Op donderdag 11 december om 20 uur, op het IIRE instituut in Amsterdam, vindt een lezing plaats van prof. dr. Robin Blackburn. Professor Blackburn is een Britse historicus en socioloog aan de Essex University, en voormalig hoofdredacteur van de New Left Review.

Hij is een autoriteit op het gebied van de geschiedenis van de slavernij en schreef onder andere The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848(1988); The Making of New World Slavery: from the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800(1997) en American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights(2011). Zijn lezing is getiteld: ‘Who invented Human Rights? Where did these ideas come from and do they really help the cause of progress?’

On Thursday 11 December, at 20:00h at the IIRE institute in Amsterdam, Professor Robin Blackburn will give a lecture entitled: ‘Who invented Human Rights? Where did these ideas come from and do they really help the cause of progress?’ Mister Blackburn is a British historian and social scientist at the Essex University, and also a former editor of the New Left Review. He is an authority on the field of the history of slavery, and wrote amongst other books The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848 (1988); The Making of New World Slavery: from the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 (1997) and American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights (2011).