9.00 - 9.30 am – Registration
9.30 - 10.00 am – Opening session and welcome
10.00 - 10.45 am – Opening plenary – Dr. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
(University of Roskilde, Denmark)
The right to mother tongue medium education
- the hot potato in human
rights instruments (in English)
Session 1 - European Constitution and Linguistic
Diversity (part I)
Chaired by Dr. Antoni Milian Massana (Administrative
Law, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
10.50 - 11.15 am – Dr. Bojan Brezigar (President of the
European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages, EBLUL)
EBLUL’s policy in relation to the
constitutional draft (in English)
11.15 - 11.45 am – Coffee break
11.45 am - 12.10 pm – Dr. Niamh Nic Shuibhne (School
of Law, University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Does the Draft EU Constitution contain a
language policy? (in English)
12.15 - 12.40 pm – Dr. Miriam Aziz (Robert Schuman Centre
for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence,
Italy)
Language rights in the EU and the modesty
of the constitutional moment: mainstreaming the duty of clarity
and transparency (in English)
12.45 - 1.10 pm – Dr. Alessandro Pizzorusso (Dipartimento
di Diritto Pubblico, Università di Pisa, Italy)
Linguistic groups as cultural subjects,
as political subjects and as legal subjects (in Italian)
1.15 - 1.45 pm – Discussion
1.45 - 3.15 pm – Lunch
Session 2 - The role of European Institutions
Chaired by Neus Oliveras (Prof. of Constitutional Law,
Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
3.15 - 3.40 pm – Regina Jensdottir (Secretariat of the
Council of Europe’s Charter for Regional or Minority Languages)
The Council of Europe Language Charter -
perspectives, impact and effectiveness? (in English)
3.45 - 4.10 pm – Dr. Snezana Trifunovska (Department
of International and European Law of the Law Faculty, University
of Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Efficiency of the European supervisory systems
for protection of linguistic rights of minorities: A critical
assessment (in English)
4.15 - 4.40 pm – Kristin Henrard (Department of Constitutional
and International Law, University of Groningen, Netherlands)
An investigation into the desirable, appropriate
and possible role of the Language Charter in expanding on Article
22 of the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights (in
English)
4.45 - 5.10 pm – Robert Dunbar, LL.M. (Senior Lecturer
in Law, The School of Law, University of Glasgow, Scotland)
The European Charter for Regional or Minority
Languages from the perspective of other norms in European Law:
A fully appropriate basis for EU language policy? (in
English)
5.10 - 5.30 am – Coffee break
5.30 - 5.55 pm – Teresa Condeço (DG Education
and Culture, European Commission)
Linguistic Diversity: A framework for all
languages (in English)
6.00 - 6.25 pm – Dr. Eduardo J. Ruíz Vieytez (Instituto
de Derechos Humanos, Universidad de Deusto, Basque Country)
Official languages and minority languages:
issues regarding their legal status through Comparative Law
(in Spanish)
6.30 - 7.00 pm – Discussion
7.30 - 8.30 pm – Ceremony of the
Linguapax Awards 2003
Introduced by Agustí Colomines (Director of UNESCO Centre
of Catalonia)
Linguists awarded: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
(introduced by Miquel Strubell, Director of the Programme of
Humanities, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) and Aina
Moll (introduced by Dr. Isidor Marí, Director
of Humanities and Philology Studies, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)