Memory Activism and Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations. MSA 10th Annual Conference, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires

Despite the recurrent complicity of business actors in fueling wars, supporting non-democratic governments and funding repressive military forces, processes of remembering the business involvement in human rights violations remain under-explored in memory studies. This panel aims to fil this gap by examining how civil society and business groups have dealt with the memory of corporate violence in different world regions and historical periods.

Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations - Book Discussions in Latin America

The volume Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations: Civil Society and Transnational Activism across the World (Springer, 2025), edited by Raluca Grosescu and John G. Dale is the focus of two book launch events in Chile and Argentina. The book will be discussed on 7th of July in a workshop organized by the Austral University of Chile in collaboration with the Mauricio Van de Maele Historical and Anthropological of Valdivia and during a roundtable organized by the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 4 August 2026. The book examines the role of civil society activism in holding corporations accountable for human rights violations and environmental degradation. Drawing on case studies from Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe, it highlights how transnational and cross-sectoral alliances challenge corporate impunity and bring corporate accountability to the center of global debates.

Solidarity or Subsumption? Corporations, Civil Society, and the Politics of Corporate Accountability in Europe’s Global Relations The 32nd International Conference of Europeanists, University College Dublin

Europe has long imagined itself as a space of integrity, solidarity, and unity; values embodied in the welfare state, human rights, and transnational democratic commitments. Yet, the practices of European corporate actors and civil society organizations reveal ambivalent dynamics when it comes to social progress, democracy, and the protection of rights, notably abroad. This panel examines the contested terrain of corporate accountability for human rights and environmental harms, a travers these actors for both their past and their present role.

Research Seminar in Sociology of Law - Lund University

In this presentation, we discuss the approaches and main findings of the edited volume, Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations. Civil Society and Transnational Activism Across the World (Springer 2025), edited by Raluca Grosescu and John G. Dale. The collection explores the role, limitations, and internal fragmentation of social activism for corporate accountability across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. By adopting an actor-focused perspective and examining their national and transnational activism, the collection provides an innovative perspective across three main themes: civil society and social movements as key drivers of corporate accountability efforts; the fragmentation of the global corporate accountability movement across ontological, ideological, regional, and professional lines; the Janus-faced paradigm of transnational activism for corporate accountability.

Book Launch and Roundtable: Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations

At the Faculty of Law, West University of Timișoara (Room A01), a roundtable discussion will take place around the volume Raluca Grosescu and John Dale (eds.), "Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations: Civil Society and Transnational Activism across the World" (Springer, 2025). The book examines the role of social activism in holding corporations accountable for human rights violations and environmental degradation. Bringing together case studies from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Europe, it highlights how transnational and cross-sectoral alliances challenge corporate impunity and bring these issues to the center of global debates.

The Struggle for Corporate Accountability: Strategies, Tactics, Outcomes

This conference seeks to broaden the current academic debates on business and human rights by analyzing a variety of corporate accountability tactics (from criminal and civil litigations to due diligence laws and international treaties to boycotts and Indigenous community consultations) and assess how they have worked since the 1970s in different political and historical contexts, and with what outcomes.

Business Perspectives on Corporate Accountability for Human and Environmental Rights Violations - SNSPA, Bucharest

This conference aims to revisit the current academic scholarship on corporate accountability by examining how different business groups and associations from different world regions, political cultures, economic sectors, and with different sizes of capital engage with, enhance or undermine concrete responsibility for human rights violations and ecological degradation.

From Grassroots to Global: Civil Corporate, Accountability and World Politics. The 17th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Lille, 2024

In times when world politics transcends state-centric paradigms, this panel explores the evolving role of non-state actors in global affairs by looking at the cause of corporate accountability. It examines the interplay between civil society, corporate behavior, and the creation of norms, knowledge, and regimes outside national boundaries. By challenging the marginalization of non-state actors in international relations, the panel advances discussions on how societal stakeholders, including civil society, can address global problems.

Business-Military Violence in Space. Use and Production of Cartographies, Photographs and Other Representations - Latin American Faculty of Social Science, Buenos Aires

This international workshop gathered specialists from a wide range of academic fields as well as artists working on cases of corporate responsibility for human rights violations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia. Its main purpose was to present and discuss various visual and cartographical strategies to display, analyze and communicate spatial and territorial dimensions of processes of labour repression, forced displacement of indigenous communities and rural populations, as well as economic, social and structural transformations.

European Engagements with Corporate Accountability in Global Perspective. A New Utopia? 29th International Conference of Europeanists - University of Iceland, Reykjavik

This panel explored various European initiatives regarding corporate accountability for major international crimes, as envisioned and promoted by European institutions, national governments, transnational NGOs and business communities. It highlighted contrasting approaches to business regulation and accountability and emphasizes how transnational streams of political, economic and symbolic power perpetuate inequalities between the Global North and the Global South at different levels.