EVENTS

Events

Keynote: ‘Democracy and the Clashes of Universals’, Abolishing Democracy: Is the Future Post-Political?, University of Catania, Sicily, 16-17 January 2016

Keynote: ‘If free speech comprises a total set of human activities, does artificial intelligence merely comprise a subset?’, Roundtable on Generative AI and Freedom of Expression, hosted by Natalie Alkiviadou, Jordi Calvet-Bademunt, Martin Ebers, Alexander Hohlfeld, Emmanuel Vargas Penagos and The Future of Free Speech, Örebro University, 1 December 2025

Panellist, Has the time for socialism arrived?, Oxford Literary Festival, 27 March 2026

Invited debater: ‘Proposed motion: We must criminalise lying in politics’, Conduit Club, 19 January 2026 (host: Marcus Ball)

Keynote: ‘Democracy and the Clashes of Universals’, Abolishing Democracy: Is the Future Post-Political?, University of Catania, Sicily, 16-17 January 2016

Keynote speaker, Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech (public debate), Leuven Institute for Advanced Study (LIAS), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 18 December 2025

Keynote speaker, ‘Do any free speech principles follow from “the very nature” of higher education?’ chaired by Viki Kosta (Leiden), Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech (expert seminar), Leuven Institute for Advanced Study (LIAS), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 16 December 2025

Keynote: ‘The academic “community” cannot impose its own restrictions on speech’, KUL 600 Year anniversary conference on The Future of the University, with Sari Lindblom and Ashish Arora (KUL) (Vasiliki Kosta, Manon Kluijtmans, discussants, moderated by Karen Maex) Leuven Institute for Advanced Study, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 11 December 2025

Panellist: ‘How free should online speech be?’, Confronting Hate Crime, Public Policy Exchange (online, host: Mark Anderson), 11 December 2025

Keynote: ‘Democratic Citizenship and Online Expression’ speaker, Resilient Democracy Online: Reimagining Civic Debate on Social Media, Brussels School of Governance and Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies (BRIAS) (hosted by Tom Willaerts), 3 December 2025

‘Reappropriation of Slurs’, Reappropriation of Slurs and the Implications for Trade Mark Registration – Roundtable, UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law, University College London (hosted by Ilanah Fhima), 5 November 2025

‘Is the Golden Age of Free Speech at an End and Did It Really Exist?’, The Ethical Society of Northern Westchester, 2 November 2025

Book Talk on Coming Clean, moderated by Abadir M. Ibrahim, Harvard Law School, 30 October 2025

Joined in conversation by Princeton Professor Shamus Khan to discuss Coming Clean, Princeton Public Library, 28 October 2025

What should ‘progressive’ mean in the 21st century?, Democracy in the 21st Century: Freedom and Innovation in the Technological Age (hosted by Karel Janeček), Institute H21, 12 Sept 2025, Institute H21, Prague.

‘Coming Clean’ Book Tour

— Spring 2025 —

CHICAGO — April 11, 4 p.m.

Seminary Co-op Bookstores, 5751 S Woodlawn, Chicago, IL 60637 ● Live event open to public ●
https://www.semcoop.com/event/eric-heinze-coming-clean

PHILADELPHIA — April 17, 5:30 p.m.

Penn Bookstore, 3601 Walnut St., 19104, Philadelphia ● Second Floor ● Live event open to public ●
https://www.business-services.upenn.edu/coming-clean-rise-critical-theory-and-future-left

NEW JERSEY (Online) — April 21

US Fulbright Association, New Jersey Chapter ● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_C7qq-cfsY

BALTIMORE — April 23, 12 p.m.

University of Baltimore ● Invitation only

PROVIDENCE — April 26, 4 p.m.

Symposium Bookshop, 240 Westminster St, Providence, RI 02903 ● Live event open to public ●
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-x-red-ink-present-eric-heinzes-coming-clean-tickets-1314018417459?aff=oddtdtcreator

OSSINING, NY — April 27, 11 a.m.

The Ethical Society of Northern Westchester, 108 Pinesbridge Road, Ossining NY ● Live event open to public, streamed to Zoom ● https://esnw.org/after-trump-whats-the-next-step-for-progressives-with-eric-heinze-professor-of-law-humanities-director-centre-for-law-democracy-and-society-school-of-law/

STATEN ISLAND — April 28, 12 p.m.

College of Staten Island – City University of New York ● Invitation only

MONTCLAIR, NJ — May 3, 10 a.m.

The Montclair Literary Festival, at First Congregational Church/The Guild Room, 40 S Fullerton Ave, Montclair, NJ 07042 ● Live Book Launch event open to public ● discussant, Prof. Michael Paris, CSI – CUNY

LONDON, UK — May 23, 7 p.m.

Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place London W2 1QJ United Kingdom ● Moderator: Paul Henley, BBC World Service, discussant: Edmundo Bracho-Polanco, Journalist and Director of Doctoral Research Development at Westminster School of Media and Communications ● Live and online ● https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/coming-clean-the-rise-of-critical-theory-and-the-future-of-the-left-tickets-1284424290629?aff=oddtdtcreator

‘Open Knowledge, Free Expression, and Publishing’s Future’, interviewed by Amy Brand, Director of The MIT Press, Union Club, London, 27 February 2025

‘Then must the Jew be merciful: a study of “Jewish Duress Syndrome,’ London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, 11 December 2024 (Chair: Prof. István Pogany, facilitator: Martine Hayes) (online)

‘Should universities censor more – or less – speech than the law requires?‘, Chuo ‘University, Tokyo, 18 November 2024 (host: Prof. Hitoshi Ushijima)

‘Do Speech Regulations Misconstrue Social Controversies?’, 2nd Privacy Study Group: AI, Right to Privacy, and Personal Information Protection, Toyo University, Tokyo, 16 November 2024 (discussant: Prof. Junko Kotani, moderator: Prof. Satoshi Yokodaido, host: Prof. Takayuki Kato).

Panelist, Media Diversity Institute: Better to offend a few than to censor many? (online), 9 October 2024

‘Combatting Hatred Through Censorship?’ Confronting Hate Crime, Public Policy Exchange (online, host: Mark Anderson), 24 Sept 2024

Panelist, ‘Antisemitism in Higher Education’, London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, University of Westminster, 3 June 2024

Keynote: From Knowledge to Power: Revisiting LGBTQ+ epistemologies, University of Westminster, 31 May 2024

SLS Annual Seminar, Free Speech, University Of Central Lancashire (Organiser: Ian Turner), 11 – 12 June 2024

Keynote: ‘The Disappearance of Human Rights through Artificial Intelligence’, Kuwait International Law School, 1 – 2 May 2024, Kuwait City

‘How much free speech should schools promote?’, Public Policy Exchange, London (online) (host: Mark Anderson), 25 April 2024

‘Do Speech Bans Help Minorities?’, Free Speech and Academic Freedom across the disciplines, QMUL, 24 April 2024

Guest speaker, MEDIAdelcom (EU multi-state consortium project) final conference, Brussels, 15 Feb. 2024

Guest speaker, Cancellare e punire: Discorso pubblico e conflitti identitari (Cancelling and punishing: Public Discourse and identitarian conflicts), Law Faculty, University of Bologna, 3 Nov. 2023 (hsosted by Profs. Emanuela Fronza and Corrado Caruso)

Panelist at cross-party Parliamentary group on accountability in Iran with United Nations Special Rapporteur on Iran Javaid Rehman, organised by Association of Anglo-Iranian Women in the UK and Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI), UK Parliament, 18 July 2023

Keynote: ‘Are Universities Supposed to Be Democratic?’, Internationalisation and Risks to Academic Freedom, QMUL (hosted by Matthieu Burnay, Global Policy Institute, QMUL), 13 July 2023

Presentation of The Most Human Right, Oxford Literary Festival, Exeter College, Oxford, 30 March 2023

‘Online decorum and the limits of speech regulation’, Online conference on New Media Technologies and Social Impact: Digital Civility and Online Communication, Global Convergence Contents Research Center (GCCRC), Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, 20 March 2023 (organised by Minwoong Chung)

Invited Panelist: ‘Memory Laws: International and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives’, European Studies Centre, St. Antony’s College, Oxford 13 March 2023 (hosted by Gabriele Metzler and Jakob Zollmann)

Featured Speaker: Juris North Legal Theory Group, ‘Critical Legal Theory: What has it been and what should it be?’, hosted by Jorge Núñez, Discussant: Ian Turner, 8 February 2023

Keynote: Final Conference of the first phase of “The Future of Free Speech” Parliament of Denmark, Copenhagen, 15 December 2022, sponsored by the Justitia Institute

General Rapporteur, Académie internationale de droit comparatif (International Academy of Comparative Law), ‘Criminalization of hate speech’, General Congress, Asunción (Paraguay) 27 October 2022

Keynote: Table ronde sur droit et litérature (round table on law and literature), Académie internationale de droit comparatif (International Academy of Comparative Law), General Congress, Asunción (Paraguay) 25 October 2022

Panelist: ‘What do judges need to know about hate speech?’, Forum of Legal Actors, Asser Institute, The Hague, 4 October 2022, hosted by Uladzislau Belavusau

Guest lecture: ‘Human Rights and Free Speech’, Ethical Society of Northern Westchester (New York), online, 18 Sept. 2022 (organiser Dr. Robert Berson)

‘What Would “Critical Antisemitism Studies” Look Like?’, Conference: 21st Century Antisemitism, London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, London, 13 Sept 2022, hosted by David Hirsh and David Seymour

Panelist on Women and the Media, Fazana Media Festival, 7 – 10 September 2022, Fazana, Croatia

‘Disloyalty Propaganda as Hate Speech’, 15th EISA Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Panteion University, Athens, 4 Sept 2022, hosted by Paula Rhein-Fischer and Anna Wójcik

‘The Value and Costs of Free Speech: Four Perspectives,’ A virtual panel discussion featuring Katherine Cross, Jamal Greene, Eric Heinze, & Nadine Strossen, Northeastern Illinois University Libraries, 24 August 2022, Ed Remus (organiser)

‘Roundtable: The Ethics and Politics of “Harm”,’ British International Studies Association, 17 June 2022, University of Newcastle (James Pattison, chair; panelists: David J. Karp, Lara Montesinos Coleman (organisers), Owen Thomas, Alex Hoseason)

Keynote address: ‘Global Memory Politics’, Capturing the Past: Monuments, Conflicts, Law, Universiteit Gent, 21 January 2022 (organisers: Eva Brems and Alina Cherviatsova)

Podcast Debate with Prof. Adrienne Stone (Melbourne): ‘Free Speech Crisis in University’, Oxford Human Rights Hub, 21 Sept 2021 https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-09-21-new-oxhrh-rightsup-podcast-free-speech-crisis-university-0

‘How much free speech do human rights require?’, International Congress on the legal and social challenges of the extreme exercise of freedom of expression, Centro de Medios Audiovisuales – Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), 8 – 10 June 2021

‘Theorising Law and Historical Memory’, Negotiating Troubled Pasts: History, Politics, Arts and the Media, organised by RePast (Horizon 2020), online, 28 May 2021

‘Historical memory, human rights, and free speech’, presentation at colloquium on Just Memories: Remembrance and Restoration in the Aftermath of Political Violence, organised by Jeremy Sarkin, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa / Intersentia Publishing company (online), 10 Dec 2020

Hate Crime Consultation Online Roundtable (online) (commenting on UK Law Commission consultation paper concerning hate crimes legislation), organised by UK Free Speech Union, Wednesday, 28 October 2020

‘How much free speech do universities need?’, Associação de Direito de Família e das Sucessões (ADFAS) Brazil, International Congress (online), 19-21 August 2020

‘Why limit speech?’, Russian journalists UK Press Tour sponsored by the British Embassy in Moscow, organised by Thomson Reuters Foundation, London, 12 February 2020

‘The Inconsistency Inherent within Prevailing Conceptions of Human Rights’, Consistency in Human Rights, Department of International Development (ODID), Oxford University, 16 December 2019

‘How desirable is media regulation as a tool for combatting hate speech?’, Minority Identity in the Digital Age, European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany, 12-13 December 2019

‘The Foundations of Human Rights in Free Speech’, Dipartimento di Scienze politiche e sociali, Università degli studi di Catania, 4 Nov. 2019

‘Non-Western Traditions and Universal Rights’, Multi-disciplinary approaches to contemporary issues in Religion and Society, University of Westminster, London, 17 October 2019

‘Does Islam confirm the universality of human rights?’, Muslim Minorities and Human Rights, Centre for Arab Progress, Senate House, University of London, 5 September 2019

‘From Memory Laws to Law and Historical Memory’, Collaborative Creativity for Digital Memories, Schools of Management, Drama, and Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, 17 June 2019, hosted by Jill Marshall

Guest speaker (delivered in French), ‘Quel est le «monde» des minorités sexuelles?’, Échanges pluridisciplinaires concernant la protection des minorités sexuelles et des minorités de genres au XXIème siècle : entre violence, tolérance et acceptation, Centre LGBT+ de Bordeaux, le Girofard, Université de Bordeaux, 5 June 2019

Keynote speaker, ‘The Arguments against No-Platforming’, No-Platforming and Freedom of Expression, Journalism and Media International Centre (JMIC), Oslo, 6 – 7 May 2019

Guest speaker, ‘An Anti-Universal Model of International Human Rights’, Civita Academy, Oslo, Norway, 4 May 2019

Invited participant, ‘Heritage and Change’, Global Issues – Integrating Different Perspectives (collaboratively hosted by The Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark; Compagnia di San Paolo, Italy; Volkswagen Foundation, Germany; Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden) University of Lund, Sweden, 2-3 May 2019

Guest lecturer, ‘Three Lectures on the Concept of “Legal Modernity”.’ School of Law, Renmin University, Beijing, 2 – 4 April 2019

Panelist, ‘Historical denialism within Speech Act Theory’, commenting on Daniel Innerarity, ‘Democracy as Interpretation: How to Combat Fake News’, University of Bologna, hosted by Emanuela Fronza and Corrado Caruso, 13 March 2019

‘Hate speech and stirring up of hatred offences’, Law Commission, Hate Crime Research Conference, Oxford Brookes University, 8 March 2019

Panel speaker on university No-Platforming, Common Ground, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, 24 Jan 2019

Guest speaker, ‘Should the Right to Free Speech be Unconditional?’, Chevening Society, QM London, 10 Dec 2018

‘Do “No Platform” policies threaten free speech at university’, Debating Society, St. George’s University, London, 7 Dec 2018

Discussant, ‘We The Peoples Film Festival’, Human Rights themed films at Miranda, 24 Nov. 2018 (commenting three films: Are you volleyball?!, Facing Death with Wirecutter, and Afghanistanbul)

‘On the Theory of Law and Historical Memory’, T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague, 19 Oct 2018

‘A Linguistic Turn for Human Rights’, Conference on Systems Theory and Human Rights, Centre for Law & Society, University of Lancaster, School of Law, 18 October 2018

Introductory Remarks, ‘Memory Laws in Post-Transitional Democracies: Case Studies from Post-Communist States’, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 9 Oct 2018

‘No-platforming and safe spaces: Should universities censor more (or less) speech than the law requires?’, Tackling Extremism within Higher Education Institutions: Preserving Academic Freedom and Fighting Intolerance, Public Policy Exchange, London, 5 Sept 2018

‘Shifting paradigms in historical memory’, Circulating across Europe? Transgressive Narratives about the Past, Harvard University, 28-29 August 2018

‘Free Speech, Not Censorship’, The ‘How to’ Academy, London, 3 July 2018

Panel discussant, ‘Deirdre McCloskey, Bourgeois Equality’, Oxford University Foundation for Law, Justice and Society (FLJS), 14 June 2018

‘Revisiting gender in Shakespeare’, Othello on Trial (or the Tragedy of Desdemona, the Wife), Performance/Discussion, Bloomsbury Studio, 11 June 2018

‘Free speech within transitional democracy’, Guest lecture and panellist presentation, Hate Speech, Symbols, and Memories, Department of Political Science, University of Zagreb, lecture and workshop, 5-6 June 2018

‘Historical denialism and human rights’, Recognition, Denial, and Human Rights: Theoretical Approaches, QMUL, 24 May 2018

‘Historical denialism and the political foundation of human rights’, Speaker Series Time, Memory and Criminal Law, University of Bologna, 16 May 2018

Keynote address, ‘A theory of post-conflict human rights’, After the War: Diplomatic Strategies for Post-Conflict Environments, Kings College London, 12 April 2018

‘Towards a Theory of Law and Historical Memory’, Legal Governance of Historical Memory in Comparative Perspective, UC Berkeley Law School, Co-sponsored by the T.M.C. Asser Institute (The Hague), the Center for the Study of Law and Society (UC Berkeley) and the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law (UC Berkeley), 3 April 2018

Discussant for panel on Engineering Citizens and Values via Memory Laws, Council for European Studies, 25th annual conference, Chicago, Illinois, 29 March 2018

‘The performance of law’s legitimacy in Richard II’, Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (KiSS), 24 March 2018

Seminar on Hate Speech and Democratic Citizenship, Legal and Political Theory Events Series / Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway, 9 March 2018

Panel discussant, ‘The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power: Book Colloquium on Niall Ferguson’s reconceptualization of the Networked Age’, Oxford University Foundation for Law, Justice and Society (FLJS), 28 February 2018

‘An anti-libertarian defence of free speech’, Philosophy Department, New College of the Humanities, London, 31 January 2018

‘Theorising the discipline’, Book Colloquium: Law and Memory, Oxford University Foundation for Law, Justice and Society (FLJS), 17 January 2018

‘US versus European approaches to cyber-hate’, Mandatory/Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE London), 13 January 2018

‘Denialism and the Pre-conditions of Human Rights’, ‘(Dis)Claiming Pasts: Ownership, Responsibility and Contestation’, 14-15 December 2017, University of Ghent, Belgium

Keynote speaker (Delivered in Dutch), ‘Zijn de democratische beginselen van vrije meningsuiting per se liberaal?’ (‘Are democratic free speech principles necessarily liberal ones?’), in conference on Vrijheid van meningsuiting en de tweede Wilders-zaak (‘Freedom of expression and the second Wilders trial’), University of Leiden, 1 December 2017

Invited debater proposing the motion, ‘This House Regrets No-Platforming Policies in Universities’, University of Warwick Debating Society, 26 October 2017

‘Nietzsche versus Machiavelli in Shakespeare’, Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (KiSS), 2 Sept 2017

Seminar presentation, ‘Down with happiness, up with εὐδαιμονία: Towards a general theory of law and happiness’, Journal of Comparative Law Workshop, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 21 July 2017

Discussant, Symposium on monograph Hate Speech and Democratic Citizenship, 1-2 June 2017, Society for Applied Philosophy, Queen Mary, University of London

Panelist: ‘The Question of Moral Coherence: What do we Mean by Ethics “in the Context” of Palestine and Israel?’, The Occupation at 50: Past, Present, Futures, University of Sussex, 11-12 May 2017

Discussant for Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom Mark Regev, 27 April 2017, SOAS Jewish Society (JSoc) and Model United Nations Society, SOAS, London

Panelist, ‘The Legal Regulation of Historical Knowledge and its Significance for Human Rights’, MELA conference for 1st JCL special issue, 24 March 2017

Seminar presentation, ‘From national to global citizenship – What are the consequences for free speech?’, 9 March 2017, Terrorism & the Law: Freedom and Security in a Networked World Seminar Series, Queen Mary, University of London

Seminar presentation, ‘Do human rights require democracy?’ 8 March 2017, Juris North 2016-17 Working Paper Series, Durham University Law School

Plenary Speaker, ‘What is global citizenship?’, Strategies for Combating Intolerance on Social Media, 2 – 3 March 2017, Citizens’ Rights and Immigration Services, Barcelona City Council, Spain

Plenary Speaker, (Delivered in French) ‘De la pénalisation à la permission : analyse et critique des conditions de la libre expression dans les démocraties modernes’ [‘From penalisation to permissiveness : analysis and critique of free expression in modern democracies’], Colloque sur la cybercriminalité, 8 February 2017, Université de Montpellier

Invited discussant for Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom Mark Regev, 6 February 2017, Queen Mary Jewish Society, London

Seminar presentation, ‘Human rights and democracy?’, Political Theory Research Seminars, 2 Feb 2017, Cardiff University Political Theory Research Unit

Seminar presentation, ‘Revisiting the legitimacy of human rights: discursive instead of ontological foundations’, 7 Dec 2016, School of Law, Royal Holloway, University of London

Plenary Speaker: ‘Preserving democratic citizenship online’, International Congress on Crime and Cyberspace: Challenges for the 21th Century—Radicalism and hate on the Internet, Centro Crímina para el Estudio y Prevención de la Delincuencia (CRIMINA), 1 – 2 December 2016, Universidad Miguel Hernández Avda, Hélike Elche, Alicante, Spain

Plenary Speaker, ‘Is the UN even designed to be fair?’, panellist address at ‘Is the UN fair in its treatment of Israel-Palestine?’, 22 November 2016, University College London

Keynote Address, ‘History and the Problem of Human Rights Denialism’, Law and Memory: Addressing Historical Injustice by Law, 2 – 3 July 2016, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Panelist: ‘Defending speech with which we disagree’, Academic Freedom, International Law, and ‘Balance’, Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research Roundtable, 12 May 2016

Seminar presentation, ‘Campus hate preachers: Government policy is getting it precisely wrong’, Countering Violent Extremism, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, Goodenough College, London, 2 March 2016

Plenary Speaker: ‘Recorded as a Precedent: Revisiting Law and Sovereignty in The Merchant of Venice, Kingston Shakespeare Seminar in Theory (KiSSiT), 19 Dec 2015

Plenary Speaker, ‘How shall we divide up the freedom pie?’, Experiencing the Law: Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Human Rights, Institute of Contemporary British History, Kings College London, 10 December 2015

Plenary Speaker, ‘Free Speech and Democratic Values’, Society for Applied Philosophy workshop on Hate Speech Law and Political Philosophy, London, Senate House, 12 November 2015

2015-16 Inaugural Oxford University Max Watson Memorial Lecture, ‘Hate Speech and Democratic Citizenship’, Oxford University Foundation for Law, Justice and Society (FLJS), 29 October 2015

Plenary Speaker, (Delivered in French) « Et pourtant, Jean-Jacques aimait bien parler… quel rapport entre la démocratie et la liberté d’expression ? » (‘And yet Rousseau liked to talk… what links democracy to free expression ?’), Liberté d’expression et « discours de haine » , Université de Lyon 3 – Jean Moulin, 27 March 2015

Panel Debate on Free Speech, North London Literary Festival, 24 March 2015 (with British journalists Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Kurt Barling, and Christina Patterson)

‘Seeing and Time: Mass Media and the “Temporality” of Human Rights’, Awareness’, Human Rights in the UK Media: Representation and Reality, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, 19 September 2014

Keynote Speaker, ‘Debating Hate Speech’, War of Words: International Conference on Media, Armed Conflict, and Hate Speech, International Federation of Journalists, Residence Palace, Brussels, 25 April 2014

Plenary Speaker, ‘Legal and Cultural Hybridity in Shakespeare’, Hybridity: Power, Social Structures and Institutions beyond the Liberal West, Institute of Advanced Studies, The University of Birmingham, 13 March 2014

General series discussant for Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (KiSS), and featured speaker: ‘Equivocation will undo us: Linguistic transformation as legal strategy in Shakespearean political drama’, 27 February 2014

Keynote Speaker, Online Hate Speech, Conference of the European Law Students Association, Oslo, Norway, 3-8 December 2013

‘Law and Literature: a Dilettante’s Dream?’, discussant for Prof William Twining, Wolfson College, Oxford, 26 November 2013

Seminar presentation, ‘Democracy and Hate Speech’, School of Law, University of Surrey, Wednesday 13 November 2013

Plenary Speaker, ‘Hate Speech and the Role of the Media’, Media-4-Change Conference, Cagliari, Sardinia from 24-26 October 2013

Conference on ‘Hate Crime: The Case for Extending the Existing Offences’, UK Law Commission conference, 17 September 2013

Seminar presentation, ‘On the General Theory of Comparative Law: Some Analogies to Literature’, Inter-Disciplinary Approaches to Comparative Law, University of Notre Dame in London, 25 July 2013

Seminar presentation, ‘Sex, Islam and Empire’, Law, Religion & LGBT Rights, Brunel University Law Department, 5 July 2013

Seminar presentation, ‘State, Empire, and Historical Memory in Early Modernity’, Law, Faith and Historical Memory, University of East London, 12 June 2013

Seminar presentation, ‘The Future of Hate Speech Bans’, Staff Seminar, Institute for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, 31 June 2013

Seminar presentation, (Delivered in French) ‘Droit et limites dans l’Andromaque de Jean Racine’, Droit et Frontières, Sciences-Po, Paris, 23 May 2013

Seminar presentation, ‘The hermeneutics of the bargain in Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens’, Money Matters – Transactions between Money and Literature, QMUL, London, 2 May 2013

Seminar presentation, ‘Hamlet and the thresholds of “sense”‘, Law and the Senses, University of Westminster, 18 April 2013

Seminar presentation, ‘The Problem of Ahistoricism in Legal Theory’, IVR-UK, Queen Mary, London, 12 April 2013

Seminar presentation, The Critique of Law in Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part II and Hamlet, Staff Seminar, Liverpool John Moores University, 4 Dec 2012

Seminar presentation, ‘Arguing about Hate Speech Bans’, Civil Society Colloquium, Norway-Civitas, New College, Oxford, 16 Sept 2012

Seminar presentation, ‘The Empirically Imperial in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline’, Face to Face – Encounters between the Arts and Sciences: Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London, 22 June 2012

Seminar presentation, ‘Where be his quiddities now?’: Law and Language in Hamlet’, Current Legal Issues Colloquium 2011: Law and Language, UCL, 4 – 5 July 2011

‘Hate Speech Bans: For and Against’ (debate with Henning Koch), University of Copenhagen Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, 6 April 2011

Seminar presentation, ‘The Concept of Injustice’, Leicester University, Department of Law, 23 March 2011

Seminar presentation, ‘What is Injustice?’ Warwick University, Law Dept, 24 Nov 2010

Keynote Speaker, ‘The challenges of human rights in an era of globalisation’, The challenge of upholding universal Human Rights: Can universal Human Rights survive in today’s globalised world?, Oxford University Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme alumni conference, Ascot, 24 October 2010

Keynote Speaker, ‘Human Rights and the Mass Media’, Law and Politics: Democracy, Human Rights and Power, University of Westminster, 10 June 2010

Seminar presentation, ‘The Politics of Rights’, special lecture within the ongoing seminar series Retreat from Human Rights, 27 November 2009, Newcastle Law School

Plenary Speaker, ‘Majorities, Beliefs, and Sex’, Multiculturalism – Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Traps, 15 Oct 2009, Anti-discrimination Training Academy, Villa Decius, Krakow, Poland

Seminar presentation, ‘Human Rights, Gender and the Media’, Gender Futures: Law, Critique and the Struggle for Something More, 3 – 4 April 2009, Expert Committee Member, Media 4 Diversity – Seminar on Media and Diversity, Prague, 5 – 7 February 2009

Seminar presentation, ‘Cumulative Jurisprudence and Hate Speech: Sexual Orientation and Analogies to Disability, Age and Obesity’, Sexuality, Hatred and Law, 6 May 2008, Durham University

Seminar presentation, ‘“Truth” and “Myth” in Critical Theory: Liberal Rights and the Ethnocentrism of Anti-Ethnocentrism’, Workshop on Rights Discourse, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, 15 – 16 May 2008, Oñati, Spain

Plenary Speaker, ‘Child Protection: An Absolute Value?’, Child Protection and the Internet, April 30, 2007, University of Toronto, Canada

Invited comment on Yale Law Professor R. Post’s presentation about hate speech, plenary session for Extreme Speech and Democracy: A Comparative View, 23 April, 2007, Cambridge University

Comment on presentation by Professor C. Brants on ‘Glorification of Terrorism’, Religious Pluralism and human rights in Europe: where to draw the line? May 9-10, 2006, Utrecht University

Seminar presentation, ‘A Coherence Theory of Hate Speech Bans’, Hate Speech: Conference and Consultation, Central European University, Budapest, March 30 – April 1, 2006

Plenary Speaker, ‘Hate Speech in l’état social’, Mainstreaming Diversity, Luxemburg Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxemburg, 27-28 June 2005

Seminar presentation, ‘Sexual Orientation and the Manufacture of Cross-Cultural “Sensitivity”‘, Human Rights and Cultural Relativism, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University, Wolfson College, 1 Dec. 2000

Plenary Speaker, ‘Tolerance as Discrimination’, ‘Discrimination and Tolerance,’ Danish Centre for Human Rights, Copenhagen, 7-9 May 2000

Seminar presentation, ‘If Two’s Company, is Three a Minority Group?’, ‘Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships: A Conference on National, European and International Law,’ Centre of European Law, School of Law, King’s College, University of London, 1-3 July 1999

Seminar presentation, ‘The Concepts of Race and Ethnicity in International Human Rights Law’, Lecture Series, ‘Human Rights – 50 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,’ Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, February 2, 1999

Seminar presentation, ‘Legal Meta-Discourse and Comparative Discrimination Law,’ International Conference on Comparative Non-Discrimination Law, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 22-24 June 1998

Plenary Speaker, ‘Discourses of Sexuality: Classical, Modernist and Post-Modernist,’ Conference on ‘Sexual Rights as Human Rights,’ Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, 14-16 February 1997

Seminar presentation, ‘The Construction and Contingency of the Minority Concept,’ Conference on ‘Minority and Group Rights Toward the New Millenium’, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, 3 May 1996

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