Posted on May 24, 2018
Following on from a two-day Round Table on ‘African Approaches to International Law’, held at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, on 3 and 4 May 2017, a two-day Conference is scheduled for 5 and 6 December 2018, in Pretoria: the ‘Kéba Mbaye Conference on African approaches to international law, with a focus on international human rights law’.
The aim of this Conference is to continue a process of discussing “African approaches to international (human rights) law”, building on the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) approach, but rethinking and “vernacularising” it.
Questions to be addressed include:
Contributors are invited to reflect specifically on international human rights law.
Other questions to be posed may include:
Contributors may also draw inspiration from the ‘Report of the Round Table’ and brief list of sources at the end of this document.
Papers are also encouraged on the history of international (human rights) law, focusing on Africa’s exclusions, biases and distortions in existing narratives and in the writing of history itself. The representation of “Africa” in the teaching sources and methodologies of international law could also be canvassed.
The organisers invite abstracts by anyone interested in presenting a paper at the Conference. It is anticiapted that an equal number of papers will eventually be presented focusing on international law, generally, and on international human rights law, specifically.
The Conference will also be open to attendees who are not presenting papers. There will be no registration fee and tea and lunches will be free for all participants. (In-coming participants will have to cover and arrange their own transport and accommodation.)
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE BEFORE 31 OCTOBER 2018
(Please note: There is no registration fee but particpants who are not presenting papers will be responsible for their own transport and accommodation.)
Copyright © University of Pretoria 2024. All rights reserved.
Get Social With Us
Download the UP Mobile App