CALL FOR PAPERS

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference

             

April 3-5, 2008    Marquette University      Milwaukee, Wisconsin

                                 

The Emergence of Human Rights

 

The 1948 U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights announced an international commitment to an idea that had gradually come into existence over the preceding two centuries. In the hope of promoting the realization of human rights, this INCS conference will examine the emergence of the idea of human rights across the globe—and within a wide range of cultural, social, and political activities—during the long nineteenth century.

 

PLENARY SPEAKERS: Lynn Hunt, Professor of History UCLA; Phoebe Williams, Professor of Law, Marquette University

 

Possible paper topics on human rights in the nineteenth century include:

Slavery and Abolition Rights and Religion                           Rights and Law

Women’s rights               Rights and Empire                                   Civil Rights

Children’s rights              Rights and citizenship                  Transnational Rights

Workers’ rights               Rights advocacy in literature                    Prisoner’s rights

Rights theory                              Rights and Revolutions                Economic Rights

Immigrants’ rights                       Rights vs. Obligations                 Property rights

Animal rights             Rights and Popular Culture                       Artistic rights   

Defining Human Natural vs. Political Rights                      Universalism

Education, security, self-determination, dignity, equal treatment, habeas corpus, freedom of movement, marriage, family life, rest and leisure, health care, food, shelter    

                                   

INCS encourages interdisciplinary perspectives integrating:

Literature, Law, Political Science, Philosophy, Theology, History, Art History, History of Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Economics, Criminology, Health Sciences

 

200 word abstracts by October 15, 2007 to Christine.Krueger@marquette.edu

Selected conference papers published in Nineteenth-Century Contexts

Sponsored by Way-Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, Marquette University