2018 programme launched
The theme of this year’s Festival is IDENTITY. We present a programme of films, performances, talks and workshops exploring what it is that makes us who we are. Themes include gender, sexuality, mental health, disability, nationality, race, and socioeconomic status. We have speakers and panel members from as far afield as Tibet, Palestine, and Syria, and we are also showcasing the research and work being done here at Oxford Brookes in our lunchtime seminars series. Download the full programme here.
The theme of this year’s Festival is IDENTITY. We present a programme of films, performances, talks and workshops exploring what it is that makes us who we are. Themes include gender, sexuality, mental health, disability, nationality, race, and socioeconomic status. We have speakers and panel members from as far afield as Tibet, Palestine, and Syria, and we are also showcasing the research and work being done here at Oxford Brookes in our lunchtime seminars series. Download the full programme here.
Other Human Rights events at Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes has a great reputation for hosting and presenting events highlighting the plight of people whose human rights have been violated. In October the University celebrated Black History Month and in February it is LGBT History Month. More information can be found on the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion pages of the Brookes website. CENDEP presents a weekly programme of Work in Progress Seminars, which showcase the research done in the school and in related institutions. Everyone is welcome and this semester's programme is available on the blog. We have an exciting programme of lectures coming up this year too, including Architect Daniel Libeskind as part of Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation – a Mellon-Sawyer international seminar series funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in memory of John E. Sawyer. Our LGBT History Month lecture sees Antonia Bright of Movement for Justice talk about LGBT asylum seekers in the UK, and our International Women’s Day Lecture 2018, hosted by Oxford Brookes Business School, is by Tea Colaianni, Non-Executive Director of Mothercare, discussing why gender diversity matters in corporate Britain with Oxford Brookes Professor Simonetta Manfredi .
Oxford Brookes has a great reputation for hosting and presenting events highlighting the plight of people whose human rights have been violated. In October the University celebrated Black History Month and in February it is LGBT History Month. More information can be found on the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion pages of the Brookes website. CENDEP presents a weekly programme of Work in Progress Seminars, which showcase the research done in the school and in related institutions. Everyone is welcome and this semester's programme is available on the blog. We have an exciting programme of lectures coming up this year too, including Architect Daniel Libeskind as part of Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation – a Mellon-Sawyer international seminar series funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in memory of John E. Sawyer. Our LGBT History Month lecture sees Antonia Bright of Movement for Justice talk about LGBT asylum seekers in the UK, and our International Women’s Day Lecture 2018, hosted by Oxford Brookes Business School, is by Tea Colaianni, Non-Executive Director of Mothercare, discussing why gender diversity matters in corporate Britain with Oxford Brookes Professor Simonetta Manfredi .
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We began our preparations for this year's Festival in December when we were delighted to welcome human rights campaigner and activist Peter Tatchell to the University to give the second Nabeel Hamdi lecture: The international community has failed Syria. In it he discussed the flaws and limits of international human rights law in relation to the conflict in Syria and looked at some of the options that could have been used to defuse the war and save lives, but were not actioned by the UN or any countries.
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The Nabeel Hamdi Lecture series is presented jointly by the Oxford Human Rights Festival and CENDEP, the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice. Emeritus Professor Nabeel Hamdi is the founder of the MA in Development and Emergency Practice and long term director of CENDEP and one of the most distinguished academics in our field. On his retirement from Oxford Brookes he set up this Lecture series.
ARTICULATING HISTORY: architecture and memory
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WHY GENDER DIVERSITY MATTERS IN CORPORATE BRITAIN
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ASYLUM IN THE UK: LGBT+ experience of the asylum system
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Looking back at 2017
The 15th annual Oxford Human Rights Festival took place here at Oxford Brookes University from 14th to 18th March 2017, with the exhibition in the Glass Tank. As ever, the Festival brought together people of different backgrounds to participate in a culture-packed event. Through a selection of films, art and design, performances, talks and workshops, we aim to raise awareness of a range of human rights issues here in the UK and across the world. The festival is free and open to everyone. The theme of OxHRF2017 was HOME. What does home mean to you? Love? Security? Family? For millions of people across the world home is a fractured concept, somewhere they are fleeing from or fleeing to; somewhere temporary, unwelcoming, unsafe. We will explored this idea of home from the point of view of refugees, indigenous people, homeless people, as well as the students here in Oxford. You can meet the 2017 student committee on our people page and read what they have to say about home, human rights and the Festival on our blog.
Looking back at 2016
This year's Festival was our biggest and most exciting yet. Highlights included the screening of He Named Me Malala with Malala's father Ziauddin Yousafzai in collaboration with the Brookes Documentary Club, and the screening of Suffragette, presented by the film's Director, Sarah Gavron. We were delighted to introduce the new Director of CENDEP, Cathrine Brun and to welcome back editor of the New Internationalist, Hazel Healy. Student organiser Katie Reilly looks back at the 2016 Festival here in CENDEP News. The centrepiece of the 2016 Festival was Women in Adversity: Contemporary and Traditional Crafts as a Source of Hope and Income, an exhibition of crafts made by women facing daily situations of conflict, poverty and disease. This included embroidered panels from the Palestinian History Tapestry, a project which tells the story of the life and heritage of the indigenous people of Palestine and supports the traditional craft of Palestinian needlewomen.
The 15th annual Oxford Human Rights Festival took place here at Oxford Brookes University from 14th to 18th March 2017, with the exhibition in the Glass Tank. As ever, the Festival brought together people of different backgrounds to participate in a culture-packed event. Through a selection of films, art and design, performances, talks and workshops, we aim to raise awareness of a range of human rights issues here in the UK and across the world. The festival is free and open to everyone. The theme of OxHRF2017 was HOME. What does home mean to you? Love? Security? Family? For millions of people across the world home is a fractured concept, somewhere they are fleeing from or fleeing to; somewhere temporary, unwelcoming, unsafe. We will explored this idea of home from the point of view of refugees, indigenous people, homeless people, as well as the students here in Oxford. You can meet the 2017 student committee on our people page and read what they have to say about home, human rights and the Festival on our blog.
Looking back at 2016
This year's Festival was our biggest and most exciting yet. Highlights included the screening of He Named Me Malala with Malala's father Ziauddin Yousafzai in collaboration with the Brookes Documentary Club, and the screening of Suffragette, presented by the film's Director, Sarah Gavron. We were delighted to introduce the new Director of CENDEP, Cathrine Brun and to welcome back editor of the New Internationalist, Hazel Healy. Student organiser Katie Reilly looks back at the 2016 Festival here in CENDEP News. The centrepiece of the 2016 Festival was Women in Adversity: Contemporary and Traditional Crafts as a Source of Hope and Income, an exhibition of crafts made by women facing daily situations of conflict, poverty and disease. This included embroidered panels from the Palestinian History Tapestry, a project which tells the story of the life and heritage of the indigenous people of Palestine and supports the traditional craft of Palestinian needlewomen.
Film Studies student Catrin George-Carey meets Malala's father Ziauddin Yousafzai.
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Development & Emergency Practice student Maria Assaf in the Women in Adversity exhibition.
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Development and Emergency Practice student Alex Miller being interviewed for Oxford TV.
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