CREATe’s Post

New Blog Post! Dive into the complexities of Modern & Contemporary Art Transactions. The recent seminar hosted by the Institute of Art and Law and Wedlake Bell explored insights on art contracts, authentication, collective societies, and more. Check out the seminar report by Laura Villarraga Albino https://buff.ly/3R7Gxy8

Join Dr. Nada Ali from UMass Boston and Fiona Bolt from Amnesty International as they explore the challenges of working with Amnesty's archival material, the benefits of digitisation, and the profound impact of incorporating testimonies and personal accounts into education and research. Watch here bit.ly/3XKooKm

Our co-edited volume with Prof. Martin Schlag Rethinking Subsidiarity has been just published by Springer. Our volume, by having an interdisciplinary approach argues that subsidiarity is the way forward, a kind of magic key to future, an organizational principle that could contribute to overcome contemporary political, social, and legal challenges and to foster socially responsible and ethical behavior in societies.  https://lnkd.in/dWseTdfi

Here we are: 2.5 months after launching the first UDHR seminar and nearly a year after crafting the concept note for this entire initiative. What better way to conclude this enriching and insightful journey than with a seminar on cultural rights, featuring our dear colleague and one of the organizers of the UDHR Seminar Series at the RUG, Vanessa Tünsmeyer. Join us for the final UDHR seminar and remember that …. [paraphrasing Eleanor Roosevelt] universal human rights aren't mere words on paper or distant ideals—they begin right where we live, work, and learn. #humanrights75 #universaldeclarationofhumanrights #culturalrights

Here's a recent conversation about my book, For Slavery and Union, with the incredible Steve Phan from Camp Nelson National Monument. Constitutional rights, democracy, emancipation, and questions of loyalty and treason ... history is relevant, y'all

We conclude our blog texts on the history of the philosophy of justice with two texts, in which we examine justice in the modern world. In this first text Max Tallberg answers the question whether the modern world can be held just. https://lnkd.in/d7shJgyC

Recently out on Cahiers Costech, my essay A different sense of time - Reading Tactical Media. This short essay explores the complicated relationship of activist and experimental / artistic practices around digital and online media to the problem of time. My argument in the essay is that the entrapment in the immediacy of an ‘eternal now’ impedes a deeper critical discussion and understanding of these activist and experimental practices. https://lnkd.in/ed2hDCbq

Just finished rewriting the European Court of Human Rights judgment in the case Terna v. Italy jointly with my colleague Vivien Brassói that will be part of a book published by the @intersectionalrewrites.The book project “Intersectional Rewrites: European Court of Human Rights Judgments Reimagined” imagines a jurisprudence that rises to the challenge of responding to intersecting forms of oppression. The volume will gather 15 recent judgments from the Court, rewritten by activists, practitioners, and academics based on the key learnings of intersectionality theory and praxis, aiming to contribute to a broader endeavor of critical rewrites (such as the feminist and queerjudgments projects) through an exclusive focus on the critical paradigm of intersectionality.

Promoting a book that so many people do not want to see published requires perseverance and patience. Two years after publication, we were happy to see the first citation during an international workshop, the 2023 China-Europe Seminar on Human Rights - Modernizing and the Diversity of Human Rights among Civilization, By Thore Vestby in his speech 'Exchanges and Mutual Learning among Civilizations and the Development of Modern Human Rights Philosophy. https://lnkd.in/g6CCRS6h

Thrilled to bits to announce that I have just signed a contract to write my first monograph for Palgrave's series on Cultural Censorship! Thank you to the editors Anne Etienne and Graham Saunders for supporting this project. Staging Free Speech: British Culture Wars and the Battle for Representation investigates why 'free speech' has become such a faultline in British society, how anti-censorship is embodied by culture warriors on left and right, and the theatricality of populist discourse in post-Brexit Britain. It also explores what new political subjectictivies are produced in public discourse when figures claim they have been 'cancelled' and the different agendas at play in determining what constitutes 'authentic' free speech acts in media, politics, and theatre. Topics covered are the legacy of Section 28 in the context of homonationalism and pinkwashing; performing conspiracy theories; controlling representations of Islam and Muslims post-9/11; the performativity of Je Suis Charlie; and the weaponisation of the Enlightenment.