Knut Traisbach asked us to share the following announcement with our readers. Of course, I am happy to do so:
The European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) in Venice will host a distinct human rights program this summer.
The inaugural session of the Venice Academy of Human Rights will take place from 12-17 July.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Jochen Abr. Frowein, Former director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
- Douglas A. Johnson, Executive Director of the Center for Victims of Torture, Minneapolis
- Theodor Meron, Judge and Former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Giorgio Sacerdoti, Former Member of the WTO Appellate Body
- Kathryn Sikkink, McKnight Presidential Chair in Political Science at the University of Minnesota
- Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor at Harvard University
The Academy offers interdisciplinary thematic programs open to academics, practitioners and Ph.D./J.S.D. students from anywhere in the world who have an advanced knowledge of human rights. It is open to a maximum of only 50 participants who attend the morning lectures in the plenum and will be divided in smaller groups for more intensive afternoon seminars.
For further information please visit: www.eiuc.org/veniceacademy.
Deadline for applications is 31 May 2010.