IPSA RESEARCH COMMITTEES COLLOQUIUM 23-26 JUNE 2026
Eurac Research, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
MINORITIES UNDER SIEGE?
PLURAL SOCIETIES FACING PLURAL CHALLENGES
HOSTED BY THE INSTITUTE FOR MINORITY RIGHTS AND THE CENTER FOR AUTONOMY EXPERIENCE OF EURAC RESEARCH AND ORGANISED BY IPSA RC14 POLITICS AND ETHNICITY IN COLLABORATION WITH
RC13 DEMOCRATIZATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, RC16 SOCIO-POLITICAL PLURALISM, RC23 ELECTIONS, CITIZENS AND PARTIES, RC28 COMPARATIVE FEDERALISM AND MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE, RC43 RELIGION AND POLITICS, RC44 SECURITY, CONFLICT AND DEMOCRATIZATION, RC50 THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE AND RC53 INDIGENOUS POLITICS
PANEL C: LINGUISTIC MINORITY RIGHTS: CHALLENGES OF PLURALISM Joint panel of RC50 and RC26, Wednesday 24 June 2026, 9:00h
Chair: Bartosz Hordecki, Adam Mickiewicz University
Discussant: Zsuzsanna Arendas, ELTE Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest.
Oscar Pérez de la Fuente, Carlos III University of Madrid
Migrants’ linguistic rights
Jędrzej Skrzypczak, Adam Mickiewicz
University Challenges to European Linguistic Minority Rights Guarantees in the 21st Century
Michał Szczyszek, Agnieszka Piotrowska- Wojaczyk, Zuzanna
Przybysz (all Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), A licja Goczyła
Ferreira Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba,
The Polish Language as a Minority Language in Brazil
PANEL C: THE INTERDISCIPLINARY POLITICS OF LANGUAGE, Wednesday 24 June 2026, 11:00h
Chair: Yael Peled , Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Discussant: Oscar Pérez de la Fuente, Carlos III University of Madrid
Zorica Trajkova Strezovska, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, & Aleksandar Takovski, AAB College, Kosovo,
Minority Language Sustainability: Maintenance, Democratic Inclusion, and Digital Visibility in North Macedonia
Matejka Grgic, University of Ljubljana & Slovene Research Institute, Trieste
From Legal Recognition to Digital Marginalisation: The Slovenian Minority in Italy in the Age of Datafication
Constanza Nardocci, University of Milan
Minorities at the Mirror. What Is Missing in the European Regulatory
Framework on AI
Sophie Mangutsch Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Nationalistic ideologies in the protection and promotion of minorities– a comparison between Friulian, Ladin and Romansh
11:00-12:30h Thursday, 25 June 2026 PANEL B: MINORITY RIGHTS: A LOST CAUSE?
Chair: Elizabeth Craig, University of Sussex
Discussant: Oscar Pérez de la Fuente, Carlos III University of Madrid
Corinne Lennox , School of Advanced Study, University of
London & Anna-Mária Bíró Tom Lantos Institute
Pioneering international dialogue on minority rights: Contestation in defining minority rights at the first global UN seminars on minorities in 1965 and 1974
Alexandra Cosima Budabin, Eurac Research
(Mis)use of the Rules of Procedures by States as a Form of Obstructionism at the UN Forum on Minority Issues
Eleni Pothou , Koç University
When Minority Rights Exist but Minorities Remain ‘Under Siege’
Elizabeth Craig, University of Sussex
Minority Rights, the League of Nations and the Legacy Problem
More information:
https://sites.google.com/view/ipsarc14/colloquia/bolzanobozen-2026