Program

FEDERALISM CONFERENCE
May 24th, 2022
EHESS, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, France

Centre des Colloques (Auditorium 250) Aubervilliers, France 

*: Online participation 
The conference will be followed by a cocktail. Registration is compulsory for online and in person participation.

8:15 AM - 8:30 AM: Tea / Coffee / Snacks 

8:30 AM - 8:45  AM: Introductory remarks (Laure Gillot-Assayag, Vishnu Kumari Tandon, PhD candidates in the Law, Political Science and Philosophy Department, EHESS)

Panel I  08:45 AM - 10:15 AM

· 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM:  “Centripetal Federalism in Deeply Multilingual States”

* Speakers: Sean Mueller (Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Nenad Stojanović (Professor in Political Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland)

*Discussant: Francesco Palermo (Head of the Institute for Comparative Federalism, Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Verona, Italy)

· 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM: “Federalism – Philosophical Aspects”

Speaker: Andreas Follesdal (Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Oslo, Norway)

Discussant: Philippe Crignon (Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law, Nantes University, France)

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM: Tea / Coffee Break

Panel II 10:30 AM -12 PM                 

·10:30 AM - 11:15 AM: “Federalism and Secessionism: Static and Dynamic Autonomy”

Speaker: André Lecours (Professor in Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada)

Discussant: Bernard Fournier (Assistant Professor, Haute École de la Province de Liège, Belgium)

· 11:15 AM - 12: 00 PM: “Hybrid Federalism in Asia”*

*Speakers: Baogang He (Professor in International Relations, Deakin University, Australia), Laura Allison-Reumann (Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Michael Breen (Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Melbourne, Australia)

*Discussant: Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal (CNRS Research Director of Political Science at Center for South Asian Studies, CEIAS, EHESS, France)

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM:  Lunch Break 

Panel III 1:00 PM - 3:15  PM 

· 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM: “Continuity and Change in Indian Federalism: New paradigms of intergovernmental interaction (1991-2021)”    

Speaker: Balveer Arora (Professor Emeritus, President of the Center for Multilevel Federalism, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi)

*Discussant:  Loraine Kennedy (CNRS Research Director, Center for South Asian Studies, CEIAS, EHESS, France)

· 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM: “Federal Nepal at its Formative Phase"

Speaker: Krishna Hachhethu (Professor of Political Science, Tribhuvan University, Nepal) 

Discussant:  Marie Lecomte-Tilouine (CNRS Research Director, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, EHESS, France)

· 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM: “Myanmar’s Federal Dream and its Dilemmas”

*Speaker: Sai Oo (Myanmar Research Coordinator and Country Representative Pyidaungsu Institute for Peace and Dialogue, Myanmar)

*Discussant: David Dapice (Senior Economist, Harvard Kennedy School, United States)

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM:  Tea / Coffee Break

 Panel IV  3:30 PM - 5:00 PM 

· 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM: “From the Separation of Powers to the Federative Republic: The Federalist’s Interpretation of The Spirit of the Laws”

*Speaker: Hugo Toudic (PhD Candidate, Philosophy Department, Paris Sorbonne, France, University of Chicago, United States)

*Discussant: Constantine Vassiliou (Visiting Assistant Professor, University of  Houston, United States)

· 4:15PM - 5:00 PM: “India and Nagaland: Examining Federalism in the Context of an Evolving Ethnic-nationalist Fervor”

Speaker: Timmayo Thumra (PhD candidate, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Ireland)

Discussant: Philippe Ramirez (CNRS Researcher in Anthropology, Centre for Himalayan Studies, EHESS, France) 

5:00 PM - 5:10 PM      Closing remarks 

5:10 PM - 7:30 PM      Cocktail