Past events
22 November 2024
Dr Kubal represented HuRiEE at the ASEEES 2024 convention in Boston, US. She took part in the ‘Undoing Legal Authoritarianism in Poland and Elsewhere’ roundtable discussion, with Jan Kubik (Rutgers University, University College London), Richard Mole (University College London), David Ost (Hobart & William Smith Colleges), and Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University).
13-14 November 2024
The HuRiEE team conducted their fourth team away day and met in Oxford to discuss the key next steps of the project.
4 November 2024
Dr Kubal gave a seminar lecture at the Centre of Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, titled ‘Mobilizing Human Rights in Poland: Using Socio-Legal Archives to Connect Past and Present’.
5-6 September 2024
Dr Kubal represented HuRiEE at the 'Exploring the ‘Human’ of the European Court of Human Rights' workshop in Zurich. She participated in the 'Humans on and Before the Bench' panel and discussed 'Who Are the Humans Behind Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Russia?'.
3-6 September 2024
Dr Huszka participated in the 'Representing Law' conference in Bangor, Wales, organised by the Research Committee on Sociology of Law. She took part in the 'Legal Consciousness: the Use of Micro Lenses' panel and spoke about mobilising European courts in defence of sexual minorities' rights in Hungary and Romania.
27-30 August 2024
Hanna Oliinyk took part in the 'Witnessing the War in Ukraine: Testimony in the Pursuit of Justice' Summer Institute in Wrocław, Poland. The event centred on testimony research and its role to advance justice, with particular focus on the concept of genocide.
27-30 June 2024
Hanna Oliinyk took part in the 'Re(kn)own: Region(s) from Within' Conference, organised by the RUTA Association. She participated in the roundtable 'Decolonizing ''Communist Secret Services Archives'': Memory Politics, Human Rights, and Knowledge Production Challenges,' where she talked about 'Search for Human Rights in the Ukrainian Communist Archives.'
8 June 2024
Hanna Oliinyk represented HuRiEE at the British International Studies Association Conference in Birmingham (BISA 2024). She spoke at a roundtable titled 'Ukrainian Identity, Regional Diversity, and Wartime Unity,' where she discussed how Ukrainian human rights activists and legal professionals are addressing the challenges of the Russian war in Ukraine.
7 June 2024
Dr Huszka published an op-ed (with a co-author, Zsolt Körtvélyesi) in the EU Law Live Symposium entitled “The Impact of Enlargement on Human Rights in the EU: Disentangling Negative Trends”.
2 May 2024
Dr Kubal gave a lecture at ELTE university in Budapest, Hungary titled ‘The epistemological reflection on the humans behind Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Russia’.
24 April 2024
Dr Kubal hosted a discussion panel on LGBTQ+ rights in Poland, followed by a film screening ‘Woman of…’ at Bloomsbury Theatre by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert.
5-7 April 2024
The HuRiEE team organised two panels at the BASEES Annual Conference in Cambridge. Each of the team members gave an update on their research so far in the panel: Human rights in Eastern Europe: historical and comparative perspectives. Then Agnieszka presented with Ramona Coman, Leonardo Puelo, and Birgit Apitzsch on authoritarian backsliding and forms of resistance to it.
29 February 2024
The HuRiEE project was delighted to host Professor Alice Margaria at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, where she spoke on ‘Juggling Justice: Insights from the Strasbourg Bench’, discussing the ways judges manage the complexities of the European Court of Human Rights.
2 December 2023
Dr Kubal presented at the 2023 ASEEES annual convention in Philadelphia as part of a panel on ‘Access to Justice: Challenges in Russia, Eastern Europe and Kazakhstan’. Dr Kubal reflected on the ways that Polish citizens mobilised through the European Court of Human Rights in response to authoritarian backsliding following the infamous abortion law.
6-8 November 2023
The HuRiEE team conducted their third team away day and met in Berlin to finalise the publication strategy for the project.
25-27 October 2023
Dr Kubal was a guest speaker for the keynote plenary discussion at the 22nd Annual Alexantieri Conference in Helsinki. The conference centred on discussions of ‘Decolonizing Space in the Global East: Legal Choices, Political Transformations, Carceral Practices’.
19-20 October 2023
Dr Kubal and Dr Huszka, together with the project partners Professor Birgit Apitzsch and Professor Ramona Coman attended the launch of the ‘Judicial Activism as a modality of resistance and a form of communication’ project in Brussels. Dr Kubal introduced the keynote speaker for the conference, Professor John Morijn.
21 September 2023
Dr Kubal published the article ‘The Women’s Complaint: sociolegal mobilization against authoritarian backsliding following the 2020 abortion law in Poland’ in the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
16 September 2023
Dr Kubal organised the ‘Rule of law Crisis in Poland'. A public lecture with Professor Adam Bodnar (SWPS)’ event at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
30 August-1 September 2023
Dr Kubal and Dr Huszka presented at the 2023 Annual meeting of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law: Law, Society, and Digital Pasts, Presents and Futures. Dr Kubal presented early research from the HuRiEE project on a sociological profile of court applicants and Dr Huszka discussed legal mobilisation for language rights of the Hungarian minority in Romania.
23 May 2023
Dr Kubal and Dr Huszka (supported by Prof Birgit Apitzsch, Bochum and Prof Ramona Coman, Brussels) have been awarded follow up funding from the British Academy’s Knowledge Frontiers Symposia for their project on ‘Comparing Judicial Activism’.
31 March-2 April 2023
Dr Kubal and Denis Shedov represented the HuRiEE team at the 2023 BASEES conference in Glasgow. Dr Kubal presented a paper on ‘Women’s complaint to ECtHR as a window into the Polish society’ and Denis Shedov participated in a panel on Russia’s exit from the Council of Europe.
24-25 February 2023
Dr Kubal presented at the When Justice Migrants workshop. Her talk has since been published in the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Civil and Political Studies: ‘Dissenting Consciousness: A Socio-Legal Analysis of Russian Migration Cases before the European Court of Human Rights’.
21 October 2022
Launch event: Human Rights against democratic backsliding in Poland
10 January 2022
Dr Kubal has been awarded the ERC grant for the project HuRiEE (2022 – 2027)