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Citizenship, Democracy and Ethnocultural Diversity
Newsletter, Issue 22: excerpts
Citizenship, Democracy and Ethnocultural Diversity
Newsletter of the Queen's Forum for Philosophy and Public Policy
No. 22, October 2001
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Upcoming Conferences
3. New Journals
4. Recent Publications
5. Internet Resources
6. Related Research Programs
1. INTRODUCTION
The Forum for Philosophy and Public Policy at Queen's University is
organizing a multi-year, research project on citizenship, democracy
and minority rights in multiethnic states, under the direction of
Prof. Will Kymlicka. As part of this project, the Forum distributes a
quarterly newsletter updating recent developments in the field, of
which this is the twenty-second issue. We hope that it will be of
interest to anyone working in the field, whether in academia, public
service, or various non-governmental organizations.
If you know anyone who would like to be added to the mailing list for
this newsletter, or if you would like copies of the back-issues,
please contact us at [email protected]. For further
information about the research project, you can also reach us by fax
at 613-533-6545. Back-issues of the newsletter are posted on the Web
on Will Kymlicka's home-page:
http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~philform/news.html
2. RECENT AND UPCOMING CONFERENCES
There was a conference at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European
Studies, Harvard University, entitled "Re-Imagined Communities:
National Identities in the New Europe", September 28-29, 2001. For
more information, contact the conference coordinator Ms Wiltrud
Simburger, Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes Boston, 170 Beacon St,
Boston, MA 02116, tel. 617-262-6050; fax: 617-262-2615; e-mail:
[email protected]
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The Educational Research Institute in Slovenia, with the support of
the Slovene Commission of UNESCO and the Council of Europe, is
organizing a conference on "Shattered Identities: Diversity,
Citizenship, and Liberal Political Thought" to be held in Bled,
Slovenia, November 16-17, 2001. The conference organizers are Darko
Strajn, Janez Justin, Igor Zagar and Mitja Sardoc. The conference
will focus on the role of diversity in public education and political
theory, the importance of citizenship education, the relation between
public education, cultural differences and language policies. For
more information contact Mitja Sardoc, Educational Research Institute,
Gerbiceva 62, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, tel: 386-1-4201-250; fax:
386-1-4201- 266; e-mail: [email protected]
The Dutch Ministry of the Interior and the Council of Europe are
organizing an international conference on the theme "Prospects and
Practical Effects of the European Charter for Regional and Minority
Languages", the most important legal instrument for minority languages
in Europe. The conference will take place in Noordwijkerhout, close
to The Hague, November 30 - December 1, 2001. For more information on
the conference, e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
The next (34th) Eurofor Conference will be on "Immigration to the
European Union Countries: Political Standpoints on National and
European Levels" in Brussels, Belgium, December 5-9, 2001. The 35th
Eurofor Conference will be on "Ethnic Conflicts: Prevention,
Intervention and Solution Strategies", Burg Schaning, Austria, April
4-7, 2002. Note that some changes have been made to the scheduling of
recent and upcoming Eurofor Conferences, including cancellations. For
a complete update and for information on the 34th and 35th conferences
visit the Eurofor web site: http://www.emz-berlin.de/e/conf/ec01.htm
The Kennan Institute has launched a competition for an
interdisciplinary junior scholar workshop series: "Multicultural
Legacies in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus". Participants will be
expected to present their research at a workshop in Washington D.C. on
March 22-23, 2002, to prepare policy briefs based on their work, and
to revise workshop papers for an edited volume at a second workshop in
the Fall of 2002. Participation is open to U.S. citizens and
permanent residents at the postdoctoral level. The workshop themes
include "the formation of national, religious, linguistic, and
regional identities", "the fixation of national categories", "violence
and repression", "tolerance/intolerance", "migration and refugee
issues", "representation of cultural myths and symbols" and "the role
of international policies, norms, culture, and economic relations".
For further information, contact the Kennan Institute, phone: (202)
691-4100; e-mail:[email protected] or visit
www.wilsoncenter.org/kennan
The 7th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of
Nationalities (ASN) will be titled "Peoples, Nations, and States: A
Cross Disciplinary Convention", Columbia University, New York, April
11-13, 2002. The deadline for paper proposals is December 6, 2001.
For more information contact Dr. Troy McGrath, ASN Convention Program
Chair, Political Science Department, Arnold Hall, Box 76, Hartwick
College, Oneonta, NY 13820, tel:(607) 431-4586; fax: (607) 431-4351;
e-mail: [email protected] or visit the ASN web site:
http://www.nationalities.org
The Institute for Strengthening Democracy in Bosnia is holding its
Fifth International Seminar on the topic of "Democracy and Human
Rights in Multiethnic Societies" in Kojnic, Bosnia on July 8-13 2002.
To submit a paper proposal, or for information about previous
seminars, see the Institute's website at:
http://www.bosnet.org/democracy_institute
The next conference of the International Society for the Study of
European Ideas (ISSEI) will be on the theme "European culture in a
Changing World: Between Nationalism and Globalism". The conference
will be held at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, July 22-27,
2002. Those who are interested in participating in the conference or
organizing workshops should contact the conference Chair, Daniel
Meyer-Dinkgrafe, e-mail: [email protected] or contact Ezra Talmor, Chair,
ISSEI, Kibbutz Nachshonim, D.N Merkaz 73190, Israel, tel:
972-3-938-6445; fax: 972-3-938-6588; e-mail: [email protected]
The World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education 2002 will be
hosted by the First Nations Adult and Higher Education Consortium
(FNAHEC) at a site on Stoney Nation lands in the mountains west of
Calgary, Alberta, Canada, August 4-10, 2002. Abstracts are invited.
For further information, contact 2002 WIPCE Calgary, Suite 310, 6940
Fisher Rd. SE, Calgary AB T2H 0W3; phone: (403) 258-1775; fax: (403)
258-1811; e-mail: [email protected] or visit:
http://www.fnahec.org/wipce2002/
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3. NEW JOURNALS
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4. RECENT PUBLICATIONS
(All prices in U.S. dollars).
Stephen Barbour and Cathie Carmichael (eds) Language and Nationalism
in Europe (OUP, 2001) $70.00
April Carter, Political Theory of Global Citizenship (Routledge, 2001)
$90.00
Grant Cornwell and Eve Stoddard (eds) Global Multiculturalism:
Comparative Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity and Nation (Rowman and
Littlefield, 2000) $29.95
Nenad Dimitrijevic (ed) Managing Multiethnic Local Communities in
Countries of Former Yugoslavia (OSI, Budapest, 2001) $21.95
Yash Ghai, Public Participation and Minorities (Minority Rights Group,
2001) $6.95
Monserrat Guibernau and John Hutchinson (eds), Understanding
Nationalism (Polity Press 2001) $24.95
Walter Kemp (ed) Quiet Diplomacy in Action: The OSCE High Commissioner
on National Minorities (Kluwer, 2001) $41.50
Y.N. Kly and D. Kly (eds) In Pursuit of the Right to
Self-Determination (Clarity Press, 2001) $15.35
Maivan Clech Lam, At the Edge of the State: Indigenous Peoples and
Self-Determination (Transnational Pub., 2000) $95.00
Nenad Miscevic, Nationalism and Beyond: Introducing Moral Debate About
Values (CEU Press, 2001) $23.95
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David Pearson, The Politics of Ethnicity in Settler Societies: States
of Unease (St Martin's Press, 2001) $62.00
Ferran Requejo (ed) Democracy and National Pluralism (Routledge, 2001)
$80.00
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Christine Sistare, Larry May and Leslie Francis (eds) Groups and Group
Rights (University Press of Kansas, 2001) $17.95
Jonathan Stein (ed) The Politics of National Minority Participation in
Post-Communist Europe (ME Sharpe, 2000) $76.95
Snena Trifunovska (editor-in-chief), Fernand de Varennes (guest
editor), Minority Rights in Europe. European Minorities and Languages
(T.M.C. Asser Press, 2001) $116.00
Jorge Valadez, Deliberative Democracy: Political Legitimacy and
Self-Determination in Multicultural Societies (Westview, 2001) $44.00
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Journal Symposia and Special Issues
There is a symposium on "Human Rights and Global Diversity" in
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Vol.
3, No. 1 (2000), guest edited by Simon Caney and Peter Jones, with
contributions by Chris Brown, Peter Jones, Simon Caney, Tom Hadden,
Kimberly Hutchings, Mark Bevir, Nicholas Wheeler.
There are two recent symposia in the journal Law and Philosophy that
might be of interest. The first is on hate crime legislation (Vol. 20,
No. 2, 2001), guest-edited by Christopher Wellman, with contributions
by Heidi Hurd, Claudia Card, Dan Kahan, Andrew Altman, Michael Blake.
The second is on citizenship in the European Union (Vol. 20, No. 3.,
2001), guest edited by Andreas Follestal, with contributions by Carlos
Closa, Andreas Follesdal, Percy Lehning and Jos de Beus.
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5. CALL FOR PAPERS
Sprawy Narodowosciowe (Nationalities Affairs), edited by Wojciech J.
Burszta, is a European biannual periodical devoted to the study of
nationalism and ethnicity. It focuses on comparative research on
nationalism both as embodied in various nation-states and pursued by
national movements without states. The editors are seeking
bibliographical essays that discuss publications that analyze
particular nationalisms, including stateless ones. For more
information, contact the initiator and coordinator of the project
"Bibliographical Essays on Nationalisms", Dr. Tomasz Kamusella, Sprawy
Narodowosciowe (Nationalities Affairs), Unit of the Study of
Nationalities, Polish Academy of Sciences, Stary Rynek 78/79, 61-771
Poznan, Poland; tel/fax: 48 (61) 852-0950; e-mail:
[email protected]; or contact the editor Prof. Wojciech
J. Burszta, e-mail: [email protected]
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6. INTERNET RESOURCES
Self-Determination Crisis Watch is an electronic journal edited by Tom
Barry and sponsored by Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF), a joint project
of the Interhemispheric Resource Centre and the Institute for Policy
Studies. It aims to advance new approaches to self-determination
conflicts through web-based research and analysis. For more
information, visit the web page:
http://www.fpif.org/selfdetermination/index.html
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The Council of Europe's website now includes extensive information
relating to the implementation of the Framework Convention for the
Protection of National Minorities, including both state reports on the
implementation of the Convention, and the opinions adopted by the
Advisory Committee regarding how well each state is living up to its
obligations. See http://www.humanrights.coe.int/Minorities/index.htm
A related issue concerns the extent to which EU candidate countries
are complying with the EU's minority protection requirements, one of
the criteria for accession to the EU. The Open Society Institute has
established a "European Union Accession Monitoring Program" to
evaluate this process, and has just released a volume on minority
rights protection in candidate countries. The report is available at:
http://www.eumap.org
The OSI's "Managing Multiethnic Communities Project", in cooperation
with the Center for European Migration and Ethnic Studies (CEMES), has
compiled and updated its database on innovative practices in managing
multiethnic communities and local ethnic conflict resolution, with
over 150 case studies. The database is at:
http://lgi.osi.hu/ethnic/csdb/
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7. Related Research Programs
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The Academy for Migration Studies in Denmark (AMID) is launching a
Visiting Fellows' Programme, open to researchers from other
universities around the world for periods of 1-4 months. The
fellowship covers travel and a monthly stipend. Successful
applications will be in residence at Aalborg University, although
stays at other AMID partner institutions in Copenhagen and Aarhus may
be arranged. For information about AMID, see their website at:
http://www.humsamf.auc.dk/amid/ Or contact the Administrative
Coordinator, Jesper Poulsen at: [email protected]
In 2002, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers plan to publish The Encyclopedia
of World's Minorities, a new reference source intended to be the
authoritative guide to its subject. The book is planned as a
two-volume A-Z encyclopedia. Entries will offer history and context
for each minority and concept covered, and they will supply
demographic data. Information on the encyclopedia in preparation and a
list of entries can be found by contacting the Commissioner Editor
Robin Rone, phone: (312) 587-0131 ext. 232; e-mail:
[email protected] or at the publisher's web site:
http://www.fitzroydearborn.com/chicago/minorities.htm
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The Forum gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in funding this
newsletter. Special thanks to Idil Boran for research help, and to
Lise Charlebois for help with the distribution of the newsletter.
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