The Broadest Concept: Human Rights from Outside Perspectives
Monday October 20th, 13.45 – 15.15
Willem van Sermondt & Roos van Straten – Citizenship rights for King Kong?
Raquel Tebaldi – “Positionality” and “Performativity”: feminist theory and gender studies’ contributions to the construction of the concept of media literacy
Elisa Fornale – Pluralizing Labour Mobility Framework in Postnational Rulemaking Processes
Human Rights and International Law
Monday October 20th, 13.45 – 15.15
Evangelos Batistatos – Reservations to Human Rights Treaties: The Aftermath of International
Law Commission (ILC) Guidelines
Laura Schelenz – Legal Possibilities to Hold Former U.S. President George W. Bush Accountable for Human Rights
Mohamed Hamchi – Human Rights and Global Governance: The Logic of Failure?
Moritz Baumgärtel – Human Rights and Migration Management: Towards a Political Evaluation based on Legal Concepts
Middle Eastern Perspectives on the Idea of Human Rights
Monday October 20th, 13.45 – 15.15
Islam Uddin – Muslim Family Law: ‘The Rights of the Wife’, theory and practice, according to traditional and modern understanding of religious texts, in light of Universal Human Rights
Lena Muhs – Islam and Human Rights: Conceptual Differences and the Universality Debate
Mishana Hosseinioun – The Globalisation of Human Rights and the Middle East
Efrem Garlando – Perspectives for a Social Integration of Human Rights in Muslim World
The Practice of Human Rights: Case Studies
Tuesday October 21st, 13.45 – 15.15
Rejene Lakibul – Cebuano Perceptions on Human Rights in Three Selected Barangays in Cebu City, Philippines
Min-Sin Lin – The aftermath of Lustration Law – How does it matter to transitional Justice?
Max Steuer – Country Specifics of a Universal Right? Freedom of Political Speech in the Slovak Republic
David Vasquez – Political Cartoons and the Freedom of Speech in Ecuador
Human Rights and the Responsibility to Protect
Tuesday October 21st, 13.45 – 15.15
Tao-Yi Chang – The Contextualized Responsibility to Protect- Conceptual History’s Viewpoint
Tahir Bushra – From Doctrine to Practice: Military Intervention in Lybia (2011)
Universalism and Relativism in the Conceptualization of Human Rights
Tuesday October 21st, 13.45 – 15.15
Linda Walter – Uni… What? The lack of scientific research into the society’s perceived universality of human rights
Amelie Harbisch – Human Rights Relations between Europe and Russia – A genealogy of diverging concepts
Frank Mouritz – Is the International Commitment to Human Rights Dwindling?
On the Concept of Human Rights: Perspectives from Political Philosophy
Thursday October 23rd, 13.45 – 15.15
TvA 1.00.35
Thomas Helfricht – Human Rights in the perspective of the Just War Theory
Owen Brown – Rights from the Other Side of the Line: Postcolonial Perspectives on Human Rights
Gabriele D’Amico – Human Rights Under Pressure
Widening the Scope of Human Rights: The Socio-Economic Dimension
Thursday October 23rd, 13.45 – 15.15
TvA 1.00.02
Anca Kaleja – Economic and Social Rights in Non-democratic Regimes: Analysing the Autocratic Advantage
Jovana Perovska – The theory of indivisibility vs. the practice of “picking and choosing” of human rights: A comparison between the implementation of civil and political and social and economic rights in developing states
Jose Valencia – Perspectives on Socio-Economic Rights and Their Relation to Fundamental Rights in Latin America
Human Rights, International Organizations and International Regimes
This panel has been cancelled due to the absence of the panellists.
