The Department of Legal Studies cordially invites you to the upcoming Brown Bag seminar with visiting researcher Jürgen Bast on Tuesday, May 7, 12.30 – 1.30 pm. Prof. Bast presentation is titled "Doing interdisciplinary research on doing human rights: The MeDiMi project".
The seminar will be held in hybrid format.
Abstract
The MeDiMi project analyzes the “humanrightization” of discourse in migration-related conflicts by combining legal analysis, social-science research, and cultural studies. The project pursues a practice-theoretical approach that locates the meaning of human rights in routinized social practices of referring to them – whether as a legal argument, a moral-political claim, or a maxim of (professional) ethics. Exploring the intersection of human rights and migration in law, politics, and everyday life provides the empirical basis for a theory of humanrightization as a legal, political, and cultural phenomenon that characterizes today’s migration societies. Information on MeDiMi are available at http://www.medimi.de/en, including an extended version of MeDiMi’s research agenda at http://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-17813.
Bio note
Jürgen Bast is Professor of Public Law and European Law at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, and Academic Director of the Refugee Law Clinic, a clinical education program at Giessen law school. He is the spokesperson and one of the Principal Investigators the Research Group “Human Rights Discourse in Migration Societies” (MeDiMi) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Jürgen is spending the spring term on sabbatical as a visiting researcher at CEU. A CV and a list of publications can be found here: https://legal.ceu.edu/article/2024-04-12/jurgen-bast.