EVENTS
Hannah Arendt et le monde d'aujourd'hui -le "droit d'avoir des droits"
International colloquium organised by the University of Geneva (FPSE) and Université Ouvrière, 20-22 May 1997, Geneva, Switzerland. Organiser: Marie-claire Caloz-Tschopp.
This colloquium will deal with the topicality of the work of Hannah Arendt. It is conceived as an interdisciplinary meeting and aims to confront Arendt's political philosophy with the world today, and in particular the situation of refugees and stateless people.
With the participation of, among many others: Lothar Baier (The weight of history and the banality of evil), Prof. François Rigaux (The right to have rights: status and/or movement?), Rada Ivekovic (Post-socialist transition in the former Yugoslavia), Maja Wicky (Law and political action), Sidonia Blättler (Arendt and the fate of refugees and stateless people), Wladislaw Godzich (The frontier in our mind), Etienne Balibar (the right to have rights: the right to politics), Nurruddin Farah (Statelessness today).
Conference languages: French and German (simultaneous translation).
Information and registration: Colloque Hannah Arendt, Sécrétariat-Inscriptions, c/o Fanny Perrelet, Av. Parc Rouvraie 26A, CH-1018 Lausanne, Switzerland; Tel/Fax: +41/21 6476197.National security and the rule of law
International symposium, Gothenburg School of Law and Economics, 8 - 11 May 1997, Gothenburg, Sweden. Organiser: Prof. Dennis Töllborg.
Lecturers: Dennis Töllborg (Some hypotheses on significant features for security policing), Kirsi Piispanen/Matti Wiberg (The political control of the Finnish police 1945-1996), Oscar Jaime-Jimenez (Politics, security agencies and terrorism in Spain), Heiner Busch (Swiss state protection - law and practice), Laurence Lustgarten (Accountability and oversight: the British example), Iain Cameron (The ECHR on national security and the rule of law), Ingse Stabel (The Lund-report in Norway), Thomas Mathiesen (Sub-cultures in policing), Nicholas Busch (Europol, Schengen and Sirene), Peter Klerks (Policing Europe towards the year 2000: changes, chances and challenges).
Conference language: English.
Information and registration: Dennis Töllborg, Fax: +46/31 7734454 (mention: Institution of Legal Science, Gothenburg University att. Töllborg); e-mail: Dennis.Toellborg@law.gu.seConference on Communities, Culture, Communication and Computers (C5) - on the role of concerned professionals in the information age
21-23 August 1997, Paderborn (Germany). Conference arranged by FIfF (German Forum of Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility), Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) and Gesellschaft für Informatik.
Information and registration: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Keil-Slawik, University of Paderborn, FB 17, Fürstenallee 11, D-33102 Paderborn; Fax: +46/5251 60-6414; e-mail: c5@uni-paderborn.de