Due to a force majeure, Professor Manfred Nowak will be unable to attend ABOAGORA 2024. In his place, the Agora keynote on 29 August will be delivered by Professor Koen De Feyter, Professor of Public International Law at the University of Antwerp. 

Professor Manfred Nowak, the Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice and Director of the Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, is due to force majeure unable to attend the event. On Thursday, 29 August the Agora keynote will instead be delivered by Professor Koen De Feyter. 

Koen De Feyter is Professor of Public International Law and Spokesperson of the Research Group on Law and Development at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He is the Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of Antwerp starting 1 September 2024. Professor De Feyter also heads the Steering Committee of the global Law and Development Research Network (LDRn) and chairs Belgium’s Advisory Council on Policy Coherence for Development.

Professor Koen De Feyter’s Agora talk is titled The God of War, Palestine, and Emancipatory Human Rights. The keynote will take place on Thursday, 29 August, at 13:15. Professor De Feyter will give his talk at Aboagora remotely. 

The panel session A De/Colonial Present, originally scheduled for 13:15, will now take place in the morning session at 10:15. 

Aboagora is a meeting place for researchers and artists, an enabler of cooperation and a space for new creation. The project’s annual activities include an international three-day main event organized at the Sibelius Museum in Turku, a research retreat and open Avant Aboagora pre-events. The project launched in Turku’s capital of culture year 2011 is now a pioneer in the field of science and art cooperation. The event is based on the ethos that comprehensive problem solving requires not only interdisciplinary approach but also combining scientific and artistic perspectives. The organizers of Aboagora are the University of Turku, Åbo Akademi, Turku Academy of Arts, Åbo Akademi Foundation and Turku University Foundation. Aboagora in 2024 is supported by the Kone Foundation, the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Svenska Kulturfonden, The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, William Thurings Stiftelsen andOskar Öflund Stiftelsen. 

Posted on: August 13, 2024, by : admin