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Citizenship, Democracy and Ethnocultural Diversity
Newsletter of the Queen's Forum for Philosophy and Public Policy
No. 24, April 2002
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Recent and Upcoming Conferences
3. Recent Publications
4. Call for Papers
5. Internet Resources
6. Courses and Summer Schools
7. Related Research Programs
1. INTRODUCTION
The Forum for Philosophy and Public Policy at Queen's University is
organizing a multi-year, research project on citizenship, democracy
and minority rights in multiethnic states, under the direction of
Prof. Will Kymlicka. As part of this project, the Forum distributes a
quarterly newsletter updating recent developments in the field, of
which this is the twenty-fourth issue. We hope that it will be of
interest to anyone working in the field, whether in academia, public
service, or various non-governmental organizations.
If you know anyone who would like to be added to the mailing list for
this newsletter, please contact us at
[email protected]. For further information about the
research project, you can also reach us by fax at 613-533-6545.
Back-issues of the newsletter are posted on the Web on Will Kymlicka's
home-page:
http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~philform/news.html
2. RECENT AND UPCOMING CONFERENCES
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The Council of Europe and the Faculty of Law of Robert Schuman
University, Strasbourg (France) will host a colloquy entitled "The
European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and France." The
colloquy will be held in Strasbourg on April 11-12 2002, and debates
will include senior officials and specialists from France and abroad.
For further details or a copy of the programme, contact: Antonio
Bultrini, Administrator, Secretariat of the European Charter for
Regional or Minority Languages, DG 1 - Legal Affairs, Council of
Europe; email: [email protected]
The Centre UNESCO de Catalunya has recently announced the World
Congress on Language Policies, organized by the Linguapax Institute,
to be held in Barcelona on 16-19 April 2002. Political, economic and
technological changes since the 1990s have had a significant impact on
languages, especially minority languages and medium-sized languages.
The Congress will bring together researchers working on these issues
from around the world. The working languages will be English, French,
Catalan and Spanish. For more information, visit:
http://www.wtcbarcelona.com or http://www.linguapax.org or contact:
The Linguapax Institute, Mallorca 285, Barcelona 08037 Spain; fax:
(+34) 93 457 58 51
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The Renner Institute and the German Ebert Foundation are organizing a
conference on "Multiculturalism - Facts, Myths and Social-Democratic
Perspectives" in Berlin, May 2-4, 2002. For more information, contact
Karl A. Duffek, Director, The Renner Institute, Khelslplatz 12, A-1120
Vienna; tel: ++43-1-80465 01-29; fax: ++43-1-8040874 or visit the
Renner Institute's website at:
http://www.renner-institut.at/stud_progr/frinnenpol.htm
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A Metropolis conference entitled "Immigrants and Homeland" is being
organized by the Croatian Centre for Strategic Studies and the
Institute of Social Sciences ("Ivo Pilar") in Dubrovnik, Croatia, May
9-12 2002. The conference will explore the subject of diaspora from
the perspectives of both the homeland and the host country. For
details on registration, access the Metropolis website at:
http://www.international.metropolis.net/frameset_e.html or contact
Mrs. Vlasta Brunsko, Don Frana Bulica 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia;
tel: + 385 20 411 718; fax: + 385 20 411 020
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A conference being held at the Robert Schuman Centre, European
University Institute, 31 May-1 June 2002 will explore the connections
and tensions between developing European Union institutions and
societies in post-communist Europe. The conference is entitled
"Europeanization and regionalism in Central and Eastern Europe", and
it will consider such themes as; the role of the EU Commission, the
historical and contemporary construction of regions in CEE, the
relevance of the western experience of regionalism to CEE countries,
the functions and political status of regional structures, and the
importance of ethnic and nationality politics in the establishment of
regions. For further details, contact: Michael Keating, European
University Institute, Florence, Italy; email: [email protected]; tel: +39
055 4685 250; fax: +39 055 4685 201 or contact: James Hughes, European
University Institute; email: [email protected]
There will be a one-day workshop on "The World Dynamics of Languages
and Linguistic Justice" at the Hoover Chair in Economic and Social
Ethics, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium,
June 27, 2002. The workshop is co-organized by Philippe Van Parijs and
Idil Boran and will bring together political philosophers and
sociologists of language to discuss issues of linguistic justice with
particular focus on the recent book by Abram de Swaan, Words of the
World: The Global Language System (Polity Press: 2002). Amongst the
issues discussed will be the normative implications for linguistic
justice of transnational patterns of language choice, and the
application of the theory in various contexts such as Sub-Saharan
Africa and the European Union. For further information contact either
Idil Boran, Hoover Fellow, e-mail: [email protected] or Philippe
Van Parijs, Chair, e-mail: [email protected]; Chaire Hoover
d'�thique �conomique et sociale, Place Montesquieu, UCL, B-1348
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique; Tel: 32-10-47 39 51; Fax : 32-10-47 39 52
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Prof. Ian Wallace and Dr. Stefan Wolff at the University of Bath are
organizing two conferences relating to forced migration in Europe and
around the world. The general project is entitled "Images of Loss and
Reconciliation: Political and Literary Representations of Forced
Migrations in Comparative Perspective". Two areas will be
investigated: "Political Representations of Forced Migrations, their
Causes and Consequences" and "Literary Representations of Forced
Migrations, their Causes and Consequences." Conference one (Political
Representations) will take place in September 2002; and conference two
(Literary Representations) will take place in April 2003. For further
information, including the call for papers, contact Stefan Wolff at
email: [email protected]. The conference website can be accessed at:
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~mlssaw/fm_conference/
The International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, in
conjunction with its local host, the Asian Centre for Research on
Migration at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, invite papers and
proposals for its 8th Biannual Conference entitled "Forced Migration
and Global Processes." The conference will take place January 5-9,
2003 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Contributions from the numerous academic
disciplines as well as government and NGO sectors are welcome.
Proposals should relate to one or more of the Conference's themes:
forced migration and development, forced migration and human rights
and forced migration and security. For more information, visit the
IASFM website: http://www.iasfm.org or contact Francois Crepeau at
[email protected]
3. RECENT PUBLICATIONS (all prices in U.S. dollars).
Philip Alston (ed), Peoples' Rights (Oxford UP, 2001) $26.00
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Jane K. Cowan, Marie-Benedicte Dembour & Richard Wilson (eds), Culture
and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives (Cambridge UP, 2001) $23.00
Malcolm Cross and Robert Moore (eds), Globalization and the New City:
Migrants, Minorities and Urban Transformations in Comparative
Perspective (Palgrave, 2002) $65.00
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John Dryzek and Leslie Holmes, Post-Communist Democratization:
Political Discourses Across Thirteen Countries (Cambridge UP, 2002),
$23.00
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Matthew Gibney, The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy
and the Response to Refugees (Cambridge UP, 2002), $23.00
David T. Graham & Nana K. Poku (eds), Migration, Globalization and
Human Security (Routledge, 2000) $85.00
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Lene Hansen & Ole Waever (eds), European Integration and National
Identity (Routledge, 2001) $30.95
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James Hughes and Gwendolyn Sasse (eds), Ethnicity and Territory in the
Former Soviet Union: Regions in Conflict (France Cass, 2002)
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Mark Jubulis, Nationalism and Democratic Transition: The Politics of
Citizenship and Language in Post-Soviet Latvia (U. Press of America,
2001), $51.00
Riva Kastoryano, Negotiating Identities: States & Immigrants in France
and Germany (Princeton UP, 2001) $24.95
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Jan Leighley, Strength in Numbers: The Political Mobilization of
Racial and Ethnic Minorities (Princeton UP, 2001), $17.95
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Richard Munch, Nation and Citizenship in the Global Age: From National
to Transnational Ties and Identities (Palgrave, 2001), $65.00
Camille O'Reilly (ed), Language, Ethnicity and the State: Volume 1:
Minority Languages in the European Union; Volume 2: Minority Languages
in Eastern Europe post-1989 (Palgrave 2001)
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Benjamin Reilly, Democracy in Divided Societies: Electoral Engineering
for Conflict Management (Cambridge UP, 2001), $22.00
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G. Welhongama, Minorities' Claims: From Autonomy to Secession
(Ashgate, 2000) $24.95
Journal Special Issues
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The Journal of International Migration and Integration (JIMI) has
published a special issue called; "Minority Elites in the Making"
(Volume 2 No. 2), which includes essays by Ruben Gowricharn, Andreas
Pott, Jan C. C. Rupp, Richard L. Zweigenhaft and Shamit Saggar. A
table of contents for this issue is available on the JIMI website:
http://jimi.metropolis.net/frameset_e.html
Two recent thematic issues of The International Social Science Journal
might be of interest to readers of the Newsletter: one on
International Migration (No. 165) and the second on Federalism (No.
167). The ISSJ was founded by UNESCO in 1949, and publishes quarterly
issues, each devoted to a single theme, in English, French, Spanish,
Arabic, Chinese and Russian. Issues 165 & 167 are also available on
the internet in Spanish at the ISSJ archive:
http://www.unesco.org/issj/
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The International Journal of Minority and Group Rights recently
published a special issue on the rights of indigenous Saami in the
Nordic countries, (Vol. 8, #3, 2001) edited by Andreas Follesdal.
Contributors include Andreas Follesdal, Henry Minde, Asbjorn Edie,
Else Grete Broderstad, Anne Julie Semb, Kirstie Strom Bull, Nils
Oskal, Lukas H. Meyer, and Reetta Toivanen.
4. CALL FOR PAPERS
The MOST Journal on Multicultural Societies is publishing a thematic
issue on "The Human Rights of Linguistic Minorities and Language
Policies" (Vol. 3, No 2). This issue, guest edited by Fernand de
Varennes, will seek to continue and advance the debate on linguistic
rights, which was stimulated in a previous thematic issue (Vol. 3, No
1; "Lesser Used Languages and the Law in Europe"). Articles will focus
on the following regions; the European Union, the Baltic States,
Central Asia and South Africa. To view the call for papers, or to view
the previous thematic issue on language rights, visit:
http://www.unesco.org/most/jmshome.htm
Peace Review, a quarterly, multidisciplinary, transnational journal
focussing on current issues related to peace in global affairs, is
accepting essays on the topic of "Forgiveness and Reconciliation." The
deadline for this CFP is April 7, 2002. Relevant topics would include
research on human rights, development, ecology, culture, race, gender
and related issues. Special editors for this issue are Andrew Rigby
and Carol Rank, both of the University of Coventry. To submit essays
by email attachment, or to access writer's guidelines for the journal;
email: [email protected] For other information, contact Robert Elias,
Peace Review, Department of Politics, University of San Francisco,
2103 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA, 94117. Tel: 415-422-2910; Fax:
415-422-5671 (attn: Elias or Hieber); Email: [email protected] The
website for Peace Review is located at:
http://www.usfca.edu/peacereview/PRHome.html
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5. INTERNET RESOURCES
The "Educating Against Racism" section of the Canadian Race Relations
Foundation has published a series of useful research reports and other
documents on the web. The documents take up many of the issues covered
by the CRRF newsletter "Perspectives," which presents research
projects recently completed by the CRRF. Among recent titles are the
following; "Racism in Canada"; "Aboriginal Peoples and Racism in
Canada" and "Unequal Access: A Canadian Profile of Racial Differences
in Education, Employment and Income". To access both the series and
the CRRF newsletter, visit:
http://www.crr.ca/EN/Publications/ePubHome.htm
A study on the relationship between immigration/integration and
Canada's official language communities has been posted on-line.
Entitled "Immigration and the Vitality of Canada's Official Language
Communities: Policy, Demography and Identity", the study was prepared
for the Commissioner of Official Languages by Dr. Jack Jedwab of the
McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, and is available on the
website of the Office of the Commissioner at:
http://www.ocol-clo.gc.ca
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Bigotry Monitor is a weekly human rights newsletter on antisemitism,
xenophobia and religious persecution in the former communist world and
Western Europe. The editor is Charles Fenyvesy. To subscribe, send an
email to: [email protected] For more information on the
newsletter, contact Charles Fenyvesy; email: [email protected]
All issues of the newsletter can be viewed at:
http://www.fsumonitor.com
6. COURSES AND SUMMER SCHOOLS
The Minority Rights Group International (MRG) is organizing a training
seminar on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National
Minorities. The seminar is organized with the assistance of the
Directorate of Human Rights of the Council of Europe, and will take
place at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg from May 16-19 2002. For
details, contact Veena Meetoo (email: [email protected]) or
Magdalena Syposz (email: [email protected]); Phone:
+(44.20)7978-9498 (Magdalena ext. 211; Veena 213).
The Irish Centre for Human Rights in Galway is organizing a summer
course on "National Minorities in International Law." The course will
deal specifically with Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights Law,
including the legal, political and philosophical issues relating to
this theme, and current issues pertaining to Indigenous peoples and
the international human rights regime. It is a week-long course,
taking place from June 8-14 2002 at the Irish Centre for Human Rights,
N.U.I. Galway. For a draft programme and application form, go to:
http://www.nuigalway.ie/human_rights, email: Niamh Walsh
[email protected] or contact: Irish Centre for Human Rights,
National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland; tel: +353 91
750464; fax: +353 91 750575
UNU/INCORE's 2002 International Summer School is set to take place
June 10-15 2002 in Derry/Londonderry Northern Ireland. Courses are
designed for senior level participants from academic, policy and NGO
backgrounds. Courses for 2002 include; Dealing with the Past; Managing
Peace Processes; Religion and Conflict and a series of panels
exploring policy approaches to conflict resolutions. The deadline for
registration at this year's school is April 19 2002. The contact
person is Sheila Maibaum, INCORE, University of Ulster, Aberfoyle
House, Northland Road, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, BT487JA;
Email: [email protected]; Tel: +44 (0) 28 71375779; Fax: +44 (0)
28 71375510. For further information about the summer school, go to:
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/; email: [email protected].
The European Summer University of the Institute of Federalism,
University of Fribourg, is holding is fourteenth session September
2-20 2002. The topic this year is "Federalism, Decentralization and
Good Governance in Multicultural Societies." The three-week program
will involve sessions on federal institutions; federalism,
multiculturalism and multinationalism and good governance under
federalism. To obtain registration forms and conference information,
contact: Ms. J. Cousinou, Institut du Federalisme, Englisberg 7, CH -
1763 Granges-Paccot; tel: +41-26-300.8125; fax: +41-26-300.9724;
email: [email protected] For more information on the summer
school, visit the following website:
www.federalism.ch/ircc/esu/
The Europa-Universitat Viadrina is holding a summer school on "The
European System of Human Rights Protection." Set to take place
September 9-20 2002, at Viadrina European University, Frankfurt
(Oder), Germany, the summer school will investigate the various
European human rights systems, including relevant institutions and
documents as well as practical and contemporary issues. The school
will take place in English, and will include experts from numerous
European universities. For more information access the conference
website:
http://www.hrcourse.euv-frankfurt-o.de/schule/Index.html or
contact [email protected]
7. RELATED RESEARCH PROGRAMS
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The Fulbright New Century Scholars Program, an initiative of the
Fulbright Scholar Program, annually brings together 25-30 research
scholars and professionals from the U.S. and around the world to
engage in a multidisciplinary collaboration on a topic of global
significance. For the academic year 2002-2003, the research focus is
"Addressing Sectarian, Ethnic and Cultural Conflict within and across
National Borders." Selected scholars will be expected to pursue
individual research related to the NCS theme, and to participate in
other activities associated with the NCS Program. The deadline for
completed applications is October 1 2002. For complete details and
application materials, contact: [email protected] or visit:
http://www.cies.org
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the assistance of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada in funding this newsletter. Special thanks to Michael Kocsis
for research help, and to Lise Charlebois for help with the
distribution of the newsletter.
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