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Hansard Lecture 2014 'Can human rights be justified?' Event

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

For more information regarding this event, please email lisa.then@southampton.ac.uk .

Event details

Public Policy @Southampton have announced that the keynote speaker for the 2014 Hansard Lecture is Baroness Onora O'Neill.

Her speech ‘Can human rights be justified’ is in keeping with the theme of the series ‘The way we are governed’.

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.

The event will open at 18:00 for registration and tea and the speaker will be introduced at 18:30.

Please register your attendance.

Find out more on the Public Policy @ Southampton website.

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