Our core activities are termly research workshops during term time, at which we discuss our active research with one-another. This enables us to provide each other feedback in an inter-disciplinary and supportive environment akin to a peer review college. Particular emphasis is placed on the provision of feedback from disciplinary perspectives outside the researcher’s own, which in many cases resembles the background of potential peer reviewers at interdisciplinary journals and/or at research funding bodies.
Calls for Presentations will be circulated through the mailing list and work/ideas ‘in progress’ can be proposed in the areas of rights and justice broadly conceived and from a variety of disciplinary fields. Work to be discussed ranges from grant applications, conference papers, draft journal articles, book proposals, draft book chapters, etc. -- anything that would benefit from exposure to, and feedback from, an inter-disciplinary audience and that allows us to introduce our work to each other across the University.
Events
Past events
2021-22
Spring Term 2022 Events
After Rights? Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics - Project Workshops
Workshop 3: 19th Jan. 17.00-21.30
Workshop 4: 23rd Feb 13.00-17.30
Project Organised by Prof Louiza Odysseos & Dr Bal Sokhi-Bulley
The programme of rolling workshops can be found here (abstracts are available here.) Spaces are limited; if you are interested in attending, please email Louiza Odysseos, L.Odysseos@sussex.ac.uk and Bal Sokhi-Bulley B.Sokhi-Bulley@sussex.ac.uk
Precarity: Aesthetic and Poetic Explorations Project
Workshop 1: Friday, 25th February, 17.00
Workshop 2: Friday, 4th March, 13.00
Workshop 3: Friday, 11th March, 13.00
Workshop 4: Friday, 18th March, 09.00
Workshop 5: Friday, 25th March, 13.00
Project organised by Professor Louiza Odysseos and Dr Ritu Vij (University of Aberdeen).
The programme for the rolling workshops with presenter and abstract details can be found here. The workshops will last approx. four hours; if you are interested in attending, please email Louiza Odysseos, L.Odysseos@sussex.ac.uk and Ritu Vij, R.Vij@abdn.ac.uk.
Benjamin Gonzalez O'Brien, ‘Sanctuary Cities: The Racial Politics of Refuge', 2nd Mar. 16.00-18.00 C-RAJ & RiP Zoom seminar (Zoom link TBC)
Daniel Whelan, ‘Toward a UN Convention on the Right to Development’, 24th Mar. 15.00-17.00, Zoom seminar (Zoom link TBC)
Autumn Term 2021 Events
10th November, 09.00-13.30, Online Workshop
After Rights? Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics - Project Workshop 1
Project Organised by Prof Louiza Odysseos & Dr Bal Sokhi-Bulley
The programme of rolling workshops can be found here (abstracts are available here.) Spaces are limited; if you are interested in attending, please email Louiza Odysseos, L.Odysseos@sussex.ac.uk and Bal Sokhi-Bulley B.Sokhi-Bulley@sussex.ac.uk
17th November, 15.00-17.00, Arts C333,
Christine Schwoebel-Patel, University of Warwick, Marketing Global Justice: The Political Economy of International Criminal Law
Book talk co-sponsored with International Relations Department, the Centre for Global Political Economy and the Sussex Law School.
24th November Online Webinar
Register on EventBrite for this book launch event co-sponsored with CAIT [hyperlink http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cait/ ]
30th November, 13.00-15.00, Fulton 214
Human Rights and International Development Research Outline / PhD Seminar
Co-sponsored with the School of Global Studies. Presenters: Megan Cooke, Paul Reiman, Cassie Biggs and Shaheenur Alam
8th December 2021, Online Workshop
After Rights? Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics - Project Workshop 1
Project Organised by Prof Louiza Odysseos & Dr Bal Sokhi-Bulley
The programme of rolling workshops can be found here (abstracts are available here.) Spaces are limited; if you are interested in. attending, please email Louiza Odysseos, L.Odysseos@sussex.ac.uk and Bal Sokhi-Bulley B.Sokhi-Bulley@sussex.ac.uk
2020-21
Thursday 18 March, 12.30-2pm:
Joint session with Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies and the Critical Theory Cluster on the theme of ‘The Neoliberal and the Colonial’
Louiza Odysseos, ‘Extractive Modes of World-Disclosure and Historical Fungibility: Towards a Critique of Neoliberal Disposability’
Friday 26 February, 2-4 pm:
Rights and Justice Work in Progress Seminar, with work being presented by:
Fabio Petito & Scott Thomas, ‘Religious Engagement in International Relations: Instrumentalization, Religionization or Postsecular Prophetic Innovation?’ (draft paper)
Stefan Elbe, ‘Who Owns a Deadly Virus? Vital Abandonment, Specimal Friction and the Matrix of the International’ (draft paper)
Raffaela Puggioni, ‘Subjectivity and Change: Foucault, Rancière and Sartre’ (book proposal)
Meeting ID: 984 4652 9585; Passcode: Justice
February 2021:
Discussion of 'Genealogy of The Human'.
Speaker: Megan Cooke
January 2021:
Research workshop on the theme of 'friendship, solidarity and justice'.
Speakers: Bal Sokhi-Bulley, Louiza Odysseos, Peter West Oram
13 November 2020:
Research workshop to discuss 'picking up the pieces of our research agendas' after the first lockdown
Faculty small grants awarded
David Karp, July 2018, attendance of the Annual meetings of the Academic Council on the UN System, Rome, and presentation of paper on ‘UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Strengths and Weaknesses’
Louiza Odysseos, June 2018, attendance of the First UK Sylvia Wynter conference, Kings College London, and presentation of paper on ‘Colonial Legacies, Decolonizing Practices of Struggle and the “Reparative" Possibilities of Sociogeny in Wynter and Fanon: Toward an ‘Ethics of/in the Flesh?’
Postgraduate Research Bursaries awarded
2018
Po-Han Lee, attendance of workshop on ‘Gender, Health & Sustainable Development: The Role of International Law’, 6-7 May at University College Groningen, Germany
2017
Georgina Christou, attendance of the British International Studies Association annual conference and presentation of ‘‘Radicalization of youth and community formation: Exploring the politics of a pupils’ collective in Nicosia, Cyprus’