How can the legal protection of migrants expand to meet the challenges of forced displacement and non-state violators?

*Brysk, People Out of Place (2004); Human Rights and Private Wrongs (2005); From Human Trafficking to Human Rights (2012)

Stephen Meili, Minnesota-Oxford: refugee law and Constitutionalism
Loren Landau, Oxford University—"Mobility, rights, and competing temporalities”

How can we gain accountability for human rights abuse in a globalizing world?

*Brysk, The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina (1994), Global Good Samaritans (2009)

Neil Mitchell, UCL--“Accountability for human rights violations”
Yuna Han, Oxford University—“Refugees and universal jurisdiction”

How do new forms of global communication foster rights campaigns and human rights education?

Brysk, Speaking Rights to Power (2013)

Todd Landman, Nottingham-The Rights Track

This event will focus on Patrick Cohrs's new book, 'The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics, 1860–1933'. Professor Cohrs is Professor of History at Università degli Studi, Florence.

The event will be chaired by Professor Patricia Clavin. Professor Edward Keene will serve as discussant.

If you cannot attend in person, you can watch the talk remotely via Zoom:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89985255035?pwd=TDVqNnVYTDRveXBxMjNjbXRPTGV0QT09
Meeting ID: 899 8525 5035
Passcode: 875833

OCTF online seminar (via Zoom) followed by Q&A

The notion that the trajectory of Kurdish political activism inevitably leads to separatism is widely held amongst political elites in Ankara, Tehran, Baghdad, and Damascus. Indeed, in certain ways, they share this view with the most ardent of Kurdish nationalists who see the creation of a sovereign Kurdish nation-state as the only possible definitive solution to the Middle East’s “Kurdish question”.