Conference - Legal approaches to conceptualizing and operationalizing race, ethnicity and nationality

   4th June 2024 9:00 - 15:45, 4th June 2024 15:45

Programme

Legal approaches to conceptualizing and operationalizing race, ethnicity and nationality

 

Date: June 4, 2024

Venue: HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies, T.0.25

 

9:00 – Opening remarks

András L. Pap, Research Professor, HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies (HUN-REN CSS ILS)/Professor, Eötvös University (ELTE) Faculty of Economics

Panel I.: Ancestry, identity recognition: The context, case studies and dilemmas

Chair: Nóra Chronowski, Research Professor, HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies

9:15 – “Conceptualizing and operationalizing the fateful nonagon”

András L. Pap, HUN-REN CSS ILS/ ELTE

9:30 – “Ancestry as identity: the operationalization of genetic DNA testing”

Szabolcs Pogonyi, Associate Professor, Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University, Vienna

9:45 – “Destined to Stay – A Case Study of Roma Refugees from Ukraine”

Sára Hungler, Research Fellow, HUN-REN CSS ILS/ Associate Professor ELTE Faculty of Law, Budapest

10:00-10:15 – discussion

 

Panel II.: Conceptualizing and operationalizing race and ethnicity in law enforcement

Chair: Sára Hungler, Research Fellow, HUN-REN CSS ILS/ Associate Professor, ELTE Faculty of Law, Budapest

10:15 – “Races in forensic identification”

András Czebe, Assistant Professor, Széchenyi István University, Deák Ferenc Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Győr

10:30 – “The bumpy road of ethnic data – some examples from the field of law enforcement”

Eszter Kovács Szitkay, Junior Research Fellow HUN-REN CSS ILS/ Doctoral Candidate, Ludovika University Faculty of Law Enforcement, Budapest

10:45-11:00 – discussion

 

11:00: -11:15 – coffee break

 

Panel III.: Ancestry, identity recognition: continued

Chair: Sára Hungler, Research Fellow, HUN-REN CSS ILS/ Associate Professor, ELTE Faculty of Law, Budapest

11:15 – “Government attempts to categorise Jewry as an ’ethnic group’ (népcsoport) in Hungary in 1938/39”

Gábor Schweitzer, Senior Research Fellow, HUN-REN CSS ILS/ Professor, Ludovika University of Public Service Faculty of Public Governance and International Studies, Budapest

11:30 – “Jewish state or jewish nation? Jewish national identity versus nationhood.

Nóra Bán-Forgács, Research Fellow, HUN-REN CSS ILS/ Associate Professor, Milton Friedman University, Budapest

11:45 -12:00 – discussion

 

Panel IV.: Conceptualization and operationalization via transnational and supranational institutions

Chair: Katalin Rac, Lecturer, Jewish Studies Librarian, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

12:00 – “The potential of European courts to protect minority rights”

Nóra Chronowski, Research Professor, HUN-REN CSS ILS; 

Noémi Nagy, Associate Professor, Ludovika University, Faculty of Public Governance and International Studies

12:15 – “Social integration vs. minority rights - the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the Roma”

Balázs Vizi, Research Professor, HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Minority Studies/ Professor, Ludovika University, Faculty of Public Governance and International Studies

12:30 – “Conceptualization of minorities under Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – Divergent interpretations by State Parties v. the Human Rights Committee”

Noémi Nagy, Associate Professor, Ludovika University, Faculty of Public Governance and International Studies

Norbert Tóth, Lecturer, Åbo Akademi Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics, and Law, Turku, Finnland

12:45-13:00 – discussion

 

13:00-13:45 – lunch

 

Panel V.: Case studies in triangulating participation, identity and recognition

Chair: Nóra Bán-Forgács, Research Fellow, HUN-REN CSS ILS/ Associate Professor, Milton Friedman University, Budapest

13:45 – “Self-identification versus group control. Who can elect national-cultural autonomies in Europe?”

Balázs Dobos, Senior Research Fellow, HUN-REN CSS Institute for Minority Studies (IMS), Budapest

14:00 – “The failure of the Bunjevci to gain recognition and their current status in Hungary”

Balázs Kiss, Head of Department, Deputy Commissioner for Fundamental Rights for the Rights of National Minorities/ Doctoral student, ELTE Faculty of Law, Budapest

14:15 – “Restricting the free choice of identity – the case of Roma in Slovakia”

János Fiala-Butora, Senior Research Fellow, HUN-REN CSS ILS, Budapest

14:30 – “The Relevance of Indigenous Rights in Hungary: The Right to Indigenous Property and Human Remains”

Zsolt Körtvélyesi, Senior Research Fellow, HUN-REN CSS ILS/Associate Professor, ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences, Budapest/ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Central European University, Vienna

14:45 – “Strategic litigation as transnational transplant”

Lilla Farkas, Assistant Professor, ELTE, Faculty of Social Sciences

15:00-15:15 – discussion

 

15:15-15:30 – coffee break

 

Panel VI.: Recognition and participation of the Hungarian minority: Slovak and Ukrainainan experiences, panel discussion in Hungaria

Chair: János Fiala-Butora, Senior Research Fellow, HUN-REN CSS ILS

15:30-16:15: Roundtable

Moderator: Iván Halász, Senior Research Professor, HUN-REN CSS ILS/ Professor, Ludovika University, Faculty of Public Governance and International Studies

Pál Csáky, Former Slovak Deputy Prime Minister, former MEP;

Mihály Tóth, Former Member of the Ukrainian Parliament;

16:15-16:30 – Closing remarks

András L. Pap, Research Professor, HUN-REN CSS ILS/ ELTE, Budapest,

 

The conference was funded by the Hungarian National Research and Innovation Office Grant (no. 134962).

In person attendance is free, but requires preliminary registration sent to Kovacs.Szitkay.Eszter@tk.hu, by no later than May 31, 2024.

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