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SUMMARY:Public Keynote Lecture by Dr. Matthew Canfield: Towards Transd
 isciplinarity? Remaking Human Rights Research in Volatile Times
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DESCRIPTION:Keynote Address is part of the Transforming Human Rights 
 Methods Lab in collaboration with the Bonavero Institute of Human Righ
 ts Date and time: 9th July 2026 17.00-18.30 Location: In person at 
 Nuremberg\, FAU Forschungszentrum Center for Human Rights Erlangen-N
 ürnberg (FAU CHREN) 20201.03.210 (Hörsaal / Lecture Hall). Hybrid:
  via Zoom As computational technologies reshape our world\, the very 
 foundations of our legal systems are beginning to crack. How do we pro
 tect human rights when the “old ways” of law and scholarship are n
 o longer enough? Join us for keynote lecture by Dr. Matthew Canfield c
 hallenging us to rethink not just the law\, but the way we produce kno
 wledge itself. Dr. Matthew Canfield is a cultural anthropologist and 
 a socio-legal scholar. His research sits at the intersection of human 
 rights\, global governance\, and environmental politics\, focusing on 
 rights-based approaches to food systems. He is author of Translating 
 Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Gover
 nance (Stanford University Press\, 2022)\, which examines how transna
 tional food sovereignty movements are transforming the meaning and pra
 ctice of human rights in their struggle build more sustainable and equ
 itable food systems. Currently\, he is the Principal Investigator of 
 Data Governance for Sustainable and Equitable Food Systems (DigiFood)
 \, an ERC-Consolidator funded project (2025-2030). The project examine
 s emerging forms of agricultural data governance at the transnational 
 level\, with a specific focus on Kenya\, India\, and Colombia. He work
 s at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law\, Governance\, and Society 
 at Leiden Law School as Associate Professor of Law and Society & Law a
 nd Development. This event is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeins
 chaft (DFG\, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence 
 Strategy – EXC 3039 – 533607764. To register\, please send an emai
 l to Lama Ranjous at lama.ranjous@fau.de  by 25th of June Session 
 Abstract  Th
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LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, 4th floor\, FAU CHREN\, Andreij-Sacharow-Platz
  1\, 90403 Nürnberg or via Zoom
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