Wednesday 27 Sep

Before 17.00h

Arrival and registration

19.30h

Dinner

Opening of the workshop

Key-note:

Johannes van der Ven (Nijmegen):

Minorities, Religion and Human Rights

Thursday 28 Sep

8.00h

Breakfast

9.00h

Key-Note:

Werner Heun (Göttingen):

The Role of Religions in the German Constitution

10.30h

Coffee

10.40h

Paper Session:

Johannes Nissen:

Creating a Space for the Others

11.20h

Ida Auken:

Luthersk retsteologi mellem sekularisme og teokratisme

12.00 noon

Lunch

14.00h

Mindretal og kirker/
Minority and Churches

Hanne Petersen (København):

Uformelle Normers og Relationers betydning i forhold til mindretal og religioner

Responses:

Günter Weitling:

Nordschleswigsche Gemeinde

Svend Andersen

Danish Minority Church in Germany

18.00h

Dinner

19.30h

Paper Session:

Igor A. Bobrov (St. Petersburg):

The problem of ecclesial property for the Russian Orthodox Church in Nordic Perspective

20.15h

Elisabeth Christiansson:

Reform in Church and Society: The Justification of Diaconia in Sweden 1845-1965.

Friday 29 Sep

8.00h

Breakfast

9.00h

Key-Note:

Lene Kühle:
Muslim positions in discussions on Human Rights.

10.30h

Coffee

10.40h

Paper Session:

Birgitte Schepelern Johansen:

Islam and the secular university

11.20h

Kamrul Hossain:
Muslim Minority in Finland

12.00noon

Lunch

13.30h

Excursion to Frederiksstad

Saturday 30 Sep

8.00h

Breakfast

9.00h

Key-note:

Eivind Smidt (Oslo):
“ StateChurches” and state involvement in religion

10.30h

Coffee

10.40h

Paper Session:

Pekka Leino:
Preservation of church unity and the protection of conscience and other basic rights

11.20h

Anne Mark Nielsen:
Blasphemy in secular societies

12.00noon

Lunch

14.00h

Jens Vedsted Hansen:
Religious or Cultural Conflicts – differing agendas of Minority Protection

15.00h

Coffee

15.30h

Paper session:

Thomas Fransson:
When Political and Religious Values come into Conflict

19.00h

Final dinner

Sunday 1 Oct

8.00h

Breakfast

Departure