Think Tank – Human Rights: The Right to Protest in the UK & Beyond – Cutting Edge University Interdisciplinary Perspectives & Debate With Goldsmiths, University of London & The University of Edinburgh

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On our Right to Protest Think Tank Panel, we welcome:

• Dr Dimitrios Kivotidis, Lecturer in the Department of Law at Goldsmiths, University of London. His work focuses on issues of Public Law, Human Rights, Law and Political Economy, and Critical Legal Theory
• Mirko Canevaro, Professor of Greek History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at The University of Edinburgh. Mirko’s diverse work helps us to understand contemporary issues through Classical insight and is a regular commentator on politics, culture and higher education for newspapers and magazines.

Think Tank is a series of interdisciplinary webinars for Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5 students, engaging academics and students in debate. We tackle some of the pressing national and global issues being faced today.

Our panel of academics represents different disciplines and universities, including Goldsmiths, University of London. Each will have 5 minutes at the beginning of the session to outline the key issues, as they see them, relating to Human Rights: The Right to Protest in the UK & Beyond.

Ahead of the event, we invite students to submit questions and arguments HERE within the overall session theme which, following the introductory inputs from our academics, are then either posed by the student themselves or by the host, depending upon each student’s preference.

The academics will then share their perspectives with plenty of opportunity for students to engage in the discussion. The event will progress in a similar way to ‘Question Time’.

Woven into the discussion, the university academics are encouraged to shed light on how undergraduates engage in these critical issues during their studies.

Our events are designed so that a group of students can take part from a classroom, or students and teachers can take part as individuals, either from school or from home. There is no charge to take part.

As a live, participative event, this session will not be recorded but slides and other resources will be shared after the event, where available.

Suitable for: Key Stage 4 & Key Stage 5 students and equivalent with an interest in Human Rights: The Right to Protest in the UK & Beyond, either as part of their studies, their university aspirations, personal interests, or related citizenship studies. This is suitable for both groups or individual students and teachers.

Preparation/Pre-Reading: Students are asked to consider the theme and discuss some of the key issues, prior to submitting questions and arguments for our panel to address live. These can be submitted HERE.

The IT Setup: The event will be run on Zoom and participants will be able to join using laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. If you are joining as a school group, we recommend connecting with one device and projecting on to a whiteboard. You will be able to interact with the university via typed comments and questions and/or via microphone. Full details will be sent to those who have registered (see below) prior to the event.

Booking a Place: This is free for schools and colleges. If you would like to take part in this event, please register your interest using the link to the registration form below:

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