Oxford Aegis Society

Dear all,

I hope all is well with everybody, and a big thank you to everyone who came to our last two events!

We have one more event this week, then it goes quiet again for a fortnight. So if you keep telling yourself you will attend an event in the next week or two, this is the one to go to.

2nd February (Saturday, 3rd Week), 7.30pm: "How to Stop the Next Darfur: Can Genocide be Prevented?" - Dr. Payam Akhavan.

Trinity College, Danson room.

Co-Sponsored by Baha'i society, Oxford Aegis Society, and Oxford University Amnesty Internation.

Professor Akhavan teaches and researches in the areas of public international law, international criminal law and transitional justice, with a particular interest in human rights and multiculturalism, war crimes prosecutions, UN reform and the prevention of genocide.

He was previously the Boulton Senior Fellow at McGill, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and Visiting Lecturer and Senior Fellow at Yale Law School and the Yale University Centre for International and Area Studies. He is also the author of the Report on the Work of the Office of the Special Advisor of the United Nations Secretary- General on the Prevention of Genocide (2005). Professor Akhavan was the first Legal Advisor to the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Tribunals for Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and played a key role in the development of its foundational jurisprudence. He also has considerable experience in post-conflict peace-building and international dispute settlement, having advised the UN on transitional justice, appearing as counsel before international courts and tribunals on behalf of sovereigns, and serving on the board of directors of human rights NGOs, including the Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre (www.iranhrdc.org), in New Haven, of which he is also the president and co-founder.

And one more thing to show you. I don't normally publicise other society events, but for this I will make an exception, as it is really, really, worth going to some of these.

http://www.oxford-amnesty-lectures.org/index.html

All held at 5.30pm, Holywell Music theatre, unless otherwise stated.

Fri 25 Jan: Charles Curran. Human Rights and the Roman Catholic Tradition.

Tue 29 Jan: Simon Schama (Sheldonian Theatre). America, Religion and Rights.

Wed 30 Jan: Asma Jahangir.
The Tolerance Policy: Way Out or Compromise?

Wed 6 Feb: Tariq Ramadan.
Islam and Human Rights.

Thu 7 Feb: Ronald Dworkin (Sheldonian Theatre).
Terrorism, Religion and Human Rights.

Wed 13 Feb: Chantal Mouffe.
Can Human Rights Accommodate Pluralism?

Wed 20 Feb: Stanley Hauerwas.
Against Cosmopolitanism.

Thu 21 February: Debate.
Freedom of Belief, Freedom from Belief: Religion and Rights.

Tickets for each lecture cost £6 (£4 concessions). A group discount is available at 10 tickets for the price of 8. Groups and wheelchair users need to phone Tickets Oxford to buy tickets.

Tel: 01865 305305

Many thanks, and as usual I hope to see you there!

Best,

Mark

President, Oxford Aegis Society

www.oxfordaegis.org
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