סדנה בין-לאומית בנושא דו-לאומיות

Wednesday, 26 May, 2010

SESSION 1:  THE HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE

Chair: Dr. Arye Carmon, President, The Israel  Democracy Institute

Speakers: 

• Prof. Ivo Banac, Yale University
  “Yugoslavia and its Successors as Multi-National States”
  
  
• Prof. Van Parijs, Professor, University of Louvain (Belgium); Hoover Chair in Economic and Social Ethics and Visiting Professor at Harvard  University, Department of Philosophy
  “Is a Bi-National Democracy Viable?  A Tentative Answer in Light 
  of Belgium's Achievements and Problems"
  
  
• Dr. Matti Steinberg
  “And the one people shall be stronger than the other people”: Bi-Nationalism in the Era of Nationalism -  the Arab Middle Eastern Context”
  
  
• Prof. Tamar Hermann, Senior Fellow, The Israel Democracy Institute 
  "Past and Present - on the Evolution of the Bi-National Idea in the Israeli-Palestinian Context"

Respondent:  Prof. Shulamit  Volkov, Department of History, Tel- Aviv University

Discussion

 SESSION 2:  THEORETICAL MODELS OF MULTI-NATIONAL STATES

Chair: Prof. Nili Cohen, Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University

Speakers:

• Prof. Michael Walzer, Professor (Emeritus) of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  “Five Regimes of Co-Existence”
  
  
• Prof. Avishai Margalit, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 
  “Why I am Not for a Bi-National State” 
  
  
• Prof. Ran Halevi, Centre national de la recherche scientifique; Centre de recherches politiques Raymond 
  "Plurality in the Shadow of Unity: The Fabric of the French Nation”
  
  
• Prof. Shahar Lipshitz, Senior Fellow, The Israel Democracy Institute; Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University.
  "Liberal Multi-Culturism as a Remedy to the Relationship Between State and Religion in Israel"
  
  
• Prof. Yaffa Zilbershatz, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University
  “Against Multi-Citizenship”

Respondent: Prof. Yoram Shachar, The Redzinger Law School, The Inter-Disciplinary Center, Herzliya

Discussion

Thursday, 27 May, 2010

SESSION 3:  ISRAEL AS A JEWISH AND DEMOCRATIC STATE

Chair: Prof. (Emeritus) Benjamin Z. Kedar, Department of History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Speakers:

• Prof. Haim Gans, Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
  "Israel as a Jewish State -Separating the Constitutional and the Political Spheres"
  
  
• Dr. Alex Yakobson, Department of History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  “National Identity and Citizenship in a Jewish and Democratic State"
  
  
• Prof. Yedidia Stern, Vice President, Research, The Israel Democracy Institute; Law Faculty, Bar-Ilan University
  “Jewish and/or Democratic?”
  
  
• Prof. Sami Smoocha, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Haifa University
  “Bi-National State, Zionist State and In-Between” 
  
  
• Prof. Ruth Gavison, Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Respondent: Prof. Michael Walzer, Professor (Emeritus) of Social Science,  Institute of  Advanced Studies, Princeton