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Conference Schedule
Friday
21 October 2005
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| 9:15 a.m. |
Welcome
Domna C. Stanton, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York |
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Sessions
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| 9:30-11:30 a.m. |
Cultural Translation, Internationalism, and Rights Discourse
Presiding: Domna C. Stanton, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York
Speakers: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Emory Univ. Law School
David W. Kennedy, Harvard Univ. Law School
Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch
Leti Volpp, American Univ. Law School
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| 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. |
Lunch on own |
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| 1:00-3:00 p.m. |
Human Rights and the Media
Presiding: Rosemary G. Feal, MLA
Speakers: Margaret Higonnet, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs
Alisa Solomon, Baruch Coll., City Univ. of New York
Sidonie Smith, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Shibley Telhami, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
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| 3:00-3:30 p.m. |
Refreshment Break |
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| 3:30-5:30 p.m. |
Who Is the Human in Human Rights?
Presiding: Francesca Sautman, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York
Speakers: Omar Barghouti, Tel Aviv Univ.
Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard Univ.
Eduardo Cadava, Princeton Univ.
Samera Esmeir, New York Univ.
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| 5:30-6:30 p.m. |
Cocktail Reception |
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| 6:30 p.m. |
Poetry Reading by Meena Alexander |
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Saturday
22 October 2005
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| 9:00-11:00 a.m. |
The Rights of Language and Culture, the Language and Culture of Rights
Presiding: Marianne Hirsch, Columbia Univ.
Speakers: Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia Univ.
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton Univ.
Pheng Cheah, Univ. of California, Berkeley
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia Univ. |
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| 11:00-11:30 a.m. |
Refreshment Break |
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| 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. |
Imagining beyond the Nation: Human Rights and the Critique of Political Sovereignty
Presiding: Judith Butler, Univ. of California, Berkeley
Speakers: Michel Feher, Université de Paris
Thomas Keenan, Bard Coll.
Iain Levine, Human Rights Watch
Bruce Robbins, Columbia Univ. |
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| 1:30-2:00 p.m. |
Wrap-Up
Judith Butler, Univ. of California, Berkeley |
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