Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law

Kerry is Associate Professor of English and Human Rights and Associate Dean of the College at Bard College Berlin. Her research brings expertise on African and Latin American literature and cultural studies to bear on the role of storytelling and the arts more widely in processes of democratic transitions and transitional justice, human rights movements, and humanitarian campaigns. Publications include the monograph Democracy at Home in South Africa (2016) and special journal issues and edited volumes including Humanitarianism and Responsibility (2013), The Global South Atlantic (2018), South and North: Contemporary Urban Orientations (2018), and The Cultural Cold War and the Global South (2021). She is currently working on research projects on the right to higher education; inter-African migration narratives; and stolen children and the right to identity. She also works practically in the field of Higher Education in Emergencies, and holds a Certificate of Advanced Study in Higher Education in Emergencies from the University of Geneva.

John McLeod is Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures at the University of Leeds, UK. His books include Global Trespassers: Sanctioned Mobility in Contemporary Culture (Liverpool UP, 2024), Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption (Bloomsbury, 2015), and Postcolonial London: Rewriting the Metropolis (Routledge, 2004). He has previously been a Visiting Researcher at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Visiting Professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne.

He will hold a lecture on the topic of “Borders, Trespass, and the ‘Good Immigrant'”.