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Session 6
Human Rights - Global Culture - International Institutions
 


Date

Period

Programme

Speaker

4.11.2010
(Thursday)

Hannover,
Exhibition Grounds










08.30-08.45

Opening

Jutta Limbach
Former President of the German Federal Constitutional Court, Karlsruhe, Germany

Dieter Grimm
Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, Germany

08.45-10.30

Keynote Lecture

Human Rights, Sovereignty and Democratic Iterations

Chair: Dieter Grimm

Antjie Krog
Universtiy of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Keynote Lecture

Exchanging Justice for Truth is an Embrace of Evil: a View on Human Rights through the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Seyla Benhabib
Yale University, New Haven, USA

10.30-11.00

Coffee Break

11.00-12.00

Keynote Lectures

Multilevel Cooperations on Human Rights between the European Constitional Courts

Andreas Voßkuhle
German Federal Constitutional Court, Karlsruhe, Germany

12.00-13.00

Lunch Break

13.00-14.30

Workshop 6.1

The Future of International Law

Chair: Jochen Frowein
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany

Andreas Paulus
German Federal Constitutional Court, Karlsruhe

Liav Orgad
Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel (OCF Fellow)

Andrea Kirsch
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (GYF Fellow)

Workshop 6.2

Towards a Global Community of Human Rights Law

Chair: Jutta Limbach

Valeska Huber
University of Konstanz, Germany (OCF Fellow)

Antonio Cassese
President of the Special Tribunal of Lebanon, Leidschendam, Netherlands

Patience Mutopo
University of Cologne, Germany (OCF Fellow)

14.30-15.00

Coffee Break

15.00-16.30

Workshop 6.1 (continued) 

The Future of International Law

Anne Peters
University of Basel, Switzerland

Alida Anél du Plessis
Louis Kotzé
North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa (OCF Fellows)

Workshop 6.2 (continued)

Towards a Global Community of
Human Rights Law

Claus Offe
Hertie School of Governance, Berlin

Rhuks Temitope Ako
University of Hull, UK (OCF Fellow)

Nina Lück
University of Oldenburg, Germany (OCF Fellow)

16.30-16.45

Coffee Break

16.45-17.30

Closing Plenary

Human Rights and Cultural Narratives

Chairs:
Jutta Limbach
Dieter Grimm

Homi Bhabha
Harvard Universitity, Cambridge, USA


Session 9

Migration and Integration: Global Tensions - Local Responses

 


Date

Period

Programme

Speaker

5.11.2010
(Friday)

Essen, Philharmonic Concert Hall














10.15-10.30

Opening

Klaus J. Bade
Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration, Berlin, Germany

10.30-11.15

Keynote Lecture

Migration and Transnationalism
in a Global Perspective

Chair: Klaus J. Bade

Steven Vertovec
Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany

11.15-11.45

Coffee Break

11.45-13.15

Workshop 9.1

Rural-Urban Migrations in Mega Cities and "Mega-Slums"

Chair: Ludger Pries
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Speakers:
Li Wei
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Beijing, China

Peter Taylor
Loughborough University, UK

Bettina Gransow
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 

13.15-14.15

Lunch Break

14.15-15.45

Workshop 9.2

Networks, Migration, and Development

Chair: Ludger Pries
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Speakers:
Robert Smith
City University of New York, USA

Colin McFarlane
Durham University, UK

Xóchitl Castañeda
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Marc B. Schenker
University of California, Davis, USA

15.45-16.15

Coffee Break

16.15-17.45

Workshop 9.3

Migration of Highly Qualified Persons and the Globalisation of
Education Systems

Chair: Klaus J. Bade

Speakers:
Knuth Dohse
Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany

Wei Shen
École Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d'Angers (ESSCA), Paris, France (OCF Fellow)

Arthur Sweetman
McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

17.45-18.00

Coffee Break

18.00-19.00

Closing Plenary

Global Migration and World Economy: Experiences and Challenges

Chair: Ludger Pries

Herbert Kircher
former CEO of IBM Germany, Böblingen, Germany

Eva Dick
TU Dortmund University, Germany (GYF Fellow)

Barbara Laubenthal
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (OCF Fellow)

Luo Rumin
Bielefeld University, Germany (OCF Fellow)

Session 12
Religion and Values

 

Date

Period

Programme

Speaker

6.11.2010
(Saturday)

Essen, Philharmonic Concert Hall










09.00-09.15

Opening

Hans Joas
Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt, Germany

09.15-11.00

Keynote Lecture

The Globalization of Christianity

Chair: Hans Joas

Philip Jenkins
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

Keynote Lecture

Demography and Religion

Pippa Norris
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

11.00-11.30

Coffee Break

11.30-12.30

Keynote Lecture

Huntington Reconsidered. The Dynamics of Religious and Political Conflicts

Dieter Senghaas
University of Bremen, Germany

12.30-13.45

Lunch Break

13.45-15.15

Workshop 12.1

The Globalization of Christianity

Chairs: Hans Joas, Philip Jenkins

Speakers:
Joseph Cardinal Zen
S.D.B., Hongkong, China

Alexander-Kenneth Nagel
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (GYF Fellow)

15.15-15.45

Coffee Break

15.45-17.15

Workshop 12.2

Demography and Religion

Chairs: Hans Joas, Pippa Norris

Speakers:
Daniel Silver
University of Toronto, Canada

Julia Lerner
Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel (OCF Fellows)

17.15-17.30

Coffee Break

 

17.30-18.30

Workshop 12.3

The Dynamics of Religious and Political Conflicts

Chairs: Hans Joas, Dieter Senghaas

Speakers:
Ashis Nandy
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India

Abida Malik
University of Nottingham, UK (OCF Fellow)

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