Join us for the third event in the series on human rights career paths, where we invite human rights professionals working in the relevant field to share their view on their career, as well as to provide advice on the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed.
The Centre for Fundamental Rights invites you to a conversation with Dr. Grażyna Baranowska, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hertie School and member of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances; Dr. Betül Durmuş, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Fundamental Rights; and Silvia Steininger, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Fundamental Rights, to discuss academic career paths.
This event is open to the Hertie School community. Prior registration required.
Speakers
Dr. Grażyna Baranowska is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hertie School in Berlin. She has also worked as a Policy Advisor on enforced disappearances in the German Institute for Human Rights and supported drafting the General Comment on enforced disappearances and migration of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances. Since August 2022, she is a member of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances. She is the Principal Investigator of MIRO, a project funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, which seeks to identify and interpret international legal obligations regarding ‘missing migrants’ and accordingly critique and shape the practices of the EU, its Member States, and pertinent international organisations.
Dr. Betül Durmuş is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Fundamental Rights working for the project ‘Deep Impact through Soft Jurisprudence? The Contribution of United Nations Treaty Body Case Law to the Development of International Human Rights Law’. She is also a human rights law case reporter for Oxford Reports on International Law and she has published 21 case reports from seven United Nations treaty bodies on issues pertaining to transitional justice, sexual violence, children’s rights, and discrimination based on ethnic origin and disability. She received her PhD degree in public law from Koç University in 2022 with her thesis examining whether and how international human rights law reconciles children’s rights with parental control rights and state interests in the child’s upbringing.
Silvia Steininger is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Hertie School's Centre for Fundamental Rights. Her research engages in interdisciplinary perspectives on international law and domestic, regional, and international courts, in particular in the area of human rights and economic law. Her PhD, supervised by Professor Armin von Bogdandy at Goethe University Frankfurt, analysed the backlash and resilience of regional human rights regimes in Europe and the Americas. Silvia is also Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She publishes and presents widely on matters of international law, human rights, and international investment law in English, German, and Spanish.
