We are delighted to announce Martha Spurrier, Director of Liberty Human Rights as our guest of honour at this year's lecture.

A utopian vision for rights in a dystopian world

At a time when human rights and civil liberties are under threat in the UK, this lecture takes stock of where we are now and where – with some imagination, determination and collaboration – we need to get to. Drawing on international human rights frameworks and theories of justice reimagined, as well as reflecting on critiques of the carceral turn in human rights and the reliance on civil and political liberties to the exclusion of economic and social protections, Martha Spurrier considers what a human rights utopia might look like.

Event Schedule

Tuesday 14 June

4:30pm: Lecture

Please register for your ticket here. 

We will be hosting our Human Rights Party following the lecture, more details to be announced on this in due course.