Institute of International Law and the Humanities

The IILAH Podcast

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The IILAH podcast is the online home of lectures and conversations hosted by the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School. IILAH supports interdisciplinary scholarship on emerging questions of international law, governance and justice. Many of the significant modes of thought that have framed the way in which international lawyers understand the world have developed in conversation with the humanities. IILAH continues this engagement, through fostering dialogue with scholars working in disciplines such as anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, lin...

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Jonas Staal: Propaganda Art in the 21st Century (Lecture) 19.11.2020 1:25:14

Terms such as “fake news” and “alternative facts” have become common vocabulary in the so-called post-truth era. But there is a sense in which these are just contemporary iterations of a familiar phenomenon: propaganda. Propaganda is not merely concerned with sending messages – its aim is to construct reality as such. How is propaganda employed today in alt-right regimes, the ongoing War on Terror...

Helen Hughes: Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Colonial Australian Art (Lecture) 22.10.2020 51:35

In this lecture, Helen analyses the notable degree to which early colonial Australian visual culture was dependent upon the skill-set of convicted and transported forgers from Great Britain. As the eighteenth century progressed, forgery crimes were subject to increasingly harsh sentencing, including a gallows death and transportation. This severity reflected broader efforts to enshrine the soverei...

Mac Darrow: Human Rights, Development and the UN (Interview) 19.10.2020 48:15

What's the relationship between development and human rights? Can human rights challenge economic orthodoxy? How does the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) do its work? In this conversation, Professor Sundhya Pahuja and André Dao speak with Dr Mac Darrow, the Representative of the OHCHR in Washington DC, responsible for the Office's policy engagement with international fi...

Michael Fakhri: Trade, Development and the Right To Food (Interview) 25.08.2020 58:30

What is the global food system? What are the politics of naming and shaming? What does a UN Special Rapporteur do? In this conversation, Professor Sundhya Pahuja and Dr Luis Eslava speak with Professor Michael Fakhri, the newly appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Professor Fakhri is the author of 'Sugar and the Making of International Trade' (Cambridge University Press, 2014), an...

In Conversation with Dr Jessica Whyte (Book Launch) 24.08.2020 1:00:52

Join Sundhya Pahuja, Claerwen O'Hara and Valeria Vazquez Guevara in conversation with Jessica Whyte, on a discussion of Jessica's latest book 'The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism'. In this recording, Jessica explores why the neoliberal age has also been the age of human rights. Drawing on detailed archival research, she explores the place of human rights in an atte...