events
The 'Cosmopolitan Turn' in International Law
A roundtable seminar hosted by In-Spire with Professor Anne Orford (University of Melbourne) on 27 November 2007 at the Keele Management Centre.
'Bio-politics and the Tragic Subject of Human Rights,' was discussed by participants and the audience. The session was chaired by Dr. Zoe Pearson of Keele Law School and the discussants were Keele University postgraduate students, Marijana Sevo and Gavin Bailey, and Dr. Jane Krishnadas from Keele University School of Law.
Download the video of her presentation or go to the dedicated website.
Global Health, Justice and the Brain Drain
An international conference on Health Worker Migration organised by In-Spire and the Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice on 17 September 2007.
The conference gathered international experts, academics and practitioners from nursing, trade unions, medicine, pharmacy, migration, law and economics to address the ‘brain drain’ of health workers from poor to rich countries both as a practical and a moral issue of global importance.
The health systems of the world’s richest countries are increasingly reliant on the labour of skilled health professionals from the global south. Though offering life-changing opportunities for some, this form of migration has created catastrophic challenges for others. It has depleted the human resources of health systems in some low-income sending countries, rendering them incapable of delivering basic health services and threatening health, human rights and development goals for some of the world’s poorest populations. Despite its rise up the policy agenda, the medical ‘brain drain’ remains desperately under-researched and ethical analysis of the issues is rare.
The conference was an opportunity to air innovative and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the challenges raised by the medical brain drain and potential solutions. The keynote speakers, Professor Thomas Pogge (Columbia University) and Professor Karen Hassle (University of Manchester) were joined by 18 other speakers presenting papers on
- the philosophy of migration and human rights
- local, national and international policy approaches
- exploitation in medical migration
- global justice and global institutions.
conference proceedings
View Prof. Thomas Pogge's keynote lecture: 'Must we exclude the poor from advanced medical treatments?' and click here for his lecture notes.View Prof. Hassle's lecture 'International health worker migration: GB-registered pharmacists,' and click here for her lecture notes.
Moral Responsibility and Ethical Policies in the International Migration of Health Workers A presentation by Rebecca Shah to the Association of African Universities Conference of Rectors, Vice Chancellors and Presidents of African Universities
Conference Reportby Rebecca Shah published in the Pharmaceutical Journal summarising the pharmacy-relevant issues raised at the conference.
Programe and AbstractsWatch this space for forthcoming papers from the conference!
For further information, please visit the main conference website.The Possibilities of Cultural Politics.
Keele University, Keele World Today Society and In-Spire hosted this interdisciplinary conference on 30 May 2006.
The conference featured a variety of papers ranging from oil politics and "The Absent Environment"
to Serbian national identity and post-conflict reconstruction in Somalia.
Click here to read the abstracts.
View selected presentations as Quicktime movie files in the Archive section (Vol. 1, No. 1)
ISSN: 1753-4453
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