Name: 2022 Front Line Defenders Annual Lecture Tour (Belfast)
Start: 2022-03-16T17:00:00Z
End: 2022-03-16T19:00:00Z
Location: Queen's University Belfast

2022 Front Line Defenders  Annual Lecture Tour (Belfast)

Front Line Defenders

2022 Front Line Defenders Annual Lecture Tour (Belfast)

Queen's University Belfast

The Annual Front Line Defenders Lecture was established in 2013 to provoke discussion and debate about the range of issues affecting human rights defenders as they work tirelessly to bring about changes and build robust civil societies. The lecture is broadly accessible to a general audience with an interest in philosophy, law, human rights or politics. This year&#x27;s Lecture:&#x27;Politicizing Human Rights in Palestine/Israel&#x27; by Anat BiletzkiA narcissistic view of “Human Rights” (capitals and scare-quotes intended) posits that they are not political; that is, human rights are, or should be, universally conceived, internationally regulated, objectively adjudicated, legally administered, and never instrumentally exploited for particular interests. Contrariwise, however, it is only in explicit political contexts that we can make sense of the goal of “Human Rights” and their defenders – to relieve the woes of victims of tyranny, oppression, and persecution. In Palestine/Israel, the recent criminalization and tagging of Palestinian human rights groups as “terrorist organizations” by Israel is an outrageous, cynical political maneuver. Consequently, only a concerted political struggle can hope to achieve its reversal and bring to the fore, yet again, the hallowed position of Front Line Defenders. This year we are taking the lecture on tour to Dublin, Galway and Belfast from the 14th - 16th March 2022. To Register for the Dublin or Galway lectures, please click on the below:Dublin - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-front-line-defenders-annual-lecture-tour-dublin-tickets-212430865437Galway - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-front-line-defenders-annual-lecture-tour-galway-tickets-212442399937Our University partners Queens University and The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice and Queen&#x27;s School of Law will co-host the Belfast lecture.Belfast Venue: Queens University CampusDate: Wed, 16th MarchTime: 5pm - 7pmCovid &amp; Events in Northern IrelandExternal events can resume full capacities. Face coverings are strongly encouraged.Good ventilation maintainedHand sanitiser availableRetain 2m distancing for speakers to allow removal of face coverings at lectern/front of roomAdvice for attendees:- Do not attend if unwell or self-isolating- Take LFD test before attending- Encouraged to wear face coverings during the eventAnat BiletzkiAnat Biletzki is the Albert Schweitzer Professor of Philosophy at Quinnipiac University and Professor of Philosophy (retired) at Tel Aviv University. She has been a visiting scholar/professor at Cambridge University, Harvard University, Boston University, MIT, Bergen University in Norway, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. She writes on Wittgenstein, Hobbes, analytic philosophy, political thought, digital culture, and human rights. Biletzki has been active in several human rights organizations in Israel for over four decades, serving as chairperson of the board of B’Tselem – the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories – during the second intifada (2001-2006). She has recently published Philosophy of Human Rights: A Systematic Introduction (Routledge 2019).Outside academia Biletzki has been active in the peace movement and in several human rights projects in Israel/Palestine since the 1970s. During the first intifada she was one of the founders of “The Twenty-First Year” – a group devoted to promoting civil objection to the occupation. In those same years she also worked with the Beta Committee, which attempted to coordinate rehabilitation efforts for the West Bank village, Beta. In 1997-1998 Biletzki helped establish the human rights movement “Open Doors” which worked on the release of Palestinian administrative detainees in Israel. Biletzki was active as one of the leaders of Hacampus Lo Shotek – The Campus Is Not Silent – at Tel Aviv University, running campus events for ending the occupation and ensuring a just peace. She was on the board (vice-president) of FFIPPI-Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and was chairperson of the board of B’Tselem – the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories – during the second intifada (2001-2006). In 2005 she was chosen as one of “50 most influential women in Israel” by Globes, the Israeli business monthly, and was nominated among the “1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005”. Her current human rights and peace engagements include membership in the board of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University and programming of (and lecturing in) the student workshops at the Nobel Peace Laureate Summits (since 2013).Introductions by Front Line Defenders Deputy Director, Olive MooreAbout the Annual LectureSince 2013, we have had the pleasure of hosting the following speakers for the lecture – philosopher, political activist and social critic, Prof. Noam Chomsky; digital security expert Bruce Schneier; writer, philosopher and philanthropist, Dr. Sigrid Rausing; Czech philosopher and Charter 77 signatory, Prof. Jan Sokol; Nigeria-born lawyer and author, Hauwa Ibrahim Esq.; and American philosopher, Prof. Martha Nussbaum. Topics have covered a range of issues including the responsibility of states to protect human rights actors; the journey from dictatorship to democracy in Czech Republic and the role played by human rights defenders; and online insecurity and the effects on human rights defenders.See past lectures here: https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/annual-front-line-defenders-lecture

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