Join us for a webinar series to investigate the challenges minorities worldwide are facing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Minorities and COVID-19: A webinar series of the Institute for Minority Rights, Eurac Research (www.eurac.edu/imr)

 

Episode 1: COVID-19 and its effects on minorities

Wednesday, 13 May, 3-4pm CET | Registration (https://scientificnet.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrc–srj8jH9Ds1XEsabmHW34b9xgEiRk5)

Lamberto Zannier, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

Ilze Brands-Kehris, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, UN Human Rights Office

Joseph Marko, Head of the Institute for Minority Rights, Eurac Research / University of Graz

Chair: Georg Grote, Institute for Minority Rights, Eurac Research

 

Episode 2: Equality, Discrimination and COVID-19

Thursday, 21 May, 3-4pm CET | Registration (https://scientificnet.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsfuGgrD8sGdEhpvghIYpgiPXPyB9SELuq)

Fernand de Varennes, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues

Emma Lantschner, University of Graz

Roberta Medda-Windischer, Institute for Minority Rights, Eurac Research

Chair: Katharina Crepaz, Institute for Minority Rights, Eurac Research

 

Episode 3: Minorities, territorial governance and inter-state relations in pandemic times

Wednesday, 27 May, 3-4pm CET | Registration (https://scientificnet.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuce6hqD8uE9Egye0dmB7V0zc1zvdYEWA_)

Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark, Åland Islands Peace Institute

Francesco Palermo, Institute for Comparative Federalism, Eurac Research

Sergiu Constantin, Institute for Minority Rights, Eurac Research

Chair: Georg Grote, Institute for Minority Rights, Eurac Research

 

Episode 4: COVID-19 and religious minorities

Thursday, 4 June, 3-4pm CET | Registration

(https://scientificnet.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sf-6oqDotHtwoaW-sMxV1ZE6DIE68IRt_)

Kerstin Wonisch, Institute for Minority Rights, Eurac Research

Other speakers TBC

Chair: Roberta Medda-Windischer, Institute for Minority Rights, Eurac Research

 

Episode 5: Indigenous peoples in times of the pandemic

Wednesday, 10 June, 4-5pm CET | Registration

(https://scientificnet.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqc-irqDMtGdXUlK3NR3xLu-BFwRs7b-9W)

Daqui Lema, Pontificia Universidad Católica of Ecuador (Ibarra seat)

Claire Wright, Queen’s University Belfast

Alexandra Tomaselli, Institute for Minority Rights, Eurac Research

Chair: Johanna Mitterhofer, Institute for Minority Rights, Eurac Research