19 November

Arrival at Château de Pourtalès, 161 Rue Mélanie, 67000 Strasbourg, France,
Tel. +33 3 88 45 84 64
and registration

20 November

8:00-9:00: Breakfast

9:00 – 9:30

Birte WASSENBERG (Professeur en Histoire contemporaine Institut d'études politiques (IEP) Université de Strasbourg: The Council of Europe's efforts for the protection of human rights and inter-religious dialogue

9:30 – 10:45: Panel I

Max WÖRNHARD (Bern): How to respect Human Rights

James T. RICHARDSON (Nevada): Congressional Efforts to Defend and Extend Religious Freedom in the U.S. and the Law of Unintended Consequences

10:45 – 11:00: Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30: Panel II

Derek DAVIS (Dallas): Back-door Christian establishments in the USA

Eileen BARKER (London): We’re Happy to Talk, But Dialogue …? Establishment parlance and courteous discrimination

12:45 – 13:45: lunch

14:00 – 16:00: Panel III

Patricia DUVAL (Paris): Privileges which can be granted by the States to certain religions under international human rights law and participation of privileged reli-gions in the fight against religious minorities.

Anders JARLERT (Lund): The religious scene after the end of the Swedish State Church since 2000: Intransparency and Confusion

16:00 – 16:30: Coffee break

16:30 – 18:00 Panel IV

Ilkka HUHTA (Joensuu): A comparative analysis on discussions of religious Free-dom in Finland and Poland, 1880-1918

Willy FAUTRÉ (Brussels): FORB issues in Bulgaria

19:00 Dinner

21. November

8:00 – 9:00: Breakfast

9:30 – 10:45: Panel V

Régis DERICQUEBOURG (Paris): A new target of French anti-cultists: the fight against the so-called "Dérives thérapeutiques sectaires"

Gerhard BESIER (Dresden): Framing – a new term for a traditional procedure to discriminate against (religious) minorities

10:45 – 11:00: Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30: Panel VI

Volodymyr KRAVCHENKO (Alberta): Post-Soviet Ukraine: national church vs reli-gious freedom?

Wolfram SLUPINA (Selters): Jehovah’s Witnesses Facing Criminal Charges in Russia

12:45 – 13:45: lunch

14:00 – 16:00: Panel VII

Jolene CHU (Warwick): “Only Jehovah’s Witnesses Are Not Accused”: The Prac-tice and Consequences of Apolitical Christianity in Rwanda Before and During the Genocide

Tim MÜLLER (Mannheim): "Your human rights, your fundamental freedoms are in danger!" Arguments for religious freedom, then and now--the case of Jehovah's Witnesses

19:00 Dinner

Simone LIEBSTER, Testimony of a Holocaust Survivor (moderated by Jolene CHU)