Morning session
30 Years Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) – Time for a Reform?

8.45
Opening of the Conference

9.00
The FCNM at 30: achievements and the way ahead
Rainer Hofmann, University of Frankfurt

9.45
Implementing the FCNM and the Charter for Regional or Minority Languages – A Comparison
Stefan Oeter, University of Hamburg

10.15-10.30
Break

10.30-11.15
Reforming the Framework Convention – Views from different stakeholders in Europe
Celeste Pesce, University of Bari

11.15-11.45
Rethinking the Advisory Committee’s Monitoring Practice
Harald Scheu, University of Prague

11.45-12.30
Potential and limitations of the AC monitoring process
Janos Fiala-Butora, University of Galway

Afternoon session
Taking Human Rights Seriously: Access to Courts, Monitoring, Re-defining basic human rights?

14.30
The UN Human Rights Treaty Body System: Promises and Reality
Sir Malcolm Evans, University of Oxford

15.15
Human Rights Protection at Multiple Levels - Between Void and Pluralism
Athanasia Spiliopoulou Akermark, Åbo Akademi University

16.00-16.15
Break

16.15
The Rights of the Greenlandic People to Independence or Free Association, both under International and Danish Law
Gudmundur Alfredsson, Stefansson Arctic Institute, Iceland

17.00
The reform of the Common European Asylum System and the externalisation of migration control
Giuseppe Cataldi, University of Napoli Orientale

Discussant: Dr. Romedi Arquint, Convivenza