The Centre for Fundamental Rights is hosting a series of lunchtime talks and workshops to support research career development. The first of these brings together recipients of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships, the EU’s flagship funding programme for postdoctoral training. The invited scholars will share their experiences of the research design, application, and grant management processes.
PhD and postdoctoral researchers at the Hertie School, as well as other members of the Hertie School’s community are invited to attend. Please note that the number of participants in each seminar is limited. Timely and binding registration is advisable, places will be awarded on a "first come, first served" basis.
Please note that registration is now closed.
Speakers
Grażyna Baranowska is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School in Berlin. Her project, MIRO, funded through the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, 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. Baranowska is also Assistant Professor in the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In her former work as a researcher and policy advisor on enforced disappearances at the German Institute for Human Rights, she published a report on “Disappeared Migrants and Refugees”. Between 2016 and 2019, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in an EU funded project on Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspective.
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Francesca Lessa is a Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Development at the Oxford Department of International Development and the Latin American Centre, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. Previously, she was the recipient of the European Commission's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship (Global) to conduct a project on transnational human rights violations in South America and Operation Condor. She is also the Honorary President of the Observatorio Luz Ibarburu (Uruguay) and an Affiliate Member of the Latin American Transitional Justice Network. Her research interests include human rights, memory, impunity, and transitional justice in South America. Her forthcoming book "The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America" will be published by Yale University Press in 2022.
Lilian Tsourdi is an Assistant Professor and Dutch Research Council grantee (NWO VENI laureate; NWO Hestia project leader) at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University, as well as a visiting professor at Sciences Po Paris. She is a member of the Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe, the ‘Odysseus Network’. As a current grantee of the Dutch Research Council she is researching the steering and solidarity potential of EU migration funding.
