State Crime Seminar Series

ISCI’s State Crime Seminar Series, convened by ISCI PhD student, Saeb Kasm, provides a forum that engages with scholars working at the cutting edges of field State Crime research, also drawing in a variety of other disciplines and perspectives.

2016-17

• 18 October 2016
  Naomi Colvin: The Courage Foundation: Upholding the Rights of Truthtellers and Whistleblowers
• 20 September 2016
  Professor Philip Marfleet, 'Egypt: Contested Revolution'

2015-16

• 3 November 2015
  Greg Constantine (ISCI Distinguished Visiting Fellow), ‘Use of the Still Image in State Crime Research’
• 28 January 2015
  Dr Nafeez Ahmed, ‘The Crisis of Civilisation and the Systemic Causes of Mass Violence’
• 9 February 2015
  Dr Mehmet Kurt, ‘The Kurdish Question, State Crime and Islamist Radicalisation in South east Turkey’
• 22 February 2016
  Citizen Journalism Workshop, ‘Exposing State Crime Through Citizen Media and Digitized Resistance: Case Studies from Syria and Burma’, Queen Mary University of London, with Dr Anne Alexander (Cambridge), Dr Ali Ali (LSE), Dr Thomas MacManus (ISCI, QMUL), Kway Win (Director, Burma Human Rights Network)
• 3 March 2015
  Dr Richard Cockett, ‘Patterns of Conflict and Genocide – Comparing the Cases of Sudan and Myanmar’
• 7 March 2016
  Citizen Journalism Workshop, ‘Citizen journalism and narratives of power in the Arab revolutions’, University of Cambridge, with Saeb Kasm (ISCI, QMUL), Dr Ali Ali (LSE), Dr Sameh Naguib (SOAS, Egypt’s Contentious Media Project)
• 21 April 2016
  Workshop with Carly Nyst, ‘Challenging State Power: Surveillance, Privacy and Human Rights’
• 31 May 2016
  Christina Varvia and Francesco Sebregondi (Forensic Architecture), ‘Forensic Architecture: Exposing State Crimes Through Spatial and Media Analysis’
• 8 June 2016
  Dr Jennifer Balint, ‘Activating Structural Justice: the Minutes of Evidence Project’
• 18 October 2016
  Naomi Colvin ‘The Courage Foundation: Upholding the Human Rights of Truthtellers and Whistleblowers’.