Meeting our contemporary moment: on the necessity of imagination for human rights

In a moment of increasing opposition, how can the discourse of human rights be critically reimagined to enable its long-term cultural and political purchase? This question sits at the core of the University's newest research centre, the Centre for the Critical Reimagining of Human Rights (CCRHR).

Interdisciplinary Rights Conversations is the first initiative of the CCRHR. Our first event in this series will see the Centre's Co-Directors, David Herd and Natasha Saunders, in conversation with Mario Aguilar (Divinity) and Ziad Elmarsafy (Modern Languages) around the theme of Meeting our contemporary moment: on the necessity of imagination for human rights. How can different disciplines engage the imagination as a means of renewing and expanding human rights?