Speakers: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Kate O’Regan, Helen Mountfield QC, Michael Ignatieff, Michael Sexton, Nic Dawes, Ezgi Basaran, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Louise Richardson, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Osai Ojigo, Adam Bodnar
Venue: Bonavera Institute of Human Rights
Date: 09 October 2018
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election, will be visiting Oxford in October 2018, The Oxford Student can reveal. The Bonavero Institute, located within Mansfield college, is holding two events to mark the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
Clinton recently gave the Oxford University Romanes lecture in June. The lecture, given in the Sheldonian Theatre, focused on the current state of political engagement across the world.
The first event at the Bonavera Institute is titled “An evening celebration of three remarkable women” and will include the unveiling of a statue of Eleanor Roosevelt, the chairperson of the United Nations committee that drafted the UDHR in 1948, and also a fellow First Lady of the United States alongside Clinton.
Kate O’Regan, Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, has told The Oxford Student that this event will include “a conversation between Secretary Clinton and Baroness Helena Kennedy QC the former Principal of Mansfield College.”
The second event being held on the 9th October at the Institute is titled “Confronting Illiberalism: the role of the media, civil society and universities”. This conference is being hosted to “consider the ways in which three key institutions of liberal democracies, the media, civil society and universities are confronting the threat of illiberalism.”
This event will include a keynote address by Secretary Clinton, followed by three-panel discussions to explore the forms of illiberalism faced by each of the three institutions. The panellists will include Timothy Garton Ash, the historian and journalist, John Sexton, President of New York University and Louise Richardson, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
The full list of confirmed panellists for each panel discussion is as follows:
Media Strategies to promote quality, independent and fact-based journalism
Chair: Timothy Garton Ash
Panellists:
· Ezgi Başaran (journalist, Turkey)
· Nic Dawes (Head of Media, Human Rights Watch, New York, USA)
Civil Society Strategies to protect and promote human rights in illiberal contexts
Chair: Chris Stone
Panellists:
· Adam Bodnar (Ombud, Poland)
· Osai Ojigho (Amnesty International, Nigeria)
· Gökçe Tüylüoğlu (The Open Society Foundation, Turkey)
Universities and Illiberalism
Chair: Harold Hongju Koh Panellists:
· Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Vice Chancellor, Ashoka University, India)
· Michael Ignatieff (President and Rector, Central European University, Hungary)
· Louise Richardson (Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford)
· John Sexton (former President, New York University, USA)
Attendance for both of these events is by invitation only.