Displacement, Asylum, Migration Jan-Feb 2004
The twelfth annual Oxford Amnesty Lectures series addresses the questions
that displacement, asylum and migration pose to our notions of -- and
provisions for -- human rights.
Since the end of the cold war, capital, goods and information have been
flowing freely across borders; people, by contrast, whether fleeing
poverty, war or repression, have been finding those borders increasingly
difficult to cross.
Today the developed world is producing ever more anxious, not to say
inhumane, responses to asylum and migration. Civil wars create massive
internally displaced groups; cities exert their pull on rural populations;
immigration detention centres are joined by refugee camps and slums. And
what happens when the displaced return 'home'?.
Unless otherwise stated, all lectures take place in the Sheldonian
Theatre, Broad St, Oxford at 5.30 pm.
Tickets
Support Amnesty's work by buying a season ticket - seven lectures for the
price of five
Season tickets for the lectures cost GBP 30 (GBP 20 unwaged) Single
tickets cost GBP 6 (GBP 4 unwaged).
Both are available from Tickets Oxford, The Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont
Street, Oxford, 0X1 2LW. Tel: 01865 305305 Fax: 01865 305335 Minicom:
01865 305377 Online booking: http://www.ticketsoxford.com.
Single tickets for each lecture are also for sale on the door if available.
Speakers
Wed 28 Jan - Slavoj Zizek - 'Against an Ideology of Human Rights'
Professor of philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, former
presidential candidate in the Republic of Slovenia, Zizek is a frequent
and controversial contributor to debates about ethnicity, popular culture
and psychoanalysis. His books include Welcome to the Desert of the Real:
Five Essays on September 11th (2002).
Thurs 29 Jan - Bhikhu Parekh - 'How Universal are Human Rights?'
Formerly deputy chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, and chair of
the Runnymede Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, Parekh
holds professorships in both Hull and the London School of Economics. He
is a working Labour peer and author of Rethinking Multiculturalism:
Cultural Diversity and Political Theory (2000).
Thurs 5 Feb - Caryl Phillips - 'Crossing Borders'
Novelist and playwright, Phillips is currently Henry R. Luce Professor of
Migration and Social Order at the University of Columbia. His works
include A Distant Shore (2003), The Nature of Blood (1997), Crossing the
River (1993) and Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging (1997),
an anthology of writing by British writers born outside Britain.
Wed 11 Feb - Saskia Sassen - 'Citizens or Aliens?: Political Subjectivity
in the Global City'
Leading world expert on globalization and its effects on the lives of
ordinary people, Sassen is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the
University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London
School of Economics. Her book Guests and Aliens (2000) places the
current 'crisis' of immigration in a historical context and offers some
inspiring ways forward.
Thurs 12 Feb - Harold Hongju Koh - 'The New Global Slave trade'
When Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, Democracy and Labour
in the Clinton administration, Koh continued to litigate human rights
cases against the U.S. government for their repatriation of refugees from
Haiti, Cuba, and elsewhere. Koh is an internationally known human rights
lawyer, and currently Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of
International Law at Yale University.
Wed 25 Feb - Jacqueline Rose - 'Displacement in Zion'
Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London, Rose is the
author of several books, including the award-winning The Haunting of
Sylvia Plath, and States of Fantasy (1998) which examined the place of
Israel, Palestine and S. Africa in the English imagination. Her recent
Channel 4 film, Dangerous Liaison, examined America's relationship with
Israel.
Fri 27 Feb - Ali Mazrui - 'Strangers in our Midst: Islamic and African
Perspectives'
One the world's most distinguished Africanists, Mazrui is Director of the
Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton, State University of
New York. A former BBC Reith Lecturer, he also wrote and presented the
hugely successful BBC series The Africans: A Triple Heritage. Mazrui's
books include The Power of Babel: Language and Governance in Africa's
Experience (1998).
Who are we?
Oxford Amnesty Lectures invites internationally respected figures to
debate the future of human rights and development in Oxford. Lectures are
open to the paying public and the texts are published as a book.
Our sponsors
We are most grateful for the continued sponsorship of The Times Higher
Education Supplement. http://www.thesis.co.uk
http://www.oxford-amnesty-lectures.org
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