Chrystal Macmillan Lectures (audio)

Professor Louise Chappell - political scientist and leading expert on the International Criminal Court - delivered the 2013 Chrystal Macmillan Lecture, entitled "Ten Years on: Is the International Criminal Court Delivering for Women?"" Professor Chappell is SPSS-IASH Visiting Fellow at University of Edinburgh (August - December 2013). She is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences and a member of the Australian Human Rights Centre at the University of New South Wales where she is completing a four-year Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on the gender mandate of the ICC. In the lecture, Professor Chappell reflects upon the first decade of the Court’s operation and evaluates the extent to which it has lived up to its promise to promote gender justice. The ICC has an innovative mandate that includes the most advanced articulation ever, under international law, of crimes of sexual and gender based violence and groundbreaking procedures to allow the victims of these crimes to seek redress. Recorded on 8 October 2013 at the Symposium Hall, King Khalid Building, Edinburgh.

Professor Ann Oakley, distinguished sociologist, feminist and writer, delivers the annual Chrystal Macmillan lecture. Prof. Oakley is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the Institute of Education, University of London. In 2011 the British Sociological Association gave her one of their first Lifetime Achievement Awards for her extraordinary contribution to the history of the development of sociology in Britain. Recorded on Thursday 29 November 2012 at the University of Edinburgh's George Square lecture theatre.

Professor Pippa Norris delivers the annual Chrystal Macmillan lecture, which examines the disproportionate lack of women in elected office. Prof. Norris is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and winner of the 2011 Johan Skytte Prize, the most prestigious prize within political science. Recorded Monday 21 November 2011.