CGHR Student Group Michaelmas 2025 Update
This term, the CGHR Student Group has been preparing for upcoming events and opportunities for students interested in the centre’s work.
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28/11/25
Sharath gives lecture on Sudan’s resistance committees at the University of Manchester
The invited lecture, 'Rethinking resistance: Sudan’s resistance committees during revolution, peace and war', was based on Sharath's own research and collaborative research with Matthew Benson-Strohmeyer and Raga Makawi.
26/11/25
Ashwin gives research talk at King’s College on discretion in algorithmic policing
The talk examined the incorporation of an indigenously developed AI facial recognition software-enabled image search function in everyday policing in Kerala, Southwest India.
26/11/25
Sharath delivers keynote at INDL-MEA 2 2025 Conference
The keynote, “Challenging the ‘thingness’ of AI from Eastern Africa”, was given at the second International Network on Digital Labor – Middle East and Africa Conference.
21/11/25
Special event with Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms
A delegation from Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) will be in Cambridge for a special event at King's College Chapel on 26th November 2025.
14/11/25
Projects on banned books will support Academic Freedoms Research Network
The Centre of Governance and Human Rights' Academic Freedoms Research Network, supported by CRASSH, will advance three projects related to banned book collections.
11/11/25
Ashwin publishes paper on the gendering of emergent technology
A new paper co-written by CGHR Postdoctoral Scholar, Ashwin Varghese, and Aishwarya Rajeev, has been published in The Economic and Labour Relations Review.
04/11/25
Sharath shares his insights on Sudan with FRANCE 24
Sharath is interviewed by FRANCE 24 to discuss the latest developments in Sudan's El-Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city.
17/10/25
CGHR co-sponsors CRASSH Academic Freedoms Research Network
The research network will build an interdisciplinary community of scholars interested in understanding and advocating for the protection of academic freedom.
25/06/25
Humanities, Social Sciences and AI – Transversal Theme: a Lego Serious Play workshop
On Friday, 3 June 2025, Ella and Sharath convened the first Connections event of the ‘Humanities, Social Sciences and AI’ Transversal Theme: a Lego Serious Play workshop.
20/06/25
Sharath organises panel at ECAS 2025
The panel will focus on the complex trajectories of AI within eastern Africa, in order to interrogate AI’s impacts within lived realities in the region.
04/06/25
Tayarisha Writer’s workshop
On 9th May, our Postdoctoral Scholar Dr Ashwin Varghese participated in the Tayarisha Writer's workshop, where he was working on a paper on E-Governance and the Kerala Model:…