Minorities and Autonomies (pt.1/2) | 28/09/2023

Development of autonomies and promotion of minority rights are two fundamental components of a cultural and political strategy aimed at building a plural society, capable of valuing and benefiting from social, cultural, and religious differences.
The workshop aims to focus on the relationship between these two components, examining it with reference to the different types of minorities and autonomies. Indeed, not all minorities are the same: there are national, linguistic, religious (and many other) minorities, each with its own characteristics. And likewise, the notion of autonomy includes territorial, normative, jurisdictional, and institutional autonomies (just to name a few), which also differ in content and function.
These articulations of the two notions have already been the subject of in-depth analyses that have highlighted the specific features of the various types of minorities and autonomies. What, however, has remained more in the shadows is the relationship between each type of minority and each type of autonomy, that is whether and how much the element that qualifies a minority nationality, language, religion affects the type and content of the autonomy that minority claims with respect to a state where the majority belongs to a different nationality, speaks a different language, or professes a different religion.
The meeting aims at discussing the relationship between different forms of autonomy and different types of minorities, in particular the religious ones.
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PROGRAM (pt.1):
Greetings and introduction
Massimo Leone, FBK-Università di Torino
Minorities
Silvio Ferrari, FBK-Università di Milano
Autonomies
Ilaria Valenzi, FBK-Confronti
National minorities and autonomies
Kyriaki Topidi, European Centre for Minority Issues, ECMI