For the Love of Humanity: the world tribunal on Iraq [Audio]

Speaker(s): Dr Lori Allen, Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Professor David Graeber, Professor Kimberly Hutchings, Dr Tor Krever, Haifa Zangana | Comprised of experts in anthropology, international law, sociology, political science, and literature, this panel will discuss Ayça Çubukçu’s book, For the Love of Humanity: the World Tribunal on Iraq, addressing challenges of forging global solidarity through an anti-imperialist politics of human rights and international law. Lori Allen is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. Ayça Çubukçu (@ayca_cu) is Associate Professor in Human Rights at LSE. David Graeber (@davidgraeber) is Professor of Anthropology at LSE. Kimberly Hutchings is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University. Tor Krever (@tor_krever) is Assistant Professor of International Law, University of Warwick. Haifa Zangana is an Iraqi novelist, author and political activist. Tarak Barkawi is Professor of International Relations at LSE. Established in 1904, the Department of Sociology @LSEsociology at LSE is committed to empirically rich, conceptually sophisticated, and socially and politically relevant research and scholarship. Building upon the traditions of the discipline, we play a key role in the development of the social sciences into the new intellectual areas, social problems, and ethical dilemmas that face our society today. Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEIraq This event forms part of the “New World (Dis)Orders” series, held in the run up to the LSE Festival, a week-long series of events taking place from 25 February to 2 March 2019, free to attend and open to all, exploring how social science can tackle global issues. How did we get here? What are the challenges? And, importantly, how can we address them? Full programme available online from January 2019.