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Rethinking South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Posted November 4, 2013Assistant Professor of Law, Jourisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College, Adam Sitze will discuss his new book, The Impossible Machine: A Genealogy of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In The […] -
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Avital Ronell
Posted February 12, 2013“The Disappearance of Authority” In her book Loser Sons: Politics and Authority, Ronell writes: Something that still holds us hostage, authority has for all intents and purposes disappeared: it […] -
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Michel Agier
Posted October 23, 2012Michel Agier is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centre for African Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He has written extensively on […] -
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Arang Keshavarzian
Posted March 28, 2011“Reflections on the Study of Middle East Politics in an Age of Revolution: From Iran’s Greens to Egypt’s Tahrir” Arang Keshavarzian is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and […] -
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Ayca Cubukcu
Posted March 16, 2011Ayça Çubukçu joined the LSE in May 2012 as a Lecturer in Human Rights at the Department of Sociology and the Centre for the Study of Human Rights. Before LSE, […] -
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Jill Stauffer
Posted March 1, 2011Jill Stauffer is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Concentration at Haverford College. Before coming to Haverford College to create a […] -
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Samuel Moyn
Posted September 21, 2010“Human Rights in the History of Global Cosmopolitanisms” Samuel Moyn is a Professor of History at Columbia University. His research interests are in Modern European intellectual history, with […] -
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Chaim Gans
Posted September 30, 2008Chaim Gans teaches legal, moral and political philosophy at Tel Aviv University. His books are: Philosophical Anarchism and Political Disobedience (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992), The Limits of Nationalism […] -
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Boris Buden
Posted March 25, 2008Boris Buden is a writer, cultural critic, and translator. In the 1990s he founded and was editor of the magazine and publishing house Arkzin in Zagreb. His essays and […] -
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Lesser Evil Workshop
Posted February 2, 2008“At a pre-Manifesta 7 workshop on the notion of ‘lesser evil’, one of the themes of this summer’s forthcoming biennial, Mies van der Rohe’s High Modernist aphorism ‘less is […]