Religious Freedom and Persecution, Sep. 24

Sep 092013
 
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Conv.HRTuesday, September 24th, the Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics will begin a new interdisciplinary workshop series, “Conversations in Human Rights.” This workshop series will meet twice each semester, bringing together panelists from other institutions and Duke faculty to engage with their research on hot-button international human rights issues. A discussion-focused series drawing together the social sciences, humanities, law, and policy, these workshops are open to Duke faculty, graduate students, and postdocs. A reception will follow each workshop. The first event is co-sponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center.

RSVP to amber.diaz@duke.edu by Sunday, September 22.

Religious Freedom and Persecution
Tuesday, September 24, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
101 West Duke Building

Panelists: Carolyn Warner, Arizona State University, Anthony Gill, University of Washington
Discussant/Moderator: Michael Gillespie, Duke University

 

DNA, Human Rights & Human Trafficking, Sep. 13

Jun 032013
 
 June 3, 2013

The second workshop of the DNA Applications in Human Rights and Human Trafficking initiative will be held Friday, September 13. This workshop will develop feasability projects to explore the role of DNA in human trafficking victim identification and explore the ethical, privacy, political, and social implications of DNA collection of victims and family members. More information may be found at the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy series site.

Please register if you plan to attend.

This initiative represents a partnership of the Duke Human Rights Center at KIE, the Franklin Humanities Institute, and the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, with funding from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation.

Friday, September 13, 10:00am – 2:00pm
Smith Warehouse
Garage C105 Bay 4
Lunch provided

Conference on Minorities and Human Rights, Apr. 25-26

Apr 122013
 
 April 12, 2013

Human Rights and Diaspora: Minorities and Liberal Citizenship

What does it mean to be European? Canadian? Are international human rights at odds with rights for national minorities in western countries? How do immigration and religious culture affect European citizenship?

April 25, 4:15-6:00 pm: Jews & Muslims in Canada: Minorities, Diasporas, and the meaning of “Canadian”

April 26, 8:45-4:00 pm: National Minorities in Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Law, History, and Social Science

All sessions will be held in the West Duke Building, room 101, East Campus.

If you are interested in attending, please R.S.V.P. to Kelly Lipford, kelly.lipford@duke.edu

This event is offered by the Kenan Institute for Ethics and the Center for European Studies, with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Office of the Provost, with additional sponsorship by the Center for Canadian Studies, and the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya.

Thursday Schedule

Thursday, April 25
Jews & Muslims in Canada: Minorities, Diasporas, and the Meaning of “Canadian”
4:15 pm – 6:00 pm
101 West Duke Building, East Campus
Reception to follow

Anna Korteweg, University of Toronto | Muslims in Canada? Representations in Media, Policy, and Law 
Morton Weinfeld, McGill University | Jewish integration in Canada: Identity, Loyalty, and Challenges of Multiculturalism

Description: Post-WWII Jewish integration in Canada is often presented as a success story of Canadian multiculturalism.  In contrast,  Canadian responses to Muslim traditionalism and perceived militancy have made integration difficult, and Muslim immigrants’ diverse origins remain a challenge to building communal solidarity.  Could any lesson be drawn from Jewish integration for the future of Canadian Muslims?


Friday Schedule


Friday, April 26
All panels will be held in 101 West Duke Building, East Campus

National Minorities in Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Law, History, and Social Science
8:45 am  Welcome & Introduction

Malachi Hacohen and Suzanne Shanahan, Duke University

9:15 am  From Minority Rights to Human Rights? Group and Individual Rights in the 1940’s and 1950’s

Daniel Cohen, Rice University | Minority Rights in the ‘Human Rights Revolution’
Elazar Barkan, Columbia University | No Return, No Refuge
Chair: Claudia Koonz, Duke University; Discussant: Gil Rubin, Columbia University

11:15 am  National Minorities and the Law in Europe

Patrick Macklem, Toronto Law School | Guarding the Perimeter: Militant Democracy and Religious Freedom in Europe
Liav Orgad, IDC Law School | Illiberal Liberalism: Cultural Restrictions on Migration and Access to Citizenship in Europe
Chair: Morton Weinfeld, McGill University; Discussant: Malachi Hacohen, Duke University

1:00 pm  Lunch

1:45 pm  Old Meets New? The Challenges of New Migrations for National Minorities in Europe

Jennifer Jackson-Preece, London School of Economics | Deconstruction Discourses of Minority/Migrant Rights in Europe
Maria Stoilkova, University of Florida | Populism and Immigration in Contemporary Bulgaria
Chair: Anna Korteweg, University of Toronto; Discussant: Laurie McIntosh, Duke University

3:30 pm  Concluding Thoughts

Participants


Elazar Barkan, Columbia University
Daniel Cohen, Rice University
Malachi Hacohen, Duke University
Jennifer Jackson-Preece, London School of Economics
Claudia Koonz, Duke University
Anna Korteweg, University of Toronto
Patrick Macklem, Toronto Law School
Laurie McIntosh, Duke University
Jane Moss, Duke University
Liav Orgad, IDC Law School
Gil Rubin, Columbia University
Suzanne Shanahan, Duke University
Maria Stoilkova, University of Florida
Morton Weinfeld, McGill University

Papers

A pasword-protected site has been set up for participants to access all of the papers here.


Uprooted/Rerouted: Narratives of Iraqi and Bhutanese Refugees, Apr. 21

Mar 292013
 
 March 29, 2013  Tagged with: , ,

The twelve students currently enrolled in KIE’s DukeImmerse program “Uprooted/Rerouted” will perform dramatic readings of refugee life stories collected during their recent field work in Egypt and Nepal. This is the second year of the program and of the presentations (last year’s readings can be seen on the KIE YouTube channel).

The students spent a month working either with Iraqi refugees in Cairo or Bhutanese refugees in Nepal.

Sunday, April 21
6:00 pm (Reception to follow)
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University

Kenan Distinguished Lecture: Michael Ignatieff, Apr. 18

Mar 012013
 
 March 1, 2013

The Ethics of Globalization and the Globalization of Ethics

The annual Kenan Distinguished Lecture for 2013 features Canadian scholar, author and former politician Michael Ignatieff. He will be speaking on the globalization of ethics that has accompanied the globalization of commerce and communications. What ethical values do human beings share across all our differences of race, religion, ethnicity, national identity, and material wealth?

Ignatieff served in the Parliament of Canada and was Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. He currently holds joint appointments at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. His books include The Needs of Strangers (1984), Scar Tissue (1992),Blood and Belonging (1993), The Warriors Honour (1997), Isaiah Berlin (1998), The Rights Revolution (2000), Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001), and The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004).

Thursday, April 18
Fleishman Commons, Sanford School of Public Policy Building
5:30 – 6:45 p.m. (Reception to follow)

Free parking will be available in the Sanford Lot behind the Sanford Building.

This event has additional support from the Center for Canadian Studies at Duke.

Bradley Simpson, International Human Rights, Apr. 4-5

Jan 282013
 
 January 28, 2013

Bradley Simpson, Assistant Professor of History and International Studies at Princeton University, will be giving two talks cosponsored by Duke History, the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, the Center for International Studies, International and Comparative Studies, Borderwork(s) at the Franklin Humanities Institute, and the Duke Center for Human Rights at KIE.

Indonesia and the Contested History of Human Rights, 1945-1980
Thursday, April 4, 3:00 pm
204B East Duke Building

The First Right? Self-determination and International History
Friday, April 5, 12:00 pm
Carr 229 (Lunch will be served)

James Scott: On Not Being Governed, Mar. 25

Jan 192013
 
 January 19, 2013

James Scott will present an extension of his 2009 book The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia on Monday, March 25. Scott is the Sterling Professor of Political Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University.

For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states.

Monday, March 25
5:30 – 6:30 pm (Reception to follow)
101 West Duke Building, East Campus
Free admission and parking, open to the public

Theorizing Human Rights: A Conference in Honor of James Nickel, March 22-23

Jan 182013
 
 January 18, 2013

For more than 30 years, James Nickel has provided a clear voice on human rights and mentored students in human rights law and theory, jurisprudence, and political philosophy. In honor of his distinguished career and work, KIE will be hosting a conference on March 22-23. Panel topics include Morality to Law, Human Rights and Democracy, Global Justice and the Resource Curse, Justifying Human Rights with Linkage Arguments, and Human Rights and Dignity.

The conference is free and open to the public. Panel sessions will be held in room 101 of the West Duke Building. For more information, contact Kelly Lipford, kelly.lipford@duke.edu.

Sponsored by Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke, Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Center for International and Comparative Law at Duke Law School, University of Miami Law School, the Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke Philosophy, and University of Miami Philosophy

Conference Schedule

Friday, March 22


9:45-10:00 am: Welcome, Allen Buchanan

10:00 am- 12:30 pm: From Morality to Law
John Tasioulas, University College London, Law
Allen Buchanan, Duke, Philosophy and Law
Pablo Gilabert, Concordia University of Montreal, Philosophy (Commentator)
Adam Etinson, CUNY, Philosophy (Commentator)
Gerald Postema, UNC, Philosophy (Moderator)

12:30-2:00 pm: Lunch break

2:00 pm-3:40 pm: Human Rights and Democracy
Thomas Christiano, University of Arizona, Philosophy and Law
Kristen Hessler, SUNY-Albany, Philosophy (Commentator)
Julian Culp, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Philosophy (Moderator)

4:20 pm-6:00 pm: Global Justice and the Resource Curse
Leif Wenar, King’s College London, Law
Erika Weinthal, Duke, Nicholas School of the Environment and Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (Commentator)
Andreas Follesdal, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Law (Moderator)

6:30pm-7:30 pm: Reception

Saturday, March 23


9:00 am-10:40: Justifying Human Rights with Linkage Arguments
Jim Nickel, University of Miami Law and Philosophy
Elizabeth Ashford, St. Andrew’s University, Philosophy (Commentator)
Gopal Sreenivasan, Duke, Philosophy (Moderator)

11:00 am-12:30 pm: Human Rights and Dignity
Charles Beitz, Princeton, Political Science Theory
Bas Van der Vossen, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Philosophy (Commentator)
David Wong, Duke, Philosophy (Moderator)

12:45-2:30 pm: Lunch with Panel Discussion on Future Directions for Human Rights Theory
Robin Kirk, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute
Monica Hakimi, University of Michigan Law School, Philosophy
Rowan Cruft, University of Stirling, Philosophy
Kit Wellman, Washington University in St. Louis, Philosophy (Moderator and panelist)

Multiculturalism: Success, Failure, Future: Mar. 21

Jan 172013
 
 January 17, 2013

Visiting Human Rights Fellow Will Kymlicka will be giving a lunch seminar on Thursday. Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queens’s University, Kingston, Canada and Co-Director of the Multiculturalism Policy Index.

Lunch is free to all participants who register; to register contact Kelly Lipford at kelly.lipford@duke.edu.

Thursday, March 21
12:45 – 1:45 pm
101 West Duke Building, East Campus
Free and Open to the Public

Human Rights & The Humanities Conference, March 21-22

Jan 172013
 
 January 17, 2013

The National Humanities Center is hosting the second annual conference on “Human Rights & The Humanities” March 21-22. Speakers at this year’s conference will focus on the state and its role in human rights discourse, action, and intervention.

Schedule

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

To register for the full conference, including the Thursday, March 21 opening event, please follow this link. Please note: conference registration fee of $20 ($10 for students with valid ID and senior citizens) includes all meals and sessions on Friday, March 22.

To reserve space for the Thurs., March 21 opening keynote address ONLY, please follow this link. This event is free and open to the public.

Human Rights and the Humanities is made possible through the generous support of the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina, Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies Inc., Duke University, North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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