International Workshop on Bi-Nationalism

WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 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" (Hebrew)
  

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" (Hebrew)
  
  
• 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, May 27, 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?” (Hebrew)
  
  
• 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