2014 Hansard Lecture given by Baroness Onora O’Neill Event

Time:: 18:00
Date:: 8 May 2014
Venue:: Turner Sims Concert Hall Salisbury Rd Southampton SO17 1 United Kingdom

For more information regarding this event, please email Lisa Then at lisa.then@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

Public Policy@Southampton is delighted to invite you to the 2014 Hansard Lecture given by Baroness Onora O’Neill, Chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission and Council member of the MRC, which will take place on 8 May 2014.

Public Policy@Southampton is delighted to announce Baroness Onora O’Neill (pictured) as our key note speaker for the 2014 Hansard Lecture on 8 May 2014 which will be held in the Turner Sims Concert Hall. Her speech ‘Can human rights be justified’ is in keeping with the theme of the series ‘The way we are governed’. - See more at: http://publicpolicy.southampton.ac.uk/hansard-lecture-2014/#sthash.b59PLbx3.dpuf

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Speaker information

Baroness Onora O’Neill,Onora O’Neill is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and a crossbench member of the House of Lords.,Among many other distinctions, she was President of the British Academy from 2005-2009 and chair of the Nuffield Foundation from 1998-2012. She was made a life peer as Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve in 1999. She has written widely on political philosophy and ethics, international justice, bioethics and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.