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SUMMARY:‘Art from Guantánamo\, by Abu Zubaydah’
DESCRIPTION:Twenty-four years without charge\, without trial\, without communication – but not without a voice. What role can art and artivism play in the pursuit of justice? \nAbu Zubaydah is a 55-year-old Palestinian who has been detained in Guantánamo Bay for 24 years. In the aftermath of 9/11\, he was secretly held and brutally tortured by the CIA\, with the complicity of many states\, including the UK. He is dubbed the “forever prisoner” as the US claims the right to continue to detain him without any such charge or trial for the remainder of his life. Many facts surrounding that torture and complicity remain classified\, and his conditions of confinement at Guantánamo mean that he is not allowed to communicate with the outside world. In this exhibition\, he speaks through his art. It urges us to reflect\, learn and act to end torture\, arbitrary detention and the inhumanity of Guantánamo. \nThe artwork by Abu Zubaydah gives graphic insight into his experience. It mainly depicts the impact of the “extraordinary interrogation techniques” inflicted by the CIA with approval from the highest level of the US government. Some convey the hopelessness of being detained with no prospect of trial or release. Some of the most recent ones show his concern for the world beyond Guantánamo. In this exhibition\, his art is displayed alongside judgements in his favour that confirm his detention as “anathema to the rule of law”\, ongoing torture and call for his “immediately release”. \nMore about this exhibition\nThis exhibition is organised by LSE Law School in collaboration with Human Rights in Practice and Human Rights in the Picture\, in association with LSE Arts. \nThe exhibition forms part of a project focused on exposing and ending Abu Zubaydah’s ordeal. Multiple legal cases have been brought on his behalf\, clarifying the violations and responsibilities of many states\, including the UK. Most recently\, a substantial settlement was reached between the UK Government and Abu Zubaydah\, to end his civil claim concerning the security and intelligence agencies’ complicity in his torture and rendition. As of today\, he remains in unlawful detention at Guantánamo. \nArt and justice together call for an end to the notorious detention of the “#ForeverPrisoner.” This idea is explored in The Forever Prisoner\, a 2021 documentary by Alex Gibney\, which examines the United States’ use of torture and extraordinary rendition. The film focuses on Abu Zubaydah\, the first “high-value detainee” subjected to the CIA’s programme. \nPlease be advised this exhibition is not easy viewing. It contains graphic depictions of torture and abuse which may be distressing to viewers. \nAbout the team\nMarie Petersmann is Assistant Professor of Law at LSE Law School. Her work lies at the intersection of international law\, critical theory\, ecology and climate justice. She is the author of When Environmental Protection and Human Rights Collide (CUP\, 2022); co-author\, with Julia Dehm\, Kathleen Birrell\, and Afshin Akhtar-Khavari\, of Law and the Inhuman (CUP\, forthcoming 2026); and co-editor\, with Dimitri Van Den Meerssche\, of Underworlds: Sites and Struggles of Global Dis/Ordering (forthcoming). \nAlexandra Klegg is Head of Events\, Communications and Creative Projects at LSE Law School. Her work focuses on strategic event planning\, delivering an extensive academic events programme with the Events Team and developing a range of communication channels with all stakeholders. She oversees brand image\, podcasts\, and leads various creative projects within the Law School. Alexandra is also the Production Editor of the annual alumni magazine Ratio. \nHelen Duffy is Professor of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the University of Leiden\, and Director of Human Rights inPractice (HRiP)\, an international law practice specialising in strategic litigation in the European\, African\, Inter-American and UN systems. Her practice has included several cases on rendition\, torture\, and Guantánamo. She represents so-called ‘forever prisoner’ Abu Zubaydah since 2009. She is the author of The ‘War on Terror’ and the Framework of International law (CUP\, 2015)and Strategic Human Rights Litigation: Understanding and Maximising Impact (Hart\, 2018); and co-editor\, with Ziv Bohrer and Janina Dill\, of Law Applicable to Armed Conflict (CUP\, 2020). \nRelated events\nThe Forever Prisoner film screening \nJoin LSE Law School for a screening of The Forever Prisoner by Alex Gibney (2021) on Monday 11 May and hear from the authors of The Forever Prisoner: The Full and Searing Account of the CIA’s Most Controversial Covert Program. Register here to book your place. \n‘War on Terror’: Legacy\, justice\, art \nLES Law School will be hosting a conference on Tuesday 12 May to mark the opening of the exhibition and to discuss the themes it raises. This event brings together international law scholars\, practitioners\, journalists and artists to reflect on the legacy of the so-called ‘war on terror’ (WOT) today\, and the implications for the future. Registerhere to book your place.\nThe discussion will be followed by a public reception in the gallery from 6:30pm on Tuesday 12 May to launch the exhibition. \nExhibition Launch: Reception \nTuesday 12 May\, 6.30pm\, Atrium Gallery. Free admission\, no registration required. \n\n\n	Related
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LOCATION:Atrium Gallery\, Ground Floor\, Old Building\, Houghton Street\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 2AE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:LSE Law & Anthropology Seminar Series: Housing\, Precarity\, and Polylegality in Urban Papua New Guinea
DESCRIPTION:The next LSE Law & Anthropology Seminar will be held on Tuesday 25 March 2025\, from 5pm to 6.30pm\, in the Old Anthropology Library (LSE Old Building).  \nSpeaker is Dr. Melissa Demian\, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews. Melissa will speak on “Housing\, Precarity\, and Polylegality in Urban Papua New Guinea.” This presentation will build on her field work in Papua New Guinea. \nThe cities and towns of Papua New Guinea (PNG) are characterised by formal urban centres which are surrounded by much larger areas of informal settlements occupying land held under customary tenure. Formal urban areas are situated on land that was alienated during the colonial era (roughly 1877-1975)\, and that were\, up until the postwar period\, conceived by the Australian administration explicitly as European towns in which Melanesians were to be solely transient labour\, quarantined in barracks and dormitories. These residential patterns were enforced through a range of “Native Regulations” and other laws designed to constrain the urban spaces Papua New Guinean people could occupy\, and how they could occupy them.\n\nNearly fifty years after independence\, towns and cities in PNG exhibit different forms of segregation and exclusion that may nonetheless be seen as extensions of the colonial legal regime. Formal housing in the city centres is largely affordable only to the Papua New Guinea middle class and expatriates on international salaries. The majority of urban residents live in the informal settlements. They do so under a variety of extra-legal leasehold agreements with customary landowners who may initiate or terminate leases at will. These landowners manage problems among their tenants with methods ranging from quasi-legal mediations with  to violent eviction and the destruction of houses\, most of which have been built by the tenants themselves.\n\nFocusing on housing in the city of Lae\, this paper initiates an enquiry into the polylegality of how people inhabit urban space in PNG. By “polylegality\,” I aim to convey an infusion of the legal not just with multiple legal regimes\, but with the multiple spaces created through everyday practices of dwelling\, and with the temporalities of a postcolonial urbanism that is still haunted by colonial law. Housing in the settlements is often described as precarious\, and can indeed present impressions of life on the edge at times. But for most settlement residents\, questions of precarity or security are always under construction\, entangled with the immediacy of conducting their relationships within the settlement\, and the multiplicity of modes of living that are available to them in the wider landscape of the city.\n\nAll LSE staff and PhD students are very welcome to attend. This event will operate on a first come\, first serve basis. \n\n\n	Related
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LOCATION:Atrium Gallery\, Ground Floor\, Old Building\, Houghton Street\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 2AE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Law and Anthropology Series - Postliberal Legal Anthropology: Toward the Anthropology of Legal Form
DESCRIPTION:Amid converging global crises\, the global legal order is undergoing a period of profound transformation. In response\, legal anthropologists are revisiting a question that in recent decades they sought to evade: What is law? In this talk\, I describe an emerging turn in legal anthropology that examines legal form. While anthropologists studying legal form adopt diverse analytical approaches\, I focus on the aesthetic qualities of legal form—the material\, sensory\, and symbolic conditions through which ‘law’ is represented\, recognized\, and resisted. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with movements claiming ‘the right to food’ within shifting multi-stakeholder spaces\, I argue that these aesthetic dimensions of legal form offer a framework for understanding how law shapes and reconstitutes politics and power relations. Through examining how activists navigate the postliberal forms of governance\, I demonstrate how attention to legal form provides critical insights into the shifting normative organization of power in the contemporary global legal landscape. \nSpeaker: Dr. Matthew Canfield is Assistant Professor of Law & Anthropology at Leiden University. Drawing on ethnographic methods\, his research examines the law and governance of food security. Located at the intersection of human rights\, transnational governance\, and agro-environmental politics\, he is interested in the ways that social movements and civil society are mobilizing rights to shape food systems governance. \nPlease note that it will operate on a first-come\, first-serve basis. To secure your seat\, we kindly recommend arriving early. Thank you for your understanding. \n  \n\n\n	Related
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LOCATION:Atrium Gallery\, Ground Floor\, Old Building\, Houghton Street\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 2AE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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