In honor of its 20th anniversary, the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights is pleased to announce a speaker series in 2017-2018, featuring Jason De León, Neve Gordon, Sally Engle Merry, and Carol Anderson.
November 9, 12:30-1:30 pm: Join us for a book lunch and discussion at the Seminary Co-op with 2017 MacArthur Fellow Jason De León, author of Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail. Lunch will be provided. More info and RSVP.
November 9, 4:30-6 pm: Join us for a lecture given by Neve Gordon, professor of politics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and a public intellectual and activist. Professor Gordon will explain how human rights—generally conceived as a counterhegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices—are being deployed to subjugate the weak and legitimize domination More info.
February 6, 2018: Join us for Measuring Human Rights: A Conversation with Sally Engle Merry. Merry is the author of The Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking. Her research focuses on the impact of technologies of measurement and counting on human rights law and global governance. Details to come.
May 31, 2018: Join us for the annual Robert H. Kirschner, MD, Human Rights Memorial Lecture, featuring Carol Anderson. Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University. Her research and teaching focus on public policy, particularly the ways that domestic and international policies intersect through the issues of race, justice, and equality in the United States. Anderson is the author of the 2016 New York Times bestselling White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation’s Divide, which won the National Book Critics Award for criticism. More info.