Events

Spotlight on Scholarship

This event series discusses new research publications in the field of human rights.

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Book presentation - Citizenship and Residence Sales: Rethinking the Boundaries of Belonging

Monday, 12.02.2024 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (CET)

Join us for a discussion on the book 'Citizenship and Residence Sales: Rethinking the Boundaries of Belonging' with editor Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov. This event is hosted by the Centre for Fundamental Rights and the Jacques Delors Centre.

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Book presentation: We, the Data. Human Rights in the Digital Age

Wednesday, 08.11.2023 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm (CET)

Join us for a discussion on the book 'We, the Data. Human Rights in the Digital Age' with author Prof. Wendy H. Wong. This event is hosted by the Centre for Digital Governance and the Centre for Fundamental Rights. 

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Book presentation - The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization (2023)

Wednesday, 01.11.2023 | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

A panel discussion with author Whitney K. Taylor (San Francisco State University) and discussant Aileen Kavanagh (Trinity College Dublin), chaired by Başak Çalı (Hertie School). The event is hosted by the Centre for Fundamental Rights as part of the Spotlight on Scholarship event series.

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Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World

Thursday, 27.04.2023 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Former central banker and Harvard research fellow Sir Paul Tucker lays out principles for international cooperation to tackle the global discord created by China, Russia and other illiberal states to today’s geopolitical order. This discussion is organised within the context of the three events on Global Ethics by Prof. Bellamy, and in collaboration with the Centre for Fundamental Rights.

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Ending Wars, Ending Structural Violence

Thursday, 13.04.2023 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

This discussion is organised within the context of the three events on Global Ethics by Prof. Bellamy, and in collaboration with the Centre for Fundamental Rights.

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Hope in the Climate Crisis

Thursday, 16.03.2023 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Darrel Moellendorf shows how we can mobilise hope to combat the global injustices and massive environmental destruction threatening the planet. This discussion is organised within the context of the three events on Global Ethics by Prof. Bellamy, and in collaboration with the Centre for Fundamental Rights.

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Book presentation - Sovereignty, Technology and Governance after COVID-19: Legal Challenges in a Post-Pandemic Europe

Wednesday, 21.09.2022 | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm (CEST)

Join us for a book presentation of 'Sovereignty, Technology and Governance after COVID-19: Legal Challenges in a Post-Pandemic Europe', co-edited by Francisco de Abreu Duarte and Francesca Palmiotto (Bloomsbury Publishing, September 2022). The event is part of the Spotlight on Scholarship event series hosted by the Centre for Fundamental Rights.

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Access to International Protection and the Externalisation of Asylum

Monday, 16.05.2022 | 10:00 am (CEST)

The workshop is hosted jointly by the (B)OrderS: Centre for the Legal Study of Borders and Migration at Queen Mary University of London, the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School, iCourts: The Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for International Courts at the University of Copenhagen, and QMUCU: the University and College Union Queen Mary branch, as part of a series of regional and thematic launches of The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (OUP, 2021)

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Book presentation - The ethics of exile: A political theory of diaspora

Monday, 09.05.2022 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm (CEST)

A panel discussion with author Dr Ashwini Vasanthakumar (Queen’s Law School) and discussant Prof. Matthew J Gibney (University of Oxford), moderated by Prof. Cathryn Costello (Hertie School).

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Rights of families of disappeared persons: how international bodies address the needs of families of disappeared persons in Europe

Wednesday, 29.09.2021 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm (CEST)

Join us for a presentation of Grażyna Baranowska’s book Rights of Families of Disappeared Persons: How International Bodies Address the Needs of Families of Disappeared Persons in Europe.

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Launch of The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law

Tuesday, 25.05.2021 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am

This event is hosted by the Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxford); Centre for Fundamental Rights (Hertie School, Berlin); Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness (University of Melbourne), and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law (UNSW Sydney).

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Book launch: Limits of Supranational Justice - The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict

Wednesday, 10.03.2021 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Join us as Dilek Kurban (Hertie School) presents her new book Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict (2020, Cambridge University Press).

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