Seminars
You can find the podcasts for 2014-2016 here.Michaelmas 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted: 05/11/2013 | Transitional Justice in Transitional Libya | Dr. Michael Gibb – Lecturer in Philosophy at University College, Oxford and Project Co-ordinator for No Peace Without Justice, Libya | ||||||||||||||||||
Posted: 29/10/2013 | Making sense of past atrocities: Toward methodologies of haunting | Dr. Akin Akinwumi – Researcher, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University | ||||||||||||||||||
Posted: 22/10/2013 | Measuring criminal accountability for past human rights violation in the South Cone: Databases on judicial activity in Argentina, Chile and Peru | Lorena Balardini – Co-ordinator of Research, Centre of Legal and Social Studies, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||
Posted: 19/10/2013 | Peace through international criminal justice | James Stewart – Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court | ||||||||||||||||||
Posted: 15/10/2013 | Of other spaces: Analysing memorials to mass violence through Foucault's notion of Heterotopia | Prof. Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Director of the Center for Conflict Studies, Philipps-University of Marburg | ||||||||||||||||||
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Michaelmas Term 2012Termcard | ||
| Date | Title | Speaker |
Posted: 23/10/2012 | Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy | Prof. Mark Drumbl, Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law & Director of the Transnational Law Institute, Washington & Lee University |
Trinity Term 2012Termcard | ||
| Date | Title | Speaker |
Posted: 14/06/2012 | Apology, Utopia and Other Catch 22's: Why Criticism of the ICC is Fun, Popular...and Inevitable | Professor Darryl Robinson, Professor of Law, Queen's University, Canada |
Posted: 12/06/2012 | The Price of Omission: Brazilian Government Reparations to Victims of the Military Regime: Oak Series on Amnesty | Dr. Glenda Mezarobba, Research Fellow, Universidade de Campinas |
Posted: 05/06/2012 | Who is the Terrorist? Memories, Victims and the Use of Legitimate Violence | Dr. Diego Muro, Santander Visiting Fellow, St. Antony's College |
Posted: 22/05/2012 | The Constitutional Accommodation of National Pluralism in Post-War Sri Lanka: The Lessons for the Present from Sri Lanka's Pre-Colonial Past | Asanga Weikala, PhD Candidate, School of Law, University of Edinburgh |
Posted: 15/05/2012 | Challenges for Transitional Justice: The View from the Latin American Experience | Marcie Mersky, Director of Program Office, International Center for Transitional Justice |
Posted: 01/05/2012 | Excesses of Responsibility and the Power of Political Approaches to Accountability | Dr. Kirsten Ainley, Lecturer in International Relations, London School of Economics |
Hilary Term 2012Termcard | ||
| Date | Title | Speaker |
Posted: 07/02/2012 | Challenges of peace talks and mediation - Does it address the question of justice? | Betty Bigombe, Ugandan MP, State Minister for Water Resources, and Ugandan Peace Negotiator |
Posted: 31/01/2012 | Victim Participation in International Criminal Proceedings: Are Retributive and Restorative Principles Enhancing the Prospect for Justice? | Rudina Jasini, DPhil Candidate in Law, University of Oxford; Legal Officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) |
Michaelmas Term 2011Termcard | ||
| Date | Title | Speaker |
Posted: 22/11/2011 | Uruguay: Struggles against Impunity and Barriers to Justice for Crimes under International Law | Dr. Francesca Lessa, Research Assistant, Latin American Centre, University of Oxford Christopher Hall, International Justice Team, Amnesty International For further discussion click here. |
Posted: 11/10/2011 | The Politics of International Criminal Law | Courtenay Griffiths, Queen’s Counsel (Joint‐head of Garden Court Chambers), Defence Lawyer for Charles Taylor |
Trinity Term 2011 | ||
| Date | Title | Speaker |
Posted: 21/06/2011 | Between Collectivism and Individualism: the Reflection of the Israeli‐German Relationship in Israeli Dance from the1970s till Nowadays | Dana Mills, DPhil candidate in Political Theory, University of Oxford |
Posted: 14/06/2011 | Aftermaths: South Africa after Transitional Justice | Professor Paul Gready, Director of the Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York |
Posted: 07/06/2011 | Complementary Knowledges: the Therapeutic and Legal Governance of Memory at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia | Peter Manning, PhD candidate in Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science |
Posted: 07/06/2011 | The Role of Physical Evidence from Cambodia's Killing Fields in the Quest for Justice | Dr. Melanie Klinkner, Lecturer in Law, Bournemouth University |
Posted: 31/05/2011 | Legacies of Conflict: Healing Complexes and Moving Forwards in Afghanistan | Emily Winterbotham, Researcher in Transitional Justice, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, Kabul |
Posted: 27/05/2011 | Nunca Mas: The Politics of Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay, 1983-2010 | Dr. Francesca Lessa, Research Assistant, Latin American Centre, University of Oxford |
Posted: 26/05/2011 | Reparation and Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Bosnia and Serbia: What Role for Socio-Legal Studies? | Professor Stephan Parmentier, Professor of Criminology, Leuven Institute of Criminology, K.U. Leuven |
Posted: 16/05/2011 | Special Lecture: International Criminal Courts: The Advocate's Perspective | Sir Geoffrey Nice QC |
Posted: 03/05/2011 | Memory in the Aftermath of War: Australian Responses to the Vietnamese Refugee Crisis of 1975-76 | Dr. Nathalie Nguyen, Associate Professor of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne |
Hilary Term 2011 | ||
| Date | Title | Speaker |
Posted: 08/03/2011 | Four Dead in Ohio: The Politics of Public Memory at Kent State | Dr. Mark Laffey, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, SOAS, University of London |
Posted: 15/02/2011 | The Consequences of Violent Politics in Zimbabwe: Norton in 2009 | Prof. Jocelyn Alexander, Professor of Development Studies, University of Oxford |
Posted: 08/02/2011 | Immunities of State Officials, International Crimes and Foreign Domestic Courts | Dapo Akande, Lecturer in Public International Law; Co‐Director, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), University of Oxford |
Posted: 01/02/2011 | Australia: A Continuing Genocide? | Dr. Damien Short, Director, Centre for International Human Rights, Institute of Commonwealth Studies |
Posted: 18/01/2011 | Norms and Peace - Building in Georgia: Territorial Integrity, Sovereignty, Non‐Intervention and National Self‐Determination | Prof. Neil MacFarlane, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford |
Trinity Term 2010 | ||
| Date | Title | Speaker |
Posted: 18/05/2010 | A Truth Commission Goes Abroad: Liberian Transitional Justice in New York | Dr. Jonny Steinberg, Author and Journalist; Visiting Fellow, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford |
Posted: 12/05/2010 | Roundtable - Movements of and the Ugandan Military Campaign against the Lord's Resistance Army | Professor Ron Atkinson, Director of African Studies at the University of South Carolina |
Posted: 11/05/2010 | Peddling Influence: A Rwandan Response to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | Dr. Wendy Lambourne, Senior Lecturer and Academic Coordinator, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney Allison Turner, Defence Counsel, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
Posted: 11/05/2010 | Justice for Whom? Assessing Local Responses to Transitional Justice in Rwanda, Cambodia and Sierra Leone | Dr. Wendy Lambourne, Senior Lecturer and Academic Coordinator, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney |
Posted: 07/05/2010 | Transitional Justice and Development | Juan Mendez, President Emeritus, International Center for Transitional Justice; and former UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide |
Michaelmas Term 2010 | ||
| Date | Title | Speaker |
Posted: 17/11/2010 | The Special Court for Sierra Leone: An Instrument of External Hegemony? | Chris Mahony, DPhil candidate in Politics, University of Oxford; OTJR Treasurer |
Posted: 03/11/2010 | Crimes against Humanity: Human Rights and Justice in Argentina | Judge Sergio Gabriel Torres, Federal Judge in Criminal and Correctional Matters in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Academic Vice President for Argentina at the Ibero‐American Criminal Law Institute |
Posted: 26/10/2010 | A People that Perseveres: Psychological Analysis of Collective Amnesia in Lebanon and its Implications for Transitional Justice | Diane Batchelor, Former Researcher at UMAM Documentation and Research, Beirut |
Hilary Term 2010 | ||
| Date | Title | Speaker |
Posted: 08/03/2010 | Socio‐Economic Rights in the South African Constitutional Court: Is the Honeymoon Over? & Bringing Socio‐Economic Factors into the Transitional Justice Debate | Dr. Sabine Michalowski, Reader in Law, University of Essex Professor Sandra Fredman, Professor of Law, University of Oxford
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Posted: 22/02/2010 | Defending the Damned: The Role of Defence Counsel in International Criminal Cases | Peter Robinson, Legal Advisor for former Bosnian Serb President, Radovan Karadzic, ICTY and Lead Counsel for former President of the Rwandan National Assembly Joseph Nzirorera, ICTR |
Posted: 15/02/2010 | Negotiating the Post-conflict State: Land Disputes in Juba, Southern Sudan | Naseem Badiey, DPhil candidate in Politics, University of Oxford, and Visiting Scholar in the Center for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley |
Posted: 08/02/2010 | Between Armageddon and Utopia: Conflict Prevention, Justice and Reconciliation after Mass Atrocity | Dr. Rami Mani, Senior Research Associate, Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford and Project Director, Ending Mass Atrocities - Echoes in the South |
Posted: 01/02/2010 | Punishment in Transition: Re-thinking the Role of Punishment and Sentencing for Transitional Justice | Professor Ralph Henham, Professor of Criminal Justice, Nottingham Trent University |
Posted: 18/01/2010 | International Justice: Transitional, Distributive and Rectificatory | Dr. Daniel Butt, Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Bristol |
Michaelmas Term 2009 | ||
| Date | Title | Speaker |
Posted: 25/11/2009 | Briefing: Liberia's Experiment with Transitional Justice | Dr. Jonny Steinberg, African Affairs |
Posted: 24/11/2009 | Transitional Justice and the Inter-American Human Rights System | Par Engstrom, Lecturer in Human Rights, Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Studies, University of London |
Posted: 17/11/2009 | Localising Transitional Justice: Establishing the War Crimes Chamber of the Bosnia Court | Dr. Alex Jeffrey, Lecturer in Human Geography, Newcastle University |
Posted: 10/11/2009 | Papering Over the Cracks: Reconciliation in Zimbabwe's Unity Government Era | Dr. Blessing-Miles Tendi, Researcher, University of Oxford |
Posted: 10/11/2009 | Debating Transitional Justice in Zimbabwe: Victim-Centred Rhetoric or Reality? | Janice Winter, Programme Manager, Axess Programme on Journalism and Democracy |
Posted: 03/11/2009 | Repairing Libya's Past: Where Does the Quest for Compensation End? | Dr. Claudia Gazzini, Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute, Florence |