Overview

MEGARON PLUS

In collaboration with
the Grassrootsmobilise Research Programme funded by the European Research Council / Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)

Speaker:
Heiner Bielefeldt, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief & Professor of Human Rights and Human Rights Politics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Respondents:
Nikos Alivizatos, Professor of Constitutional Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Eva Brems, Professor of Human Rights Law, University of Ghent
Malcolm Evans, Professor of Public International Law, University of Bristol

Chair: 
Effie Fokas, Research Fellow, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Athens, Principal Investigator, Grassrootsmobilise Research Programme, Research Fellow at Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics and Research Associate, Hellenic Observatory, LSE

The UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief will give a lecture on religion, national identity and human rights focusing on the potential impact of close religion-national identity links on religious freedom, followed by the brief and spontaneous responses of the panel.
 
(In English and Greek with simultaneous translation)