The IILAH podcast is the online home of lectures and conversations hosted by the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School. IILAH supports interdisciplinary scholarship on emerging questions of international law, governance and justice. Many of the significant modes of thought that have framed the way in which international lawyers understand the world have developed in conversation with the humanities. IILAH continues this engagement, through fostering dialo ...
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Alice Palmer and Gerry Simpson: Celebrating Natural Perception (Book Launch)
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This podcast captures the conversation between Dr Alice Palmer and Professor Gerry Simpson at the launch of Alice's new book 'Natural Perception: Environmental Images and Aesthetics in International Law'. Professor Margaret Young introduces the conversation and provides a brief summary of the event. The Institute for International Law and the Human…
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Julian A Hettihewa: The Principle of Distinction in International Humanitarian Law (Seminar)
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In this episode, Julian A. Hettihewa presents on ‘The Principle of Distinction in International Humanitarian Law’. According to the principle of distinction, the parties to a conflict shall at all times distinguish between civilians and combatants. Described as one of the cardinal principles of international humanitarian law, the principle thus req…
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The Role of International Law in the Rise of Populism (Seminar)
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In this podcast on ‘The Role of International Law in the Rise of Populism’, Professor Margaret Young (IILAH Director, Melbourne Law School) and Chair Dr Alice Palmer (IILAH Program Director, Melbourne Law School) are joined by Professor Peter Danchin, University of Maryland Carey School of Law, and Professor Jolyon Ford, ANU College of Law.This sem…
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Tim Peters: Applying for grants for law and humanities research (Skills Circle)
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In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School), Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network) and Professor Sundhya Pahuja (Melbourne Law School) are joined by Associate Professor Tim Peters (UniSC School of Law and Society) to discuss applying for grants for law and humanities research.Associate Professor Tim Peters is a critical and…
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Manav Kapur: Archival research in the South (Skills Circle)
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In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School), Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network) and Dr Adil Hasan Khan (Melbourne Law School) are joined by Manav Kapur (Princeton University) to discuss Archival research in the South.Manav is based in the Department of History at Princeton University.…
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Connal Parsley: Working with other fields and across disciplines (Skills Circle)
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In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School), Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network) and Professor Sundhya Pahuja (Melbourne Law School) are joined by Associate Professor Connal Parsley (Kent Law School) to discuss working with other fields and across disciplines.Connal is Reader in Law and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. He gr…
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James Parker: Non-traditional Research Outputs (Skills Circle)
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In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School), Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network), Professor Sundhya Pahuja (Melbourne Law School) and André Dao (Melbourne Law School) are joined by Associate Professor James Parker (Melbourne Law School) to discuss Non-traditional Research Outputs.James is the Director of a research progra…
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Danish Sheikh: The Art of the Conference Presentation (Skills Circle)
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In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School) and Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network) are joined by Danish Sheikh (Melbourne Law School) to discuss the art of the conference presentation.Danish Sheikh is a playwright, activist lawyer and legal researcher. He is currently working on a thesis exploring queer dissent as a form…
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Rebecca Croser: Editing your Own Work (Skills Circle)
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In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School), Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network) and Professor Sundhya Pahuja (Melbourne Law School) are joined by Rebecca Croser (Melbourne Law School) to discuss how to successfully edit your own work.Rebecca is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing in the Faculty of Arts, University of Mel…
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Margaret Davies: Balancing Breadth and Depth (Skills Circle)
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In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School) and Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network) are joined by Professor Margaret Davies (Flinders University) to discuss how to balance breadth and depth.Margaret Davies is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor and Research Professor in legal theory in the College of Business, Govern…
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Ntina Tzouvala: Peer Review (Skills Circle)
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In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School), Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network) and Professor Sundhya Pahuja (Melbourne Law School) are joined by Ntina Tzouvala (ANU College of Law) to discuss peer review.Ntina Tzouvala is an associate professor at the ANU College of Law a Global Fellow at the NUS Centre for Internationa…
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Shane Chalmers: Editing a Collection (Skills Circle)
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In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School), Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network) and Professor Sundhya Pahuja (Melbourne Law School) are joined by Dr Shane Chalmers (Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide) to discuss how to successfully edit a collection.Shane's research examines law from disciplines in the human…
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International Status in the Shadow of Empire by Cait Storr (Book Launch)
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In this episode join Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh in conversation with Cait Storr to launch her book titled ‘International Status in the Shadow of Empire: Nauru and the Histories of International Law’.Book Description: Nauru is often figured as an anomaly in the international order. This book offers a new account of Nauru’s imperial history and…
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Violent Modernities with Oishik Sircar and Dianne Otto (Festival of Conversations)
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In this episode Dianne Otto was joined by Oishik Sircar to discuss his recent publication. 'Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India' (OUP 2021)uses a critical legal perspective to show that law and violence in the postcolony share a deep intimacy, where one symbiotically feeds the other. Researched and written between 2008 and 2…
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The Past, Present, and Future of International Law and the Humanities(Festival of Conversations)
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In this Festival of Conversations episode Professor Hilary Charlesworth was joined in conversation with Professor Anne Orford to discuss the founding of IILAH in 2005 and the shifting relations between international law and the humanities.By Institute of International Law and the Humanities
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Three Little Words: Art and Law (Festival Of Conversations)
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Panelists engaged in a live online conversation about art-based methods in legal scholarship, teaching and practice, inviting the audience to participate in an interactive discussion about 'art', 'law' and the 'and' between. With Alice Palmer , Ruth Buchanan, Sara Ramshaw and Sean Mulcahy. At 43:13 the audience watched Ruth Buchanan's video essay '…
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Shaun McVeigh and Raimond Gaita: International Law and Ethical Tragedy(Festival of Conversations)
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McVeigh and Gaita discuss the relations between morality, law and politics. Gaita has argued in, amongst other places, his contributions to 'Who’s Afraid of International Law', (which he edited with Gerry Simpson) that morality, law and politics are distinctive forms of the ethical and that, as seen from a particular ethical perspective in the West…
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Sovereignty in the Anthropocene with Daniel Matthews (Festival of Conversations)
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In this episode Dr Kathleen Birrell and Tim Lindgren were joined by Dr Daniel Matthews (University of Warwick) to discuss his new book Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty . The conversation traversed the aesthetic force of sovereignty as a framing device of modern legal and political forms and the possibility of an alternative political aesth…
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International Law and the Politics Of Computation (Festival of Conversations)
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In this episode join James Parker, Jake Goldenfein, Fleur Johns, Andrea Leiter and Andre Dao in conversation on the questions of international law and technopolitics in the humanities.By Institute of International Law and the Humanities
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Critique In The Tropics (Festival of Conversations)
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Critique in the Tropics: The Crisis of Indian Legal Education and Scholarship, convened by Adil Hasan Khan. This panel featured contributions from academics trained in the law in India, and who are currently teaching at Indian universities, and reflected on the inheritances, futures and failures of a critical legal project for Indian legal educatio…
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Visual Global Politics with Roland Bleiker (Festival of Conversations)
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Join Hilary Charlesworth (MLS) in conversation with Roland Bleiker (Director of a cross disciplinary project on Visual Politics at UQ) to discuss the role of images and emotions in global politics, and in particular the politics and ethics of visualising humanitarian crises which is the subject of Professor Bleiker's new ARC Linkage project.…
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Skills Circle (Festival of Conversations)
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In this event, we talked about doing fieldwork, and were joined by special guests, Dr Debolina Dutta and Dr Amanda Gilbertson. The session was convened jointly with Dr Ben Golder and the UNSW Critique Network.By Institute of International Law and the Humanities
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Romancing The Tomes with Margaret Thornton (Festival of Conversations)
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Join Johanna Commins, Ann Genovese for this conversation with Professor Margaret Thornton which reflects on the 2000 conference, Romancing the Tomes, which brought together feminist scholars working across law and the humanities under the auspices of the ANU Humanities Research Centre to address the fictions of law, the legal academy and judges thr…
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Oishik Sircar, Sara Kendall, and Christopher Gevers: Dealing with...the past?(Seminar)
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The Amsterdam Center for International Law and IILAH present Unpacking Transitional Justice: International Law, Memory, and Power, convened by Dr Eliana Cusato (ACIL) and Valeria Vázquez Guevara (MLS). The aim of the Series is to bring together scholars from around the world employing interdisciplinary and critical approaches to the study of transi…
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Christine Schwöbel-Patel and Hannah Franzki: The Political Economy of International Law(Seminar)
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The Amsterdam Center for International Law and IILAH present Unpacking Transitional Justice: International Law, Memory, and Power, convened by Dr Eliana Cusato (ACIL) and Valeria Vázquez Guevara (MLS). The aim of the Series is to bring together scholars from around the world employing interdisciplinary and critical approaches to the study of transi…
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Lucas Lixinski and Maria Elander: Community: culture, identities, and memories (Seminar)
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The Amsterdam Center for International Law and IILAH present Unpacking Transitional Justice: International Law, Memory, and Power, convened by Dr Eliana Cusato (ACIL) and Valeria Vázquez Guevara (MLS). The aim of the Series is to bring together scholars from around the world employing interdisciplinary and critical approaches to the study of transi…
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Valeria Vazquez Guevara and Eliana Cusato: Truth: facts and post-conflict state-building (Seminar)
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The Amsterdam Center for International Law and IILAH present Unpacking Transitional Justice: International Law, Memory, and Power, convened by Dr Eliana Cusato (ACIL) and Valeria Vázquez Guevara (MLS). The aim of the Series is to bring together scholars from around the world employing interdisciplinary and critical approaches to the study of transi…
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Stewart Motha: Academic Podcasting (Skills Circle)
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This instalment of the IILAH/Critique Network Skills Circle featured Stewart Motha (Birkbeck, University of London) on his experience at running a podcast.Stewart’s research is on sovereignty, violence, human and post-human archives. He has recently published articles on international law and the humanities, and on the autonomy and heteronomy of la…
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Illan Wall: Academic Blogging (Skills Circle)
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This instalment of the IILAH/CN Skills Circle features Illan Wall (University of Warwick) who discusses his experience with academic Blogging.Illan works on questions of protest, public order and critical legal theory. He has published on critical legal theory, affective dynamics of policing, theories of constituent power, the Arab Spring, protest …
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Balakrishnan Rajagopal: the Right to Adequate Housing (Interview)
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Across the world today, more than one billion people live in substandard housing and informal settlements. Every year, several million people lose their homes as a consequence of development projects, conflicts, natural disasters or the climate crisis. Many of them are subjected to forced evictions. To understand and address these issues, in 2000, …
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Rahul Rao: Out Of Time: The Queer Politics Of Postcoloniality (Book Discussion)
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Join Dr. Ntina Tzouvala (ANU) and Danish Sheikh (MLS) in conversation with Dr. Rahul Rao (SOAS), the author of 'Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality'.In this book, Rahul explores the encounters and entanglements across geopolitical divides that produce and contest contemporary queerphobias. Intervening in a queer theoretical literatur…
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Tom Randall and Cait Storr: Writing Book Proposals, Part 2 (Skills Circle)
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For the second instalment of the Skills Circle, Ben Golder (UNSW Law School) and Sundhya Pahuja (Melbourne Law School) joined Tom Randall (Cambridge University Press) and Cait Storr (University of Technology Sydney) to continue the discussion on the preparation and execution of writing a successful book proposal. As per part one, this session featu…
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Michelle Lipinski: Writing Book Proposals, Part 1 (Skills Circle)
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In this recording, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School) and Professor Sundhya Pahuja (Melbourne Law School) joined Michelle Lipinski (Senior Editor, University of California Press) to discuss the ins and outs of writing a book proposal, particularly based on a successful PhD thesis. This recording featured a short presentation from Michelle followed by …
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Jonathan Fisher: Insecurity and the Invisible: The Challenge of Spiritual(In)Security (Lecture)
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The modern study – and practice – of security has been largely concerned with the protection, preservation and sustaining of the material, the tangible and the visible. For many people around the world, however, feelings of security also derive from understandings of an individual or community’s relationships with invisible and spiritual forces. Re…
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Jonas Staal: Propaganda Art in the 21st Century (Lecture)
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Terms such as “fake news” and “alternative facts” have become common vocabulary in the so-called post-truth era. But there is a sense in which these are just contemporary iterations of a familiar phenomenon: propaganda. Propaganda is not merely concerned with sending messages – its aim is to construct reality as such. How is propaganda employed tod…
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Helen Hughes: Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Colonial Australian Art (Lecture)
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In this lecture, Helen analyses the notable degree to which early colonial Australian visual culture was dependent upon the skill-set of convicted and transported forgers from Great Britain. As the eighteenth century progressed, forgery crimes were subject to increasingly harsh sentencing, including a gallows death and transportation. This severity…
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Mac Darrow: Human Rights, Development and the UN (Interview)
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What's the relationship between development and human rights? Can human rights challenge economic orthodoxy? How does the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) do its work?In this conversation, Professor Sundhya Pahuja and André Dao speak with Dr Mac Darrow, the Representative of the OHCHR in Washington DC, responsible for the…
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Michael Fakhri: Trade, Development and the Right To Food (Interview)
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What is the global food system? What are the politics of naming and shaming? What does a UN Special Rapporteur do?In this conversation, Professor Sundhya Pahuja and Dr Luis Eslava speak with Professor Michael Fakhri, the newly appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.Professor Fakhri is the author of 'Sugar and the Making of Internation…
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In Conversation with Dr Jessica Whyte (Book Launch)
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Join Sundhya Pahuja, Claerwen O'Hara and Valeria Vazquez Guevara in conversation with Jessica Whyte, on a discussion of Jessica's latest book 'The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism'. In this recording, Jessica explores why the neoliberal age has also been the age of human rights. Drawing on detailed archival research,…
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