Annual Student Conference - 20 Mar 2010

New Technologies:  Your Life? Your Health? Your Privacy?  Our Human Rights    

 

Date: Saturday 20th March 2010

Venue: Nottingham University, Law and Social Sciences Building    

 

The Annual Student Human Rights Conference provides students with an opportunity to present their research to an international audience alongside leading practitioners, scholars and experts. The 2010 conference will explore the inter-relation between human rights and the global consequences of the advancement of new technologies. By encouraging multi-disciplinary participation, the conference seeks to reaffirm the necessity of incorporating human rights discourse when discussing the controversial nature of the science and technology domain.

 

Download the 2010 Student Conference Poster.        

 

Keynote Speakers

 

  • Lee Hibbard , Media and Information Society Division, Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs of the Council of Europe.
  • Professor Thérèse Murphy , Professor of Law and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham & editor of New Technologies and Human Rights(Oxford University Press.
  • Dave Banisar, Senior Legal Counsel, Article 19.
  • Professor Richard Ashcroft , Professor of Bioethics at Queen Mary, University of London, specialist in the relationship between human rights and bioethics.
  • Anita Coles , Project Officer, Liberty UK (civil liberties NGO), specialist in UK government's response to S & Marper case (regarding a DNA database).

 

In addition to keynote speakers, the conference will include four student panels, highlighting the work of students on issues concerning human rights and new technologies.

 

Student Panels

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  • Panel 1
    Freedom of Expression and New Technologies
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  • Panel 2
    Tools to Advance Human Rights
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  • Panel 3
  • New Technologies and the Right to Privacy
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  • Panel 4
  • Using Technology to Advance Human Rights in the Field                         

                  

 

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