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Professor Shereen Naga of the University of Cairo will be speaking on "the new geographics of identity generated by the aftermath of the Revolution". A light lunch is provided for attendees.

A workshop organised by Charles Walton

Poster

Speakers -

Olivier Grenouilleau (Centre Roland Mousnier, University of Paris IV-La Sorbonne)

Abolition of Slavery and International Rights for Humanitarian Reasons

Fabian Klose (Leibniz Institute for European History, Mainz)

Enforcing Humanity – The Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention

Saul Dubow (University of London, Queen Mary)

The Problem of Rights for Apartheid and Anti-Apartheid South Africa

Jenny Raflik-Grenouilleau (University of Cergy-Pontoise)

Human Rights or Peoples' Rights: Some Reflections

Charles Walton (University of ÌÇÐÄTV)

Rights, Reciprocity and the Politics of Obligation: 18th-20th Centuries

We’re pleased to welcome globally celebrated novelist Louis de Bernières. Louis is best known for Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and will be happy to sign copies of that or other novels he’s written, but last autumn he also published a first collection of poems, Imagining Alexandria, and it’s from that that he’ll mainly be reading on this visit.

From Counting House to Country House: Building the Image of the East India Company

Prof Naga (Cairo University). Professor Naga has been on a lecture tour which has taken her to Russia, the US and Germany. Her research is inter-disciplinary and crosses the fields of cultural policy, critical theory, literary study and politics. As part of this current lecture tour she is speaking about the current political and social conditions in Egypt and reflecting on their impact in street art and in government policy.