Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law (CIS)

All past events from CIS

1 Nov. 2024, 9:30-17:30

Workshop on the dialogue between scholars and the public, the dissemination of science, and the right to science

In a world filled with uncertainty and fractured by polarization, how do we get better at thinking about how we think – and how do we conduct high-stakes debates more intelligently in- as well as outside the academic world?

15 Dec. 2023, 14:00-16:00

Author Meets Critic: Scientific Freedom: The Heart of the Right to Science

A debate on scientific and academic freedom as a part of the human right to benefit from science on the occasion of the publication of Scientific Freedom: The Heart of the Right to Science (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).

14 June 2023, 14:00-17:30

UNESCO Chairs Seminars on Human Rights: "Science Benefiting Society - the role of the right to science"

At UNESCO Chairs Seminar on Human Rights No. 5, Professor Helle Porsdam will participate in a panel on "Science Benefiting Society - the role of the right to science"

4 May 2023, 16:00-17:30

Professor Helle Porsdam to moderate webinar on "The Right to Science at UNESCO"

Professor Helle Porsdam hosts a webinar on UNESCO’s ongoing work with the right to science.

16 Feb. 2023, 15:00-16:30

Professor Helle Porsdam to speak on scientific freedom at the Magna Charta Observatory

Professor Helle Porsdam will give a talk at online webinar on "The roots of academic freedom – Underlying values and human rights perspectives What would be the content of academic freedom as a human right, and what the benefits of recognising it as an enforceable human right?"

9 Feb. 2023, 17:00-18:30

Can Climate Fiction Become our Reality?

An afternoon with Kim Stanley Robinson, the climate-fiction author of the New York Times bestseller The Ministry for the Future.

26 Jan. 2023, 14:00-17:30

Webinar on 'The Right to Science and Africa'

Science is at the heart of Africa’s vision for a better future. We explore the right to science in Africa.

7 Dec. 2022, 12:00-13:00

Great trials and the law in the historical imagination

Lunch meeting: Talk by Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Univ. Of Copenhagen Russell Dees

21 Apr. 2022, 15:30-17:00

The Right to Science - Book launch

That everyone has a human right to enjoy the benefits of the progress of science and its applications comes as a surprise to many. Nevertheless, this right is pertinent to numerous issues at the intersection of science and society.