# Event Details - **Event Name**: Cambridge Symposium on Protest and Peaceful Assembly - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 13 May, 2026 at 10:00 am – Wed, 13 May, 2026 at 05:00 pm (+01:00) - **Event Description**: An international convening of scholars and rights activists examining the vital yet threatened place of assembly in society and politics.About this EventAcross three panel sessions, we examine the social and political importance of assembly; its status as a legally-protected right at the national and international levels; and the boundaries of its legitimate regulation in practice.Convened by:Professor Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Drexel University Kline School of LawDr Michael Hamilton, International Secretariat of Amnesty InternationalDr Thomas Probert, Centre for Human Rights (Pretoria)Professor Sharath Srinivasan, University of CambridgeSpeakers include:Gina Romero, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of AssociationProfessor Greg Magarian, Professor of Law, Washington University School of LawProfessor David Mead, Professor of UK Human Rights Law, University of East AngliaDr Kirsty Hughes, Associate Professor in Public Law, University of CambridgeDr Orsolya Salat, Associate Professor, ELTE University BudapestProfessor Pete Fussey, Professor of Criminology, University of SouthamptonLunch will be provided. Registration essential.-----------------------------------Programme10:00 - Registration and coffee10:45-11:00 - Opening remarks11:00-12:30 - Panel 1: The Power and Politics of Assembly12:30-13:30 - Lunch13:30-15:00 - Panel 2: Claiming the Right of Peaceful Assembly15:00-15:`15 - Tea/coffee break15:15-16:45 - Panel 3: Between Protection and Control: State Interventions and Assembly16:45-17:00 - Closing-----------------------------------Panel 1: The Power and Politics of AssemblyAssemblies – ranging from mass urban protests to small private gatherings – constitute a vital mode of social and political engagement. The co-presence of assembly participants has a value that far exceeds mediated and individualized forms of expression. Yet this is a value that is gravely under threat today. This session seeks to foreground ‘assembly’ and to situate such collective formations as modes of counter-power, capable of sustaining activism and reimagining political community – recognizing too that assemblies are also contingent formations that can be instrumentalized in ways that reproduce exclusions, boundaries and territorial claims over space and voice.Panel 2: Claiming the Right of Peaceful AssemblyThe effectiveness of the right of peaceful assembly is ultimately determined by political and juridical interpretations of its scope and permissible limitation. This panel will explore what is to be gained by claiming assembly as a legal right, recognizing how international human rights law and standards have been progressively strengthened and exploring opportunities for both advocacy and litigation around the remaining gaps in protection. In particular, this session will consider the contested faultline between ‘peaceful’ and ‘violent’ conduct – and related thresholds of inconvenience and disruption – so often exploited to narrow the protection afforded to the right to protest.Panel 3: Between Protection and Control: State Interventions and AssemblyRegulatory interventions commonly rely on modes of management and control that aim to pacify and wear down collection action. Onerous procedural requirements, sweeping restrictions, informal spaces of negotiation, sophisticated infrastructures of surveillance, developments in public order weaponry and expanding criminalization, together operate to inform how law enforcement understand their role in policing assemblies, and to recast protest and assembly in pathological terms of danger and risk. Recognizing that the right of peaceful assembly sits uneasily at the heart of the modern state, this session will interrogate such regulatory practices and ask how the state’s obligations to protect and facilitate peaceful assemblies should be construed. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cambridge/cambridge-symposium-on-protest-and-peaceful-assembly/100001985431360646 - **Event Categories**: Nonprofit - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Cambridge - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Room SG1, Alison Richard Building - **lat**: 52.2024461 - **long**: 0.1091258 - **full address**: Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, The Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Cambridge Symposium on Protest and Peaceful Assembly - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/06f435a859a3ca7f0c50de5ba148829471a4c415dc4c80eed78ae302d9ebc453-rimg-w1200-h600-dc7b7772-gmir.jpg?v=1776287399 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Cambridge Symposium on Protest and Peaceful Assembly being held? - **A:** Cambridge Symposium on Protest and Peaceful Assembly takes place on Wed, 13 May, 2026 at 10:00 am to Wed, 13 May, 2026 at 05:00 pm at Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, The Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Cambridge Symposium on Protest and Peaceful Assembly? - **A:** Cambridge Symposium on Protest and Peaceful Assembly is organized by Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR). ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Cambridge Symposium on Protest and Peaceful Assembly", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/06f435a859a3ca7f0c50de5ba148829471a4c415dc4c80eed78ae302d9ebc453-rimg-w1200-h600-dc7b7772-gmir.jpg?v=1776287399", "startDate": "2026-05-13T10:00:00+01:00", "endDate": "2026-05-13T17:00:00+01:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/cambridge/cambridge-symposium-on-protest-and-peaceful-assembly/100001985431360646", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Room SG1, Alison Richard Building", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "The Alison Richard Building", "postalCode": "CB3 9DP", "addressLocality": "Cambridge", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "52.2024461", "longitude": "0.1091258" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "An international convening of scholars and rights activists examining the vital yet threatened place of assembly in society and politics.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-15", "availabilityEnds": "2026-05-13T17:00:00+01:00", "validFrom": "2026-04-15", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/cambridge/cambridge-symposium-on-protest-and-peaceful-assembly/100001985431360646" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-15", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-15", "url": "https://allevents.in/cambridge/cambridge-symposium-on-protest-and-peaceful-assembly/100001985431360646", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR)", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/centre-of-governance-and-human-rights-cghr/22804414", "description": "CGHR isan outward focused multi-disciplinary research endeavour, strongly committed to advancing thought and practice within areas of critical importance to global justice and human wellbeing in the twenty-first century.www.cghr.polis.cam.ac.uk" } ] } ] ```