Human Rights: The Historical Formation of a Research Field, January 15, 2012

Conference Program – registration required

January 15, 2012

1:30-3:00pm Panel I: Human Rights in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Dan Edelstein, Associate Professor of French and, by courtesy, of History, Stanford University  “Enlightenment   Rights Talk”

Matthew Specter, Assistant Professor of History, Central Connecticut State University | “Decline of Natural Rights, Rise of Humanitarianism? Emplotments of the 19th Century in Recent Human Rights History”

 3:00-3:15pm Coffee break

 3:15-4:45pm Panel II: Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

Carole Fink, Humanities Distinguished Professor of History, Ohio State University |“Minority Rights/Human Rights: The Versailles System in Perspective”

Samuel Moyn, Professor of History, Columbia University | “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 in the History of Cosmopolitanism”

 5:00-6:30pm Buffet Dinner (Vegetarian)

 6:30-8:00pm Panel III: Human Rights at Duke University Discussion

Malachi Hacohen, Center for European Studies

Suzanne Shanahan, Kenan Institute for Ethics

Suzanne Katzenstein, Duke Law School

Papers available ~

Dan Edelstein – EdelsteinEnlightenmentRights

Matthew Specter – SpecterDeclineofNaturalRights

Carole Fink – FinkMinorityRightsHumanRights

Sam Moyn – MoynUniversalDeclarationofHumanRights

Many thanks to our conference Sponsors:

Triangle Intellectual History Seminar, Duke Human Rights Center, Duke University Center for European Studies, Carolina Seminars, North Carolina State University Department of History

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