Research Center for Integration Of International law in Israel: Convegno di studi sul tema “Freedom from Religion: International, Constitutional and Theoretical Perspectives” (11-13 Dicembre 2011)

Freedom from Religion:
International, Constitutional and Theoretical Perspectives
December 11th-13th, 2011

Programme

December 11th
6:00pm – Reception
6.30pm – 8:00pm Opening Session
Greetings
Prof. Yoram Rabin, Dean, Haim Striks Law School, College of Management, Israel
Prof. Frances Raday, Haim Striks Law School, College of Management, Israel

Keynote speakers:
Dr. Ayala Procaccia– (Ret) Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel
Prof. Joseph Weiler – Professor of Law, New York University.
Counsel at the ECtHR case of Lautsi and Others v. Italy, no. 30814/06, 1 Mar. 2010 regarding crucifix in schools classrooms.

December 12th
9:00am – Coffee
9:30am – 11:00am
1st Panel – Religion, Secularism and the Constitution
Chair-commentator, Prof. Frances Raday, Haim Striks Law School, College of Management, Israel
Prof. Steven Smith, University of San Diego, Religious Symbols and Secular Government.
Prof. Nicholas Bamforth, Oxford University, Attempts to 'Normalize' Religious Values Through Law.
Dr. Yossi Nehushtan, Haim Striks Law School, College of Management, Israel, The Constitutional Implications of the Links Between Religion and Intolerance.
11:00am – Coffee
11:30am – 12:40pm
2nd Panel – From Blasphemy to Religious Defamation
Chair-commentator, Dr. Aviad Hacohen, Shaarey Mishpat, Israel
Prof. Michel Rosenfeld, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Blasphemy.
Prof. David Kretzmer, Hebrew University, Defamation of Religion and Freedom of Expression.
12:40pm – Lunch with the Israeli author Yoram Kanuk
2:00pm –3:30pm
3rd Panel – Freedom from Religion in International and Regional law
Chair-commentator, Prof. Yuval Shany, Hebrew University, Israel
Prof. Natan Lerner, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel, A Neglected Human Right: Freedom from Religion in Relevant Instruments.
Ms. Jane Connors, UN HR Committee, Geneva, Reservations on Grounds of Religion to the Human Rights Treaties.
Prof. Kirsten Ketscher, University of Copenhagen, Freedom from religion: Interpretation of the Strasbourg Court
3:30pm – Coffee
4:00pm – 5:10pm
4th Panel – Religion in the Public Sphere
Chair-commentator, Prof. Iris Canor, Haim Striks Law School, College of Management, Israel
Prof. Silvio Ferrari, Professor of Canon law, University of Milan, The formal and substantive neutrality of the public sphere.
Prof. Susanna Mancini, Professor of Law, University of Bologna and SAIS Johns Hopkins University BC, ECHR on Religious Symbols.

December 13th
9:00am – Coffee
9:30am – 11:00am
5th Panel – Religious Institutionalism and Human Rights
Chair-commentator, Prof. Daniel Sinclair, Haim Striks Law School, College of Management, Israel
Dr. Annika Borg, The Swedish Theological Institute, Religion: Emancipation or Submission? Reflections on Power, Interpretation and Human Rights.
Dr. Tzvia Greenfield, Orthodox Judaism and Human Rights.
Prof. Michael Karayanni, Hebrew University, The Arab Minority through the Lens of Multiculturalism.
11:00am – Coffee
11:30am -12:40pm
6th Panel – International Human Rights and Religious Patriarchy
Chair-commentator, Dr. Yuval Merin, Haim Striks Law School, College of Management, Israel
Prof. David Richards, New York University, Rights to Contraception and Abortion and Gay/Lesbian Rights.
Prof. Frances Raday, Haim Striks Law School, College of Management, Israel, sacrelazing the patriarchal family in the monotheism
12:40pm – Lunch
2:00pm – 3:30pm
7th Panel – Families under State Sponsored Religion
Chair-commentator, Dr. Tamar Morag, Haim Striks Law School, College of Management, Israel
Dr. Moussa Abou Ramadan, Carmel Academic Center, Haifa, The marriage of a Muslim Woman to a Non-Muslim Man: Human Rights, Gender and Religion.
Dr. Zvi Triger, Haim Striks Law School, College of Management, Israel, The Illusion of Civil Marriage in Israel
Adv. Hadas Tagari, Bar Ilan University, Freedom from Religion, the Right to Family and Rights within the Family.
3:30pm – Coffee
4:00pm – 4:30pm
Closing session and cocktail
Prof. Frances Raday, Haim Striks Law School, College of Management, Israel, organizer
Dr. Yossi Nehushtan, Haim Striks Law School, College of Management, Israel, organizer

Il Programma (pdf)