Moral Obligations to Refugees: Theory, Practice, and Aspiration

24 May 2016

GRIT and DDMI are delighted to announce a talk given by Dr Serena Parekh (Associate Professor, Northeastern University) with the title:

‘Moral Obligations to Refugees: Theory, Practice, and Aspiration’

The talk will take place in the Steve Crichter Room on Tuesday, 31 May at 11.00am

Dr Parekh, a feminist philosopher, has been working on topics such as human rights, global responsibilities and refugees for years; she is also an expert on Hannah Arendt, having written a well-received book on Arendt’s conception of human rights. She is now completing her second book, on exactly the same topic as is the title of her presentation to us on 31st May. The event is open to AU’s research community as well as interested undergraduates. Do come.

About the Speaker:

Serena Parekh is associate professor of philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston, where she is the director of the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program. Prior to this, Professor Parekh taught at the University of Connecticut in the Department of Philosophy and Human Rights Institute. Her primary philosophical interests are in social and political philosophy, feminist theory, and continental philosophy. Her book, Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity: A Phenomenology of Human Rights, was published by Routledge in 2008 and translated into Chinese. She has also published numerous articles on social and political philosophy in Hypatia, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and Human Rights Quarterly. Her current research focuses broadly on global justice, responsibility, and statelessness. She is in the process of completing a manuscript concerning our moral obligations to refugees and the forcibly displaced. She is also the editor of the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy.

About GRIT:

Group on International Theory is an Aber InterPol research group interested in all matters theoretical in IR. Our meetings alternate between presentations by internal and external speakers, roundtables, discussions of published work and of work in progress, film sessions and other formats. Everyone’s welcome to join us for individual meetings or the whole programme.