Programme

9.00       Welcome Address: The Media and Human Rights, Michelle Farrell, University of Liverpool and Ekaterina Balabanova, University of Liverpool

9.30       Op Ed

Chair: Christian Henderson, University of Liverpool

They offer you a feature on stockings and suspenders next to a call for stiffer penalties for sex offenders: do we learn more about the media than about human rights from tabloid coverage of human rights? David Mead, Professor of UK Human Rights Law, University of East Anglia

10.15     Coffee/Tea

10.30     In the Headlines

Chair: Edel Hughes, University of East London

The Media War over Withdrawal from Strasbourg, Owen Bowcott, The Guardian

The Monstering of Human Rights: why politicians, press and public turned against the ECHR, Adam Wagner, One Crown Office, UK Human Rights Blog

The UK and the ECHR - the perspective from the rest of Europe, Nuala Mole, The Aire Centre

Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Distinguishing between Substance and Rhetoric in the “Turn Against Rights”, Colm O Cinneide, UCL

Press Freedom in the Media, Jacob Rowbottom, University of Oxford

12.30     Lunch

13.30     From our Reporters

Chair: Yvonne McDermott Rees, Bangor University 

Reporting Human Rights: A Study of Broadcast News Representations and Journalist Practices, Susana Sampaio Dias, University of Cardiff

Friendly Fire: Prisoner Voting Rights and Public Perceptions of Human Rights, Colin Murray, Newcastle Law School

“You can’t deport me, Tibbles would be lonely”: the UK media, immigration and the rewriting of human rights law, Eleanor Drywood, University of Liverpool and Harriet Gray, University of Liverpool

Angels and Demons- Children, Human Rights and the Media, Aoife Daly, University of Liverpool    

Changing the Record: Can charities play a more active role in shifting the debate on human rights? Nicky Hawkins, Equally Ours     

15.30     Tea/Coffee

15.45     Comment is Free

Chair: Gabe Mythen, University of Liverpool

The Human Rights Act: A villains’ charter after all? Lieve Gies, University of Leicester

Instrumentalism in Human Rights and the Media: What Place for Democratic Scepticism? Mike Gordon, University of Liverpool

The Media is to Perpetrators as Human Rights Law is to Victims: Discuss, Eric Heinze, Queen Mary, University of London

Celebrity Human Rights Defenders: Chuck D contra Scarlett Johansson, Michael Kearney, University of Sussex

17.15 Closing Remarks, Michael Dougan, Head of the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool