Friday, April 26
All panels will be held in 101 West Duke Building, East Campus
National Minorities in Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Law, History, and Social Science
8:45 am Welcome & Introduction
Malachi Hacohen and Suzanne Shanahan, Duke University
9:15 am From Minority Rights to Human Rights? Group and Individual Rights in the 1940’s and 1950’s
Daniel Cohen, Rice University | Minority Rights in the ‘Human Rights Revolution’
Elazar Barkan, Columbia University | No Return, No Refuge
Chair: Claudia Koonz, Duke University; Discussant: Gil Rubin, Columbia University
11:15 am National Minorities and the Law in Europe
Patrick Macklem, Toronto Law School | Guarding the Perimeter: Militant Democracy and Religious Freedom in Europe
Liav Orgad, IDC Law School | Illiberal Liberalism: Cultural Restrictions on Migration and Access to Citizenship in Europe
Chair: Morton Weinfeld, McGill University; Discussant: Malachi Hacohen, Duke University
1:00 pm Lunch
1:45 pm Old Meets New? The Challenges of New Migrations for National Minorities in Europe
Jennifer Jackson-Preece, London School of Economics | Deconstruction Discourses of Minority/Migrant Rights in Europe
Maria Stoilkova, University of Florida | Populism and Immigration in Contemporary Bulgaria
Chair: Anna Korteweg, University of Toronto; Discussant: Laurie McIntosh, Duke University
3:30 pm Concluding Thoughts