Seminar: Emigrants and Refugees Knocking at Our Door: A Challenge ...

14.10.2015 kell 08.30 - 10.30

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14. oktoobril peab  Euroopa õiguse professor Massimo La Torre kell 17.30 ruumis M-649 ettekande  põgenikest ja kodakondsusest, allpool on esitatud teesid ja tutvustus.  Kõik on oodatud kuulama ja osalema, ettekandele järgneb vestlus vabamas õhkkonnas suupistetega.

Tegemist on Ãœhiskonnateaduste Instituudi ja Humanitaarteaduste Instituudi koostöös  toimuvate interdistsiplinaarsete vestlusõhtute avaüritusega. Vestlusõhtud on planeeritud orienteerivalt kord kuus, need toimuvad alati inglise keeles ning esinejateks on vaheldumisi humanitaar- ja sotsiaalteadlased.

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Massimo La Torre, Professor of European Law, will give a lecture on refugees and citizenship. 

This will be the first installment in a new series of interdisciplinary discussion evenings, organised in collaboration by the School of Governance and the School of Humanities. These discussion evenings will be organised about once a month, always in English, and the lecturers will alternately be from the fields of humanities and social sciences.

In the Western world we are confronted with an an immense movement of people looking for better conditions of life or escaping from mass murder and terror in their countries. Such an epochal migration cannot but be illegal, therefore putting under strong strain the normal immigration policies and institutions of t States that are the final destination of those masses of people as well as countries that are only a transit station for them. We are speaking of hundred thousands people and families that are in movement. How can  then a democratic State  deal with these masses of people knocking at its doors without putting in danger its citizenship and rights? But how could it maintain its doors closed without losing its soul and disparaging its principles?

Massimo La Torre has studied law and political science at the University Of Messina, Italy, and the Johns Hopkins University --School of Advanced International Studies, and holds a Ph. D. from the European University Institute, Florence. He has been given professorial positions at the University of Bologna and the EUI in Florence, and has furthermore been teaching at the University of Murcia and Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain, and at the University of Hull, United Kingdom. He is now professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Catanzaro in Italy, and Part-time Professor of European Law at the Tallinn University. In 2009 he has been granted  the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award.