MINORITY RIGHTS, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW SUMMER SCHOOL
Theme: Minorities and Religion
Venue: IT building, theatre 125
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND GALWAY
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Monday 13th June: Introduction & Concepts
9.00 9.30: Registration (*registration table in foyer outside of lecture theatre)
9.30 10.45: A Global Overview of Minorities
Speaker: Prof. Joshua Castellino, Professor of Law & Head of Law Department, Middlesex University
10.45 11.00: Coffee break
11.00-- 12.30: Genocide and Minorities
Speaker: Prof. William Schabas, Chair in Human Rights Law and Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway
12.30 14.00: Lunch
14.00 15.30: Religion and the Rights of Women
Speaker: Dr. Roja Fazaeli, Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Trinity College Dublin
15.30 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 17.30: Freedom of Religion in International Human Rights Law
Speaker: Dr. Nazila Ghanea, University Lecturer in International Human Rights Law, Kellog College, Oxford University
Wine Reception and Evening Lecture:
Migrant Workers in the Gulf
Speaker: Mr. Nicholas McGeehan, Founder and Director of Mafiwasta, an organisation for migrant workers' rights in the United Arab Emirates, PhD Candidate, Law Department, European University Institute, Florence
Tuesday 14th June: International Institutions and Minority Rights
9.30 10.45: Special Procedures in the United Nations
Speaker: Dr. Elvira Dominguez-Redondo, Senior Lecturer in Law, Middlesex University
10.45 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 12.30: Multiculturalism and Religion
Speaker: Dr. Alexandra Xanthaki, Reader in Law and Deputy Head of Brunel Law School
12.30 14.00: Lunch
14.00 15.30 Reviewing the Past Six Years of the UN Independent Expert on Minority issues, and the Work of the Forum on Minority Issues
Speaker: Mr. Graham Fox, Human Rights Officer at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
15.30 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 17.30: The OSCE and the Framework Convention on National
Minorities
Speaker: Mr. Vincent De Graaf, Senior Legal Advisor to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe's High Commissioner on National Minorities
Wednesday 15th June: Religion, Race and Minorities
9.30 10.45: Minority Rights, Between International Human Rights Law and Islamic Law
Speaker: Prof. Mashood Baderin, Professor of Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
10.45 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 12.30 The Turkish Accession Debate
Speaker: Dr. Edel Hughes, Lecturer in Law, University of Limerick
12.30 14.00: Lunch
14.00 15.30: Descent-Based Discrimination in International Human
Rights Law
Speaker: Dr. David Keane, Lecturer in Law, Middlesex University
15.30 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 17.30: Caste as a New Ground for Discrimination
Speaker: Annapurna Waughray, Senior Lecturer in Law, Manchester Metropolitan University
Thursday 16th June: Indigenous Peoples Rights
9.30 10.45: Indigenous Laws, Cultural Rights and Traditional
Knowledge
Speaker: Mr. Brendan Tobin, PhD Candidate, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway
10.45 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 12.30: Native Americans and Access to Sacred Sites Located on
Lands Owned by the United States Government
Speaker: Prof. Melissa Tatum, Research Professor of Law and Associate Director of the indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
12.30 14.00: Lunch
14.00 15.30: Indigenous People's Rights to a Holistic Freedom of
Religion: To Perpetuate Spiritual Traditions and
to Protect the Rights of Mother Earth through
United Nations Human Rights Mechanisms
Speaker: Prof. Joshua Cooper, Professor at the University of Hawaii, Director of the Hawaiian Institute for Human Rights
15.30 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 17.30: Indigenous Peoples as Custodians of the Land
Speaker: Dr. Jeremie Gilbert, Senior Lecturer in Law,
Middlesex University
Traditional Irish Music Session: The Crane Pub, Galway
Friday 17th June: Minority Rights Applied
9.30 10.30: The Rohingyas and the Irish Centre for Human Rights
Rohingya Report: One Year On
Speaker: Ms. Nancie Prudhomme, Project Manager, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway and Ass. Prof. Joseph Powderly, Grotius Centre, University of Leiden
10.30 - 10.45: Coffee Break
10.45 11.45: Statelessness and the Protection Needs of Stateless
Rohingyas
Speaker: Mr. Amal de Chickera, Head of the Statelessness and Nationality Projects, The Equal Rights Trust, London, UK; and Ms. Stefanie Grant, Senior Advisor, Statelessness Project, The Equal Rights Trust, London, UK
11.45 12.45: The Rohingyas: Causes for Flight and Treatment in
Countries of Refuge
Speaker: Ms. Chris Lewa, Coordinator, The Arakan Project, Bangkok, Thailand
12.45 14.00: Lunch
14.00 15.30: Hate Speech and Defamation of Religion
Speaker: Dr. Jeroen Temperman, Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
15.30 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 17.30: Class, Caste, Tribe and Rebellion in India
Speaker: Dr. Michael Kearney, Fellow in Law, London
School of Economics
19.30 Closing Dinner: Cookes Restaurant, Galway City Centre
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