Human Rights: Activism, Concepts, Books & something Rusty
After a week long extravaganza of performance and politics around music and dance, it is time for performance & politics of an entirely different…
Read MoreAfter a week long extravaganza of performance and politics around music and dance, it is time for performance & politics of an entirely different…
Read MoreTo conclude our thematic week, it’s time for yet another events’ post! This time the theme is, of course, human rights. Given what we…
Read MoreOn April 30 and May 1, 2015 fourteen anthropologists from seven countries and thirteen universities and research institutions came together on the campus of…
Read MoreThis Allegra week we focus on a theme that we have addressed numerous times earlier: human rights. This repeated attention is not entirely coincidental…
Read MoreThis week we have dedicated an unusual amount to one single publication. This has in part been because of the unabashed claim – from…
Read MoreThe University of Helsinki Think Corner turned out to be too small for the book launch of Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights. The…
Read MoreTo the blind believer in human rights, nothing so messy as history is truly necessary. To question, to complicate, to ‘problematize’ has been thought to…
Read MoreWhere does the history of human rights begin: centuries, even millennia earlier, or a mere few decades ago? What constitutes this history and what can…
Read MoreThis Allegra week will be devoted to a theme that we have not previously addressed, namely the history of human rights. Furthermore, this thematic…
Read MoreRussian politics fare well in keeping conflicting stories alive. Sir Winston Churchill famously said that the Soviet Union is a “riddle wrapped in a…
Read MoreEvery American President has grappled with the place of “rights” in U.S. foreign policy. However, the rise to prominence of the idea of “human…
Read MoreHilary Charlesworth is a Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the Australian National University. She is also an Australian Research Council Laureate…
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