Venice Academy of Human Rights 2017: applications now open

Applications for the Venice Academy of Human Rights Summer School, which will be held from the 3rd-12th July 2017 are open. This year’s theme is “Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as an Answer to Rising Inequalities”, and participants will be able to benefit from 34 hours of lectures, seminars, discussion sessions and panel presentations, including the opening lecture by world renowned Visiting Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center City University of New York Branko Milanović, whose work on income inequality has been published widely. The summer academy will discuss the current threats the world is witnessing to democratic governance both from outside and from within the democratic system, and whether these can be considered temporary setbacks in the global spread of liberal democracy and neoliberal capitalism. It invites participants to reconsider the prospects for economic and social justice against the background of rising inequalities in the world.

The Venice Academy of Human Rights 2017 will be looking at these developments from an interdisciplinary perspective that combines law, economics, politics and sociology. Lectures and seminars discuss the questions, “what role do human rights play in enabling and promoting social justice?”, “Are human rights an effective tool for the promotion of economic and social equality?”, “Do human rights impose limits to privatization of particular goods and services?”, “How do human rights enable a just economic and social order?”

The Summer Academy is based on Venice Lido, at the Monastery of San Nicolò. The deadline for registration is 19th April 2017, however participants who enrol before the 15th March 2017 will receive a discount on fees.

The Academy is an international and interdisciplinary programme of excellence for human rights education, research, and debate that provides an enriching forum for emerging ideas, practices, and policy options in the field of human rights. It hosts distinguished experts to promote critical and useful research and innovation through the exchange of current knowledge.

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9/2/2017