31st October 1pm to 6pm
Chrystal Macmillan Building
Bridging political, legal and historical perspectives on contemporary Europe
Edinburgh EUROPA Research Group
Summary:
The Europa Research Group and the Political History Research Group have the pleasure to welcome Dr. Marco Duranti from Sydney University to talk about his book The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). His work speaks to the interests of a number of different research areas including International and European Law, British and European Politics and Political History amongst others. Building on Dr. Duranti’s presentation, the event aims to gather representatives from different academic disciplines, early stage researchers and confirmed scholars, for a half day interdisciplinary discussion.
Speakers include:
- Dr. Marco Duranti, Lecturer in Modern European and International History at the University of Sydney, currently visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge
- Dr. Tobias Lock, Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh Law School and Co-director of the Europa Institute from the Law School and specialist of the ECHR
- Dr. Pontus Odmalm, Senior Lecturer in Politics, School of Social and Political Science, Edinburgh University
Full programme can be found here: http://www.europaresearchgroup.ed.ac.uk/page-2957
This event is free and open to all but registration is required: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bridging-political-legal-and-historical-perspectives-on-contemporary-europe-tickets-37836132892