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HRC Research Platform

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Creativity and Human Rights

This Platform has grown out of a major research project at the HRC which explores the complex links between culture, art, creativity, and human rights. Over the last four years, this project has attracted a range of scholars in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, Asian and Pacific Studies and the Creative Arts; several workshops have already been held, as well as an international conference and exhibition on ‘Art and Human Rights’ in 2003. In 2007 it is hoped to hold another conference focusing on how writers, performing and visual artists are engaging with issues of human rights in the contemporary world, addressing such themes as war, terrorism, and security. This Research Platform also connects with the programs of the HRC’s Freilich Foundation for Tolerance and Studies of Bigotry; with a new interdisciplinary Human Rights research network being formed at The Australian National University; and with the National Europe Centre’s project, ‘The Cultures of Human Rights’, which explores the theoretical underpinnings of human rights discourse.

To go on the Creativity and Human Rights Mailing List go here.