MESOP : LONDON EVENT
Centre for Policy and Research on Turkey (Research Turkey)’s symposium organised in association with Faculty of Law at University of Oxford entitled “The Manifestation of Religion or Belief in the Public Sphere”. This event will take place on Saturday, 14 June 2014 between 10:30 a.m. and 3:15 p.m. at The Cube Lecture Theatre, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, St Cross Building, St Cross Rd, Oxford OX1 3UL.
The event consists of two panels in which four panellists will take part. Please find below the symposium programme:
10.30 Registration
10.45 Welcome and introduction
Özgür Heval Çınar, Academic Visitor, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Ümit Sönmez, Centre for Policy and Research on Turkey
11.00-12.30 “Human Rights Committee v. European Court of Human Rights”
Chair: Nazila Ghanea, Faculty of Law and Department of Continuing Education,
University of Oxford
Michael Wiener, Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford
Juris Rudevskis, European Court of Human Rights
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 “A Comparative Analysis of Turkey and the United Kingdom”
Chair: Peter Petkoff, Brunel University and Regent’s Park College, Oxford
Mine Yıldırım, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
Erica Howard, Middlesex University
15.00-15.15 Closing remarks
The event is free but requires pre-registration and attendance must be confirmed in advance. For further information and pre-registration please e-mail to
events@researchturkey.org or ozgur.cinar@law.ox.ac.uk . You may find attached the symposium program, abstracts of the speeches and short bios of the panelists in PDF format.