New Fulbright Visiting Professor Alison Brysk delivers special seminar series on the future of human rights

Alison Brysk, Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance in the Department of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been announced as this year’s Fulbright-Oxford-Pembroke Visiting Professor in Politics and International Relations.

Alison is an American political scientist who has authored seven books and edited ten books on international human rights and has been a scholar and lecturer in Argentina, Australia, Ecuador, France, Spain, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Japan.

She has also held Fulbright Fellowships in India and Canada and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on human rights, international relations, civil society, and Latin American politics.

While at Oxford, Alison will organise a series of seminars at Pembroke College on ‘The Future of Human Rights’.

The series will explore lessons and debates from a generation of human rights scholarship as a dialogue between Alison and UK colleagues and include:

• The Future is Female: How do global trends engender women’s rights–and generate new challenges? With Andrea den Boer (University of Kent)
• The Future of Accountability: How can we gain accountability for human rights abuse in a globalizing world? With Neil Mitchell (UCL) and Yuna Han (University of Oxford)
• Communicating Human Rights: How do new forms of global communication foster rights campaigns and human rights education? With Todd Landman (Nottingham)
• Human Rights and the Future of Migration: How can the legal protection of migrants expand to meet the challenges of forced displacement and non-state violators? With Stephen Meili (Minnesota) and Loren Landau (University of Oxford)
• Human Rights and the Future of Global Governance: How can victims pursue justice in the growing international rights regime? With Leigh Payne (University of Oxford) and Pilar Elizalde (LSE)