Talks
Holding it Together: Making, Maintaining and Mending from the Early Modern to the Present
‘Holding it Together’, a two-day symposium taking place in late June 2026, addresses this gap, bringing together makers and scholars of material culture to co-create new and robust concepts of lastingness rooted in both historical understanding and contemporary practice.
Britain and the world: From Chagos to Ukraine and beyond with Philippe Sands
Mon 16 October 2023
Jesus College
Defending human rights—and writing about his experiences in critically recognized books—has taken renowned international lawyer and writer Philippe Sands all over the world.
His first book explored the lives of two Jewish lawyers in the Ukranian city of Lviv who would go on to legally define crimes against humanity and genocide as part of the Nuremberg trials—a story he weaves together with that of his own Jewish family. Most recently, he took on the lingering effects of British colonialism by writing about the forced removal of Chagossians from the Chagos Islands, a human rights case which took Philippe and Chagossian Liseby Elysé to the International Court of Justice at The Hague.
In this talk, Philippe will take us from Chagos to Ukraine through the law cases he has been involved in and written about, considering the law-court as a place not just of justice, but of commemoration.
Cost: Free of charge