Report: Cambridge Symposium on Protest and Peaceful Assembly
Dr Antoine Sander looks back on this invitation international symposium, convened by CGHR, Amnesty International and European Centre for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL).
Dr Antoine Sander looks back on this invitation international symposium, convened by CGHR, Amnesty International and European Centre for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL).
In this article, Dr Antoine Sander considers social media's impact on the public sphere.
On 13 May 2026, CGHR hosted ‘Assemble! Protest Politics and Rights’, a public panel to mark the launch of the Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly.
As the battle for Paris mayor raged in early 2026, Antoine’s research on local social movement #saccageparis received attention from several French media outlets.
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.
CGHR Postdoctoral Scholar
Antoine is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Governance and Human Rights, working on the “Communication Technology and Contentious Politics” research theme.
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.
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.
Professor Srinivasan’s recently published chapter, in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly that he co-edits, re-centres the place of assembly in political theory.
Co-Director of CGHR
David and Elaine Potter Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, where he is Co-Director of the Centre of Governance and Human Rights…