IARLJ Workshop in Berlin 1 June 2015 ‘Refugee Recognition and Discrete Behaviour‘ Venue: Europaïsche Akademie Berlin Bismarckallee 46/48 D - 14193 Berlin Sunday, 31 May 2015 Arrival of Participants Monday, 1 June 2015 9.00 Words of Welcome 9.15 - 10.00 Actual Judicature of CJEU and ECtHR on Refugee Law - a general overview (Hugo Storey) 10.00 - 10.30 Refugee Recognition and Discrete Behaviour - The CJEU-Judgment on Religion (Harald Dörig) 10.30 - 11.00 Reflections on Credibility Assessment (Prof. Gregor Noll, Sweden) 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 - 12.30 Working Groups on how to assess the credibility of conversion and religious practise which can constitute persecution 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch 13.30 - 14.00 Refugee Recognition and Discrete Behaviour - The two CJEU-Judgments on Homosexuality (Mr Henk Lubberdink, Dutch Council of State) 14.00 - 15.30 Working Groups on how to assess the credibility of a person claiming to be a homosexual 15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break 16.00 - 17.00 Processing Asylum Claims for EU Member Countries in Northern Africa (Prof. Gregor Noll, Sweden) - including discussion Additional Offer for Tuesday, 2 June 2015 For those who would like to stay on Tuesday: 08:40 departure A bus will take participants to the Kammergericht, the highest civil and criminal court in Berlin. After a short guided tour through the building we will arrive in the main hall, the same place where in August 1944 the Volksgerichtshof - presided by Roland Freisler - sentenced to death a significant number of Germans who were involved in the attempt to kill Adolf Hitler. The Nazis filmed the trials secretly through a hole in a giant swastika flag. Although the film was meant to be used as propaganda, it was had been decided not to show it to the German people because of the aggressive nature. It was banished to a secret archive and discovered in West Germany after the war. Freisler had shouted so horribly that it was difficult to process the film and to let people understand what was said. Only a 5 minutes sequence of the film will be shown. After seeing the film there is some time for questions and to have a look at the memorial commemorating the victims. 10:30 departure from the “Kammergericht” to “Gedenkstätte Plötzensee”. This is the place where the defendants were hanged immediately after their trial. It is a silent memorial site, no guided tour. Click here for further information Anticipated time schedule: 08.40 departure from Europäische Akademie Berlin, Bismarckallee 46-48, 14193 Berlin to the Kammergericht 10.30 departure for Gedenkstätte Plötzensee 11.30 departure for Berlin central train station, via Tegel airport for drop offs. .