4th Annual UC Davis Human Rights Symposium

10:30am-11:30am

1)Humanitarianism/Humanity (Discussant-Keith Watenpaugh, UC Davis)

  1. Alison Brysk: FEMINISM 3.0: HUMAN RIGHTS AND SEXUAL SELF-DETERMINATION
  2. Michael Prather: Principled Humanitarianism under Siege: The International Committee of the Red Cross in Afghanistan
  3. Nigel Hatton: Conscience of Humanity: the Aesthetics of Justice at The International Criminal Court in The Hague
  4. Matthew Casey: Divine Warriors and Human Rights : Religious Communities in the Peruvian Civil War, 1980-2001
  5. Rawan Arar: Refugee Camps as State Institutions

12pm-1pm

2) Law and Citizenship (Discussant-Bronwyn Leebaw, UC Riverside)

  1. Megan O’Keefe: Human Rights as Rhetorical Resource: American Catholic Bishops’ Political Arguments
  2. Natasha Bennett: At the Edge of Justice: Citizenship, Marginality, and Human Rights in Urban Bolivia
  3. Hannah Brown: Destructive Displacement: A Northern Uganda Case Study

1:30pm-3pm

3) Memory, Culture and Identity (Discussant-Diane Wolf, UC Davis)

  1. Michael Lazzara: Writing Complicity in Post-Pinochet Chile: The Ideological Adventures of Mariana Callejas
  2. Amy Rothschild: Heroes or Perpetrators? Transitional Justice  and Memories of Resistance
  3. Chris Hale: Museo Casa de la Memoria:  Memory in the Midst of Conflict
  4. Tania Lizarazo: Traumatic Memories and Non-Hegemonic Narratives: Embodied Performances and Museographic Spaces
  5. Heghnar Watenpaugh: Claiming the Human Right to Culture: Cultural Heritage and the Armenian Genocide

3:30pm-4:30pm

4) Indigeneity (Discussant-Marian Schlotterbeck, UC Davis)

  1. Devin Beaulieu: Justice over the Body: Human Rights and Indigenous Territory in the Bolivian Amazon
  2. Ryan Tripp:  “Complete Consensus:” Indigeneity, Self-Determination, and Good Governance in the Making of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  3. Nancy Postero: Indigenous Rights in Bolivia: Citizenship or Human Rights?

*10 minute Presentations followed by 5 minutes of Q&A (~60 minute panels)