PAST EVENTS

19 April 2021, Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa’ed Atshan, virtual Book discussion with Gautam Bhan, event hosted by EURO-EXPERT in association with the CHAD – Centre of History and Anthropology of Law, University of Paris Nanterre.

8 April 2021, Cultural Expertise a Scuola! Tutti Diversi e Tutti Uguali, Workshop in a Primary School, with Luciana Breggia and Sabrina Ciolfi, event hosted by EURO-EXPERT in association with Scuola Primaria Padre E. Balducci, Istituto Comprensivo Statale n° 3, Sesto Fiorentino (FI).

22 March 2021 Cultural Expertise in Italy’s Specialised Sections on International Protection and Immigration. Gaps, Innovations, and Perspectives from the Experience at the Court of Florence, virtual Talk with with Pierpaolo di Carlo (State University of New York) and Luciana Breggia (Judge President, Florence Court), event hosted by EURO-EXPERT in association with the CHAD – Centre of History and Anthropology of Law, University of Paris Nanterre.

27 February 2021, La Cultural Expertise in Europa: a cosa serve?, Paper presented by Livia Holden, Webinar Il giudice della protezione internazionale e il sapere antropologico: prove di un approccio interculturale nel giudizio?, organised by University of Trento, Italy.

21 December 2020 Entanglements of Life with the Law: Precarity and Justice in London’s Magistrates’ Courts by Prof. John R. Campbell, virtual Book Launch, event hosted by EURO-EXPERT in association with the CHAD – Centre of History and Anthropology of Law, University of Paris Nanterre. (twitter)

16 November 2020, Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North India, by Dr Rama Srinivasan, virtual Book Discussion, event hosted by the EURO-EXPERT Network. (twitter)

12-13 October 2020 The 2nd online Cross-Sectional Workshop, virtual Participation by Sabrina Ciolfi for Pilot Action RRI Website, NewHoRRIzon, Wien, Austria. 

30 January 2020, Terror in Court: Transnational Jihadism and the Fabrication of its Judges. An Ethnography in French Criminal Courts, Talk by Sharon Weill (The American University of Paris/Sciences-Po, Paris), Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK. 

30 January 2020, Nothing but “stimulating metaphysical theories”? Cultural Expertise in the L’Aquila trial, Talk by Federico Brandmayr (Cambridge University), Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK.

23-24 January 2020, Social Lab on European Research Council (ERC) and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)Workshop 3, Livia Holden and Sabrina Ciolfi introducing Pilot Action RRI Website, NewHoRRIzon, Wien, Austria. 

17 October 2019, Cultural Expertise in Cyprus: It’s all Greek to me!, Conference convened by Kostantinos Tsimaras (European University of Cyprus) and Venetia Argyropoulou (European University of Cyprus), European University of Cyprus, Cyprus. (twitter)

15 October 2019, Methods of Data-Collection: Experiences from the Field, 4th EURO-EXPERT, Workshop convened by Venetia Argiropoulou and Livia Holden, European University of Cyprus, Cyprus. (programme, twitter, twitter)

7 October 2019, Cultural Expertise in Criminal Cases – Experiences of a Public Prosecutor, Talk by Hakan Andersson (Public Prosecutor at the Swedish Prosecution Authority), Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK.

7 October 2019, Cultural Expertise and International Commercial Arbitration, Talk by Giorgio Colombo (University of Nagoya), Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK.

3-4 October 2019, Collaborative Teaching Design for a Course on Cultural Expertise, Workshop convened by Livia Holden with the support of Uyanga Amarsaikhan, Anna Tslalapatanis, and Sabrina Ciolfi, Balliol and Trinity College, University of Oxford, UK. (programme, pictures)

​27 September 2019, Cultural Expertise and the Fear of Absolution, Do Social Scientists Absolve? Paper presented by Livia Holden, Symposium, University of Cambridge, UK.

14 September 2019, Culture as or against Sovereignty, Panel convened by Livia Holden, European Society of International Law Conference, Athens, Greece.

22 July 2019, Beyond markets: expert valuation in the compulsory purchase of subsoil rights, Talk by Gabriel Darin (University of Oxford), Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK.

16 July 2019, Refugees/Asylum Seekers/Migrants: Considerations in Their Relationship Between Asia and Europe/Global North Roundtable session entitled at the International Convention of Asia Scholars in Leiden, Speakers: Livia Holden, Stefanie Lemke, ChorSwang Ngin and Anna Tsalapatanis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

9 July 2019, Story telling on Cultural Expertise: Humanity, Freedom, and Cultural Diversity, EURO-EXPERT outreach activity presented by Beatriz Barreiro Carril to children at St Barnabas’ C of E Primary School, Oxford, UK. (twitter)

1 June, 2019, Cultural Expertise, Terrorism, and Justice in Italy, Paper presented by Livia Holden, Panel Terror, Rights, and Belonging: Dignity before the Law and Courts, Law and Society Annual Conference, Washington DC, USA. 

1 June 2019, Absurdity, Insecurity and Politics: Migration Bureaucracies, (Im)mobilities and Time, Paper presented by Anna Tsalapatanis, Oxford Migration Conference, Spaces of (Im)mobility, Catholic Chaplaincy, Oxford, UK.

3 May 2019, Book Launch – Ilenia Ruggiu, Culture and the Judiciary: The anthropologist judge, Talk by Livia Holden and panel discussion, Università di Trento, Italy. (programme)

16 April 2019, Cultural Expertise, Law, and Gender Sensitization, Talk by Livia Holden, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta, Indonesia.

10-11 April 2019, Social Lab on European Research Council (ERC) and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)Workshop 2, Participation by Lena Rose and Stanislaw Burdziej as EURO-EXPERT delegates, NewHoRRIzon, Wien, Austria.

28 March 2019, Cultural Expertise in Europe: Indicators of Impact, Workshop convened by Livia Holden with the collaboration of Uyanga Amarsaikhan, Anna Tsalapatanis, and Lena Rose, Christ Church College, University of Oxford, UK. (participants bios, programme)

1-3 March 2019, La Cultural Expertise Contro il Rischio del Populismo Giudiziario, Roundtable participation by Livia Holden, XXII Congresso Nazionale di Magistratura Democratica, Rome, Italy. (interview, transcript)

22 February 2019, Cultural Expertise and Gender Rights in South Asia: The Assessment of the Risk of Return to the Country of Origin, Keynote talk by Livia Holden, 6th International Conference on Legal Institution Design, University of Nagoya, Japan. (programme)

18 February 2019, Cultural Expertise in Italy: Education, Prisons, and Asylum, Talk by Giorgia Decarli (Università di Trento), Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK.

11 February 2019, The Indicators’ Debate, Roundtable convened by Livia Holden, Speakers: Anna Tsalapatanis and Lena Rose, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK.

14 January 2019, Accessing Information v. Analising Policy: Using the FOI Act in the United Kingdom, Talk by John R Campbell (SOAS University of London), Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK. (abstracts)

21 January 2019, Cultural Expertise in Europe: A Collaborative Teaching Design, Talk by Livia Holden, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy. 

21 January 2019, Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Expertise in the City, Talk by ChorSwang Ngin (California State University), Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy.

14 December 2019, Navigating Boxes: Cultural Expertise, Essentialism and the Problems of Categorisation, Paper by Anna Tsalapatanis, LSAANZ Conference, Wollongong, Australia.

5 December 2019, Cultural Expertise and Expert Witnessing: Social Science in and out of the Courtroom, Guest presentation by Anna Tsalapatanis, School of Sociology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

21 November 2018, Cultural Expertise in Asylum Cases in the United States, ChorSwang Ngin (California State University), Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK.

16 November 2018, Cultural Expertise and Legal Anthropology: An Historical Approach, Talk by Livia Holden, Université Paris Nanterre, France.

25 September 2018, Courts and Cultural Diversity, Talk by Livia Holden, Annual Conference Court Watch Poland, Warsaw, Poland.

5 July 2018, Cultural Expertise and Hijab in Spain: An Analysis through the Historical Evolution of International Cultural Rights, Talk by Beatriz Barreiro Carril (Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid), Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK. (abstracts)

4-5 July 2018, Cultural Expertise in Ancient and Modern History, Workshop convened by Livia Holden, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK. (programme, video-clip)

19 June 2018, Cultural Expertise in Poland: An Overview, Talk by Stanislaw Burdziej (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun), Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK. (abstracts)

14 June 2018, Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for? – ERC Project Presentation with Q&A session by Anna Tsalapatanis, Centre for the Sociology of Law and Criminology, Vienna, Austria.

22-23 May 2018, Social Lab on European Research Council (ERC) and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)Workshop 1, Talk by Livia Holden, NewHoRRIzon, Wien, Austria.

11-12 May 2018, Justice and Culture. Legal Techniques and Principles to solve Multicultural Conflicts, Paper by Livia Holden and Anna Tsalapatanis, Conference of the Observatory of Human Rights, CLISEL training, Università di Cagliari, Italy.

28 March 2018, Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for? – ERC Project Presentation with Q&A session by Livia Holden, Università di Torino, Italy.

14 December 2017, Social Diversity in the Pakistani Judiciary and Cultural Expertise, Keynote talk by Livia Holden, 1st International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities, Social Sciences and Humanities in the New Millennium: Challenges and Prospects, Virtual University and Lahore College for Women, Pakistan.

20-23 November 2017, Women’s Rights in Pakistan and in the Diasporas, Paper presented by Livia Holden, 17th AICIS-2017 Religion, Identity and Citizenship: Horizons of Islam in Indonesia and Beyond, Jakarta, Indonesia. (see coverage of the event here, here, here)

27 June 2017, Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for? – ERC Project Presentation by Livia Holden, Università di Trento, Italy.

11-12 May 2017, Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for? – ERC Project Presentation and Master Class on Cultural Expertise and Women’s Rights by Livia Holden, Universitat de València, Spain.

5-7 April 2017, Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for? – ERC Project Presentation by Livia Holden, Università di Cagliari, Italy.

22 March 2017, Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for? – ERC Project Presentation by Livia Holden, Centre for the History and Anthropology of Law, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

15-16 December 2016, Cultural Expertise in Socio-Legal Studies and History, Inaugural conference, convened by Livia Holden (University of Oxford) and Soazick Kerneis (University of Paris Nanterre), Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Maison Française, University of Oxford, UK.

15 June 2016, Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for? – ERC Project Presentation by Livia Holden, Università di Padova, Italy.

10 May 2016, Cultural Expertise in South Asia, Talk by Livia Holden, Geography Department, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

24 March 2016, Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for? – ERC Project Presentation by Livia Holden, Centre d’Histoire et d’Anthropologie du Droit, Université Paris Nanterre, France.

21 March 2016, Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for? – ERC Project Presentation by Livia Holden, Institut d’études avancées de Nantes, France.

10 February 2016, Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for? – ERC Project Presentation by Livia Holden, Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain.