Session 1:  LEGAL PROVISIONS

• Bill Bowring (University of London)

Topic: “Russian Legislation in the Area of Minority Rights”

• Stefan Oeter (Hamburg University)

Topic: “International Norms and Legal Status
of Minority Languages in Russia” 

•  Alexander Osipov (Centre for Independent Social Research)

Topic: “National-Cultural Autonomy”

 Session 2: ETHNIC FEDERELISM AND MINORITY GOVERNANCE

•  Hans Oversloot (Leiden University)

Topic: “Federalism and Regionalism”

• Nikolai Petrov (Carnegie Moscow Centre)

Topic: “Governance and Types of Political Regimes in Ethnic Regions” 

•  Anna Matveeva (Crisis States Research Centre, LSE)

Topic: “The Northern Caucasus and Challenges
of Minority Governance” 

Session 3: MINORITY IDENTITY 

•  Emil Pain (Institute for Sociology, Russian Academy of Science)

Topic: “Development of Minority and Majority Identities” 

• Mahulena Hofmann (Giessen University)

Topic: “Minority Identity in the Normative Context of Language Rights”

• Sergey Sokolovskiy (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Science)

Topic: “Government Policies and Minority Identities”

Session 4: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND REPRESENTATION

• Robert Moser (University of Texas at Austin)

Topic: “Electoral Rules and Minority Representation”

• Paul Chaisty (Oxford University)

Topic: “Legislative Representation”

• Dmitry Gorenburg (Harvard University)

Topic: “Ethnic mobilization”