Human Rights and Change

Kadir Has Üniversitesi, Istanbul
16 – 18 June 2014

A joint conference organized by:

Human Rights Section, International Studies Association
Human Rights Section, American Political Science Association
Human Rights Research Committee, International Political Science Association
Standing Group on Human Rights and Transition, European Consortium for Political Resaerch

In association with:
Kadir Has Üniversitesi
Academic Council on the United Nations System

The human rights sections of the American Political Science Association, the European Consortium for Political Research, the International Political Science Association, and the International Studies Association, are pleased to announce the third joint international conference on human rights, on the theme “Human Rights and Change” to take place 16-18 June 2014 at Kadir Has Üniversitesi in Istanbul. The conference will take place immediately before the annual meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (19 – 21 June), also in Istanbul (http://acuns.org/am2014/). The theme for that conference is “Global Governance: Engaging New Norms and New Challenges” (a discount on registration will be available for those who register for both conferences). Continue reading →

Open to students at Canadian institutions studying law or studying at an advanced level in political science, the John Peters Humphrey Fellowship is awarded to outstanding students to support them in the pursuit of full-time graduate studies in the fields of international human rights or international organization at leading institutions in Canada or worldwide. Eligibility criteria and the 2014 application are available here. The deadline to apply is November 22, 2013.

You are invited to review a book for Human Rights Review. The list of “Books Available for Review” includes over one hundred titles and can be found on the Human Rights Review webpage under FOR AUTHORS AND EDITORS at:

http://www.springer.com/law/journal/12142

If you are interested in doing a “Review Essay,” you can select three (3) books that touch on common themes. There are web links to the publishers of the books for general information regarding the focus of each book on the list.

Please contact Dr. Lilian A. Barria at labarria@eiu.edu OR hrrbooks@eiu.edu with any questions and/or to request a book from the current list for review.

Interested reviewers should provide:

(1) A mailing address
(2) An estimated deadline for completion of the review (four possible deadlines from which to choose: February 1, 2014; April 1, 2014; June 1, 2014; or August 1, 2014).

Reviews are generally published in the journal 6-12 months after the review is received.

I wanted to call your attention to an upcoming conference at the University
of Kansas for undergraduate and graduate student researchers on “The Human,
Human Rights, and the Humanities.” The conference will be held April 3-4,
2014, and paper abstracts are due Dec. 6.

This conference offers a venue to critically examine the interrelationship
of “the human,” human rights, and the purview of the
humanities–interpreting human expression. We welcome papers from
undergraduate and graduate students in the humanities and social sciences
that explore topics including, but not limited to, the following:

* What are the benefits and limits to a notion of universal human rights?
* Are there notions of being human that are not encapsulated by a human
rights framework?
* How do artists and writers engage or critique notions of human rights?
* What can we learn about the human experience, and, potentially human
rights, from a speculative vantage point, such as that of science fiction?
* How do disciplines that challenge normative parameters of human
experience such as Queer Studies, Disability Studies, or Animal Studies
enrich and/ or complicate notions of human rights?

Please submit 250 word paper abstracts to Dr. Marike Janzen, mjanzen@ku.edu,
by December 6, 2013

The APT has released a call for proposals (http://www.apt.ch/en/working-with-us/) for researchers to contribute to its ongoing project on the effectiveness of torture prevention (http://www.apt.ch/en/research-project/).

The APT is seeking country researchers to work in 12 countries out of a shortlist of 26 countries: Albania, Armenia, Benin, Colombia, Georgia, Honduras, Hungary, India, Israel, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Zimbabwe. The work includes researching and drafting a chapter on the country’s experience with incidence of torture and prevention measures since 1985, as well as gathering data to contribute to a comparative quantitative analysis of torture incidence and prevention.

Researchers with the relevant experience are invited to submit proposals, including a budget. The working language of the project is English, so a basic understanding of that language will be required. However, applicants may include a budget line for translation of documents. The deadline for applications is 1st November 2013 and work on the project will begin in January 2014.

The full call is available here: http://www.apt.ch/content/files/apt%20institutional/Research%20project_call_for_proposal.pdf.