Although Europe has increasingly opened up its internal borders to allow free movement of people and goods, thousands of poverty-driven migrants experience increasingly stricter immigration policies at Europe’s borders. Using force against would-be immigrants has proven a source of embarrassment to liberal theorists, who traditionally attach great importance to freedom of movement as an important individual right. On the other hand, liberals are also committed to the right of people to decide with whom to associate. Where possible, people should not be forced into association with others against their will. But does this view exaggerate the importance of democratic self-determination? And who should decide over inclusion and exclusion? How should liberal democracies reconcile their legitimate aspiration for selfdetermination and the individual rights of migrants?

Answers to these questions and related insights that will emerge at the international conference ‘Democratic Self-Determination and Freedom of Movement’ are meant to raise awareness about the ethical and political dimension of international migration and aid policymakers and practitioners as they seek to deal with it.

09.30 h Arrival and Registration

10.00 h Welcome Addresses
Sven Schütt - Managing Director, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
Irmgard Schwaetzer - Member of the Board of Directors, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit, Potsdam
Yves Sintomer - Deputy Director, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin

10.30h Session I: The Bounds of the State and the Bounds of Authority
Chair: Yves Sintomer - Deputy Director, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
Speaker: Véronique Munoz Dardé - Professor of Philosophy, University College, London
Comment: Pasquale Pasquino - Professor of Political Science, New York University, and Senior Research Fellow, CNRS, Paris

11.30 h Coffee

11.45 h
Chair: Csilla Hatvany - Research Fellow, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit, Potsdam
Speaker: David Miller - Professor of Political Theory, Nuffield College, Oxford
Comment: Alon Harel - Professor of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

12.45 h Lunch

14.00 h Session II: Citizenship, Democracy, and Self-Determination
Chair: Kieran Oberman - Post-doctoral Fellow, Chaire Hoover, Catholic University of Louvain
Speaker: Cara Nine - Lecturer, University College, Cork
Comment: Oliviero Angeli - Research Fellow, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin

15.00 h Coffee

15.15 h
Chair: Holger Kolb - Research Assistant, Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration, Berlin
Speaker: Claus Offe - Professor of Political Sociology, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
Comment: Lea Ypi - Post-doctoral Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford

16.15 h Coffee

16.30 h Session III: On the Rights of Others
Chair: Helder De Schutter - Post-doctoral Fellow, Catholic University of Leuven and Nuffield College, Oxford
Keynote Speaker: Seyla Benhabib - Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University, New Haven
Discussants: Anna Stilz - Professor of Political Science, Princeton University
Hans Vorländer - Professor of Political Science, Technical University, Dresden
Rahel Jaeggi - Professor of Philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin

18.00 h Concluding Remarks
Oliviero Angeli - Research Fellow, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin

Venue
Hertie School of Governance
Quartier 110
Friedrichstraße 180
10117 Berlin
ph: +49.30.25 92 19-0

Access by Public Transport
From airports and main station to "Friedrichstraße". From Friedrichstraße Subway 6 to Station "Stadtmitte".

Conference Language
English

Organisation and Information
Oliviero Angeli
Centre Marc Bloch
Schiffbauerdamm 19
10117 Berlin
ph: +49.30.20 93 37 82
olan@cmb.hu-berlin.de

Simoné Okaj-Braun
International Politics Division
Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit
Reinhardtstraße 12
10117 Berlin
ph: +49.30.28 87 78 43
simone.okaj-braun@freiheit.org

Partners
Hertie School of Governance
Friedrichstr. 180
10117 Berlin
www.hertie-school.org

Centre Marc Bloch
Schiffbauerdamm 19
10117 Berlin
www.cmb.hu-berlin.de

Kindly supported also by the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Berlin and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.