SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2008

The 20th edition of the Institute of Federalism's Summer University "Federalism, Decentralisation and Diversity" on the theme "Federalism, Constitutionalism, and Democratic Governance in Multicultural Societies," took place from August 18th to September 5th.

 Program

WEEK 1
Federalism: Institutional Models and Constitutional Processes (Course and workshops)

Cheryl Saunders, Professor, University of Melbourne, and Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, Melbourne, Australia

Thomas Fleiner, Professor, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Additional workshop moderators:
Eva Schmassmann and Tobias Kallenbach

Introductory Reading: The first volumes of Global Dialogue

WEEK 2
Federalism in Multicultural and Multinational Polities (Course and workshops)

Haiyang Zhang, Professor, Dept. of Ethnology, Central University of Nationalities, Beijing, China

Lidija Basta Fleiner, Professor, Director of the International Research and Consulting Centre of the Institute of Federalism, Fribourg, Switzerland

Additional workshop moderators:
Claudia Josi, Gabriela Mirescu and Sean Müller

WEEK 3 - Case-studies (Course and workshops):

• Nigerian federalism
• Negotiating federalism
• Federalism and the politics of recognition in Asia
  

Jibrin Ibrahim (Dr.), Director, Centre for Democracy & Development (CDD), Nigeria;
Nicole Töpperwien (Dr.) Consultant on issues of State organization, Bern, Switzerland;
Alexander Fischer (Dr.), Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.

on Monday September 1, Prof. Simina-Elena Tanasescu of the University of Bucharest gave a conference after the classes. See details...

Information

Coordination: Mrs. J. Cousinou, Senior Administrative Assistant, telephone +41(0)26 300 8160, fax +41(0)26 300 9724.
E-mail address: joelle.cousinou@unifr.ch