MINELRES: Conference: The Status Law Syndrome: Post-Communist Nation-Building or
Post-Modern Citizenship?
MINELRES moderator
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Fri Oct 8 13:02:42 2004
Original sender: Kantor Zoltan <[email protected]>
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Budapest, Hungary 14 -16 October 2004
The Status Law Syndrome: Post-Communist Nation-Building or Post-Modern
Citizenship?
Organized by
JSPS 21 st Century COE Program,
Making a Discipline of Slavic Eurasian Studies
SLAVIC RESEARCH CENTRE
Hokkaido University
Japan
INSTITUTE OF LEGAL STUDIES
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest
MINORITY STUDIES INSTITUTE
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest
TELEKI LASZLO INSTITUTE
Budapest
Location
INSTITUTE OF LEGAL STUDIES (HAS)
Budapest, I., Orszaghaz utca 30., "Jakobinus" Hall
THURSDAY, 14 OCTOBER
10.00 Opening remarks
OSAMU IEDA Hokkaido University, Sapporo
Section 1 The Status Law and Nation Politics
Chair: OSAMU IEDA
Hokkaido University, Sapporo
10.15 -10.30 BRIGID FOWLER University of Birmingham
The Status Law in European Context
10.30 -10.45 ZOLTAN KANTOR Teleki Institute, Budapest
The Uses (and Misuses) of the Concept of Nation in the ECE 'Status Laws'
10.45 -11.00 MARIA KOVACS Central European University, Budapest
Autonomy and Double Citizenship
11.00 -11.15 STEPHEN DEETS Miami University of Ohio
The Hungarian Status Law and the Spectre of Neo-Medievalism in Europe
11.15 -12.00 Discussion time
12.00 -12.15 Coffee break
Section 2 International Approaches
Chair: VIKTOR MASENKO-MAVI
Institute of Legal Studies, HAS, Budapest
12.15 -12.30 WALTER KEMP Office of the Secretary General of the OSCE,
Vienna
The Triadic Nexus: Lessons Learned from the Status Law
12.30 -12.45 JUDIT TOTH Minority Studies Institute, HAS, Budapest
Kin-Minority, Kin-State and Neighbourhood Policy in the Enlarged EU
12.45 -13.00 HERBERT KUPPER Institute for East European Law, Munchen
>From the Status Law to the Initiative for Dual Citizenship: Aspects of
Domestic Hungarian and
International Law
13.00 -13.15 BALAZS MAJTENYI Institute of Legal Studies, HAS, Budapest
Utilitarism in Minority Protection (Status Laws and International
Organizations)
13.15 -14.00 Discussion time
14.00 -15.00 Lunch
S e c t ion 3 Comparative Aspects
Chair: DIMITRAS PANAYOTE
Greek Helsinki Monitor
15.00 -15.15 SHERRILL STROSCHEIN Weatherhead Center, Harvard
University, Cambridge MA
Weber, Territory, and the Status Law: Time for New Assumptions?
15.15 -15.30 ZSUZSA CSERGO and JAMES M.GOLDGEIER
George Washington University, Washington D.C.
Virtual Nationalism in Comparative Context: How Unique is the Hungarian
Approach?
15.30 -15.45 IVAN HALASZ Institute of Legal Studies, HAS, Budapest
Models of Kin-Minority Protection in Eastern and Central Europe
15.45 -16.00 AMITABH SINGH Jawharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Hungarian Status Law: A Model for Kin-Minority Protection in Post
Communist Societies
16.00 -16.15 NATSUKO OKA Institute of Developing Economies, Chiba,
Japan
Kin-Minority Protection in Central Asia
16.15 -17.00 Discussion time
18.30 Reception
FRIDAY, 15 OCTOBER
Section 4 Socio-Cultural Implication of the Status Laws
Chair: GEORGE SCHOPFLIN
University College London
10.00 -10.15 OSAMU IEDA Hokkaido University, Sapporo
Ideological Background of the Status Law Controversy in Hungary
10.15 -10.30 TJEERD DE GRAAF Frisian Academy, Ljouwert/Leeuwarden, The
Netherlands
The Specific Situation of Ethnic Minority Group in the Soviet Union. The
Mennonites and their Relation with the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and
Russia
10.30 -10.45 NIGEL SWAIN Hokkaido University, Sapporo
The Innocence of Article Eighteen, Paragraph Two, Subsection E.
10.45 -11.00 ANDRAS LASZLO PAP Kodolanyi College, Szekesfehervar,
Hungary
Minority Rights and Diaspora Claims: Collision and Interdependence
11.00 -11.45 Discussion time
11.45 -12.00 Coffee break
Section 5 The Status Law and the EU
Chair: LASZLO SZARKA
Minority Studies Institute, HAS, Budapest
12.00 -12.15 GEORGE SCHOPFLIN University College London
Beyond the Status Law: Hungary and the EU
12.15 -12.30 GABRIEL VON TOGGENBURG European Academy, Bolzano/Bozen
What Status for "Status Laws" in the Postnational EU Market?
12.30 -12.45 BALAZS VIZI Minority Studies Institute, HAS, Budapest
Cross-border Minority Protection and European Integration
12.45 -13.00 HELGE HORNBURG Faculty of Law, Technical University,
Dresden
The Relationship of Kin-State/Kin-Minority Legislation and European
Community Law, Especially the Prohibition of Discrimination
13.00 -13.45 Discussion time
13.45 -14.45 Lunch
Section 6 "Status Laws" in Europe and Beyond
Chair: ZOLTAN PETERI
Institute of Legal Studies, HAS, Budapest
14.45 -15.00 CONSTANTIN IORDACHI Central European University, Budapest
Dual Citizenship and National Policies in Post-Communist East-Central
Europe: A Comparison between Hungary, Romania, and the Republic of
Moldova
15.00 -15.15 OZGUR-BAKLACIOGLU NURCAN Faculty of Political Science,
Istanbul University
Migration, Dual Citizenship and Nation-Building in Post-Cold-War
Bulgaria and Turkey
15.15 -15.30 GABOR KARDOS ELTE, Budapest
Prospect for Kin-States?
15.30 -15.45 LASZLO SZARKA Minority Studies Institute, HAS, Budapest
Slovak Reactions to the Hungarian Status Law
15.45 -16.30 Discussion time
18.30 Dinner
SATURDAY, 16 OCTOBER
Closed workshop
Contact person
ANNA OSVAT
E -mail: [email protected]
Telephone: (+36 1)224 6790
English - Hungarian simultaneous translation service will be available