Thursday, March 21, 2013
7:00 p.m. Keynote Address
Michael Ignatieff, University of Toronto and Harvard Kennedy School
Response: Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago and Georgetown University
Friday, March 22, 2013
8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. “Is Democracy a Human Right?”
Panelists: Catherine Gallagher, University of California, Berkeley; Anat Biletzki, Quinnipiac University and Tel Aviv University; Daniel Bell, Tsinghua University
Moderator: James Dawes, Macalester College
10:45 a.m. “The History and Challenges of Accountability for Genocide and War Crimes”
Panelists: Ben Kiernan, Yale University; Christopher Browning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Richard Wilson, University of Connecticut
12:15 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. “Tracing the Genealogy of Human Rights”
Panelists: Hans Joas, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and University of Chicago; Tom Laqueur, University of California, Berkeley; Robert Post, Yale University
Moderator: Susan Wolf, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:15 p.m. Concluding Talk: “Rethinking Equality”
Wang Hui, Tsinghua University
Response: David Wong, Duke University
Moderator: Jonathan Ocko, North Carolina State University
5:00 p.m. Closing Reception