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The University of Cambridge Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR) in POLIS has, since 2009, drawn together experts, practitioners and policymakers from Cambridge and far beyond to think critically and innovatively about pressing governance and human rights issues. With a special focus on Africa, Asia and Latin America, the Centre is establishing itself as a world-class interdisciplinary hub for fresh thinking, collaborative research and improving practice.

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Practitioner Series: Comfort Ero

UserComfort Ero (President, International Crisis Group).

House S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockFriday 15 March 2024, 16:00-17:30

CGHR Practitioner Series: Albert Fox Cahn

UserAlbert Fox Cahn .

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Tech Design and Human Rights: Six Provocations (and a Card Game!)

UserDr Sharath Srinivasan, Dr Ella McPherson and Dr Sebastian Lehuede.

HouseS1, Alison Richard Building .

ClockWednesday 08 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Elemental Ethics for AI: Mobilising Water in Data Centres and Lithium Activism in Chile

UserDr Sebastian Lehuede.

HouseS1.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Welcome Drinks!

UserDr Sharath Srinivasan and Dr Ella McPherson.

HouseAtrium, Alison Richard Building .

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 18:30-19:30

The Right of Peaceful Assembly Today: Technology, Policing, Politics

UserDr Sharath Srinivasan, Dr Ella McPherson and Dr Thomas Probert.

HouseS1, Alison Richard Building .

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Student Group 2023-24: Introductory Meeting

UserCGHR Co-Director Dr Sharath Srinivasan.

HouseS2, Alison Richard Building .

ClockWednesday 11 October 2023, 12:30-13:30

Critical Data Research in Praxis

If you're interested in joining this event, please contact Dr Sebastián Lehuedé at sal92@cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor Mirca Madianou (Goldmisths University); Professor Nick Couldry (LSE); Professor Ulises Ali Mejia (SUNY Oswego); and Dr Andrea Medrado (University of Westminster).

HouseSG1, ARB.

ClockMonday 12 June 2023, 12:00-17:00

Book Launch: Human Rights for Pragmatists, by Jack Snyder

UserJack Snyder (Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations at Columbia University), and Emma Mackinnon and Sharath Srinivasan (University of Cambridge).

HouseS1, ARB.

ClockTuesday 16 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Book talk: Women and Power in Africa - Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing

UserMelanie L. Phillips and Martha C. Johnson.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-18:00

Workshop by Voices 4 Workers in Tech (V4WT)

UserDr Hong Yu Liu, Lu Wang, Muhammed Alakitan and Anusha Arumugam.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 24 April 2023, 09:00-12:30

CGHR Practitioner Series: Carly Kind on Tech, Data and AI

UserCarly Kind (Director, Ada Lovelace Institute).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Podcasting and Social Justice

UserMatt Mahmoudi and Eleanor Drage.

HouseIn person, SG1, Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2023, 17:00-18:00

POSTPONED: CGHR Practitioner Series: Richard Solly on Extractivism and Mining

UserRichard Solly (Coordinator, London Mining Network).

HouseIn person, SG2, Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2023, 00:00-00:00

CGHR Practitioner Series: Clea Kahn on Conflict and Humanitarianism

UserClea Kahn (Humanitarian Consultant and Visiting Fellow, International Institute of Social Studies).

HouseIn person, SG2, Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Practitioner Series: Jason McCue on Lawfare—Human Rights Litigation

UserJason McCue (Senior Partner of McCue Jury & Partners LLP).

HouseIn person, SG2, Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Book Launch: "Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda"

UserRebecca Tapscott, Ambizione Research Fellow, the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

Househttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-arbitrary-states-oup-2021-by-dr-rebecca-tapscott-tickets-250066775457?aff=ebdsoporgprofile.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Teach-out: RENATA ÁVILA (CEO, Open Knowledge Foundation)

UserRENATA ÁVILA (CEO Open Knowledge Foundation).

HouseOnline (register on Eventbrite for link).

ClockWednesday 16 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Practitioner Series: JONATHAN COHEN (Exec Director, Conciliation Resources)

UserJonathan Cohen (Director, Conciliation Resources).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

COVID-19 and Seafarers: A Humanitarian Crisis?

UserDr Momoko Kitada (World Maritime University), Dr Birgit Pauksztat (Uppsala University), Dr Sanley Abila (University of the Phillipines Visayas), Dr Helen Devereux (Solent University), .

Househttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-the-implications-of-online-assemblies-tickets-151772861715?aff=ebdsoporgprofile.

ClockThursday 10 June 2021, 12:00-13:30

Exploring the implications of online assemblies

UserFrancesca Fanucci (ECNL), Evelyn Douek (Harvard Law School), Dr Ella McPherson (Cambridge Sociology/CGHR), Dr Thomas Probert (Univ. Pretoria/CGHR), .

Househttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-the-implications-of-online-assemblies-tickets-151772861715?aff=ebdsoporgprofile.

ClockThursday 27 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Journalism in Colonial Settings: The case of Puerto Rico

UserDr Federico Subervi-Vélez, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sandra Rodríguez Cotto, Journalist, Puerto Rico; Dr Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Northwestern University.

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 18:00-19:30

Tackling COVID-19 in Kenya and Somalia: Interdisciplinary innovations out of CGHR

UserSharath Srinivasan (POLIS/CGHR, Katikati, Africa's Voices Foundation), Luke Church (Computer Lab/CGHR, Katikati, Africa's Voices Foundation).

Househttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/124692772439.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Spreading Disinformation in Brazil: the Amazon Fires Case

UserRebekah Lyndon, Victoria Tse, Lena Moore, Mo May-Hobbs.

Househttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/124686264975.

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

(Un)Settling Epistemologies Through Digital Tools

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

Househttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/124685490659.

ClockThursday 22 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Book Launch - "Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation and Accountability" (Oxford University Press, 2019)

UserDr Ella McPherson, Sam Dubberley, Dr Alexa Koenig, Dr Daragh Murray, Matt Mahmoudi, Isabel Guenette Thornton.

HouseOld Library at Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 27 February 2020, 12:30-14:00

"Measuring Peace: Principles, Practices and Politics"- Book Discussion with Professor Richard Caplan

UserRichard Caplan - Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford.

HouseRoom S3, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockFriday 24 January 2020, 15:00-16:30

Teach-out! The Ripples of Violence against Women and Girls Across Time and Spaces

UserDr Manali Desai, Dr Tiffany Page, Dr Holly Porter, Ilaria Michelis.

HouseNewnham College, Lucia Windsor Room.

ClockMonday 25 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Decolonisation in International Law: What Does It Mean?

UserProfessor Susan Marks, LSE.

HouseRoom S1, ARB.

ClockFriday 22 November 2019, 17:30-19:00

Digital Verification Workshop

UserRay Adams Row Farr and Rebekah Lyndon, students at the University of Cambridge.

HouseAngevin Room, Queens' College.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

CGHR and CAS event - Decolonising African Studies?

UserProfessor Christopher Clapham, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom S1, ARB.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Exhibition opening- War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality

UserDonatella Rovera, Sam Dubberly, Matt Mahmoudi.

HouseAngevin room, Queens College.

ClockFriday 18 October 2019, 17:15-18:30

CGHR Practitioner's Series with Clive Baldwin, Human Rights Watch

UserClive Baldwin, Senior Legal Advisor at Human Rights Watch.

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Panel - The Streets Don't Forget: Photojournalism and Creative Research on the Philippine Drug War

UserRaffy Lerma - freelance photographer; Ica Fernandez - urban planner; Inez Feria - founder of NoBox Philippines .

House Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Practitioner's Series with Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen O’Brien KBE

UserRt. Hon. Sir Stephen O’Brien KBE, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

'Appointment with God'; Facebook, Digital-Deathworlds and Extra Judicial Killings of Criminal Gangs in Eastlands Nairobi

UserDr. Duncan Omanga, British Academy Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2018/9); Senior Lecturer of Media Studies in Moi University, Kenya.

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar

UserProfessor Ian Holliday, The University of Hong Kong.

House Room 119, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Panel Discussion: Crime, Human Rights and Police-Community Relations: Law Enforcement in Post-Colonial Worlds

UserKaitlin M. Ball (University of Cambridge), Nanjala Nyabola (Kenyan writer & Political Analyst), Dr Jude Kagoro (University of Bremen).

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Book launch with Nanjala Nyabola - in conversation with Dr Duncan Omanga (CGHR)

UserNanjala Nyabola, writer, indepentent researcher and political analyst.

House Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Policing in Uganda: Surveillance, Mobilisation and Police-NRM Party nexus

UserDr Jude Kagoro, Research Fellow at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS), Bremen University.

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

Climate Change & Human Rights: Let's talk interdisciplinary action

UserDr Stephen Humphreys (LSE), Dr Shailaja Fennell (Centre of Development Studies), chaired by Dr Mette Eilstrup- Sangiovanni (POLIS).

House Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Film Screening UNSEEN ENEMY with the director Janet Tobias

UserJanet Tobias, Director, Sierra Tango Productions & Dr Laurie Denyer Willis, CGHR Research Associate.

HouseFitzpatrick Hall, Queens' College.

ClockMonday 30 April 2018, 17:00-19:00

Gender, UN Peacebuilding and the Politics of Space

UserProf Laura Shepherd, Sydney University & Dr Maria Martin de Almagro, POLIS.

House Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 23 April 2018, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Practitioner Series: Sharath Srinivasan, Africa's Voices

UserSharath Srinivasan, Director, Africa's Voices.

HouseKing's Audit Room, King's College.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Practitioner Series: Andrea Coomber, JUSTICE

UserAndrea Coomber, Director, JUSTICE.

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Practitioner Series: Alix Dunn, The Engine Room

UserAlix Dunn, Executive Director, The Engine Room.

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2018, 17:00-18:30

Policing with Human Rights - promoting peaceful and inclusive societies

UserChristof Heyns, Member of the UN Human Rights Committee & former UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions, Anneke Osse, Consultant on policing and human rights, Stuart Maslen Honorary Professor, Faculty of Law (University of Pretoria) .

House Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 18 January 2018, 18:00-19:30

The Weaponisation of Human Rights

UserChase Madar, attorney, author and journalist.

HouseKing's Audit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 01 December 2017, 17:00-18:30

Corruption as a global threat

UserLaurence Cockcroft, Independent Writer and Economist & Prof Jason Sharman, POLIS.

House Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 28 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

What's next for Kenya after the 2017 Elections? The good, the bad and the ugly

UserNjoki Wamai (CGHR, POLIS, University of Cambridge), Patrick Mutahi (University of Edinburgh), Kamau Wairuri (University of Edinburgh) .

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Breaking Aleppo: Facts and Fictions of the Conflict

UserMaksymilian Czuperski, Director, Digital Forensic Research Lab & Special Advisor to the President, Atlantic Council.

House Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 13 June 2017, 12:00-13:30

CGHR Salon: Duterte’s War on Drugs (Last CGHR Salon of Easter Term!)

UserSharmila Parmanand, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies.

House Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 08 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Digital Fact-Finding Without Borders: Transnational Advocacy in the 21st Century

UserSteven Livingston (Carr Center, Harvard University; George Washington University).

House Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2017, 15:00-16:30

Authority, Expertise and Race in the South African TRC

UserDr. Deborah Posel, Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town.

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 17 May 2017, 17:00-18:45

CGHR Salon: Human Rights Violations and the 2016 Rio Olympics

UserCerianne Robertson, MPhil Candidate, Department of Sociology.

House Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 27 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Beyond Clicktivism: New Models for Exposing Human Rights Violations in the Digital Age

UserSam Dubberley, manager of Amnesty International's Digital Verification Corps, and Alexa Koenig, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law.

House Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 27 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

POSTPONED: Book launch: The Horn of Africa, State Formation and Decay

UserProfessor Christopher Clapham (Cambridge); Dr Harry Verhoeven (Georgetown, Qatar).

HouseS2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

Asylum Monologues

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre.

ClockSaturday 11 March 2017, 14:00-16:00

Wallah Je Te Jure Screening + Q&A

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseKeynes Room, King's College.

ClockThursday 09 March 2017, 19:00-20:30

CGHR Salon: Parliamentary Engagement and the Syrian Conflict

UserDr Hayley Hooper and Dr Veronika Fikfak.

HouseAlison Richard Building Room 119.

ClockThursday 09 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Radio and Political Change: Everyday Life Listening in Morocco

UserDr Ali Sonay, POLIS, University of Cambridge, with Discussant Lorena Gazzotti (Centre of Development Studies, Cambridge).

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 06 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

State Security, Torture and the Law

UserDr. Onder Ozkalipci (Medical Expert), Dr. Carla Ferstman (REDRESS) and Dr. Lutz Oette (SOAS).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockThursday 02 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Salon: Sex, Drugs and Mafioso: The rise of illicit economies in the wake of the refugee crisis

UserEmily Kassie, International Relations and Politics.

HouseAlison Richard Building Room 138.

ClockThursday 23 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

"Obliterated Families" Film Screening, In Conjunction with PalSoc

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSG1.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 19:15-20:30

CGHR Practitioner Series: Fiona O'Brien, Foreign Correspondent, Academic, Communications Consultant

UserFiona O'Brien (foreign correspondent and academic, Kingston University).

HouseS2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Practitioner Series: Marcus Lenzen, Senior Conflict Adviser, DFID

UserMarcus Lenzen, Senior Conflict Adviser, DFID.

HouseS2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

The challenge of justice in transnational contexts of human rights violations: reflections on the case of Giulio Regeni

UserDr Antonio Marchesi (Professor of Law at Università di Teramo and President, Amnesty Italy) .

HouseKeynes Hall Lecture Theatre, King's College.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2017, 12:00-13:45

Life Beside the State: Refusing citizenship in Rio de Janeiro's Pentecostal Subúrbios

UserLaurie Denyer-Willis (CGHR, POLIS) with discussant Professor Sarah Radcliffe (Geography).

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 06 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

CGHR Practitioner Series: Sandrine Tiller, Humanitarian Adviser (MSF-UK)

UserSandrine Tiller, Humanitarian Adviser (MSF-UK).

HouseS2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Salon: Politics of Choice in Eastern and Southern Europe

UserDr. Marcin Smietana, Dr. Robert Pralat, and Dr. Katie Dow; Reproductive Sociology Research Group.

HouseRoom 119, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

In conversation: Richard Leakey FRS on Kenyan politics, African politics

*Attendance by registration only: email Dr Srinivasan - ss919@cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor Richard Leakey (Stony Brook University, Turkana Basin Institute).

House Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Film screening: Things of the Aimless Wanderer

UserKiev Ruhorahoza (film Director), Piotr Cieplak and Dr Andrea Grant.

HouseArts Picturehouse, 38-39 St Andrew's Street, Cambridge CB2 3AR.

ClockSaturday 22 October 2016, 18:30-20:30

Should human rights be apolitical? A debate

UserAngela Patrick, Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Dr Stephanie Palmer, Dr Sharath Srinivasan and Julian Huppert.

HouseS1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 17 October 2016, 19:30-20:30

Whither South Sudan? Prospects for war, peacebuidling and politics in the world's newest state

UserMajak D'Agoot (former Deputy Defence Minister), Peter Biar Ajak (POLIS, PhD).

HouseS1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockFriday 14 October 2016, 12:30-14:00

Book launch: Why Comrades Go To War

UserHarry Verhoeven (Georgetown), Philip Roessler (College of William and Mary), Christopher Clapham (discussant, Cambridge).

HouseS2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Research Group: 'Governing the slums: Lessons from Kenya and Rwanda'

UserThomas H. Stubbs (Department of Sociology); Discussant: Dr. Graham Denyer Willis.

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 06 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Political Sociology of Human Rights

UserPROF KATE NASH (Goldsmiths, University of London).

HouseSociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 31 May 2016, 12:30-14:00

The Marikana Commission of Inquiry: Investigations and Accountability for Right to Life Violations CGHR in conversation with the lead counsel for the Human Rights Commission, Toby Fisher

UserToby Fisher, Barrister, Lead Counsel South African Human Rights Commission - Marikana Commission; Dr Thomas Probert Research Consultant, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; CGHR Research Asociate.

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2016, 16:00-18:00

Technology and Democracy Events

"Social media and political turbulence"

UserProfessor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, West Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2016, 14:00-16:00

CGHR Practitioner Series

UserNadia Kevlin (Humanitarian Aid Worker); Daniella Ritzau Reid (Humanitarian Aid Worker).

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2016, 17:00-18:30

Decolonising Higher Education: From South Africa to the UK

Critical Theory and Practice seminar, co-sponsored by CGHR

UserAdam Branch (Politics, Cambridge) and others.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 6.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2016, 17:15-18:45

ALGORITHMIC PREDICTION IN POLICING: ASSUMPTIONS, EVALUATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY

UserLyria Bennett Moses, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales.

HouseRoom S3 Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockFriday 04 March 2016, 11:00-12:00

CGHR Practitioner Series: The UN from Within

UserStephanie La Hoz Theuer, MPhil candidate Cambridge, former Associate Programme Officer, UNFCCC; Victoria Stewart-Jolley, PhD candidate, POLIS, former UNV, UNDP; Chair: Dr Devon Curtis, POLIS..

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge-Africa Programme

Complications during pregnancy in Uganda: Researching socio-cultural drivers using innovative methods (King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar)

Wine will be served from 17:15...

UserDr Claudia Abreu Lopes, Head of Research and Development, Africa's Voices Foundation.

HouseWine Room, King's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TS.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Minding the Gap: African Conflict Management in a Time of Change

UserFunmi Olonisakin (Director, African Leadership Centre); Pamela Aall (Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation); Sharath Srinivasan (Director, CGHR). Chaired by Devon Curtis (POLIS).

HouseRoom S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 11 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

CGHR Practitioner Series: Pamela Aall, Senior Advisor for Conflict Prevention and Management, US Institute of Peace

UserPamela Aall, Senior Advisor for Conflict Prevention and Management, US Institute of Peace.

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Roundtable: Digital Publics and Counterpublics in Africa

UserHarri Englund (Cambridge), Florence Brisset-Foucault (Paris-Sorbonne), Duncan Omanga (Moi University, Kenya).

HouseRoom S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Practitioner Series: Fredrik Galtung, President & Co-founder, Integrity Action

UserFredrik Galtung, President & Co-founder, Integrity Action.

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 17:00-18:30

Rating Companies on Responsible Sourcing: Data Sprint

REGISTER AT: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rating-companies-on-responsible-sourcing-data-sprint-tickets-20056692106?aff=es2

UserAmnesty International and WikiRate.

HouseArmitage Room, Queens' College.

ClockMonday 18 January 2016, 12:30-16:30

CGHR Film screening: Enemies of the People

Reserve FREE tickets: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cghr-film-screening-enemies-of-the-people-followed-by-a-qa-with-co-director-rob-lemkin-tickets-19473962145

UserRob Lemkin (Co-Director).

HouseQueens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 18:30-20:30

Theorising Borders in an Era of Globalization and Securitization

Sponsored by: The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies and the Centre of Governmence and Human Rights, POLIS. This event is free but please RSVP Ann Waterman (EED) at aw244@cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor David Newman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge. Room GS4.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2015, 15:30-17:30

Ranking Digital Rights Project

Co-hosted by the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law and CGHR

UserRebecca Mackinnon (New America).

HouseG24, Law Faculty (Sidgwick Site).

ClockFriday 20 November 2015, 16:00-18:00

Problematic Politics: is the notion of human rights imperialistic?

Co-hosted by Cambridge University Amnesty International, CGHR and Clare Politics

UserDr Sharath Srinivasan (CGHR), Lucy Wake (Amnesty International), Prof. Stephen Hopgood (CCRI, SOAS), Dr Arath Sriprakash (Cambridge), Srishti Krishnamoorthy (Cambridge) .

HouseElton Bowring Room, Gillespie Centre, Clare College.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 19:30-00:00

Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin's Wars & the Power of Open Source

UserMaks Czuperski (Atlantic Council) & Elliot Higgins (Brown Moses).

House Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Africa's peacemakers: Nobel peace laureates of African descent

UserDr Adekeye Adebajo Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town.

HouseRoom S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 22 October 2015, 15:00-16:00

BP, Colombia, Oil & Ethics

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseB3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2015, 17:00-19:00

CGHR Report Launch: ICTs and Human Rights Practice

UserDr Ella McPherson and Dr Thomas Probert.

HouseRoom S1 Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 19 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

CGHR Research Group: The Art of Justice and the Justice of Art

UserEliza Garnsey (POLIS), Discussant: Dr. Duncan Bell (POLIS).

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 01 June 2015, 12:00-13:00

Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change

UserZachariah Mampilly, co-author of 'Africa Uprising' (Zed Books, 2015).

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2015, 13:00-14:30

Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War

Hosted by CGHR and CRIA

UserRicardo Soares de Oliveira.

HouseRoom S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2015, 17:30-18:30

CGHR Film Screening: Kashmir's Torture Trail, followed by a Q&A with film maker Jezza Neumann

Hosted by CGHR and Amnesty International Cambridge City Group

UserJezza Neumann.

HouseKeynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2015, 17:00-19:00

CGHR Practitioner Series, Freddie Carver, DFID

UserFreddie Carver, Head of Security and Justice Group, Stabilisation Unit, DfID.

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Talha Ahsan: the Power of Poetry and the Arts in Extradition Campaigns

Hosted by Cambridge Student PEN and CGHR

UserHamja Ahsan, Julian Huppert MP, Kate Honey (Green Party).

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Research Group "Acephalous Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa: The real basis for change?"

UserDr. Marta Iñiguez de Heredia (POLIS), Dr. Justin Pearce (Discussant).

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 02 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Ujamaa: from 1960s Tanzania to 21st century Europe

UserSelma James. Dr. Felicitas Becker (discussant).

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

CGHR Practitioner Series: Tech Innovators Working in Human Rights

UserTanya O'Carroll, Adviser, Technology and Human Rights Team, Amnesty International, and Harlo Holmes, Research Fellow, Head of Metadata, The Guardian Project and technical lead for InformaCam..

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2015, 17:30-19:00

#ICT4HR - Expert Panel on the Uses of Information Communication Technology to Foster Accountability for Human Rights Violations

UserChristof Heyns, Christina Ribeiro, Christoph Koettl, Eliot Higgins, Ella McPherson (chair).

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

CGHR Film Screening: The Awra Amba Experience, preview screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers

PLEASE NOTE CHANGES TO PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED TIME AND VENUE

UserFilmmakers: Paulina Tervo and Serdar Ferit.

House Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2015, 19:00-21:00

The Future of Human Rights in the UK

UserProfessor Sir David Edward.

HouseRoom B16, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, West Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2015, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Practitioner Series: Defending Human Rights

UserJames Savage, Amnesty International; Valdênia Paulino Lanfranchi, University of York; Mikdam Turkey, London South Bank University .

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2015, 17:30-19:00

Asylum Monologues

UserPerformed by Ice and Fire (Script by Sonja Linden).

HouseKeynes Hall, King's College.

ClockMonday 01 December 2014, 17:30-18:30

International Mediation as the Management of Complexity

UserProf. Laurie Nathan, Centre for Mediation in Africa, University of Pretoria.

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Sovereignty Rules: Human Rights Regimes and State Sovereignty

UserProf. Laurie Nathan, Centre for Mediation in Africa, University of Pretoria.

HouseRoom 119, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 17:00-19:00

CGHR Research Group: Presidential succession crises in Africa: lessons from South Africa and Namibia

UserDr Ian Cooper, POLIS. Discussant: Prof. Laurie Nathan, University of Pretoria.

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Book launch: The Workers' Movement and Egypt's Long Revolution

UserDr Maha Abdelrahman (Centre of Development Studies and POLIS), Anne Alexander (CRASSH.

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2014, 15:00-16:00

Seminar: Big Data, Communications and Media Theory: Conceptual Challenges

UserWendy Pullan (Architecture) John Naughton (CRASSH, Wolfson), Sharath Srinivasan (POLIS).

HouseRoom SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 14:00-16:00

Africa's Voices Project

Inaugural Cambridge-Africa Day

UserSharath Srinivasan, Director, Centre of Governance and Human Rights.

HouseEmmanuel College, Queen’s Building.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 12:10-12:25

"Autonomous Weapons Systems: The Future?" | A Public Lecture by the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

UserProf. Christof Heyns, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.

HouseLG17, Cambridge Faculty of Law, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ.

ClockWednesday 18 June 2014, 17:30-19:00

CGHR Photography Competition

UserEntries will be judged by a panel (TBC).

HouseWinning submissions will be displayed on the CGHR website.

ClockFriday 13 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Researching Public Opinion and Political Accountability: Broadcasting and New Media in Contemporary African Context

UserCGHR's Politics and Interactive Media in Africa (PiMA) project roundtable (invitation/registration only).

HouseRoom 119 - Alison Richard Building, West Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 14 February 2014, 08:30-18:00

Conflict and Crisis in South Sudan: Roundtable

UserDr Sharath Srinivasan (CGHR/POLIS, University of Cambridge), Peter Ajak (PhD Student, POLIS) and Dr Laura James (Independent Consultant and Former Economic Adviser to African Union High-Level Implementation Panel for Sudan).

HouseS1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge-Africa Programme

Africa's digital communications revolution: Valuing new voices in African public spheres

This seminar is part of the King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar Series

UserDr Sharath Srinivasan (Fellow of King's College, Cambridge); Director, Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR), Cambridge.

HouseBeves Room, King's College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

'Africa's Voices' project seminar

UserDr Sharath Srinivasan (CGHR) and Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes (CGHR) .

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development

UserRichard Moncrieff, Principal Analyst for Central Africa, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

HouseARC Cafe, Ground Floor, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2013, 17:00-18:30

Reflections on the Kenyan Elections - A Panel Discussion

UserProfessor John Lonsdale (Trinity College, Cambridge); Professor Bruce Berman (Queen's University, Ontario; Smuts Visiting Research Fellow); Njoki Wamai (PhD Student, POLIS).

HouseRoom SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

When Authoritarianism fails in the Arab World: understanding the recourse to the Muslim lexicon

UserDr Francois Burgat, director of research at the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research).

HouseRoom SG1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 28 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development

UserGino Henry, Independent Consultant in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) .

HouseRoom S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development

UserJohn Morrison, Executive Director of the Institute for Human Rights and Business.

HouseRoom S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Research Group: Rethinking the Role of Ideology in Atrocities

UserJonathan Leader Maynard (University of Oxford).

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 04 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Sudan: Regional Impacts and Strategic Challenges

UserH.E. Michel Raimboud, Former French Ambassador to Sudan.

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 16:00-17:30

From Suez to Sudan: UN Peacekeeping in Africa

UserDr. Adekeye Adebajo, Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa.

HouseRoom 119, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 21 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

A right to enjoy culture in face of climate change: Implications for climate migrants

UserMargaretha Wewerinke, Visiting Scholar, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 26 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Rehearsing the state: the governance practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile

UserDr Fiona McConnell (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge).

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 11 June 2012, 12:30-14:00

’Demand Driven Democratisation – the work of the UN Democracy Fund’

UserDr Roland Rich, Executive Head of the United Nations Democracy Fund.

HouseRoom S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 28 May 2012, 17:00-18:00

'Human-centred' development? Rethinking 'freedom' and 'agency'

UserProfessor David Chandler, Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster.

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 14:00-16:00

CGHR Roundtable: Crisis in the Sudans

UserDr Sarah Nouwen (Cambridge), Ms Benedetta De Alessi (SOAS), Dr Sharath Srinivasan (CGHR).

HouseRoom S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Political Transition in Myanmar (Burma)

UserSanjay Pulipaka (Pavate Visiting Fellow, Cambridge; Fellow, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata India).

HouseS1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Workshop: People’s Power in the Struggle for Freedom

UserJack DuVall, International Center on Non-Violent Conflict (ICNC) President, Dr. Maciej Bartkowski, ICNC Senior Director, Hardy Merriman, ICNC Senior Advisor, Professor Howard Barrell, Arwa Hassan, International Development Specialist.

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 10:00-17:00

CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development

UserRebecca Dale - UK Department for International Development, Senior Conflict Advisor.

HouseAlison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Research Group: Umar Salam, 'Foucault, Governmentality and the Knowledge Economy'

UserUmar Salam- DPhil candidate, Queen Elizabeth House (University of Oxford).

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development

UserSorcha O'Callaghan - British Red Cross, Head of Humanitarian Policy.

HouseAlison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development

UserSam Zarifi Amnesty International, Director of the Asia-Pacific Programme.

HouseAlison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development

UserTom Porteous, Human Rights Watch - Deputy Program Director.

HouseAlison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio

UserDr. Harri Englund, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room A, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Rising China and Global Justice

UserProfessor Ian Holliday, University of Hong Kong.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

The Rule by law in Ethiopia: Rendering constitutional limits on government power nonsensical

UserAdem Kassie, CGHR visiting doctoral student from University of Pretoria.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 28 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

A Global Civics: Do we need one? What would it entail?

UserHakan Altinay: Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 13:00-14:30

Beyond revolutions: the use of ICTs for political mobilization and participation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Workshop participation is limited: to register your interest, please email Iginio Gagliardone (ig282@cam.ac.uk) describing your background and why you would like to participate.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockFriday 11 November 2011, 09:00-17:00

Political Change and the Politics of Small Things

UserDr Mohammad M Mojahedi, CRASSH and CGHR Visiting Associate.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 07 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

State of Citizenship: Contexts and Cultures of Public Engagement and Citizen Action

UserProfessor Andrea Cornwall, Institute of Development Studies Sussex University.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Phones, foreigners and the fluctuating digital divide in Southern Mozambique

UserDr. Julie Soleil Archambault, University of Oxford.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

State Control over Private Military & Security Companies in Armed Conflict

UserDr. Hannah Tonkin, UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

'Facts on the Ground' and the Subversion of the Global in Israeli Activism

UserFiona Wright, PhD Candidate, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Urban governance as labour rights: The case of transport workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

CGHR Research Group

UserDr Matteo Rizzo, Smuts Researcher in African Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 06 June 2011, 12:30-14:00

Conspiracy Theories As Social Imaginary: The Case of Blackwater in Pakistan

CGHR Research Group

User Dr. Humeira Iqtidar, Lecturer in Politics, King's College London.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 09 May 2011, 12:30-14:00

Human Rights education and the Palestinian Authority Security Services

CGHR Research Group

UserDr Lori Allen, University Lecturer in Contemporary Middle Eastern Politics and Society.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 12:30-14:00

Human Rights and Academic Freedom

UserMr S Dakarai, Mrs Latefa Guemar, Dr Terrence Karran, Dr Julian Huppert.

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 17:00-19:00

CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association

The Comparative Politics of Human Rights

Jointly organized with the Centre of Governance and Human Rights

UserDr Todd Landman (University of Essex).

HouseSenior Common room of the Centre of International Studies (17 Mill Lane, 1st floor).

ClockWednesday 09 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Beyond “Asian Values”: A Reassessment of Western and Asian Perspectives on Human Rights

CGHR Research Group

UserYvonne Tew, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 07 February 2011, 12:30-14:00

Climate Change in Africa

UserDr Camilla Toulmin (Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development).

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

The integration of human rights into official development assistance: towards reorienting South Korea’s ODA policy

CGHR Research Group

UserSoo Hee Choi, Visiting Associate, Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge, International Relations Officer, Communications and Cooperation Division, National Human Rights Commission of Korea.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 24 January 2011, 12:30-14:00

State of Anxiety: Ongoing research on security and sovereign practices in Indonesia

CGHR Research Group

UserDr Laurens Bakker, Faculty of Law, University of Leiden.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 06 December 2010, 12:30-14:00

One China, Two Sudans? Sovereignty, self-determination and the 'referendum for freedom'

UserDan Large, Research Director, Asia Africa Centre (SOAS).

HouseSenior Common Room, POLIS, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 30 November 2010, 12:30-14:00

Reordering South African Townships

UserLaurent Fourchard. Researcher, Sciences Po Bordeaux..

HouseSenior Common Room, POLIS, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

CGHR Governance and Human Rights Research Group

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

House Senior Common Room, Polis, 17 Mill Lane..

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 12:30-14:00

Human Rights Obligations of Multinational Corporations in Weak States

CGHR Research Group

UserNicole Janz, PhD candidate, Department of Politics and International Studies.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 12:30-14:00

New Media|Alternative Politics: Communications technologies and political change in the Middle East and Africa

Note unusual time: 5pm 14 October to 3pm 16 October

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockFriday 15 October 2010, 09:00-18:30

Deliberating new media: creating alternative politics in the Middle East and Africa?

UserAmy Saunderson-Meyer (Freedom Fone, Zimbabwe), Herman Wasserman (Rhodes University), Firoze Manji (Pambazuka News).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockThursday 14 October 2010, 17:00-19:00

Point of No Return: Kabila, Rwanda and the Internal Dynamics of Africa's Great War

UserDr Philip Roessler and Mr Harry Verhoeven, University of Oxford.

House Senior Common Room, Polis, 17 Mill Lane..

ClockTuesday 25 May 2010, 14:00-15:30

Domestic Violence and International Law

UserProfessor Bonita Meyersfeld (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa).

HouseKeynes Lecture Theatre, King's College.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 17:00-18:30

Scholars at Risk: Human Rights and Academic Freedom

UserThe president of the UK Exiled Journalists Network; A female Iranian lawyer and women's/children's rights campaigner; A Zimbabwean politics academic; Chaired by Sir Martin Harris (President, Clare Hall).

HouseLG18, Faculty of Law, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ.

ClockMonday 26 April 2010, 17:00-19:00

Corporate Complicity in Human Rights violations in Africa

UserVuyelwa Kuuya (Lauterpacht Centre for international Law, Cambridge).

HouseThe Mond Building Seminar Room, Centre of African Studies.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 17:00-18:30

The return of the state in post-war Angola

UserDr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.

HouseThe Mond Building Seminar Room, Centre of African Studies.

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 17:00-18:30

A matter of life and death: The struggle for Ugandan gay rights

UserMr David Cato, Advocacy/Litigation officer at Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG).

HouseUpper Hall, Jesus College.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 16:00-17:30

False Twins dealing with their pasts: Transitional Justice in Rwanda and Burundi

*Note Venue*

UserDr Stef Vanderginste (Antwerp), Dr Phil Clark (Oxford) and Dr Antje du Bois-Pedain (Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, PPSIS, New Museums Site.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

Struggles for Citizenship in Africa

UserBronwen Manby (AfriMAP and Open Society Foundation).

HouseThe Mond Building Seminar Room, Centre of African Studies.

ClockMonday 15 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

Truth be Told? Debating the Human Rights records of Exiled Liberation Movements in Southern Africa

*Note venue*

UserProf. Jocelyn Alexander (Oxford), Prof. Saul Dubow (Sussex) and Prof. Stephen Ellis (African Studies Centre, Leiden & Free University Amsterdam) with Paul Trewhela, author of 'Inside Quatro: Uncovering the Exile History of the ANC and SWAPO'.

HouseThe Keynes Lecture Theatre, King's College Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 17:00-19:30

Democracy in Post-Colonial Africa

UserProfessor John Dunn.

HouseThe Mond Building Seminar Room, Centre of African Studies.

ClockMonday 25 January 2010, 17:00-19:30

Centre Launch and Inaugural Lecture by Francis M Deng, 'Managing Diversity as a Strategy for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities'

UserFrancis M Deng, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide.

HouseFaculty of Law, Room LG18.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2009, 17:00-19:30

Senator David Coltart - Human Rights in Zimbabwe: Past, Present and Future

UserSenator David Coltart.

HouseFaculty of Law, Room LG18.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2009, 19:00-20:00

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