The Institute for European Studies would like to highlight the accomplishments of Professor Anja Matwijkiw, a member of our affiliated faculty and Professor of Professional Ethics and Human Rights at Indiana University Northwest.
Professor Matwijkiw is a 2024-2025 Indiana University Presidential Arts & Humanities Fellow, and has delivered papers to several international organizations as an expert on international law, ethics, and philosophy. Professor Matwijkiw has also notably secured scholarly outcomes for international research programs.
Matwijkiw's interdisciplinary work was selected for no less than two expert consultations for the International Progress Organization, which is a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations and associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information. Her research essay, When Human Needs and Peremptory Norms Are Still Made to Separate: A Call for Ethics Enhancements in the Era of Globalization and COVID-19 also appeared in Responsibility in International Relations: Selected papers from an international roundtable consultation in Vienna 31-72 (Hans Köchler & Joël Christoph eds., International Progress Organization, 2024).
Furthermore, on May 30, Professor Anja Matwijkiw spoke at a panel at the XI Ibero-American Week of International Justice, an event at The Hague University of Applied Sciences which she had been invited for by The Ibero-American Institute of The Hague for Peace, Human Rights and International Justice (IIH). Professor Anja Matwijkiw served as the Chair of the U.S. Working Group for a research program led by the President of the IIH, and this has so far led to one co-authored publication on international crime and corruption.
In 2024, Professor Anja Matwijkiw also collaborated with the University of Salerno as an Invited Expert for the Jean Monnet Module EU-GLOBACT. In this capacity, she delivered the Keynote for the Inaugural Conference on March 7, AValue Test of “Global Europe” in the context of United Nations Law.
The same month, on March 15, Professor Anja Matwijkiw was an International Course Lecturer for an Advanced Seminar and Training Course with an “interdisciplinary perspective” at the Inter-University Centre of Dubrovnik, Croatia. She spoke on Political Hybridity, Autocratic Legalism and Legal Formalism: Challenges to Conventional Categories. Zagreb University was among the universities that organized this, and Professor Anja Matwijkiw will bring Professor Sunčana Roksandić to Indiana University in the spring as her Indiana University Presidential Arts & Humanities Fellowship guest. The two scholars share their interest in international law and ethics, with a specific view to emerging international crimes like “ecocide” and “grand corruption.”