Rethinking the Margins series:
Cindy Leung
Exploring Urban Actors’ Roles in Realising the Right to Food: An International Human Rights Law Perspective
A seminar organised by Fair Transitions
Chair: Roman Teshome, Assistant Professor
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) and Montaigne Centre, School of Law, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ
Discussant: Janwillem Liebrand, Assistant Professor
Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ
Practical Information
Date and time: Tuesday 16 September, 16.00 – 17.30
Venue: Toon Peterszaal, Achter Sint Pieter 200, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ
The seminar will be followed by a small borrel.
Speaker Bio
Cindy Leung is a PhD candidate at The York Law School and The Centre for Applied Human Rights, The ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of York. Her doctoral research project explores the meanings of the right to food in cities in England. Alongside her PhD, Cindy works as a Policy Associate at The York Policy Engine, The ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of York to support policy research and engagement projects on community-led housing and disability benefits reforms. Cindy is a co-convenor of the Food, Development & Society PGR-ECR Network, an initiative that supports PGRs and ECRs researching the food system from a social science perspective across universities in the UK.
Learn more about Cindy Leung’s work on her .
Chair Bio
Roman Teshome is an Assistant Professor with the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) and the Montaigne Centre at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ. She teaches courses in the bachelor and master programmes, including Public International Law, Human Rights and Development, and Sustainable Development. Roman received her PhD in international law from the ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Amsterdam in 2023, where she researched development-induced displacement from an international human rights law perspective. Her broader research interests include human rights and development, socio-economic rights, and internal displacement. She has published on topics such as the right to development and derogations and limitations to human rights, and in 2021 won the Human Rights Essay Award from American ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, Washington College of Law. Prior to her PhD, she taught law at Addis Ababa ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and Dire Dawa ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ in Ethiopia, and worked on various research projects. She was also a Google Policy Fellow at the Institute for Technology and Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio), researching freedom of expression in the digital space.
Learn more about Roman Teshome’s work on her UU staff page.
Discussant Bio
Janwillem Liebrand is Assistant Professor of International Development Studies at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ’s Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Geosciences. His research examines the practices and politics of water use and management, land claims, and food security, with particular attention to how engineering, science, and technology expertise shape development interventions. His work combines actor-oriented and feminist-inspired methodologies, including fieldwork, document research, and historical analysis. He is the author of Whiteness in Engineering: Tracing Technology, Masculinity and Race in Nepal’s Development (2022).
Learn more about Janwillem Liebrand’s work on his UU staff page.
Practical Information
Date and time: Tuesday 16 September, 16.00 – 17.30
Venue: Toon Peterszaal, Achter Sint Pieter 200, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ
The seminar will be followed by a small borrel.
Rethinking the Margins
An initiative of the IOS Fair Transitions platform
Rethinking the Margins is a seminar series of the IOS Fair Transitions platform, offering a place to radically rethink sustainable development, and envision institutions for the future that safeguard not just ecological boundaries, but also boundaries of fair and just development. By facilitating an interdisciplinary dialogue among various faculties within Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, and with actors in society, for instance in relation to food production and consumption, and urbanizing deltas, the platform explores the question: How do institutions need to change in order to guarantee safe, inclusive and climate-resilient landscapes and social-ecological environments across the globe? In so doing, we pay specific attention to informal, bottom-up institutions; the relationship between human and non-human species; and the use, access and control of natural resources in the Global South.
Please join us in rethinking the future of open and fair societies.
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