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Part of the RSC Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2024
REFUGEE HISTORY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
Convenor: Dr Catherine Briddick
This research-led seminar mini-series provides an opportunity to engage with current events in Israel and Gaza. Our speakers are scholars whose expertise and research illuminates issues relevant to the conflict. With them, we are able to discuss how displacement has shaped the history of Gaza and to explore the relationships between international humanitarian, refugee, and human rights law.
Consonant with the RSC’s commitment to build knowledge and understanding of the causes and effects of forced migration, this series aims to encourage reflection and contribute to debate in academia and in practice.
‘there is no justification for studying, and attempting to understand, the causes of human suffering if the purpose of one’s study is not, ultimately, to find ways of relieving and preventing that suffering.’ Dr David Turton
DISPLACEMENT FROM CONFLICT: OLD REALITIES, NEW PROTECTIONS?
Wednesday 31 January, 5pm (Refugee Studies Centre, in person)
Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler (Associate Professor in International Refugee Law, University of Reading)
REFUGEE HISTORY IN THE GAZA STRIP
Wednesday 7 February, 5pm (Refugee Studies Centre, in person). Registration required.
Anne Irfan (Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, UCL)
BONAVERO DISCUSSION GROUP: IMPLICATIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE’S PROVISIONAL MEASURES IN APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (SOUTH AFRICA V. ISRAEL)
Tuesday 27 February, 12.30-2pm, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and online
Janina Dill (Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford), Victor Kattan (Assistant Professor in Public International Law, University of Nottingham School of Law), Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler (Associate Professor in International Refugee Law, University of Reading)
Chair: Cathryn Costello (Full Professor of Global Refugee and Migration Law, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin)
HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
Wednesday 13 March, 12 noon UK (via Zoom) [please note, this is rescheduled from 26 February]
Francesca P Albanese (United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967)
Image: Palestine refugees (British Mandate of Palestine - 1948). "Making their way from Galilee in October-November 1948". © Public domain.