Ghayas Osseiran

Ghayas Osseiran

M.A. Student

Philosophy

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After graduating from McGill with specializations in political science, philosophy, and minoring in economics, I pursued graduate studies in political and legal thought at Queen鈥檚.

Building on my undergraduate thesis, which explored the history of political thought on freedom, my current research aims to ground the emergence of anti-colonial and abolitionist public international law in revolutionary political thought and lived struggles in Haiti. I鈥檓 especially interested in mapping the distinct features of biopolitics and necropolitics onto international human rights and humanitarian law.

My undergraduate publication topics have ranged from political theories of love, revolution, colonization, friendships and community, international politics and law, legal theory in cyberspace, natural philosophy of space-time, and human rights violations.

Outside my academic life, I enjoy human rights work, vitalist philosophy, old Kung Fu movies, old school and Arab Hip-Hop.