CV

Eva Maria Lassen

Senior research fellow
Exam.art. and mag.art., PhD in history
EVA[at]humanrights.dk

Main research interests:

Human rights in history, religions and human rights.

Current Research Topics: (in danish)

• Danske reaktioner på FN’s verdenserklæring om Menneskerettighederne og den Europæiske Menneskerettighedskonvention I perioden 1947-1960 med perspektivering til nutiden. 
• Religion og menneskerettigheder: 1) juridiske og religiøse/kulturelle problemstillinger og diskurser vedrørende konflikter mellem religionsfrihed og andre rettigheder i en europæisk kontekst. 2) Menneskerettigheder set i forhold til jødiske, kristne og muslimske traditioner. 
• Menneskerettighedernes historie. Traditionelle og nye konstruktioner af menneskerettighedernes historie.

The relationship between religions and human rights. Eva Maria Lassen is particularly interested in the three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, an interest expressed in her recent book "Religion og menneskeret. Om jødedom, kristendom og islam" ("Religion and human rights: Judaism, Christianity and Islam") as well as in a number of articles in journals and newspapers.

Human rights and history. In a research project entitled "Illuminating Human Rights: Biblical and Roman Perspectives", Eva Maria Lassen reexamines the traditional view of the historical roots of human rights.

Biography

Exam.art. and mag.art. in history, University of Copenhagen, 1986. PhD in history, University of Odense, 1990. Studies at la Sorbonne and École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. From 1989 to 1994 a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, England, first as Carlsberg Visiting fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, then as S.A. Cook Bye-Fellow at Gonville and Gaius College. From 1995 to 1997 a Carlsberg Research Fellow at the Danish Centre for Human Rights, since 1998 a senior research fellow of the Centre. Visiting fellowships at the University of Cambridge in this period; visiting fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies, University of Cambridge, in the autumn of 1998.

Eva Maria Lassen has published on topics relating to women's history and the history of the family, the relationship between religions and human rights, and the history of human rights. Lectures and participates in conferences on these subject in Denmark and abroad.

Furthermore Eva Maria Lassen is National Director of the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation.