The Tom Lantos Institute, Birmingham Law School (University of Birmingham), Sapientia University, and the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities are jointly organizing an international conference on ‘Decolonizing Minority Rights Discourse’ to be held at Sapientia University, Romania on 9-10 May 2025. The conference aims to bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds but with a common interest in decolonial and minority rights issues. Early career researchers are especially encouraged to participate.
The Call for papers is open until January 13, 2025 and is available here: International Conference on ‘Decolonizing Minority Rights Discourse’ - Tom Lantos Institute
Topics at the conference could include:
- Definitional debates and categorization of minorities
- Historiography and knowledge production
- Eurocentrism and minority rights discourse
- Intra-European developmental hierarchies and minority rights discourse
- Statehood and the ‘minority question’
- Imperial, post-immigrant, and autochthonous minorities
- Minorities and indigenous peoples
- Decolonization, minorities, and the postcolonial state
- Minority protection beyond protectionist rhetoric
- Promises and perils of the right to self-determination
- Resistance and social movements
- Effective participation and minority agency
- Ethics of activism
- Role of law and legal institutions
- Political economy of minority oppression
- Intersectionality
- Minorities and global governance
- Transitional justice and reparations
- Minority rights and climate justice