*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*Graduate Conference*
*10th Anniversary Conference of the Human Rights Institute*
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September 18, 2013
University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
*Deadline for Proposals: April 22, 2013*
The Human Rights Institute is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a
conference (September 19-21) that will showcase the “Connecticut School of
Human Rights,” an interdisciplinary, contextual approach to human rights.
Interest in human rights has expanded beyond law schools throughout the
academy, and in particular into the social sciences and humanities. The
conversations that will take place at the conference point toward new
horizons for the Institute and for the interdisciplinary study of human
rights for decades to come.
The Graduate Human Rights Conference will kick off the interdisciplinary
conversation on Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at the Dodd Research Center
at the University of Connecticut. We aim to bring together graduate
students interested in human rights, from multiple disciplines, to present
and share their research interests. The Graduate Conference will include a
workshop on publishing in the field of human rights as well as
complimentary breakfast and lunch. We encourage Graduate students to come
to these events on Wednesday and stay for the 10th Anniversary Conference
which will include many prominent human rights scholars.
Panel Themes: The Graduate Conference encourages interdisciplinary social
science, law, and humanities approaches to understanding human rights
issues. Panel themes may include, but are certainly not limited to, the
following:
– Economic and Social Rights
– Education and Human Rights
– Environmental Rights
– Foundations of Human Rights
– Gender and Human Rights
– Group Rights
– Health and Human Rights
– Human Rights and International Law
– Humanitarianism
– Literature and Human Rights
– Political and Civil Rights
If you would like to present a paper, please submit a 300-500 word abstract
and short bio to the Human Rights Institute at humanrights@uconn.edu by
April 22, 2013:
Please feel free to contact us at humanrights@uconn.edu if you have any
further questions.
Limited travel assistance may be available for accepted panelists.