About the Annual Lecture

The Annual Front Line Defenders Lecture was established in 2013 to provoke discussion and debate about the range of issues affecting human rights defenders as they work tirelessly to bring about changes and build robust civil societies. The lecture is broadly accessible to a general audience with an interest in philosophy, law, human rights or politics. Along with our partners TCD and UCD and new partners NUI Galway and Queens University Belfast, we will be bringing the lecture on tour in 2022. The tour will be over three days in March, 14th (Dublin) 15th (Galway) and 16th (Belfast).

The 2022 Lecturer

Anat Biletzki is the Albert Schweitzer Professor of Philosophy at Quinnipiac University. She has been a visiting scholar/professor at Cambridge University, Harvard University, Boston University, MIT, Bergen University in Norway, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. She writes on Wittgenstein, Hobbes, analytic philosophy, political thought, digital culture, and human rights. Outside academia, Biletzki has been active in several human rights organizations in Israel for over four decades, serving as chairperson of the board of B’Tselem – the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories – during the second intifada (2001-2006). She has recently published Philosophy of Human Rights: A Systematic Introduction (Routledge 2019).

Register for Event(s):

You can register for any lecture in Dublin, Galway or Belfast via the links below. All lectures are free of charge.

Dublin Lecture: Introduction by Andrew Anderson

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Galway Lecture: Introduction by Tara Madden

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Belfast Lecture: Introduction by Olive Moore

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