Call for Papers "Competing Paradigms of Rights and Responsibility? Children in the Discourses of Religion and International Human Rights" Interdisciplinary Workshop School of Law, Emory University Atlanta, GA (USA) April 15-17, 2005
Sponsored by the Feminism and Legal Theory Project with support from The Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion Basic Questions How might religious mandates conflict with human rights aspirations for children? What is the role of religion in maintaining traditional notions of family hierarchy and beliefs about the appropriate ordering of family relations? Have religious beliefs about and images of the family in the United States resulted in the rejection of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child? What should be the nature of childrens rights as differentiated from the rights afforded the family as an entity? What is the place and role for parental rights? When should children be the bearers of rights? Who speaks for the child? How can the child speak? Possible paper topics include: - Consideration of the relevance of international human rights in developing a childrens rights movement in the United States, particularly in light of the perceived political strength of the religious right - Explorations of areas of intersection, agreement or contradiction between human rights and childrens rights as expressed in other legal cultures - Examinations of how the Convention on the Rights of the Child has made a difference in the development of childrens rights in countries where it has been implemented - Descriptions of how culture, ethnicity, race, and class might complicate the internationalization of human rights concepts as applied to children - The potential for feminist theory to contribute to the acceptance of childrens rights as part of basic human rights - The limitations of Constitutional and other theoretical discourses with regard to children - The limitations of the concept of rights with regard to children or the difference between childrens rights versus interests. - The importance of developing ideas of responsibility for children beyond those applied to parents - Comparative considerations of the influence (or lack thereof) of religions and religious mandates on the implementation of human rights and childrens rights in democratic societies. You can download the complete Call for Papers: http://www.law.emory.edu/flt/ChildrensRightsCFP2005.pdf Submissions Procedure Please email a paper proposal of several paragraphs length by January 15th to: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Working paper drafts to be duplicated and distributed prior to the Workshop will be due March 21, 2005. Contact: Feminism and Legal Theory Project Emory University School of Law 1301 Clifton Road Atlanta, GA 30322-2270 USA Tel. +1(404)712-2420 _________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
