and Land-Grabbing in Ethiopia

 

12:00-13:00

Contemporary Minority Protection in Lebanon

Room “A-B” Orczy street Dorm

 

Hani Anouti, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals

 

13:00-14:00

Lunch

Educational Building – Ludovika Campus

 

14:00-15:00

Ottoman Mandate System and Population Transfers of Minorities

Room “A-B” Orczy street Dorm

 

Umut Özsu, Carleton University (Online)

 

15:00-17:30

Tutorial and Group Work: UN Forum on Minority Issues Statements

Room “A-B” Orczy street Dorm

 

Marina Shupac, OHCHR Minority Fellow

 

Wednesday, July 12

Asia

9:00-11:00

Minority Protection and Decolonization in Asia

Room “A-B” Orczy street Dorm

 

Farah Mihlar, Oxford Brookes University

 

11:00-13:00

Case Study: Dalits

Room “A-B” Orczy street Dorm

Priyanka Samy, National Federation of Dalit Women, India, (Online)

 

13:00-14:00

Lunch

 

14:00-15:00

Participant Presentations

Room “A-B” Orczy street Dorm

 

Zito Siany, Current legal guarantees for the protection of minorities in Iraq and the recordations issued for Iraq by UN mechanisms related to minorities

 

Saif Rasul Khan, India and minorities: colonial influence and its impact in the current climate

 

Yashashwani Srinivas, From outside the cease: Anti-caste/dalit Journals and decolonialising of knowledge production practices

 

15:00-17:30

Tutorial and Group Work: UN Treaty Bodies and Shadow Reports (continued Thursday morning)

Room “A-B” Orczy street Dorm

 

Evelin Verhás, Tom Lantos Institute

 

Thursday, July 13

Americas

9:00-11:00

Tutorial and Group Work: UN Treaty Bodies and Shadow Reports–Presentations

 

Evelin Verhás, Tom Lantos Institute

 

11:00-13:00

Participant Presentations

Room “A-B” Orczy street Dorm

 

Hussain Rezai, Unpacking the Hazara Genocide in Afghanistan

 

Mihail Platinda, How to apply good international practices on the local level. The example of Youth Platform for Interethnic Solidarity

 

13:00-14:00

Lunch

 

14:00–15:00

Indigenous Peoples and Norm-Making

Room “A-B” Orczy street Dorm

 

Cathal Doyle

 

15:00-17:00

Case Study: Afro-Descendants in Colombia

Room “A-B” Orczy street Dorm

 

Esther Ojulari, CODHES – Consoltoría para Derechos Humanos y Desplazamiento, (Online)

 

Friday, July 14

 

TLI Day at Tom Lantos Institute

 

9:00-11:00

Theory and General Introduction: Europe

Conference Room, Bajza utca 44

 

 

11:00-13:00

East-West Divide in European Minority Rights Regime

Conference Room, Bajza utca 44

 

Balazs Vizi, University of Public Service and Noémi Nagy, University of Public Service

 

13:00-14:00

Lunch

Conference Room, Bajza utca 44

 

14:00-16:00

Case Study: Roma in Europe

Conference Room, Bajza utca 44

 

Cayetano Fernandez, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra

 

16:00-16:15

Presentation of Roma Representation in Public Spaces Project

Conference Room, Bajza utca 44

 

Ildikó Török, Tom Lantos Institute

 

16:15-17:15

Participant Presentations

Conference Room, Bajza utca 44

 

Kelsea McCready, Gender and Ethnic Identity Preservation in Post-Soviet Armenia: The Case of Lesbian and Bisexual Women

 

Anastasiia Tarasova, National Minorities under the so called ‘special military operation’: Case study Ukraine/Russia

 

17:15-17:30

Presentation of Certificates

Conference Room, Bajza utca 44

 

Time TBD

Gala Dinner

 

Saturday, July 15

 

Excursion

 

Time TBD

Visit to Hungarian Parliament

Hungarian Parliament, Kossuth Lajos tér