In October 2016 the Executive Board of Utrecht University approved two initiatives put forward by the faculties of Humanities (GW) and Law, Economics and Governance (REBO): the UGlobe network centre and the Bachelor’s degree programme in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). Both initiatives will place the activities of these two inner-city faculties more firmly on…

For the September 2016 round of funding the CCHR selection commission received 6 eligible applications that have been selected for funding. The selected proposals are:   Julie Fraser – ‘Research Visit with the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women’ Judith Keilbach – ‘Workshop Migration, Memory and European Television Culture’ Brianne McGonigle…

On 22 September 2016 CCHR launched its first blog post in a bi-weekly series organized by the PhD community with the aim of connecting its current research to the broader public sphere. Congrui Qiao’s blog, “Duality or Complementarity? The Political and Legal Orientations of the Chinese Petitioning Mandate” discusses the intricacies of the Chinese ‘letter-and-visit’ bureau…

Teaching about Perpetrators: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics Utrecht University, November 10-12, 2016 Organizer: Susanne C. Knittel This series of workshops aims to examine how our contradictory attitudes toward perpetrators in society and culture can in themselves be made the object of enquiry. Furthermore, we will explore the opportunities and challenges for teaching and learning about past…

On 28 June 2016 CCHR organised their first network meeting for researchers who are working on migration and/or refugees. You can find the presentations of the projects in this pdf. In September we will continue our conversations and organise follow-up meetings in which we will group ourselves according to topics and themes. If you have…

The current refugee crisis, magnified by media sensationalism and political opportunism, brings into sharp focus internal tensions that threaten the very notion of Europe. In a wave of nostalgia for the false security of the old sovereign states, old borders are being re-established and Fortress Europe is imploding into a multitude of mini-fortresses, behind whose…

The GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality) research and training consortium has been awarded a European Commission grant of €3.7 million under the Horizon 2020 ‘Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks’ programme to fund the employment and training of fifteen Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) on 36 month fixed term posts (1 February 2016 until 31 January 2019). They…

For the February 2016 round of funding the CCHR selection commission received 12 eligible applications that have been selected for funding. The selected proposals are:   Marjolein van den Brink & Christine Quinan – ‘Gender Identity Registration and Human Rights’  Kiene Brillenburg Wurth – ‘International Conference of American Comparative Literature Association at Utrecht University’ Fenella…

Het Studie- en Informatiecentrum Mensenrechten (SIM)  van de Universiteit Utrecht gaat intensiever samenwerken met het College voor de Rechten van de Mens. Dat is afgesproken in een samenwerkingsovereenkomst die deze maand is getekend door het hoofd Rechtsgeleerdheid van de Universiteit, Ton Hol, en de voorzitter van het College, Adriana van Dooijeweert. Het College is de…

For the Grant Proposal round of September 2015 the CCHR selection commission received a total of 11 eligible applications. A total of 8 proposals have been approved for funding, which are:   Ann Rigney – Moving Stories: Changing Cultural Memory, 1848-2018 Antoine Buyse – 50 Years ICCPR and ICESCR and the Indivisibility of Human Rights Berteke Waaldijk…