From March 20 until March 22 the first (international) INEA Congress took place. The theme of this three-day congress was: Intercountry adoption: creating a multi-perspective narrative. On day one Nicole Immler participated in the opening paneldebate, following-up on the keynote speaker Elvira Loibl. The paneldebate discussed what is meant by ‘Transformative Justice’ and in which […]
Lees verder13/03/2024 – The Justice Visions Conference at the University of Ghent
How to bring scholars and practitioners from the Global South and North in the field of Transitional Justice in an exciting dialogue? The Justice Visions conference at the University of Ghent focused on questions on victim’s participation, mobilization and – importantly – resistance; such as the focus fom Luke Moffet’s presentation. Niké Wentholt, Naomi Ormskerk and […]
Lees verder23/11/2023 – Conference Groningen in Beeld. The societal consequences of gasexploitation and future directions
During the conference, Obiozo Ukpabi and Nienke Busscher of the Kennisplatform Leefbaar en Kansrijk Groningen presented a session about the impacts of oil and gas exploitation in the Niger Delta and Groningen.
Lees verder16-17/11/2023 – Symposium zur Wiedergutmachung
Nicole Immler presented another victim-centered approach to reparation research by using oral history to explore the emotionality and perception of the descendants of second and third generation victims in relation to (not) experienced reparation. When considering transgenerational memory processes, the main thing is: A discrepancy between the perceptions of the applicants and politicians is clear […]
Lees verder30/06/2023 – The Ethos of Global Law: The Multitudinous Communities of Global Lawyering.
In this two-day international workshop organised at Tilburg University, participants were brought together from practice, academia and the student bodies in a transnational conversation about ethos of transnational lawyering. Obiozo Ukpabi presented an intervention to the meeting about the power of writing legal and political narratives, which align at times but not always. Obiozo shared […]
Lees verder09/06/2023 – Transformations of the Rule of Law: The Impact of Decolonization in Europe since 1945’ at the European Studies Centre at St Antony’s College Oxford
Nicole Immler held a lecture at the conference ‘Violent Democracies. Colonial violence on trial – how otherness blinds human rights regimes.’
Lees verder01/06/2023 – Law and Society Association Annual Conference. San Juan.
At the annual conference of the Law and Society Association, titled ‘Separate but Inequal,’ Niké Wentholt presented the Dialogics of Justice project and was discussant in a final panel on transitional justice. Important issues were raised by the audience on the thickness of social representations, impeding true justice and recognition, and the colonial nature of […]
Lees verder12/05/2023 – Legal Research Master Conference. University of Utrecht
Niké Wentholt held the keynote on the 2023 Law Research Master Conference. Connecting the conference themes Responsibility: Past, Present, and Future, she argued that historical injustice cases ask us the same questions as cases of systemic injustice that emerge today. A dialogical approach to responsibility would thus mean to question how to restructure social relations […]
Lees verder14/04/2023 – Litigating Just Climate Futures – TEGL Workshop, Amsterdam
The workshop, which was held at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) was organized by members of the TEGL research project, a collaboration between the law faculties of Maastricht University, Open Universiteit NL, Tilburg University and the UvA. Participants from academia and practice examined how the positions and arguments of judges and the litigating parties in climate cases […]
Lees verder21/03/2023 – 70 Jahre Luxemburger Abkommen International Conference ‘Wiedergutmachung: Auseinandersetzung – Entschädigung – Verantwortung’, Berlin.
The conference Wiedergutmachung: Auseinandersetzung – Entschädigung – Verantwortung in Berlin discussed the legacy of the German reparation program; 70 years after the signing of the Luxembourg Agreement (1952)which, signed by Israel, the Jewish Claims Conference and Germany, forms the basis for all future compensation schemes for atrocities of National-Socialism. While the ‘Wiedergutmachung’ is considered often as model in […]
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