As part of our School's new Centre for Environment and Society, myself and Tom Chambers are developing a research cluster on the theme of Space & Temporality. As a cluster we hope to draw in disciplinary positionalities from across the social sciences including Human Geography, Social/Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, International Relations and Politics as well as aligned fields such as architecture, history, art and theatre.
The cluster will launch officially in the new year (look out for updates!), but we are happy to announce that we are running a short seminar series this semester by way of introduction.
Our first seminar will take place next Thursday 22nd October at 2-3pm, with a talk by Dr Richard Carver entitled ''Stopping Torture: What Works?''.
Richard researches and teaches human rights in the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice in the School of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University. He is also editor of the Journal of Human Rights Practice (Oxford). Richard’s research focuses on the institutional protection of human rights, in particular the rights of people deprived of liberty. Does Torture Prevention Work? (with Lisa Handley, Liverpool University Press, 2016) was a pioneering multi-country study of the effectiveness of the torture prevention methods advocated by international legal authorities and anti-torture campaigners. The research found that although many recommended preventive steps had a positive impact, some did not. It also found that the preventive measures most strongly embedded in international law were not necessarily those that worked best in reducing the risk of torture.
Everyone is very welcome to attend - please find the Zoom link to the event here: https://brookes.zoom.us/j/85173583940?pwd=RVpnZDlRaEY1b1dCcDREWlZGMnRhUT09
Meeting ID: 851 7358 3940
Passcode: 1393453612
