Gulbenkian Foundation Seminar - European University Institute

Gulbenkian Foundation Seminar
MINORITIES AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
LESSONS FROM THE PAST AND OPENINGS FOR THE FUTURE
Seminar organized by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Post-doc Fellows, 2009-2010 at the EUI: Evaldo
Xavier Gomes (Law Dep.) and Lucio Manuel Rocha de Sousa (History Dep.).
17 - 18 May 2010
1st Day
10:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Inaugural Session by Prof. Marise Cremona (Head of the Law Department) and Prof. Bartolomé Yun
Casalilla (Head of the History Department)
10:30 – 12:30 a.m.
First Panel: “Minorities and Indigenous Peoples: The Battle over Definition”
Chair: Prof. Leonardo Álvarez Álvarez – (former EUI visiting fellow) Law Faculty, University of
Oviedo, SPAIN
Prof. Martin Scheinin – Professor of Public International Law, Law Department, EUI / Rights
of Indigenous Peoples Committee of the International Law
Association
Prof. Siegfried Wiessner – (former Fernand Braudel Fellow, EUI) Prof. of Law, St. Thomas
University School of Law, USA / Chair, International Law Association
(ILA) Rights of Indigenous Peoples Committee.
Prof. Alessandro Simoni - Delegato alle Relazioni Internazionali, and Professor of Sistemi
Giuridici Comparati, Law Faculty, University of Florence, ITALY.
12.30 a.m.
Lunch
2:15 – 4:30 p.m. (Panel in Spanish and Portuguese Languages)
O reconhecimento internacional e a garantía constitucional dos direitos dos povos indígenas e das
minorias, em particular entre os Estados Latino-americanos
El reconocimiento internacional y la garantía constitucional de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas y de las
minorías, especialmente entre los Estados latinoamericanos
Chair: Evaldo Xavier Gomes, - Gulbenkian Fellow, Law Department, EUI
Prof. José Manuel Pérez - Law Faculty, University of Oviedo, SPAIN
Adriana Aparecida Bessa da Costa Antunes Rodrigues - Law Department - EUI, BRAZIL
Prof. Leonardo Álvarez Álvarez – (former EUI Visiting Fellow) Law Faculty, University of
Oviedo, SPAIN
Lucas Lixinski - Law Department – EUI, BRAZIL
2nd Day
9.30 – 10:45 a.m. (Panel in Spanish and Portuguese Languages)
Minorias e género
Chair: Prof. Antonella Romano – Director of Graduate StudiesHistory Department, EUI
Prof. Ângelo de Assis and Roberta Franco– Univ. Federal de Viçosa, BRAZIL
Prof. Leonor Seabra – Macao University, CHINA
Prof. Maria de Deus Manso – Univ. Évora, PORTUGAL
Prof. Suely Almeida – Univ. Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife – BRAZIL
Jaime Ricardo Gouveia - History Department – EUI, PORTUGAL
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10.45 – 11.00 a.m.
Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30 a.m.
General Discussion
12.30 -12.45
CLOSING
Evaldo Xavier Gomes - Gulbenkian Fellow, Law Department, EUI, BRASIL
and
Lucio de Sousa - Gulbenkian Fellow, History Department, EUI, PORTUGAL
12.45
Lunch
VENUE:
Salla Europa
Villa Schifanoia
European University Institute
Via Boccaccio 121
I-50133 Firenze
ITALY
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