Forthcoming Workshops
Reimagining Victims' Reparation, Dignification, and Social Justice for Living Deaths in Mexico, Colombia, and Spain (in Spanish, invitation only)
30th of April 2024 from 2-5 pm, online.
This workshop explores the role of civil society and bottom-up participation in delivering reparation, dignification of collective memory, and social justice to victims of forced disappearances through cultural and transmedia initiatives in Spain, Colombia, and Mexico. It aims to discuss the challenges of collective memory and reparations in these contexts, initiatives of collective memory and reparation and practical recommendations for nation-states, stakeholders, NGOs, and grassroots groups to contribute to a victim-centred angle in the creation of reparative policies and practices.
Organisers:
Associate .Prof. Catalina Montoya (Liverpool Hope University), Professor Claire Taylor (University of Liverpool), Dr Camilo Tamayo (University of Huddersfield), Dr Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster) and Natalia Maystorovich (University of Sydney).
Participant organisations:
Museo Casa de la Memoria Indómita (Mexico), CNMH (Colombia), Unidad de Búsqueda de Personas dadas por Desaparecidas (Colombia), Rodeemos el Diálogo (Colombia), Fundación Nydia Erika Bautista para los Derechos Humanos (Colombia), Mujeres Caminando por la Verdad | Corporación Jurídica Libertad (Colombia), Mujer Diáspora (Colombia), organización Abya Yala (Colombia), Sputnik Labrego (Spain) and experts.
International communication, culture, and the challenges of peace
20th of June, 2-5pm, hybrid (online and in LHU Hope Park Campus)
Sponsored by Liverpool Hope University through the Research Engagement and Impact Development Fund.
Date: June 20
Time: 2-5pm
Venue: Learning Lab, Liverpool Hope University and via Zoom
This hybrid workshop focuses on the contribution strategic communication, public information, culture, and Public Diplomacy can make to peace and coexistence, led by countries and organisations who have a stake in international peacebuilding, from the perspective of practitioners. It aims to foster a community of practice experience to share views around the role that communication, information and cultural engagement can play coordinating efforts with the international community as well as reaching out to local stakeholders where such efforts are targeted.
2023
Guest Speakers
Violence in South Africa: Foreigners' perspective
Date: 4 March | Time: 12-1pm | Venue: Eden 005
Guest speaker: Professor Emmanuel O. Adu, University of Forth Hare, South Africa and visiting Professor at Liverpool Hope University
Curating Spaces of Hope: co-creating a social movement for eradicating poverty in the city
Date: 15 February| Time: 12-1pm | Venue: Eden114
Guest speaker: Dr Matthew Barber-Rowell, Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow, Liverpool Hope University
Seminar series: our members' research
Reclaiming the spiritual meaning of ‘Allahu Akbar’ from media misrepresentation
Date: 27 February | Time: 12-1pm | Venue: Eden 005
Guest speaker: Dr Salman Al-Azami, Senior Lecturer language, Media and Communication
Covid-19 and the re-emergence of ethnic conflict in the Western Balkans
Date: 22 January | Time: 3-4pm | Venue: Eden 114
Guest speaker: Dr Jasna Balorda, Senior lecturer in sociology at Liverpool Hope University. TBC
HMP 2 Hope: transforming education in prison settings (whilst building an impact case study for REF)
Date: 22 November | Time: 15:00 - 16:00 | Venue: Zoom
Guest Speakers:
Gary and Niamh have been working in prison settings together since 2018. They consider how an arts-based, prisoner-led approach to education provision in incarcerated spaces can be generated, sustained and even entered as an Impact Case Study for the next iteration of REF. Check out their
website for details of the many projects they have undertaken under the umbrella of HMP2Hope - an initiative to demystify university education to people living in prisons.
Some implications of the neoliberal massification of Colombian Higher Education for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Date: 26 October | Time: 12:00 -13:00
Guest speaker: Lee Mackenzie, Lecturer in Education and PhD in Education and Social Justice.
Seminar series: our Doctoral Students' research
Too Far from Ideal? Deviant Bodies within New Testament Writings
Date: 18 January | Time: 12-1pm | Venue: Eden 013
Guest speaker: Dr Emma Swai, PhD at Liverpool Hope University
Russia and Human Rights Law: The USSR, Russian Federation and Change
Date: 6 November | Time: 15:00-16:30
Guest speaker: Cal De Burgh, PhD Candidate at Liverpool Hope University
Broadening conversations: networking events
How we create an ontological foundation for peaceful coexistence
Date: 16 October | Time: 15.00 to 16.30
This was the first of a series of coversations led by Dr Abraham Waigi Ng'ang'a and Dr Silvia Battista with the aim of bringing together students and international scholars interested in the intersection of philosophy, theology, religious studies, anthropology, and creative practices. The events are organized under the umbrella of the School of Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) of Liverpool Hope University, together with the Andrew F. Walls Centre for the Study of African and Asian Christianity and the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies at Liverpool Hope University.
The first conversation took place on the 16th of October 2023 from 15.00 to 16.30 on Zoom and was entitled We are dying in the midst of plenty: the problem of onto-epistemological reductionism. 29 people attended from different regions in Africa and Europe, colleagues from Hope and many PG students The conversation was very rich and offered to all participants many points for reflections.
Research and Networking Workshop: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Food Insecurity, Climate Justice
Date: 13 October 2023 | Time: 1-3pm
The workshop was chaired by Catalina Montoya, Tutu Centre Director and Wendy Coxshall, and had the participation of Ana Rojas, visiting academic from Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Participants included: Leo Stevenson, Natalija Atas, Malcom Carey, Marzana Kamal, Ana Rojas, Wendy Coxshall, Ayesha Jawad, Ana Pereira
