The Human Rights Curriculum Development Project

Autumn 2007 Agenda/Schedule

Lighthouse Papers:

• "Capabilities As Fundamental Entitlements: Sen and Social Justice" by Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, Philosophy Department, Law School, and Divinity School, University of Chicago
• "Theological Perspectives On Human Rights" by Alison Boden, Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel, Princeton University

Suggested Reading:

• Natan Lerner, "A Secular View of Human Rights." Chapter 9 of Religion, Secular Beliefs and Human Rights: 25 Years After the 1981 Declaration (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2006), pp. 173-180.
• Michael Perry, "Is the Idea of Human Rights Ineliminably Religious?" Chapter 1 of The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 11-41.

Agenda

• Friday, October 19th
  • Welcome Session (at the home of Susan Gzesh, Director, Human Rights Program)
    • Reception—7:00 p.m.
    • Dinner—8:00 p.m.
      
• Saturday, October 20th (sessions will be held in the
  John Hope Franklin Room, 2nd floor Social Science Research Building
  1126 East 59th Street)
  • Coffee/Breakfast—8:30 – 9:00  a.m.
  • Morning Session—9:00 – 12:30 p.m.
    • 9 - 10:30 a.m. Philosophical Approaches to Human Rights (Moderated by Michael Geyer, Samuel N. Harper Professor of German and European History, University of Chicago) ‘Capabilities As Fundamental Entitlements:Sen and Social Justice’ by Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, Philosophy Department, Law School, and Divinity School, University of Chicago
    • 10:45—12:30 p.m. Theological Approaches to Human Rights (Moderated by Martin Gunderson DeWitt Wallace Professor of Philosophy, Macalester College) ‘Theological Perspectives on Human Rights’ by Reverend Alison L. Boden, Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel, Princeton University
  • 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided
  • Afternoon Session—1:30 – 5:30 p.m.
    • 1:30—3:00 p.m. Workshops on course design and pedagogy: concurrent sessions
      • a) ‘Human Rights: Contemporary Issues’
        Susan Gzesh, Director of the Human Rights Program, University of Chicago;
      • b) ‘Global Justice’ and ‘Justice and Politics’
        Anna Moltchanova, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Carleton College;
      • c) ‘Ethnic Conflict’
        Devashree Gupta, Department of Political Science, Carleton College;
      • d) ‘Accountability for Human Rights Violations’
        Babafemi Akinrinade, Post-doctoral Instructor, Human Rights Program, University of Chicago
    • 3:00—3:30 p.m. Report back from course design workshops
    • 3:30—3:45 p.m. Coffee break
    • 3:45—4:30 p.m. Discussion: Web Site and Resources with Aaron Rester, HRCDP webmaster (Moderated by Michael Hemesath, Professor of Economics, Carleton College)
    • 4:45—5:30 p.m. Concluding Discussion (Moderated by Nadya Nedelsky, Professor of International Studies, Macalester College)

 

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