Dear colleagues,
On 26 May 2010 (5pm), Professor Saskia Sassen will give the annual
Elizabeth Colson lecture. Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor
of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia
University.
The lecture, organised by the Refugee Studies Centre, will be entitled
"The complexity of Powerlessness: what makes human rights law perform?"
Professor Sassen will speak about the limits of power and the
complexities of powerlessness – the direct or mediated resistances that
the powerless can deploy knowingly or not. Immigration and human rights
help to explore these more abstract issues – especially in powerful
countries vis-à-vis undocumented workers, who are among the most
vulnerable subjects in those same countries. And yet, under certain
conditions, the powerless can make history, even if they do not gain
power in this process. She will discuss two institutional domains where
powerlessness can become complex and the powerless have made history.
The lecture will take place at the Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre, St
Catherine’s College, Oxford (OX1 3UJ) and will be followed by a drinks
reception.
To reserve a seat, please contact: [log in to unmask]; 01865
281726
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Wouter te Kloeze
Development and Communications Assistant
Refugee Studies Centre, www.rsc.ox.ac.uk
Oxford Department of International Development
University of Oxford
3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1865 281726
Fax: +44 (0)1865 281730
Email: [log in to unmask]
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