Towards an inclusive governance of “EU fundamental values”

15.09.2021

The Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, in collaboration with the Human Rights Centre “Antonio Papisca”, and the UNESCO Chair “Human Rights, Democracy and Peace” of the University of Padova organizes the international conference 'Towards an inclusive governance of “EU fundamental values”: current pitfalls and possible solutions for a consistent multi-level protection of the rule of law, democracy and human rights within and outside the EU’.

The event is planned to take place in hybrid format with speakers and audience both in presence and online, from on November 8-9.

It 2021 and aims to both exchange perspectives and critical views on the current state of play in EU efforts to promote and protect EU values, both within the European space and in the wider international context, and to discuss a number of prospective alternative solutions, or strategies, to make current and future EU efforts more effective and sustainable in the long term. 

Confirmed key-note speakers include: Dimitry Kochenov, Democracy Institute, Central European University, Budapest; Laurent Pech, Middlesex University London. Events partners include the following institutes: School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Department of Law, University of Zagreb (Croatia), Human Rights Consortium, University of London (UK), UNESCO International Centre for the Promotion of Human Rights at the Local and Regional Levels and UNESCO Chair "Human Rights and Human Security" University of Graz (Austria), Institute of International Studies, University of Wroclav (Poland), and Institut des Droits de l’Homme, Lyon Catholic University (France).

A call for papers is open to human rights scholars and researchers from different professional and disciplinary backgrounds (deadline for bstract submissions: 29 September 2021.