Thu, Dec 01
|Charles University, Faculty of Law
Conference on: Identity, Constitutionalism and Citizens’ Attitudes
This conference aims to discuss the contours of a new constitutional methodology and interpret the preliminary results of qualitative research regarding citizens’ constitutional attitudes in selected countries in the EU and the MENA region.
Time & Location
Dec 01, 2022, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM GMT+1
Charles University, Faculty of Law, nám. Curieových 7, Staré Město, 116 40 Praha 1, Czechia (ground floor room no. 38)
Guests
About the event
Institute for the Interregional Study of Constitutionalism, is please to invite you to:
Conference on:
Identity, Constitutionalism and Citizens’ Attitudes
December 1, 2022
Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague
The universalism, individualism, and objective rationality of rights and of constitutionalism as their enforcement framework seems to be insufficient in themselves to foster collective political identity. This void has been too often filled with extra-constitutional sources of identity, such as ethnicity, nation, religion, etc. Yet, there might be a solution from within constitutionalism. Different concepts, such as liberal nationalism, constitutional patriotism, Islamic constitutionalism and, our proposal, identity constitutionalism, have been developed in attempts to ground constitutionalism in local values so that citizens can see it as an instrument through which a community constitutes itself as a polity. These approaches face, however, the problem of how to operationalize identity and measure attitudes that constitute identity. This conference aims to discuss the contours of a new constitutional methodology and interpret the preliminary results of qualitative research regarding citizens’ constitutional attitudes in selected countries in the EU and the MENA region.
Program
9:15 Opening of the conference
9:30 – 11:15 Panel I: Identity and Constitution Chair: Beáta Bakó
Tomáš Dumbrovský and Volker Kaul (Charles University, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies): Identity Constitutionalism: Theory and Methodology
Abdeljabbar Arrach (Hassan I University): Constitutions and Democratization in MENA
Gina Gustavsson (Uppsala University): Liberal National Identity: Thinner than Conservative, Thicker than Civic? (online)
Discussion
Coffee break
11:45 – 14:00 Panel II: Citizens’ Attitudes Chair: Zoubair Khouaja
Balázs Fekete (Eötvös Loránd University): Studying Rights Consciousness in Hungary. Why? How? What?
Hadia Yahiaoui (Khenchela University): Constitutionalism and the Arab Spring
Petra Guasti (Charles University): Polarization and Populism during Covid-19. Results of the SYRI Project
Dorian Alt (Charles University): Identity Constitutionalism: Citizens’ Constitutional Attitudes in the EU and MENA
Discussion
End of the conference