Next Monday, October 15, thinker and activist Susan George is opening the 4th edition of the master’s degree called Máster en Derechos Humanos, Democraciay Justicia Internacional (human rights, democracy and international justice). This training is organized by the UV’s Institute of Human Rights and aims to reflect on the students’ role in face of the attack against democracy. George’s lecture is titled ‘The Attack on Democracy: Can Scholars come to its Defence? and is going to be held at Rector Peset hall of residence (Plaça Forn de Sant Nicolau, 4, Valencia) at 19:30.
She is author, among others, of the successful book The Lugano Report: On Preserving Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century (published in Spain by Icaria, 2001). She is one of the most international thinkers. Although she was born in North America, she has got the French nationality since 1994. She is founder of Transnational Institute, a research centre promoting activism and social committment among lecturers and researchers. She has been deputy chairwoman and is currently honorary chairwoman of ATTAC in France. This organizations reflects very well her personality, whose works not only invite reflection on our contemporary world, but encourage us to take action in order to try to change it from the approach of knowledge.
Lecturer Cristina García Pascual, head of the master’s degree, and lecturer Javier de Lucas, full professor of law philosophy at Universitat de València, are taking part in the event as well.
The Institute of Human Rights of the University of Valencia has been awarded with the mention of quality by the Spanish Ministry for Education for its doctorate programme in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice. In 2008, the IDH received a grant by the programme Consolider-Ingenio 2010. It takes part in a project made up of twelve research groups and coordinated by the Institute for Human Rights Bartolomé de las Casas from the University Carlos III in Madrid. It was the first time a team made up of law researchers gained a grant of this kind, since they are mostly aimed at scientists of other fields different than humanities and social sciences.
More information on Susan George: http://www.tni.org/users/susan-george
Last update: 11 de october de 2012 13:46.
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