*Dear all,This is to remind that abstract submission deadline for the
"Human Rights Work and Transnational Legal Activism: Limits and Potential"
is approaching. Please see below for the call for abstracts.Interested
participants are invited to send abstracts of no more than 600 words and a
short bio to [log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]> by October 20, 2018.Best wishes,Dr. Deniz
Yonucu, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institute of Social and
Cultural Anthropology*
*Human Rights Work and Transnational Legal Activism: Limits and Potential*
* February 8 and 9, 2019*
International human rights laws and bodies have been one of the key sites
of the struggle against state crimes and human rights abuses in the
post-World War II era. Yet, the discrepancy between the promises of
international human rights laws and what they actually do has not gone
unquestioned. While in some contexts numerous international treaties,
conventions and regulations have served as a means of pressuring
governments to improve human rights, in certain other contexts
international human rights laws and movements have become a part of the
problem. The constituents of international human rights movements have
frequently been criticized for being complicit with neoliberal and
neocolonial projects and policies.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together anthropologists, critical
legal scholars, and transnational human rights activists to discuss the
limits and potential of international human rights regimes and
transnational legal activism. We ask: What kinds of spaces do international
courts and systems of human rights protection create as a means of
strengthening the weak in the face of state crimes? How and under what
circumstances is state sovereignty challenged or reinforced by
international human rights laws and regimes? How does transnational legal
activism contribute to the enhancing of justice? How do transnational legal
activism and human rights language and institutions set the stage for
co-optation and de-radicalization? What does the presence or absence of
human rights interventions in the context of state crimes against stateless
people reveal about international human rights regimes?
Key Note Speaker: Dr. Ayça Çubukçu, Associate Professor in Human Rights and
Co-Director of LSE Human Rights at London School of Economics and Political
Science.
Organizers: Dr. Deniz Yonucu & Dr. Martin Sökefeld
Interested participants are invited to send abstracts of no more than 600
words and a short bio to [log in to unmask] by *October 20,
2018.*
Authors will be notified of the decision by November 5, 2018. Full papers
are due for circulation by January 25, 2019.
Accommodation expenses of the participants will be fully covered by the
organizers. Travel expenses up to 200 Euros will be reimbursed.
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