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Seminar series

LSE Human Rights has a vibrant pedagogical environment and we see a close connection between research and pedagogy.

Our seminar series is exclusively for students on our MSc Human Rights and MSc Human Rights and Politics programmes.

Upcoming seminars

Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter: Anti-colonial thought and the enunciation of the Human
Wednesday 15 October 2025, 12pm to 1pm
Location: CBG.1.04, Centre Building
Speaker: Professor Anthony Bogues (Brown University)

Past seminars

Black Resistance to British Policing
11 June 2024
Dr Adam Elliot-Cooper shed light on rich histories of black resistance to policing, especially in the UK. He is the author of Black Resistance to British Policing (Manchester University Press).
Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity
6 June 2024
Professor Gary Wilder informally discussed his book, Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity.
The Human Rights Course Convenor Masterclass on Palestine
29 November 2023
MSc Human Rights and MSc Human Rights and Politics course convenors provided an opportunity for students to gather with faculty across the two human rights master's programmes to reflect on and discuss the events in Palestine and Israel over in 2023.
A Masterclass with Professor Jonathan Graubart, San Diego State University
15 November 2023
Jonathan Graubart is a professor of political science at San Diego State University who specialises in the areas of international relations, international law, Zionism and Jewish dissent, Israel-Palestine, the UN, normative theory, and resistance politics. He received his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002 and his JD from UC Berkeley Law School in 1989