The GNHRE Symposium 2014, ‘Reimagining “humanity” in the nexus between human rights and the environment’, 2014 IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium, Tarragona, Spain, draft programme.
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This year’s theme invited engagement with the central question of ‘who we think we are’ as human beings and ‘where we think we are’ in terms of our understanding of the world we inhabit and which inhabits us.
Draft Programme: Speakers and Topics
Day 114:00-14:30 Coffee, registration and welcome (Anna Grear)
Theme 1: Philosophical re-investigations14:30-14:45 Lorraine Code (The tyranny of certainty)
15:00-15:15 Jacky Williams, J. Aseron and N. Greymorning (Decolonising Environmental Law)
15:30-15:45 Christian Dadomo (Remembering who we really are. A Buddhist-based approach to human beings in the nexus between human rights and the environment)
16:00-16:15 Anna Grear (‘Flesh of my flesh’: Towards re-imagined juridical humanity)
Theme 2: Activism and Praxis
17:00-17:15 Marine Destrez (Modernizing humanity: the case of the Gezi Park protest in Turkey)
17:30-17:45 Amanda Kennedy (Who counts? Recognition, participation and access to environmental justice in land-use regulation: An Australian case study)
18:00-18:15 Nicola Pain (Shaping domestic laws and courts to encourage environmental rights)
18:30-18:45 Abdul Ansari (The role of Islamic law in shaping and reshaping the right to healthful environment)
Day 2
Theme 3: Reconfiguring the legal
14:00-14:15 Peter Burdon (Idealism and Struggle: Co-opting Legal Rights for Environmental Protection)
14:30-14:45 Nicola Jägers, Katinka Jesse and Jonathan Verschuuren (Environmental pollution by transnational corporations: what role for human rights?)
15:00-15:15 Melanie Murcott (The role of environmental justice in South African socio-economic rights litigation)
16:00-16:15 Loretta Feris (Are humans more than their health? Re-imagining the environmental dimensions of socio-economic rights)
16:30-16:45 Dina Townsend (Just who does the law think we are? Human dignity and what it means for the environment)
17:00-17:15 Rosemary Lyster (Protecting the Human Rights of Climate Displaced Refugees: the promise and limits of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)
17:30-17:45 Evadne Grant (International Human Rights Courts and the Environment)