Conference: Nationalism and Human Rights

Conference: Nationalism and Human Rights
Date: June 27-29, 2008
Place: Dolapdere Campus, BS-1
The conference is organized by the Human Rights Research Committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and İstanbul Bilgi University Human Rights Law Research Center
“NATIONALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS”
Conference organized by
THE HUMAN RIGHTS RESEARCH COMMITTEE OF
THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION (IPSA)
ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY HUMAN RIGHTS LAW RESEARCH CENTER
27-29 June 2008Istanbul Bilgi University
Dolapdere Campus
OPENING SESSION
Friday, 27 June 2008
13:00 hrs.
Opening Remarks by

 Professor Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, Chair, IPSA Human Rights Research Committee and Purchase College, The State University of New York

 Professor Turgut Tarhanlı, Director, Istanbul Bilgi University Human Rights Law Research Center
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Umut Özkırımlı, Istanbul Bilgi University
15:00 hrs.
State Sovereignty vs. Human Rights
Chair: Prof. Füsun TÜRKMEN, Galatasaray University

 “The Contradictions of Human Rights and Sovereignty: Contemporary Dilemmas of Postwar Historical Practice” Grace CHENG, Hawaii Pacific University

 “Soft Borders:Rethinking the Enjoyment of Human Rights” Julie MOSTOV, Drexel University

 “Taming the Nation-State: Human Rights and Peoples” Mitch AVILA, California State University,Fullerton

 “People without Borders: Ethical Prerogative in Relation to Sovereignty” Robert HATCHER, University of North Texas
16:30 Coffee-break
16:45 Debate
17:30 End of session
18:00 Welcome reception
Saturday, 28 June 2008
9:30 hrs.
Women and Human Rights
Chair: Prof. Fatmagül BERKTAY, Istanbul University

 “Globalizing Gender Equality to Defeat Nationalism” Darren ROSENBLUM, Pace Law School

 “Feminism versus Islam? The Work of Human Rights Discourse in Contemporary Bangladesh” Dina M. SIDDIQI, University of Pennsylvania

 “Palestinian Women in a Dual Struggle: Will the Struggle against the Israeli Policy Concerning Land Resources Free Women from the Rule of Patrilocal Residence?” Lillian ABOU-TABICKH, Bar-Ilan University
11:00 Coffee-break
11:15 Debate
12:00 End of session
12:30 Lunch for panelists, compliments of the Human Rights Law Research Center
14:00 hrs.
National Security vs. Human Rights
Chair: Prof. Turgut TARHANLI, Istanbul Bilgi University

 “Human Rights as a Security Challenge: An Examination of Turkish Nationalist Discourse on EU Conditionality on Minority Rights” Beyza TEKİN, Galatasaray University

 “Walls: Securing Nations or Violating Human Rights?” Filiz ÖTÜCÜ,Sheryl SHIRLEY, Plymouth State University
15:00 Coffee-break
15:15 Debate
16:00 hrs
National Values and Exceptionalism
Chair: Prof. Nergis CANEFE, York University

 “National Self-Determination, Democracy and Human Rights” Benyamin NEUBERGER, The Open University of Israel

 “Nationalist Ruling Parties and National States: Partisans and Statesmen,Human Rights Offenders and Human Rights Defenders in the North-African Post-Colonial States and Societies” M. Moncef KHADDAR, Eastern Mediterranean University

 “Exceptionalism, Nationalism and the Paucity of Human Rights in Singapore” Laurence Wai-Teng LEONG, National University of Singapore
17:00 Debate
17:45 End of session
Sunday, 29 June 2008
9:30 hrs.
Identity Politics and Human Rights
Chair: Prof. Ayhan KAYA, Istanbul Bilgi University

 “Manipulating Nationalistic Sentiments in Dangers of Diminishing State Capacity” Hande ÖĞÜTÇÜ, Binghamton University, The State University of New York

 “Religion-based Nationalism and Human Rights Violations” Jeroen TEMPERMAN, National University of Ireland,Galway

 “All in the Name of Human Rights:an Historical Case Study on Australian Nationalism and Multiculturalism 1980-1990” Troy WHITFORD, Charles Sturt University
10:30 Coffee-break
10:45 Debate
11:15 End of session
11:30 hrs
Citizenship and Human Rights
Chair: Prof. Zehra F. Kabasakal ARAT, Purchase College, The State University of New York

 “Citizenship, Education, Nationalism and democracy in Turkey:the Four Multipliers of a Planned Society” Deniz ILGAZ, Boğaziçi University

 “Cosmopolitan Citizenship as a Thin Concept:Who is willing to die for it?” Filiz KARTAL, Public Administration Institute for Turkey and the Middle East (TODAIE)

 “Peaceful Thai,Violent Muslim: negotiating Thai-Malay-Muslim Rights to Ethnic Citizenship in Southern Thailand” Saroja DORAIRAJOO, Chinese University of Hong Kong
12:00 Debate
12:30 Closing remarks by Prof. TÜRKMEN, Galatasaray University
13:00 END OF CONFERENCE