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: TBC
Speaker: Professor Barrymore Bogues (Brown University)
Past seminars
Security from the south: a transnational feminist approach
Wednesday 26 March 2025
Speaker: Dr Samar Al Bulushi (UC Irvine)
Tracking militarisation and imperial feedback
Wednesday 19 February 2025
Speaker: Professor Julian Go (The University of Chicago)
Against white supremacy: imperialism, rivalry and the politics of racialisation
Monday 17 February 2025, 3pm to 4pm
Speaker: Dr Robert Knox (University of Liverpool)
Good victims: the political as a feminist question
Wednesday 27 November 2024
Speaker: Dr Roxani Krystalli (University of St Andrews)
A session with the UK Director of Human Rights Watch
Wednesday 13 November 2024
Speaker: Yasmine Ahmed (Human Rights Watch)
How to hide a genocide
Wednesday 30 October 2024
Speaker: Dr Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg (番茄社区)
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