Faculty Human Rights Workshops

Faculty Human Rights Workshops Applications

Deadline for applications is February 1, 2008.

The Human Rights Institute will fund two faculty-led human rights workshops in AY 2008-2009. These workshops will bring to the campus 5-10 scholars from external institutions to interact with UConn faculty over a 1-2 day period on a substantive human rights theme. Application consists of a 2 page rationale, a list of expected participants and a draft budget up to $12,000 , including all costs of administrative support, travel, catering, accommodation etc. All proposals will be reviewed and ranked by a multidisciplinary review committee chaired by the Director of the Human Rights Institute and comprised of members of the Gladstein Committee. Priority will be given to proposals which envisage a publication or research grant proposal ensuing from the event. For more information please contact Professor Richard A. Wilson, Director, Human Rights Institute, Tel: 860-486-3851; Email Richard.Wilson@uconn.edu.

2007-2008 Faculty Workshops

Interdependence and Indivisibility
Facilitators: Shareen Hertel and Lanse Minkler
The second annual Economic Rights “Affiliates” Workshop will take place in Spring 2008, focusing on debates surrounding the interdependence and indivisibility (I/I) of human rights. Defenders of the idea of interdependence and indivisibility argue that subsistence and security needs and basic capabilities require the whole mix of human rights to assure a life with human dignity. They point to the frequent references to interdependence in international law as justification of the validity of the concept. By contrast, opponents of the notion of I/I sometimes dismiss civil and political rights (for instance, in the “Asian values” debate, or the new “economic populism” of some regimes in South America) while other dismiss economic rights and social rights in the interest of promoting democracy (for instance, classic liberals). This workshop will engage these debates in light of contemporary scholarship. For more details email alason.minkler@uconn.edu or shareen.hertel@uconn.edu.

The Hospitable US: Transacting Hemispheric Agency, Human Rights and Border Epistemologies.
Facilitators: Blanca Silvestrini and Guillermo B. Irizarry
HRI and the Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Institute co-sponsor this interdisciplinary, faculty workshop, which will critically consider the sites of rights, agency, and identity in conditions of hemispheric socio-historical transformations. Members will engage philosophical writings related to ethics, cosmopolitanism, and hospitality, as well as recent scholarship on rights and agency in the Americas, with a special focus on the changing landscape of politics, culture, and identity in the USA. For more details, e-mail anne.theriault@uconn.edu.