Tagung "Human Rights in the Twentieth
Century: Concepts and Conflicts"
19.- 21. Juni 2008
Ort: WZB, D-10785 Berlin,
Reichpietschufer 50, Room A 300
This international workshop brings
together scholars and researchers working on the history of human
rights in the twentieth century. Our intention is to showcase ongoing
research on human rights that traverses national histories and moral
narratives. While all disciplines are invited to participate in the
discussion, a special emphasis is placed on analyzing human rights as
history.
The workshop is less concerned with the
normative intentions than the actual workings of human rights regimes
and rhetorics since the 1940s. The goal is to place the emergence of
transnational moral and legal concepts within the context of the
contingent and violently conflictual history of the past century. In
particular, we would like to ask when, how and why human rights
became the global currency of political claim-making and counter
claim-making.
Pre-registration is preferred so that we
can have a sense for numbers, and required for the reception on
Thursday and/or for lunch on Friday and Saturday. Please
contact
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Die Veranstaltung beginnt
am
Donnerstag den 19. Juni 2008, 18.15 Uhr
mit
einer public keynote lecture von Mark Mazower (Columbia University,
New York)
zum Thema:
"Humanity, Rights and
Civilization: The Mid-20th Century Disjuncture"
am
WZB, D-10785 Berlin, Reichpietschufer 50
Organizers:
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (ZZF),
in conjunction with Dieter Gosewinkel (WZB)
Zentrum für Zeithistorische
Forschung Potsdam e.V.
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für
Sozialforschung
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Program:
Thursday,
19 June 2008
5:00 pm Registration
6.00
pm PUBLIC KEYNOTE LECTURE:
Mark Mazower (Columbia University),
Humanity, Rights and Civilization: The Mid-20th Century Disjuncture
•
Hans Joas (Max Weber-Kolleg Erfurt/University of Chicago),
Comment
8.00 pm Reception
Friday, 20
June 2008
9:15 am INTRODUCTION:
Stefan-Ludwig
Hoffmann (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam), Human
Rights in the Twentieth Century: Concepts and Conflicts
9:30-11:00
am
PANEL 1: POSTWAR HUMANISM AND LEGAL DIPLOMACY
• Samuel
Moyn (Columbia University), Jacques Maritain, Christian New Order,
and the Birth of Human Rights
• Glenda Sluga (University of
Sydney), World Citizens and Human Rights 1945-1966
• Mikael Rask
Madsen (University of Copenhagen), ‘Legal Diplomacy’: Law,
Politics, and the Genesis of Postwar European Human Rights
•
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (ZZF Potsdam), Comment
11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 pm
PANEL 2: THE EMERGENCE OF
HUMAN RIGHTS REGIMES
• G. Daniel Cohen (Rice University), A
Laboratory for Human Rights: Displaced Persons in Post-War Europe
•
Regula Ludi (Universität Bern), Human Rights and Postwar Victim
Reparations a Paradox?
• Lora Wildenthal (Rice
University), , Rudolf Laun and the Human Rights of Germans in
Occupied and Early West Germany
• Daniel Maul
(Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), The International
Labour Organization (ILO) and Human Rights
• Dieter Gosewinkel
(Social Sciene Research Center Berlin), Comment
1:00 pm
Lunch
2:30-4:15 pm
PANEL 3: HUMAN RIGHTS, STATE
SOCIALISM, AND DISSENT
• Jennifer Amos (University of Chicago),
Embracing & Contesting: The Soviet Union and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, 1948-1958
• Benjamin Nathans
(University of Pennsylvania), Soviet Rights-Talk in the Post-Stalin
Era
• Katharina Kunter (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Human
Rights a Controversial Concept among German and Czech
Protestants in the 1970s and 80s
• Celia Donert (European
University Institute Florence), A Threatened People? Human Rights and
the Roma from Czechoslovakia to Chandigarh
• Mark Mazower
(Columbia University), Comment
4:15 pm Coffee
Break
4:45-6:30 pm
PANEL 4: HUMAN RIGHTS,
SOVEREIGNTY, AND THE GLOBAL CONDITION
• Fabian Klose
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Human Rights,
Colonial State of Emergency, and the Radicalization of Violence
•
Andreas Eckert (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), African
Nationalists and Human Rights, 1940s to 1970s
• Jan Eckel
(Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), ‘Under a Magnifying
Glass’. The International Human Rights Campaign against Chile in
the Seventies
• Margrit Pernau (Max Planck Institute for Human
Development Berlin), Comment
Saturday, 21 June
2008
9:15-10:45 am
PANEL 5: GENOCIDE, HUMAN
RIGHTS NORMS AND THE LIMITS OF LAW
• Elizabeth Borgwardt
(Washington University), The Nuremberg Trial as a New Deal
Institution: Reflections on the Limits of Law in Generating Human
Rights Norms
• Devin O. Pendas (Boston College), Human Rights,
Genocide and the Limits of Law: The Legalist Paradigm of War,
1945-2000
• A. Dirk Moses (University of Sydney/ZZF Potsdam),
The Disappearance of Genocide as a Concept in International Law and
Politics after 1948
• Michael Geyer (University of Chicago/ZZF
Potsdam), Comment
10:45 am Coffee Break
11:15-1:00
pm
PANEL 6: HUMAN RIGHTS AS HISTORY
• Eric D. Weitz
(University of Minnesota), From the Vienna to the Paris System:
International Politics and the Entangled Histories of Human Rights,
Forced Deportations, and Civilizing Missions
• Jörg Lange
(Max Weber Kolleg Erfurt), References to Human Rights at the
Buchenwald Memorial: 1945 to the Present
• Michael Geyer
(University of Chicago/ZZF Potsdam), The Disappearance of Human
Rights post 1800 with an Eye on the Situation post 2000
• Hans
Joas (Max Weber-Kolleg Erfurt/University of Chicago), Comment
1:00
pm Lunch
2:30-4:00 pm
FINAL DISCUSSION
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