PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Europe at the Edge of Pluralism Conference 13th 14th of June Poznan, Poland THURSDAY 13th of June: 08:30 09:00 Registration 09:00 09:15 Opening speech Prof. Roman Wieruszewski, Poznan Human Rights Centre 09:15 10:45 Plenary Session 1 Lecturers: Dr. María-Teresa Gil-Bazo, Newcastle University Prof. Kristin Henrard, Erasmus University of Rotterdam 10:45 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 12:45 Panel 1 Panel 1: MULTICULTURAL DILEMMAS Dr. Massimo Fichera, University of Helsinki Sanna Mustasaari, University of Helsinki: Intimate relationships of young people and spaces for cultural, religious and legal agency Marcin Kilanowski, Nicolaus Copernicus University: From universality to responsibility in international human rights Cristina Pace, New University of Lisbon: Multiculturalism and Human Rights: an Anthropology of Law s Perspective 1
12:45 13:45 Lunch 13:45 15:15 Panel 2 Panel 2: BETWEEN HUMAN RIGHTS AND MIGRATION LAW Prof. Dirk Vanheule, University of Antwerp Sanne van de Pol, Policy Research Centre on Integration: Welcome to the margins of society: An analysis of integration policy and fundamental rights Jaana Palander, University of Tampere: Aliens rights moving further? Magdalena Kmak, University of Helsinki: 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the EU migration policy' 15:15 15:45 Coffee break 15:45 17:15 Panel 3 Panel 3: LEGAL PLURALISM AND CULTURAL PRACTICES Dr. Dorota A. Gozdecka, University of Helsinki Ukri Soirila, University of Helsinki Magdalena Krysińska-Kałużna: Between ritual slaughter and a sacred cow Dolores Morondo Taramundi, University of Deusto: Legal pluralism and reasonable accommodation of religious diversity Grazyna Baranowska, Poznan Human Rights Centre: Regulating male circumcision in contemporary Europe opening Pandora s box? 19:00 Conference Dinner for registered participants, keynote speakers and members of the international research project Law and the Other in Post- Multicultural Europe 2
FRIDAY 14th of June: 09:00 10:30 Plenary Session 2 Lecturers: Prof. Zdzislaw Kedzia Adam Mickiewicz University Dr. Reetta Toivanen University of Helsinki 10:30 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 12:30 Panel 4 and Panel 5 (Parallel sessions) Panel 4: RELIGION IN A DIVERSE EUROPE BETWEEN IDENTITIES AND FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE? Professor Sev Ozdowski, University of Sydney Panel 5: CITIZENSHIP AND DIVERSITY Dr. Magdalena Kmak, University of Helsinki Dr. Massimo Fichera, University of Helsinki Ryan Hill, University of Bedfordshire: 'Respecting religious freedoms and freedom itself: How "on earth" do we raise our children?' Daniela Ringkamp, University of Paderborn: Multicultural Citizenship: A Case for European Politics? Johanna Konttori, University of Helsinki: Laïcité and the Challenge of Diversity in 21st Century Dorota A. Gozdecka, University of Helsinki Religious pluralism as a legal principle between the dialectic of inclusion and the margins of exclusion Sahizer Samuk, Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca: Multiculturalism: The shoes of multiculturalism are too tight or too large for Europe? Sam Bennett, Adam Mickiewicz University: Performing Citizenship and Integration in the UK 12:30 13:30 Lunch 3
13:30 15:00 Panel 6 and Panel 7 (Parallel sessions) Panel 6: HATE SPEECH DILEMMAS IN A DIVERSE EUROPE Dr. Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias, Poznan Human Rights Centre Jeroen Temperman, Erasmus University Rotterdam: The Wilders Case Continued: An Emerging Right to be Protected against Incitement? Anna Połczyńska, Adam Mickiewicz University: Ten or seventeen? Hate speech in the European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence Jernej Letnar Černič, Graduate School of Government and European Studies: Democracy as a Trump Card? Combating hate speech in a pluralistic society Panel 7: MIGRATION, HUMAN RIGHTS AND BEYOND Dr. Magdalena Kmak, University of Helsinki Marleen Turhan, Yeditepe University: EU-Turkey Readmission Agreement and the position of illegal immigrants in Turkey Marta Maroni, University of Helsinki: The Return Directive: the end does not justify the means Marta Strak, Polish Academy of Sciences: EU migration law and third-parties obligations concerning returning of third-country nationals 15:00 15:30 Coffee break 15:30 17:00 Panel 8, Panel 9 and Panel 10 (Parallel sessions) Panel 8: MULTICULTURALISM: A NEW IDENTITY FOR EUROPE? Dr. Massimo Fichera, University of Helsinki Pawel Glogowski, European Commission: European Identity Between Conceptualisation and Finalité Politique Dominika Krysztofowicz, Adam Mickiewicz University: Different aspect of Panel 9: NATIONAL MINORITIES IN EUROPE A NEED TO (RE)DEFINE? Grazyna Baranowska, Poznan Human Rights Centre Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez, University of Deusto: Definitional and operational problems in the relation between National and Religious Minorities Magdalena Szkudlarek, Adam Mickiewicz University: Double standards in Turkey s Panel 10: EUROPE - IDENTITY, MEMORY AND THE LAW Chairs: Dr. Monica Lopez, University of Helsinki; Dr. Stiina Löytömäki, University of Helsinki A. Jan Kutylowski, University of Oslo: Memory of the Past and Assessment of the Present: Collective Cognition Concerning Governance Patterns and the Rule of Law in Poland, in the Central European Context Milosz Matuschek, Université Paris 1: Taking Memory seriously 4
multiculturalism in relation to European societies. Matthew Okeyim, University of Alicante: Managing Multiculturalism within a Single Ethnic Framework Orsolya Salát, Institute for Legal Studies, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ELTE University Budapest: When Postsocialism Meets the Transnational Legal Method: Hungary as the Legal Other in Europe minority protection system as an example of selective treatment of minority issues Eliska Pirkova, University of Helsinki: An EU Perspective on Minorities in Post-Lisbon Era: Why Minorities Matter Holocaust Denial Bans as Memorial Laws Aleksandra Gliszczynska- Grabias, Poznan Human Rights Centre: Struggling with the European Past in Strasbourg - Three Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights concerning Memory and Law: Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, Bezirksverband München-Oberbayern vs. Germany, Lehideux and Isorni vs. France, Vajnai vs. Hungary 17:15 17:30 Conference Summary Dr. Dorota A. Gozdecka and Dr. Magdalena Kmak, University of Helsinki, Directors of the international research project Law and the Other in Post-Multicultural Europe and Prof. Sev Ozdowski, President of the Australian Council for Human Rights Education 17:30 Good Bye Drinks 5