A one-day interdisciplinary symposium to launch the Fiction and Human Rights Network at TORCH. Lawyers, literary scholars, philosophers and political theorists discuss the relationship between the modern novel and the discourse of human rights in legal theory and practice. The symposium brings together an eclectic range of thinkers to analyze the ways in which the genre of fiction might or might not contribute to debates about the nature and role of dignity in human rights.

Keynote speakers: Professor Stephen Clingman (UMass., Amherst); Philippe Sands QC on Louis Begley’s Wartime Lies (1991); Dr Zoe Norridge (KCL) on Véronique Tadjo’s The Shadow of Imana: travels in the heart of Rwanda (2002)

Other speakers and chairs include: Elleke Boehmer; Cathryn Costello, Mark Damazer; Charles Foster, Jonathan Herring; Michelle Kelly; Helena Kennedy QC; Marina MacKay; Kate McLoughlin; Dana Mills; Ankhi Mukherjee; Natasha Simonsen; Carissa Véliz.