Workshops

Sonoma State University, California, USA

Students will look at day human rights issues in the United States through the lens of immigration. In dialogue with community leaders and organizers, students will explore ethical implications and social impact of the ever-changing immigration enforcement policy. They will also have the opportunity to gain basic knowledge and skills about working collaboratively for community change.

Brasenose College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

This conference examines two of humanity's greatest existential risks and explores how war and climate emergency impact people's human rights. Students will learn about the nature of war today and the legal framework that aims to limit itseff ects by protecting civilians, combatants, detainees and the environment. The conference will also examine the science of climate change and its impact on humanity and nature from intensifying weather hazards and the risk of tipping points in the earth system. It will then assess the progress being made in the two COPs of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the UN Convention on Biodiversity, and in the emerging consensus around climate justice and the human right to "a clean, healthy and sustainable environment". Important connections between climate change and conflict will also be made. The protection of Nature and the emerging idea of the "rights of Nature" will be explored in analysis of both war and climate.

Magdalen College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

This conference will explore the relationship between many new technologies emerging across human society and people's continuous demands for human rights. The course will examine how the impact of new technology is sometimes positive and enabling of human rights, sometimes negative and restrictive, and often ambivalent and uncertain. Students will study particular technological revolutions in communications, medicine, governance, surveillance, education, weapons, energy, and manufacturing to explore their implications for traditional human rights to health, privacy, free speech, free association, and the laws of war. More profoundly, the conference will explore how new technology is changing our experience of being human - ontology itself - as we live an increasingly hybrid life as computerized humanity.

Magdalen College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

This new conference explores the right to health. It examines patterns of health and disease worldwide, and assesses the progress of the global movement for universal healthcare. Particular sessions address the major health challenges of infectious disease, epidemics, antibiotic resistance, childbirth, hunger, obesity, chronic diseases, and war. The conference also focuses on the health challenges of climate change and zoonotic disease, and new policies of One Health and Planetary Health. The theory and practice of health activism will be a constant theme of the course, which will draw on the expertise and experience of University of Oxford’s world- leading professors and researchers in global health.