Convenors:
Reetta Toivanen, Humboldt University, Berlin
Reetta.toivanen@staff.hu-berlin.de
Levent Soysal, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
Discussants:
Jane Cowan, University of Sussex, Brighton
Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, University of
Bielefeld
What is the place of social
anthropology in the field of anti-discrimination law and minority rights? Such
concepts as culture, tradition, ethnicity, nation or race are core concepts of
anthropological thinking and analysis. Simultaneously, they play an important
role in international legislation on human rights, especially when lawyers deal
with minority right issues. Thus, jurisprudence may legally entitle peoples to
their cultures or may deny them the corresponding rights. As the concepts used
in the courtrooms are never of a neutral origin, social anthropologists are
increasingly paying attention to the problems related to "struggles over
cultural rights". How can anthropology help us to engage and rethink the
powerful of frameworks of human rights and to take the concept of equality
seriously, as well as reconsidering its own core analytical constructs in the
process? Until 29 July 2003 all EU member states should have adopted a new EU
anti-discrimination directive ("race-directive") into their national
legislations. While most of the states certainly had tried hard to meet the
requirements in time, a great number of them still failed. The arguments used
by state representatives and NGO-activists reveal a lot about European
societies, as both old and new EU members make a rather tactical use of the
transposition. The workshop aims to take the "race-directive" and
recent case law produced by the European Court of Human Rights as an empirical
basis for conceptual and theoretical discussions. We encourage potential
contributors to submit paper proposals (no longer that 250 words), tackling
with questions of minority rights, anti-racism, and anti-discrimination and
initiating an in-depth debate on the use of the above mentioned "core
concepts" of anthropology and their possible consequences as they relate
to the field of human rights and its practice today in the world and in particular
in Europe.
Immigrant Transnational Legal Spaces: Citizenship,
Family Code and Cultural Justice
Ayse Caglar, Central
European University, Budapest
caglara@ceu.hu
Anti-Discrimination and Discourse about Migrants in
Europe
Old and New Anthropological Concepts in Normative
Minority Rights Literature and Nongovernmental Organizations' Practice
Alina-Petronela Silian, Central
European University, Budapest
Reinforcing Boundaries: The Future of the Roma in
Romania's Transition to the European Union
Christine Boyd, American
University, Washington DC
The
Census as an Element of Ethnic Discourse in Poland
Katarzyna
Warminska, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
warminsk@sigma.wsmip.uj.edu.pl
Are Language Rights Human Rights?
Jackie Urla, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
Indigenous
law as State Law - Recent Trends in Latin American Legal Pluralism
Wolfgang
Gabbert, University
of Hannover
Israeli Anthropology and Apartheid: Intellectual
Property, Mizrahi Politics, and the Right of Return
Smadar Lavie, Tel Aviv
sinaia5@netvision.net.il