BIOS
Helle Porsdam is a Professor of
Law and Humanities at the Centre for
Interdisciplinary Studies of Law (CIS),
Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.
She teaches American culture and history
in the SAXO Department, Faculty of the
Humanities, University of Copenhagen,
and law and humanities, the culture and
history of human rights and cultural
rights at the Faculty of Law. She also
holds a UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights.
She did her PhD in American Studies at
Yale University and has been a Liberal
Arts Fellow twice at the Harvard Law
School as well as a fellow at Wolfson
College, University of Cambridge, and the
University of Munich.
Ole Reitov is a global human rights
defender, speaker, moderator, journalist
and independent consultant. In 1999,
he co-founded Freemuse, the world’s
leading organization defending artistic
freedom and was its Executive Director
from 2013-2017. In this position, he was
also accredited to the UN Human Rights
Council advocating artistic freedom. As
an expert consultant to the UN Special
Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights,
he provided the background to the first
UN report on artistic freedom: “The right
to freedom of artistic expression and
creativity”. Since 2015, he has been an
appointed member of the EU/UNESCO
Expert Facility for the 2005 Convention
and conducted several workshops on
behalf of UNESCO and published several
reports and articles on censorship and
artistic freedom.
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