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Comparative Human Rights: Literature, Art, Politics

Friday February 6
Levis Faculty Center

A symposium featuring:

Joseph Slaughter, Alexander Bain, Anustup Basu, Francis Boyle, Eleni Coundouriotis, Anouar Majid, Daniel Malachuck, Kimberly Nance.

Panel 1, 10:00 - 11:45am

Daniel S. Malachuk (Western Illinois University, Quad Cities)
"American Transcendentalism as a Post-Secular Human Rights Literature"

Kimberly Nance (Illinois State University)
"From Poetics to Prosaics: Literary Texts and the Chances of Social Action"

Alexander Bain (University of Oklahoma)
"A Constant Engagement: John Le Carre's Humanitarian Interventions"

LUNCH BREAK, 12 - 1PM

Panel 2, 1:15 - 3:00pm

Eleni Coundouriotis (University of Connecticut)
"The Revisionist Work of Human Rights: Approaches to Reading the African War Novel"

Anustup Basu (University of Illinois)
"'Encounters' in the City: Cops, Criminals, and Human Rights in Hindi Film"

Anouar Majid (University of New England)
"Imagining the Unthinkable in Islam"

Coffee Break, 3:00 - 3:30pm

KEYNOTE, 3:30 - 4:45pm

Joseph Slaughter (Columbia University)
"Pathetic Fallacies: Personification, Human Rights, and Humanism"

Francis Boyle (University of Illinois, College of Law), Respondent

RECEPTION, 4:45 - 6:00pm