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Call for Applications Theme: (Dis)Integration through Human Rights Subtitle: Citizens, Courts, Communities Type: Venice Academy of Human Rights Institution: European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) Location: Venice (Italy) Date: 6.–15.7.2015 Deadline: 15.5.2015 __________________________________________________ Human Rights often form the basis for integration processes into various communities, be they national, regional or international. In this context, human and fundamental rights are hailed as shared values and foundations of communal convergence. Yet other voices highlight the homogenising, civilising and excluding effects of these integration processes. The Venice Academy of Human Rights 2015 will look at international, regional and transnational integration processes from an institutional, policy, dogmatic and interdisciplinary perspective. The discussion addresses communities of various actors, including citizens, peoples, minorities, but also communities of international and regional organisations, courts and private bodies. How become communities imaginable and how are they constructed? What role do fundamental and human rights play in building and consolidating these communities? How do courts and judicial bodies forge communities and integration processes? What happens to differences and diverse identities? And what are the darker sides of these processes for those on the periphery or outside the community? These are but some of the questions that the Venice Academy of Human Rights will raise and discuss. Courses during the first week will focus on topics of multiculturalism, minorities and courts. The second week focuses on the European integration project. General Description The Venice Academy of Human Rights is a centre of excellence for human rights education, research and debate. It forms part of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) which is an internationally leading institution for research and education. The Venice Academy provides an enriching forum for emerging ideas, practices and state-of-the-art debate in human rights research, education and training. The Academy hosts distinguished experts to promote critical and useful research, innovation and exchange of current knowledge. The Academy offers international and interdisciplinary thematic programmes open to academics, practitioners, Ph.D./J.S.D. and master students from all over the world who have an advanced knowledge of human rights. Participants attend morning lectures, participate in discussion sessions and seminars and can exchange views, ideas and arguments with leading international scholars and experts. This includes the opportunity for a number of participants to present and discuss their own “work in progress” such as drafts of articles, chapters of books or doctoral theses and receive comments from faculty members and peers. At the end of the programme, participants receive a Certificate of Attendance issued by the Venice Academy of Human Rights. Programme You can find the programme of the 2015 Venice Academy of Human Rights here: http://www.eiuc.org/research/venice-academy-of-human-rights/programme.html Distinguished Opening Lecture Albie Sachs Former Judge at the South-African Supreme Court General Course Will Kymlicka Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen’s University Faculty Armin v. Bogdandy Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg Andreas Føllesdal Professor of Political Philosophy, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant MultiRights Project on the Legitimacy of Multi-Level Human Rights Judiciary and Director of PluriCourts, a Centre of Excellence for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order Marc Weller Professor of International Law and International Constitutional Studies and Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge Marlene Wind EURECO Professor and Director of the Centre for European Politics, University of Copenhagen Programme Responsible Knut Traisbach Programme Responsible Venice Academy of Human Rights Contact: European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) Monastery of San Nicolò Riviera San Nicolò, 26 I-30126 Venezia Lido Italy Fax: +39 (0)41 2720914 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.eiuc.org/veniceacademy __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
