Seminar: “Collective Rights for Indigenous Minorities: Looking for New Frames of Reference”

This seminar series consisted of 10 lectures and addressed different aspects of collective rights; the historical legality of rights over land, the moral and legal basis for collective rights, the perspective of international law on the right of self-determination and a criticism of liberal multiculturalism. November 7, 2003 Dr. Amal Jamal - Tel Aviv University "On Politicizing Indingeneity: The Moral, Legal and Political Justifications of Collective Rights" November 28, 2003 Dr. Michael Karayanni - The Hebrew University "Liberal Pluralism and its View of the Individual, the Community and the State: A Critical Appraisal" December 12, 2003 Dr. Tamar Meisels - Tel Aviv University "Can Corrective Justice Ground Claims to Territory?" January 9, 2004 Dr. Chaim Gans - Tel Aviv University "The Palestinian Right of Return and the Justice of Zionism" February 12, 2004 Dr. Sammi Samooha - Haifa University "Collective Right for Arabs in Israel" February 26, 2004 Dr. Gad Barzilai - Tel Aviv University "Is the Future Good or Bad: From Liberal Fantasies and Violent Despair to Critical Communitarian Scenarios" March 12, 2004 Attorney Nimer Sultany - Mada al Carmel Center "International Law and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: On the Particular Case of the Palestinian Minority" March 26, 2004 Dr. Mohammad Amarah - Bar Ilan University "Arab Linguistic Space and Collective Rights in Israel" April 16, 2004 Dr. Menny Mautner - Tel Aviv University "Israel as a Multicultural State: The Need for a New Thinking" May 14, 2004 Dr. Yousef Jabareen - Georgetown Law Center "The Israeli Judicial Discourse and the Arab Minority: Between Formal and Substantial Equality"