Commonwealth Week Events 2023
The following Commonwealth-related events will be held across the University of London:
Monday 13 March 2023
Commonwealth Day
Tuesday 14 March 2023
Trends in international criminal justice and the Commonwealth. Online lecture, Kingsley Abbott, incoming Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study
Caribbean Seminar Series, School of Advanced Study Seminar, organised by Dr Ainhoa Montoya (Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, SAS, and Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf (Institute of Historical Research, SAS)
Seminar: Reaching Out to Vulnerable Young People: ‘race’, class and the Brooks Advisory Centre 1960s-1990s, School of Advanced Study
Seminar: The Pull of Water: Power, Place and Religion in the Sundarbans, King’s College London. The Archipelagic Indias seminar series is hosted by the King's India Institute, King's College London. Dr Luca Raimondi, MSCA Global Fellow, and Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir, project PI, and Professor of English Literature, Department of English, are organising the seminar on the theme of ‘Archipelagic Indias’. This forms part of a larger (IATIO) project, India and the Indian Ocean in the Early Decolonial Period: Archipelagic Imaginaries, 1950s-1970s.
Wednesday 15 March 2023
Conference: Soft Power and the Contemporary Commonwealth, 10:15-17:30 GMT, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Online event. See programme here.
Keynote lecture: The Hon Michael Kirby, former Justice of the High Court of Australia, and original drafter of the Commonwealth Charter (2013) 12.30 – 13.30 GMT Wolfson Suite, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study
On the other side – Threats to Sexual orientation and gender identity rights around the world, City University