Events

Public events are a key part of the Centre's activities, providing a critical and scholarly forum for discussion and debate. Through public events, seminars and conferences, the Centre enables scholars, practitioners, journalists and policy makers from the public, private, commercial and non-governmental sectors to examine critical issues in the field of human rights.

Public events are open to all with no ticket or reservation required, unless otherwise stated. Academic and policy-oriented conferences may have restricted access, please check the page for details.

Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice: the radical potential of human rights
Speaker(s): Radhika Balakrishnan, Professor of Women's and Gender studies and Faculty Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University,
Diane Elson, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, James Heintz, Andrew Glyn Professor of Economics and Assistant Director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts
Chair:    Dr Polly Vizard, Associate Director and Associate Professorial Research Fellow, CASE
Date: Tuesday 28 February, 2017, 6.30 pm - 8.00pm
Venue: 32L.LG.18 (32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, Lower ground, room 18)

 

International  Human Rights Day Public Lecture by Professor Philip  Alston

On the 10th December each year International Human Rights day commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly.  

The Centre is delighted to announce that Professor Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, will deliver a lecture in celebration of International Human Rights day on 1 December 2016 in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre.           

 

Using data to advance dignity: a new approach to measuring the Human Rights performance of countries, and how you can use it in your work
Speaker (s): Dr K. Chad Clay, University of Georgia and Anne-Marie Brook, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research
Chair: Professor Chetan Bhatt, Director, Centre for the Study of Human Rights
Date: Tuesday 29 November 2016, 13.30 p.m. - 15.30 p.m.
Venue: TW2.9.05 (Tower 2, 9th Floor, room 05)
Registration is required for this event.

 

A social or a neoliberal Europe? The Greek experience

Speaker: George Katrougalos, Alternative Minister for European Affairs - Foreign Ministry, Greece and Professor of Public Law
Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor of European Politics
Discussant: Sarah Paterson, Assistant Professor of Law
Date: Monday 14 November 2016, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Venue: Thai Theatre, New Academic Building (NAB) 

There will be live streaming of this event by Livemedia: http://www.livemedia.gr/katrougalos    

 

 

Contemporary Forms of Statelessness: The Intersection between the Lack of a Recognised Nationality, Human Rights, Inequality and Development
Speakers: Bronwen Manby and Amal de Chickera
Chair: Stefanie Grant
Date: tbc

 

earlier this year...

Five Ideas to Fight For: how our freedom is under threat and why it matters
Speaker: Anthony Lester QC
Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Assistant Professor in Human Rights
Date: Thursday 20 October 2016 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Ground Floor, Clement House

A book signing was hosted after the lecture.

 

Competing Nationalisms in Ethiopia: the case for trans-national solidarity
Speaker: Dr Awol Allo, LSE Fellow in Human Rights
Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Assistant Professor in Human Rights
Date: Thursday 25 August 2016, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Venue: The Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building (NAB)

 

All debts are equal?  The law and ethics of sovereign debt restructurings in Greece, Germany and Europe
Speaker: Dr Matthias Goldmann
Chair: Dr Margot Salomon
Date:Thursday 5 May 2016, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Venue: 32L.B.07 (32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, Room B.07)

 

Solidarity: Call for Specificity
Speaker:Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu
Date: Friday 20 May 2016, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Venue: Old Theatre, Ground floor, Old Building

 

Only Half the Story: Legal Protection of  Unaccompanied Migrant and Refugee YoungPeople
Speakers: Dr Kathryn Cronin and Baljeet Sandhu
Chair: Dr Jenny Kuper
Date: Tuesday 15 March 2016, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Venue: CLM.3.02 (Clement House)

 

Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence and the Rules that Run the World
Speaker: Professor Leif Wenar
Chair: Dr Margot Salomon
Date: Tuesday 1 March 2016, 6.30 - 8.00 p.m
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre

 

Legitimacy and Compliance in the Global Anti-Corruption Business: Corporations as Enforcers of Transnational Criminal Law
Speaker: Dr Radha Ivory 
Chair: Dr Margot Salomon 
Date: Thursday 11 February 2016, 6.00 - 8.00 p.m.
Venue: 32L.B.07 (32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, Basement room 7)

 

Emergencies of Peace: The Exceptional State of (Academic) Affairs in Contemporary Turkey
Speakers: Dr Derya Bayir, Professor David Graeber, Dr Nazan Ustundag (via Skype connection)
Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu
Date:  Wednesday 27 January, 6.30p.m to 8:30 p.m.
Venue: New Academic Building.2.06

 

Fighting the Behemoth: law, politics and human rights in times of debt and austerity
Speaker: Zoe Konstantopoulou, former President of the Greek Parliament and politician of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA)
Chair: Dr Margot Salomon
Thursday 10 December 2015

 

Justice, Accountability and Human Rights in India 
Speaker: Dushyant Dave, Senior Advocate and President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of India
Chair: Professor Chetan Bhatt
Wednesday 21 October 2015

 

My Escape From North Korea
Speaker: Hyeonseo Lee
Chair: Prof Chetan Bhatt
Friday 16 October 2015

 

Rhetoric and Reality: From Magna Carta to human rights today
The launch of A Magna Carta for all Humanity: homing in on human rights
Speakers: Shami Chakrabarti & Francesca Klug  Chair: Jane Gordon 
10 June 2015

 

Presented by the Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity Research Group:
Negritude Decolonization and the Future of the World
Speaker: Professor Gary Wilder Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu
26 May 2015

 

Human Rights in Russia: citizens and the state from Perestroika to Putin 
Speaker: Dr Mary McAuley Chair: Professor Margot Light
6 May 2015

 

A Magna Carta for All Humanity: homing in on human rights
Part of the LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival
Speaker: Professor Francesca Klug
Chair: Professor Conor Gearty
27 February 2015

 

Extradition and the Erosion of Human Rights
Speakers: Gareth Peirce, Professor Saskia Sassen, Dr Jeanne Theoharis
Chair: Professor Susan Marks
28 January 2015

 

Defending Human Rights in Russia
Speakers: Dr Mary McAuley, Dmitri Makarov, Roman Udot
Chair: Margo Picken
21 January 2015