Events and Announcements: 3 March 2024

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Calls for Papers

Conference on Changing Approaches towards Restitution of Colonial Heritage, Leiden 23-24 May 2024: The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and the Research Group ‘Museums, Collections and Society’ at the University of Leiden invite submissions for an interdisciplinary symposium on ‘Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage’. The idea is to look beyond existing national policies and ethical frames and identify shared decolonial practices. The event will take place at the Wereldmuseum and the University of Leiden. The call is here. The submission deadline is 31 March 2024.

Events

The Interplay between International Criminal Tribunals and Courts and Domestic Accountability: The European Society of International Law’s Interest Group on International Criminal Justice is holding an online roundtable discussion on “The Interplay between International Criminal Tribunals and Courts and Domestic Accountability”. The roundtable aims to facilitate a comprehensive dialogue on whether states have become more capable or willing to investigate international crimes and the evolving role of international criminal tribunals in supporting and complementing domestic legal processes, reflecting on the developments of the past three decades. The event will take place on 25 March 2024 from 14:00-16:00 CET via Zoom. A Q&A will follow the roundtable discussion. The speakers will include, Patryk I. Labuda, Geoffrey Lugano, Sarah Nouwen, and Elies van Sliedregt. Programme and registration link can be found here.

The Hague Initiative for Law and Armed Conflict (HILAC) Lecture Series: The T.M.C. Asser Instituut, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Center for International Law and the Netherlands Red Cross, is hosting a webinar entitled “The Red Sea Crisis: Assessing the International Legal and Maritime Security Implications” on 20 March at 14:30 (CET). Register here.

Indigenous Gender Justice: Two-Spirit Identity, the Missing Indigenous Women and Girls Crisis, and Canada’s Commitment to UNSDG 5: Thursday 7th March, 11am-1pm, SE128, School of Education, Maynooth University. Join the Research Centre in International Justice in Maynooth University for a hybrid keynote by Dr Gerard Maguire (Lecturer, Irish Centre for Human Rights and the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University). This lecture delves into the positioning of gender within Indigenous life. Dr Maguire will focus particularly on the pre and post-colonial roles of Two-Spirit peoples and the crisis of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) in Canada. This event will take place in person and online. For more information and the Zoom link, click here.