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