INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL RETHINKING RIGHTS IN A PLURAL SOCIETY VENICE Giorgio Cini Foundation, San Giorgio Island SEPTEMBER 6 th -10 th 2010 CONTENTS The new moral lingua franca. That is, the new way in which different cultures communicate their values. This is the compelling expression by which American constitutional scholar Michael Perry has defined human rights. Whether this new lingua franca is accepted benevolently or half-heartedly, the affirmation undeniably carries a lot of truth. There is hardly an area of public interest where rights do not play a primary role. Politics, international relations, economics, even religion and culture are tackled with special consideration to their juridical profile. How can rights and economic development be reconciled? Is there a future for ancient juridical cultures, such as religious ones? What are the true, original rights which developing peoples are waiting to see recognized? Above all, how can a right be distinguished from a claim? What are the criteria for understanding where the promotion of human rights turns into some form of colonialism, however sophisticated (and even more worryingly so)? The Summer School launched by the Studium Generale Marcianum through the newly-born School For Advanced Studies - Society- Economy-Theology (ASSET) intends to deal with the rights issue, precisely because it perceives that today jurisprudence is not to be relegated to one area of life: conversely, it cuts across the whole horizon of social experience. Political and juridical philosophers, constitutional scholars, ministers, and experts in Islamic Law will all contribute to an intense dialogue with the course participants. The aim is not just to illustrate which new frontiers are set before the juridical experience but to respond to one of the major threats of our times. In fact, by pervading the most diverse areas of human action, the law risks oversimplifying its
complexity and weakening its consistency or even its taste. By articulating human relations in terms of rights and duties there is the risks of demeaning them. To find a juridical concept capable of valuing them, as well as perceiving their meaning and protecting it, is a challenge: what is at stake is not only the future of rights but that of the entire human society. METHODOLOGY The Summer School will consist in: - morning lectures, held by a key-note speaker and a discussant and followed by a debate with participants. - afternoon panels devoted to communications WHO CAN PARTICIPATE? The Summer School is conceived as a moment of intellectual exchange and professional training. The initiative is indeed open to: scholars (professors, researchers, post-grade students) Public officers and professionals (primarily in the domain of Justice but also of Education and Health) LANGUAGE: the official languages of the Summer School will be English and Italian. NETWORK OF PARTICIPANTS St. Bennet Hall, University of Oxford Université Sorbonne Paris Universidad Complutense Madrid Ecole Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Paris Magdalen College, University of Oxford Tony Blair Faith Foundation, London Institute GPII, Catholic University Lublin Università Complutense Madrid Universidad Ceu San Pablo Madrid Università di Catania Università di Roma Tor Vergata Università Padova Università di Catanzaro Università Bologna Università Verona Università Cattolica Milano Università Statale Milano Università Messina Ordine forense Milano Ordine forense Padova Ordine forense Venezia Ordine forense Roma
ENROLMENTS SCHEDULE ENROLMENTS TOT. 60 ENRLOMENTS TO THE INTEGRAL PROGRAM TOT. 45 EXTERNAL ENROLMENTS TOT. 43 ALUMNI ENROLMENTS TOT. 9 FOREIGN PARTICIPANTS TOT. 13 CALL FOR PAPERS Themes and modalities of submission of communications are available in the pages dedicated to the Summer school in the Marcianum web-site (www.marcianum.it) PROGRAM MONDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER 2010 I PANEL - THE NEW RIGHTS IN THE EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN PUBLIC SPACE 8:45 REGISTRATION 9:15 OPENING GREETINGS 09:30 His Eminence Card. A. Scola (Patriarch of Venice ) Chair B. E. Ferme (President of Studium Generale Marcianum) 10:00 Francesco Pizzetti (President Italian Authority for Privacy) 10:40 James Q. Whitman (Yale Law School) video message 11:30 Robert George (Princeton University) 12:15 Discussion (offered by the organisation) TUESDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER 2010 II PANEL - THE RIGHT TO DECENT WORK IN THE GLOBALIZATION ERA Chair Ignazio Musu Università Ca Foscari (Venice) 10:30 Giuliano Cazzola (Vice president of Public and Private Work Commission of Chamber of Deputies)
11:45 Tiziano Treu (Senator of the Italian Republic) 15:00 Communications 18:00 Conclusion WENSDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2010 III PANEL - THE DETERMINATION OF NEW RIGHTS IN THE CONTEMPORARY BIOETHICAL DEBATE Chair Andrea Pin University of Padua 10:30 Francesco D Agostino (President Emeritus of the Italian Committee for the Bio-ethics) 11:45 Lorenza Violini (University of Milan) 15:00 Social Event THURSDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 2010 IV PANEL - ISLAMIC LAW AND SECULAR SOCIETIES Chair Martino Diez Oasis International Foundation (Venice) 10:30 Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (Emory University School of Law di Atlanta, USA) 11:45 Massimo Papa (University of Rome Tor Vergata) 15:00 Communications 18:00 Conclusion FRIDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER 2010 V PANEL - THE HUMAN PERSON BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY. WHICH PLACE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS? Chair Alberto Peratoner ASSET School for Advanced Studies (Venice)
10:30 Chantal Delsol (Université Paris-Est ) 11:30 Coffee break 11:45 Giuseppe Goisis (University Ca Foscari, Venice) 13:00 Delivery of certificates of attendance INFO Dott.ssa Maria Maddalena Giungi ASSET- Alta Scuola Società Economia Teologia Dorsoduro 1 30123 Venezia info.asset@marcianum.it t: 041 2743 935/969 f: 041 2743 99