Multispecies Deconstructions of the “Human" within International Human Rights Law
| Dates: | 27 April 2026 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 15:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Iyan Offor |
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Critical multispecies studies reveal that the philosophical, social, and legal pedestal on which human subjects are placed within Western modernity rests on faulty foundations. This session offers a posthumanist deconstruction of the human (we are animals, our bodies contain multitudes of life-forms, we exist within and not apart from nature) to explore what happens, conceptually and pragmatically, to international human rights law in the face of rights of nature, animal rights, and evolving multispecies forms of legal subjectivity.
Dr Iyan Offor is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Law at the University of Birmingham and the founding leader of the Multispecies Collective (which researches change toward flourishing futures for animals, nature, and society). Iyan is a critical socio-legal theorist conducting interdisciplinary research on multispecies legalities. His active research projects are Solarpunk Narrative and Multispecies (Legal) Worlding, and Transqueer Ecological Justice. Iyan recently published his monograph Global Animal Law from the Margins (Routledge, 2024). Iyan is co-editor in chief for the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy and academic consultant for the UK Centre for Animal Law.
Registration is required. Please email emma.scali@manchester.ac.uk.
All are warmly welcome. We very much hope you can join us for what promises to be an engaging and thought-provoking event.
Speaker
Iyan Offor
Organisation: University of Birmingham
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