The Status Law Syndrome: Post-Communist Nation-Building or Post-Modern Citizenship?
14-16 October, 2004
Organized by
JSPS 21st Century COE Program Making a Discipline of Slavic Eurasian Studies
SLAVIC RESEARCH CENTRE Hokkaido University, Japan
INSTITUTE OF LEGAL STUDIES of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
MINORITY STUDIES INSTITUTE of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
TELEKI LÁSZLÓ INSTITUTE, Budapest
Location: Budapest, I. Országház utca 30.
Jakobinus Hall
Thursday, 14 October
10.00 Opening remarks: Osamu Ieda (Hokkaido University, Sapporo)
1. Section
The Status Law and Nation Politics (Chair: Osamu Ieda)
10.15-10.30: Brigid Fowler (University of Birmingham): The Status Law in European Context
10.30-10.45: Zoltán Kántor (Teleki Institute, Budapest): The Uses (and misuses) of the Concept of Nation in the ECE ’Status Laws’
10.45-11.00: Mária Kovács (Central European University, Budapest): Autonomy and Double Citizenship
11.00-11.15: Stephen Deets (Miami University of Ohio): The Hungarian Status Law and the Spectre of Neo-Medievalism in Europe
11.15-12.00: Discussion time
12.00-12.15: Coffee break
2. Section
International Approaches (Chair: Viktor Masenkó-Mavi, Institute of Legal Studies, HAS, Budapest)
12.15-12.30: Walter Kemp (Office of the Secretary General of the OSCE, Vienna): The Triadic Nexus: Lessons Learned from the Status Law
12.30-12.45: Judit Tóth (Minority Studies Institute, HAS, Budapest): Kin-Minority, Kin-State and Neighbourhood Policy in the Enlarged EU
12.45-13.00: Herbert Küpper (Institute for East European Law, München): From the Status Law to the Initiative for Dual Citizenship: Aspects of Domestic Hungarian and International Law
13.00-13.15: Balázs Majtényi (Institute of Legal Studies, HAS, Budapest): Utilitarism in Minority Protection (Status Laws and International Organizations)
13.15-14.00: Discussion time
14.00-15.00: Lunch
3. Section
Comparative Aspects (Chair: Dimitras Panayote, Greek Helsinki Monitor)
15.00-15.15: Sherrill Stroschein (Weatherhead Center, Harvard University, Cambridge MA): Weber, Territory, and the Status Law: Time for New Assumptions?
15.15-15.30: Zsuzsa Csergõ and James M. Goldgeier (George Washington University, Washington D.C.): Virtual Nationalism in Comparative Context: How Unique is the Hungarian Approach?
15.30-15.45: Iván Halász (Institute of Legal Studies, HAS, Budapest): Models of Kin-Minority Protection in Eastern and Central Europe
15.45-16.00: Amitabh Singh (Jawharlal Nehru University, New Delhi): Hungarian Status Law: A Model for Kin-Minority Protection in Post Communist Societies
16.00-16.15: Natsuko Oka (Institute of Developing Economies, Chiba, Japan): Kin-Minority Protection in Central Asia
16.15-17.00: Discussion time
18.30: Reception
II. Friday, 15 October
4. Section
Socio-Cultural Implication of the Status Laws (Chair: George Schöpflin, University College London)
10.00-10.15: Osamu Ieda: Ideological Background of the Status Law Controversy in Hungary
10.15-10.30: Tjeerd de Graaf (Frisian Academy, Ljouwert/Leeuwarden, The Netherlands): The Specific Situation of Ethnic Minority Group in the Soviet Union. The Mennonites and their Relation with the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Russia
10.30-10.45: Nigel Swain (Hokkaido University, Sapporo): The Innocence of Article Eighteen, Paragraph Two, Subsection E.
10.45-11.00: András László Pap (Kodolányi College, Székesfehérvár, Hungary): Minority Rights and Diaspora Claims: Collision and Interdependence
11.00-11.45: Discussion time
11.45-12.00: Coffee break
5. Section
The Status Law and the EU (Chair: László Szarka, Minority Studies Institute, HAS, Budapest)
12.00-12.15: George Schöpflin: Beyond the Status Law: Hungary and the EU
12.15-12.30: Gabriel von Toggenburg (European Academy, Bolzano/Bozen): What Status for „Status Laws” in the Postnational EU Market?
12.30-12.45: Balázs Vizi (Minority Studies Institute, HAS, Budapest): Cross-border Minority Protection and European Integration
12.45-13.00: Helge Hornburg (Faculty of Law, Technical University, Dresden): The Relationship of Kin-State/Kin-Minority Legislation and European Community Law, Especially the Prohibition of Discrimination
13.00-13.45: Discussion time
13.45-14.45: Lunch
6. Section
„Status Laws” in Europe and Beyond (Chair: Zoltán Péteri, Institute of Legal Studies, HAS, Budapest)
14.45-15.00: Constantin Iordachi (Central European University, Budapest): Dual Citizenship and National Policies in Post-Communist East-Central Europe: A Comparison between Hungary, Romania, and the Republic of Moldova
15.00-15.15: Özgür-Baklacioglu Nurcan (Faculty of Political Science, Istanbul University): Migration, Dual Citizenship and Nation-Building in Post-Cold-War Bulgaria and Turkey
15.15-15.30: Gábor Kardos (ELTE, Budapest): Prospect for Kin-States?
15.30-15.45: László Szarka (Minority Studies Institute, HAS, Budapest): Slovak Reactions to the Hungarian Status Law
15.45-16.30: Discussion time
18.30: Dinner
III. Saturday, 16 October
Closed workshop
Contact person:
Anna Osvát
E-mail: annaosv@mtaki.hu
Telephone:+36-1-224-6790
English-Hungarian simultaneous translation service will be available.