Toleration, Equality, and Segregation in the Name of Culture - Auslandsbüro Israel
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Phillip P. Mizock & Estelle Mizock Chair in Administrative and Criminal Law
Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Harry and Michael Sacher Institute for Legislative Research & Comparative Law
Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
invites the public to an international conference:
Toleration, Equality,
and Segregation in the
Name of Culture
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
09:30 – 17:30
Hall 405, Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Mount Scopus Campus
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Conference Program:
09:00-09:30 Reception and registration
09:30-09:45 Greetings
09:45-11:00 Opening Address
Lecture: Prof. Lorraine Weinrib
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
"Dignity, Cultural Community and the Constitutional State"
Discussant: Prof. Frances Raday
School of Law, College of Management Academic Studies;
Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
11:15-13:00 Session I: The Impacts of Segregation on Vulnerable Minority Members
Chair: Dr. Tomer Broude
Academic Director, Minerva Center for Human Rights, , Faculty of Law,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Presentations: Dr. Tamar Hostovsky Brandes
School of Law, Ono Academic College
"Separate and different: Single-sex education and the quest for equality"
Dr. Ofer Cassif
Sapir Academic College; Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo
"Hegemony, power and identity: Justice and the construction of culture"
Ms. Inas Deeb
Doctoral Candidate, School of Education, Bar-Ilan University;
Director of educational programs at Hand in Hand Center for Jewish and
Arab Education in Israel
"Jewish and Arab children's concepts of ethnic categories in integrated
and segregated schools in Israel"
Dr. Anne Schondelmayer
Department of Intercultural Education, Free University of Berlin
"Communication and understanding between groups of different social
milieu identifications"
Discussant: Dr. Meital Pinto
Angel Postdoctoral Fellow, Minerva Center for Human Rights, Faculty of
Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
13:00-14:00 Recess
14:00-15:30 Session II: Breaking the Dichotomy between Voluntary and Involuntary Segregation of
Minority Members
Chair: Dr. Hila Keren
Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Presentations: Dr. Yifat Bitton
School of Law, College of Management Academic Studies
"Finally, our own Brown! (?)"
Prof. Kristi L. Bowman
Michigan State University College of Law
"Breaking down antidiscrimination: anti-subordination, anti-classification,
and education in the United States and Israel"
Ms. Tammy Harel Ben-Shahar
Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Religious separation or elitist segregation? Two kinds of religious schools
and equal educational opportunity"
15:45-17:30 Session III: The Tension between the Right to Culture and the Right to Equality
Chair: Dr. Re'em Segev
Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Presentations: Dr. Gershon Gontovnik
Faculty of Law, Carmel Academic Center, Haifa
"Legal walls built by minority groups in the name of culture: A right to
discriminate?"
Prof. Frédéric Megret
Faculty of Law, McGill University
"Legal pluralism and international human rights: When does one have the
right to one's own legal system?"
Dr. Meital Pinto
Angel Postdoctoral Fellow, Minerva Center for Human Rights, Faculty of
Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"A new perspective on the rights of minorities within minorities"
Dr. Lorenzo Zucca
School of Law, King's College London
"Is toleration the right answer to religious conflicts?"
Discussant: Prof. Alon Harel
Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
To request registration, information and/or campus entry/parking permits:
Contact the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
no later than the day before the event: mchr@savion.huji.ac.il or 02-5881156