PGR Module with Victor Tadros

with Dr Daniel Lowe.

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Come along for coffee and refreshments and to catch up with PGR staff and students.

Guest Speaker: Dr James Thornton, Nottingham Trent University

Title: 'Criminal Justice in Austerity: Legal Aid, Prosecution and the Future of Criminal Legal Practice'

Chair: Lotte Young Andrade, Warwick Law School

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Guest Speaker: Professor Henrique Carvalho, Warwick Law School

Title: (Work-In-Progress) 'Love, Hate, Beauty and Justice: Exploring the Affective and Aesthetic Economies of Criminalisation'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Come along for coffee and refreshments and to catch up with PGR staff and students.

Guest Speaker: Professor Mohammed Shahabuddin, University of Birmingham

Title: 'Decolonising Minority Rights Discourse'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Guest Speaker: Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner, Warwick Law School

Title: (Work-In-Progress) 'Algorithmic Consumer Contracts and the European Law Institute's Guiding Principles and Model Rules'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Speaker: Professor Alex Sharpe, University of Warwick

This audio-visual lecture considers the relationship between the aesthetic evaluation of art and ethics. To do so, it draws on Bowie’s 1976 Isolar World tour, through which, as the Thin White Duke, Bowie performed his brilliant Station to Station album. Through this artwork (the performance, the music, the stagecraft), Bowie conjured up Nuremberg. He did so in order to explore in a more intense way a theme that had long interested him, the relationship between leader (star) and followers (audience), especially those moments when the latter give themselves over to the former, to power. This Bowie provides our focus for two reasons. First, during his Thin White Duke period, Rock Against Racism accused Bowie of flirting with fascism, and second, the music he produced, its artistic presentation and the sublime affect it had on his audience, make this period of Bowie’s creative output stand out as exceptional. In other words, some of Bowie’s greatest work drew on national socialism, or at least, its theatricality and other artistic props. That is, Bowie adopted a fascist icon character and built his 1976 world tour, at least in part, around national socialist stagecraft, the implications of which the lecture will explore.

This is an in-person event. It will be followed by a Q&A and drinks reception.

Guest Speakers: Christopher Brian and Eveline Lubbers

Title: 'The Undercover Research Group and the Spycops Scandal'

Chairs: Professor Jackie Hodgson, Warwick Law School and Professor Kimberley Wade, Warwick Psychology Department

Come along for coffee and refreshments and to catch up with PGR staff and students.

Guest Speaker: Dr Maryna Utkina, Warwick Law School

Title: (Work-In-Progress) 'Redefining Accountability: Is Financial Monitoring the Ultimate Weapon Against Corruption?'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Come along for coffee and refreshments and to catch up with PGR staff and students.

Guest Speaker: Lotte Young Andrade, Warwick Law School

Title: (Work-In-Progress) 'From Activist to Caseworker: 50 years of Feminist Activism'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Come along for coffee and refreshments and to catch up with PGR staff and students.

Guest Speaker: Professor Vanessa Munro, Warwick Law School

Title: 'Impact Case Study'

Please note earlier start and finish time due to Staff Meeting: Starting with lunch at 12:00pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 12:30pm to 1:30pm in Room S2.12

Speaker: Professor Alex Sharpe, University of Warwick

This lecture will consider the biggest of themes, death. More particularly, it will consider three ways of ‘being with death’ that are apparent in the life and work of the late David Bowie (religious transcendence, existential defiance, and acceptance). It draws, in particular, on the philosophy of Simon Critchley, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Tibetan Buddhism to explore these themes in Bowie’s work. Starting from Critchley’s premise that we should face down death, neither succumbing to escapism (oblivion) nor to the temptations of an afterlife (redemption), it argues, following Nietzsche, that we must, in order to avoid nihilism, make meaning in the world, and following Heidegger, that we must do so with others.

Freedom is understood as only taking shape once the inevitability of death is faced, and ideally when we live our life in readiness for it with others. David Bowie’s work can be viewed as a meditation on death. Importantly, he helped shape a meaningful experience of death, including his own, through a lifelong and open dialogue with fans about questions of alienation, anxiety, fear and mortality.

This is an in-person event. It will be followed by a Q&A and drinks reception.

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Guest Speaker: Professor Judy Fudge, McMaster University

Title: TBC

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Guest Speaker: Dr Asuman Ozgur Keysan, Atilim University

Title: 'Unveiling the Digital Dynamics: Anti-Gender Ideology and LGBTQ+ Opposition in Contemporary Turkey'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Guest Speaker: Dr Siddharth De Souza

Title: 'Data law and data justice'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Guest Speaker: Dr Caroline Bertram, University of Copenhagen

Title: 'Trade, development and human rights'

Chair: Professor James Harrison, Warwick Law School

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

LLM students will have the opportunity to present their research questions to a thematic panel of academics and their peers to gain feedback. LLM supervisors are invited to join us on that day.

The full programme will be shared nearer the time.

Guest Speaker: Dr Caesar Alimsinya Atuire, University of Oxford and University of Ghana

Title: TBC

Please note earlier start and finish time due to Staff Meeting: Starting with lunch at 12:00pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 12:30pm to 1:30pm in Room S2.12