Call for Papers: Global Human Rights at Risk? Challenges, Prospects, and Reforms
6th and 7th June 2019
The Hague, Netherlands (Campus Den Haag of Leiden University)
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 15, 2018 (17:00, CET)
Email: globalhumanrights@hum.leidenuniv.nl
This multidisciplinary conference aims to analyze the causes and consequences of various contemporary challenges to international human rights and emancipatory politics. First, the seminar examines whether, and if so, how the apparently declining influence of the West, the rise of authoritarianism, and increasing material inequality within and between nations could impact the legitimacy and effectiveness of international human rights. Second, the seminar invites new and radical perspectives that aim to reinvent the future of transnational human rights norms and human dignity — its substantive content, ethical assumptions, as well as its representative global and national institutions. Third, the seminar brings together leading and promising scholars in conversation with human rights practitioners in an effort to bring a dynamic and fruitful debate that bridges theory and practice.