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Call for Papers "Human Rights and the New Global Order" Interdisciplinary Conference Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Cambridge, MA (USA) 8-10 May 2008 __________________________________________________ An interdisciplinary conference on the theme "Human Rights and the New Global Order" will be held from May 8-10, 2008 at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. The event is part of a series entitled: "Priority in Practice", which seeks to bring philosophers, social scientists and practitioners together to consider theoretical and policy issues, focusing on the value of equality. Confirmed speakers include Martha Finnemore, Jane Stromseth, Jeremy Rabkin, Charles Beitz, Joshua Cohen and Eric Posner. Program: 1. Session: Human Rights the Philosophical Work Still Undone Speaker: James Griffin, Department of Philosophy, University of Oxford Commentator: Rainer Forst, Department of Political Science, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany 2. Session: The Role of Consequences, Comparison, and Counterfactuals in Thinking Ethically and Politically about Human Rights Trials Speaker: Kathryn Sikkink, Department of Political Science and Law School, University of Minnesota Commentator: Richard Miller, Department of Philosophy, Cornell University 3. Session: Human Rights as a Political Practice Speaker: Charles Beitz, Department of Politics, Princeton University Commentator: Michael Doyle, Law School and School of International and Public Affairs Columbia University 4. Session: Stopping Repression: How to Get Perpetrators to Reform Speaker: Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Commentator: Stephen Walt, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 5. Session: Can Human Rights be Localized? Unpacking the Vernacularization Process Speaker: Sally Engle Merry, Department of Anthropology, New York University Commentator: Samantha Besson, Law School, University of Fribourg, Switzerland 6. Session: Common Ownership as a Basis for Human Rights: Political not Metaphysical Speaker: Mathias Risse, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Commentator: Simon Caney, Department Politics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 7. Session: Why Nations, Not International Society, are the Proper Guardians of Human Rights Speaker: Jeremy Rabkin, Department of Government, Cornell University Commentator: Philippe van Parijs, Chair Hoover, Université Catholique de Louvain and Department of Philosophy, Harvard University 8. Session: Paradoxes in Humanitarian Intervention Speaker: Martha Finnemore, Department of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, DC Commentator: Ryan Goodman, Harvard Law School 9. Session: Justice on the Ground: International Law, Human Rights, and Domestic Empowerment Jane Stromseth, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC Commentator: Lukas Meyer, Department of Philosophy, University of Berne, Switzerland 10. Session: International Law and Human Rights Speaker: Beth Simmons, Department of Government, Harvard University Commentator: Jonathan Wolff, Department of Philosophy, University College London, London, UK 11. Session: Human Rights A Political Conception Speaker: Joshua Cohen, Politics, Law, and Philosophy, Stanford University Commentator: Daniel Markovits, Yale Law School, Yale University, New Haven 12. Session: Human Well-Being, Not Human Rights Speaker: Eric Posner, Law School, University of Chicago, Chicago Commentator: John Tasioulas, Department of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Contact: Mathias Risse Kennedy School of Government Harvard University 79 John F. Kennedy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Email: [email protected] __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
