Forthcoming Event
Ageing, Dignity and Human Rights: Voice, Agency and Power From reproduction to redress: how human rights can challenge age inequality, and what gives rights, voice and agency practical force
About the Speaker
Dr Claudia Mahler — German Institute for Human Rights, Germany
Dr Claudia Mahler (Austria) assumed her role as Independent Expert in May 2020. She is a senior researcher in the field of economic, social and cultural rights for the German Institute for Human Rights since 2010. She was also a visiting professor at the Alice Salomon Hochschule in 2020-2021.
From 2001 to 2009, Dr Mahler conducted research at the Human Rights Centre of the University of Potsdam where her main fields were in human rights education, minority rights and the law of asylum. In 2000, she was appointed as Vice President of the Human Rights Commission for Tyrol and Vorarlberg.
She has also worked as a lecturer in the field of human rights law and as a consultant to OHCHR in Geneva. From 1997-2001, she held the position of an assistant at the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Austria in the field of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedures.
Convenor: Prof Jaco Hoffman
Please note that this is a Hybrid event. We welcome colleagues to 45 Banbury Road or on line via Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89133708250
This event is part of a seminar series:
Michaelmas 2026 Seminar Series: When Age Differentiation Becomes Age Inequality: Rethinking Ageism
Ageing is universal. But what age comes to mean — and the consequences those meanings have — is socially shaped. This eight-week online seminar series from the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing rethinks ageism across the life course, encompassing younger as well as older people while recognising that their experiences, structural positions and relations of power may differ. ...
Event Details
26 November 2026 14:00 - 15:00
Location
Online & 45 Banbury Rd