New minorities in Central-Eastern Europe: The politics of recognition, conceptualization, technical operationalization and contestation

CSS ILS Budapest, June 13, 2023

 

8.30.-9.00. Registration

Chair: Nóra Chronowski (Professor, Senior Research Fellow, CSS ILS-NUPS)

9.00. Welcoming an opening notes, 9.10. Deserve and merit: conceptualization and contextualization, András L. Pap (Research Professor, CSS ILS)

9.25. The recognition of new minorities in Austria and Germany. Constant state practice in the light of changing international obligations? Harald Scheu (Professor, Charles University, Faculty of Law – Police Academy, Prague)

9.45. New migrant minorities in Czech Republic and recognition procedures, René Petráš (Senior Research Fellow, Charles University, Faculty of Law, Prague)

10.05. New minorities in Poland, Jakub Zurek (Associate Professor, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences)

10.25-10.40 Q&A

10.40-11.00 Coffee break

11.00. New minorities in Slovenia, Mitja Zagar (Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana)

11.20. The recognition of new minorities in Hungary, Balázs Dobos (Senior Research Fellow, CSS IMS)

11.40. Slovakia and the new minorities, Iván Halász (Professor, Senior Research Fellow, CSS ILS-NUPS)

12.00.-12.15 Q&A

12.15.-13.30. Lunch

Chair: Sára Hungler, (Research Fellow, CSS ILS)

13.30. Government attempts for recognizing the Jewry as “people” in Hungary (1938/1939), Gábor Schweitzer, (Senior Research Fellow, CSS ILS-NUPS)

13.50. Defining the scope of minorities and the legal framework for minority recognition in Hungary, 1990-1993, Balázs Kiss (JSD Candidate, Eötvös University, Budapest)

14.10. The conceptualization of ethnicity and related concepts in de Varennes' draft convention on minority rights - Can new minorities be included? Noémi Nagy (Associate Professor, UPS, Budapest) Balázs Vizi (Research Professor, CSS IMS-NUPS)

14.30. Q&A

14.55. Closing remarks, Iván Halász (Professor, Senior Research Fellow, CSS ILS-NUPS) – András L. Pap (Research Professor, CSS ILS)

The conference is organized under the auspices and is funded by the 134962 Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Grant.