Venice Academy of Human Rights

Inaugural Session, 12-17 July 2010

With, inter alia,

Judge Theodor Meron   President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
and
Amartya Sen       Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics.

The first session of the Venice Academy of Human Rights will take place from 12-17 July 2010 with the thematic focus on sovereignty and development.

Key Facts

Participants: Academics, practitioners and Ph.D./J.S.D. students
Type of courses: Lectures and smaller seminars
Dates: Monday 12 July - Saturday 17 July 2010 (1 week)
Location: Monastery of San Nicolò, Venice - Lido, Italy
Fees: € 500
Application deadline: 31 May 2010

Informaiton: www.eiuc.org/veniceacademy

General Description

The Venice Academy of Human Rights was established in 2009 as a new centre of excellence for human rights education and debate.

Only the most distinguished experts from academia and practice are invited to lecture at the Academy and engage in debates with colleagues and participants.

The Academy lies great emphasis on interdisciplinarity in the selection of invited lecturers and participants. The courses of the Venice Academy are open to academics, practitioners and Ph.D./J.S.D. students from all countries of the world with an advanced knowledge of human rights. Participation is strictly limited to a maximum of 50 participants. Participants will attend the morning lectures in the plenum and will join a number of more intensive afternoon seminars in smaller groups. With this structure, the Venice Academy of Human Rights provides an exceptionally small forum for intensive training, exchange of ideas and discursive learning.

In addition, the Venice Academy revives the original idea of an academy. It provides a forum for the exchange of views, arguments and ideas. To this end, participants will gather during the week in the late afternoon to listen to conversations between the invited experts.

The morning lectures will be published in a special series of the Venice Academy of Human Rights, and the evening conversations will be recorded and published on the internet to open the Academy’s activities to the greater public.

At the end of the session, students will receive a Certificate of Attendance issued by the Academy.