CELI Annual Lecture Series: Leicester Peace Talks
CELI is delighted to announce its 2018-19 Annual Public Lecture Series, the 'Leicester Peace Talks'. The ‘Peace Talks’ are a series of public lectures, which will explore the concept of peace from the perspectives of different disciplines (e.g. history, politics, international relations, law).
For more information and booking details, please check our programme.
Events
A history of exclusionary policy: the case study of post WWII migration from the Caribbean to Britain, 6 November 2019, 4:30-6 pm
Dr Margaret Byron (University of Leicester) will examine the impact of the ‘hostile environment’ policy over the past 10 years.
Peace talk: Living in Hostile Environments – Illegality Assemblages and Everyday Experiences of ‘Illegality’, 23 October 2019
Prof Nando Sigona (School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham) offers a useful framework for the development of comparative research on how ‘illegality’ is constructed.
Engaging Peace and Power: Feminist Judgments in International Law, 9 October 2019
Dr Loveday Hodson and Dr Troy Lavers will be presenting their book 'Feminist Judgments in International Law'. This book rewrites international law judgments from a feminist perspective.
Building peace in fractured societies. The League of Nations and the protection of national minorities in the 1920s, 22 May 2019
The lecture addresses the challenges of creating peace in Europe after the First World War.
The Trump Administration and International Law
Who is winning: Donald Trump or International Law? Prof Harold Hongju Koh, currently Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale and Goodhart Visiting Professor at Cambridge, formerly Yale Law Dean and U.S. State Department Legal Adviser gives his assessment.
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