Dear network members,

A reminder of the GNHRE symposium 2014!

Warm regards,

Anna

 
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 From: Winnie Carruth <[log in to unmask]>
 Date: 02/28/2014 04:27PM 
 Subject: Call for Abstracts - GNHRE Symposium at the IUCN Academy Colloquium - Pre-Colloquium Event
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   CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

GNHRE SYMPOSIUM 2014: 'Reimagining 'humanity' in the nexus between human rights and the environment.

30th June (2:00 pm to 7:00 pm) and 1st July (2:00 pm to 7:00 pm) 2014, at the IUCN Academy Colloquium, Tarragona, Spain (pre-colloquium event)

Expressions of interest are invited for attendance at the GNHRE Symposium 2014. The Symposium is designed to allow in-depth engagement with its theme in a roundtable setting over two days immediately prior to the annual IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium. Papers are delivered on the first day. The second day involves a highly interactive, in-depth engagement with the Symposium's central theme.

GNHRE Symposia are always intellectually stimulating and highly enjoyable. Early expressions of interest are warmly encouraged, because numbers tend to be restricted in order to ensure a useful depth of engagement in a meaningful, extended conversation.

This year's theme invites engagement with the central question of 'who we think we are' as human beings and 'where we think we are' in terms of our understanding of the world we inhabit and which inhabits us. How might the relationship between human rights and the environment be reconfigured by renewed understandings and engagements with the question of who we are? How do human rights construct and shape a vision of who we are and in what kind of world? What different concepts and constructs are at play in the human rights trope? How does environmental law construct 'nature'? How do legal relations portray, fix or shape the relationship between 'humanity' and 'nature'? Are there patterns we can recognize and change in the nexus between human rights and the environment? How might such changes affect the future? How might change be effected and operationalized? What laws, policies and practices would best embody new ways of being and seeing adequate to an energy-intensive  world in climate crisis? The list of such questions is open-ended - and you are invited to explore the central Symposium theme as richly as you wish.

There are four thematic areas in which abstracts are invited:


1)      Philosophical Re-Investigations

2)      Reconfiguring the Legal

3)      Activism and Praxis

4)      Multi-level Reformulation

Please send abstracts for consideration to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

You may wish to read the publication based on the first GNHRE Symposium, held in 2012 at the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain and available at http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/issue/view/17. Abstracts should be submitted by March 15st 2014. After that time, invitations to attend will be warmly issued.


Winnie Carruth, LLB (Hons), Barrister of Middle Temple, London, England
Manager/Gestionnaire
IUCN Academy of Environmental Law/ Académie de droit de l'environnement de l'UICN
University of Ottawa
57 Louis Pasteur, FTX 536 Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5
Tel: (613)562-5800 ext. 3260


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