Centre for Studies on Democracy and Diversity
Queen's UniversityEDG 2010-2011 Speaker Series
Ethnicity and Democratic Governance - Making Distinctions and Making Connections *
Bruce Berman, Director and Principal Investigator of the EDG program
Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University
March 31, 2011
This talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Political Studies
A Restricted View of Apologies for Historical Injustices *
Jeff Spinner-Halev, Kenan Eminent Professor of Political Ethics, Dept of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
March 3, 2011
Cultural Rights and Women’s Rights in Ethiopia *
Dr. Lahra Smith, Visiting Fulbright Research Chair in Ethnicity and Multicultural Citizenship
November 15, 2010
Peace-making and Constitution Building in Divided Societies
Nicholas Haysom, Director for Political Affairs, Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the UN
October 28, 2010
Ethnicity and Identity in the Constitutional Process: Kenya in Comparative Perspective
Yash Ghai, Professor Emeritus of Constitutional Law, University of Hong Kong
Monday, September 27, 2010
This talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Political Studies
Yash Ghai was the Sir Y.K. Pao Professor of Public Law at the University of Hong Kong, and has been a Professor Emeritus of Constitutional Law there since his retirement. He is the principal UN expert on constitutional design and was chair of the Constitutional Reform Commission in Kenya in 2002-05. Ghai has also worked on constitutions in Bosnia, Iraq, Fiji and Nepal.
* Talk can be downloaded through iTunesU.