The legal challenges of protecting cultural property in military operations

Martin Hamilton, Centre for International Law and Operational Law, Swedish Defence University: "The legal challenges of protecting cultural property in military operations." A talk on how the military

Workshop talk: War and cultural property in the era of identity wars by Frederik Rosén

Frederik Rosen from the Centre for Advanced Studies at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, talks about the gap between the growing international discourse on the topic of cultural property a

Equality for women, prosperity for all

Augusto Lopez-Claros, international economist currently on leave from his position at the World Bank to be Senior Fellow at Georgetown University, speaks about equality for women, drawing on his recen

Augusto Lopez-Claros, International Economist AbstractGender discrimination is often seen from a human rights perspective; it is a violation of women’s basic human rights, as embedded in the Universal

Topoi, doi.org/10.1007/s11245-017-9519-z Abstract Orthodox expected utility theory imposes too stringent restrictions on what attitudes to risk one can rationally hold. Focusing on a life-and-death gambl

Synthese 196(7): 2885–2906. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1587-5 Abstract The concept of information has well-known difficulties. Among the many issues that have been discussed is the alethic nature of a se

On Marginal Productivity Theory and the Labor Theory of Property. David Ellerman, Visiting scholar at the University of California in Riverside ABSTRACT Neoclassical economics uses the perfectly competit

in Analysis, Volume 80, Issue 2 AbstractKurt Gödel’s version of the Ontological Proof derives rather than assumes the crucial (yet controversial) Possibility Claim, that is, the claim that it is possib

Research seminar with Avia Pasternak, Associate Professor in Political Theory at University College London. REGISTER HERE TO GET A MEETING LINK AbstractViolent protestors against state injustice typical

The destruction of cultural property in war zones is of pressing concern. The recent and on-going conflicts in the Middle East have featured both the deliberate, symbolic destruction of cultural artefThis seminar brings together speakers from philosophy, archaeology, political science and international law. Topics to be discussed include the protection of heritage as a just cause for war, identity wars, military policy and heritage, the relationship between heritage and violence, and compensatory duties for damaged cultural sites.