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SUMMARY:Human Rights & Resistance : Philosophies of Resistance
DESCRIPTION:The Manchester Metropolitan University Human Sciences Seminar Series is an invited speaker and research seminar organised by the Philosophy section of MMU’s Department of History\, Politics and Philosophy \n\n\n\n\n\nTickets £5 full / £3 concessions \n\n\n\nFree tickets for Manchester Met staff and students – email ahead@mmu.ac.uk for more details \n\n\n\nThe 2026 series\, Philosophies of Resistance\, will explore the philosophical thought that has resisted colonial\, racial and carceral oppression. \n\n\n\nThe series aims is to question the role that philosophical ideas have played – and continue to play – in collective struggles for social justice\, and human emancipation more broadly. \n\n\n\nThe three seminars in the series are: \n\n\n\n\nFrantz Fanon & Stand Up to Racism\n\n\n\nPhilosophy in Prisons\n\n\n\nHuman Rights & Resistance\n\n\n\n\nEach seminar includes an academic talk followed by an ‘in-conversation’ discussion between the speaker(s) and a local political activist\, and questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nA 15-minute refreshment break is included.Suitable for 18+ \n\n\n\nHuman Rights & Resistance seminar \n\n\n\nWednesday 27 May\, 2.00pm – 4.00pm\n\n\n\nIn this seminar\, Barbara Arneil will discuss the evolution of human rights and explore how they have been used as tools of resistance\, as well as tools of marginalisation and oppression. Following her talk\, there will be an in-conversation session with student activist Rishi Milward-Bose where they will consider the relationship between rights and more radical modes of political resistance as well as the advantages and limitations of systems of rights when seeking to overcome oppression. \n\n\n\nContributor biogs \n\n\n\nBarbara Arneil is a Professor of the Global History of Anti-Colonial Thought at the University of British Columbia. She is interested in the areas of identity politics and the history of political thought. As an author she has a specialism in the intersection between liberalism and colonialism. She is also interested in gender and political theory and has done research in the areas of social trust and diversity\, global citizenship and cosmopolitanism\, the role of disability in political theory and domestic colonies. Dr Arneil is Past President of the Canadian Political Science Association (2019-2020)\, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2022) and Member of the Order of Canada (2023). \n\n\n\nRishi Milward-Bose works as Migrant Justice Campaigns and Movement Building Coordinator intern at People & Planet facilitating the Divest Borders campaign\, supporting students who try to force their universities to exclude companies from investments that profit from migrant abuse. Rishi has previously been involved in a range of activist initiatives\, including university-based pro-Palestine divestment campaigns and encampments\, climate justice campaigns and a variety of community-strengthening initiatives.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/human-rights-resistance-philosophies-of-resistance/
LOCATION:People’s History Museum\, Left Bank Spinningfields\, Manchester\, M3 3ER
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