MINORITY RIGHTS AND POLITICAL COMMUNITIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

Institute for Minority Studies, Centre for Social Sciences HAS

Minority Rights Research Group, Institute for Legal Studies, Centre for Social Sciences HAS

University of Glasgow, School of Social and Political Sciences

invite you to the conference entitled

MINORITY RIGHTS AND POLITICAL COMMUNITIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

on Tuesday, 5th September 2017

Venue: Institute for Legal Studies, Building ‘T’, Ground Floor, Room 25 (1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4.)

RSVP: kisebbsegkutato@tk.mta.hu

PROGRAM

13.00 – 15.00

PANEL 1

Chair: Balázs Dobos (Institute for Minority Studies)

Federica Prina (University of Glasgow):

National-Cultural Autonomy in the Post-Soviet Space

Judit Molnár Sansum (University of Glasgow):

The Parliamentary Debate of the 1993 Hungarian Minority Law

András László Pap (Institute for Legal Studies):

The Roma in the Hungarian Personal Autonomy Framework

Katinka Beretka (Union University, Faculty for Legal and Business Studies, dr Lazar Vrkatic, Novi Sad and Faculty of Law for Commerce and Judiciary, Subotica):

National minority councils in Serbia: status, competences and future

Q&A

15.00 – 15.15

Coffee break

15.15 – 17.15

PANEL 2

Chair: András László Pap (Institute for Legal Studies)

Zsolt Körtvélyesi (Institute for Legal Studies):

Advancing Individual Autonomy and Minority Rights Through Group Litigation

Balázs Dobos (Institute for Minority Studies):

Elections and Non-territorial Autonomies in Central and South Eastern Europe

János Fiala-Butora (Institute for Legal Studies):

Cultural autonomy, political participation and the problem of collective action under the 2017 Slovakian law on support to minority cultures

Edgár Dobos (Institute for Minority Studies):

Autonomy endeavours under international supervision: the case of Bosnian Serbs and Croats

Q&A