Inderpal Grewal
Professor and Chair of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Yale University

Respondent: Barbara Harlow, Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor in English Literature, University of Texas at Austin

"Humanitarian Citizenship and Race: Katrina and the Global War on Terror"

Date: September 19, 2011

Time: 3:30-5:30pm

Location: Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111)

Co-sponsored by the Center for Women's and Gender Studies

Link to audio recording: .mp3

Read the recap here!

Catalina Smulovitz
Director, Department of Political Science and International Relations
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina)

Respondent: Ariel Dulitzky, Director of the Human Rights Clinic, University of Texas at Austin

"Legal Inequality and Domestic Violence. Who gets what and when at the Sub national Level?"

Read the paper upon which the talk is based. Click here to view.

Date: October 3, 2011

Time: 3:30-5:30pm

Location: Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111)

Co-sponsored by LLILAS and the Center for Women's and Gender Studies

Link to audio recording: .mp3

Read the recap here!

Tara Melish
Associate Professor of Law & Director, Human Rights Center
University at Buffalo Law School, SUNY

Respondent: Dan Brinks, Associate Professor of Government and Co-Director, Rapoport Center, University of Texas at Austin

"From Monuments to Ladders: Collapsing Social Rights Typologies into a New Enforcement-Oriented Schema"

Date: October 17, 2011

Time: 3:30-5:30pm

Location: Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111)

John Ciorciari
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

"Archiving Memory after Mass Atrocities"

Date: October 31, 2011

Time: 3:30-5:30pm

Location: Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111)

Link to audio recording: .mp3

Read the recap here!

Henry Steiner
Professor of Law
Harvard University

Respondent: Kamran Ali, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director, South Asia Institute, University of Texas at Austin

"Muslims in Europe: Multiculturalism, Cultural Clash, Human Rights"

Date: November 14, 2011

Time: 3:30-5:30pm

Location: Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111)

Link to audio recording: .mp3

Read the recap here!

Jorge Contesse
Professor and Director of the Center for Human Rights, Universidad Diego Portales

Respondent: Daniel Brinks, Associate Professor of Government and Co-Director, Rapoport Center, University of Texas at Austin

"Inter-American Constitutionalism: The Creation and Internalization of Human Rights"

Read the paper upon which the talk is based. Click here to view.

Link to audio recording: .mp3

Date: February 20, 2012

Time: 3:30-5:00pm

Location: TNH 3.142

Co-sponsored by the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Benjamin Gregg
Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin

Respondent: Catherine Boone,
Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin

"The Social Construction of Human Rights in Africa"

Link to audio recording: .mp3

Date: April 16, 2012

Time: 3:30-5:00pm

Location: Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111)

Daniel M. Brinks
Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin

Varun Gauri
Senior Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank

Respondent: Wendy Hunter, Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin

"Assessing the Distributive Impact of Social and Economic Rights Litigation: More Litigation = More Inequality?"

September 27, 2010

Listen to audio:
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Karen Knop
Professor of Law, University of Toronto

Respondent: Neville Hoad, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin

"The Informal State in International Law: the United States, Gender and Unilateralism"

October 11, 2010

Co-sponsored by the Center for Women's and Gender Studies

Listen to audio (WMA file)

Lora Wildenthal
Associate Professor of History & Chair of History Department, Rice University

Respondent: Inga Markovits, 'The Friends of Joe Jamail' Regents Chair in Law, University of Texas at Austin

"Asylum Rights between Left and Right: The German Case"

October 25, 2010

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Historical Studies

Listen to audio (WMA file)

Samera Esmeir
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

Respondent: Derek Jinks, The Marrs McLean Professor in Law, University of Texas at Austin

"Temporalities of Struggle: National Liberation Movements and International Strategies of Rule"

November 8, 2010

Listen to audio (WMA file)

Thomas Pogge
Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University

"TRIPS, Human Rights, and the Health Impact Fund"

November 18, 2010

Co-sponsored by the Law & Philosophy Program

Listen to audio (WMA file)

Paola Bergallo
Professor, Universidad de San Andrés Victoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Respondent: Bill Sage, Vice Provost for Health Affairs, University of Texas at Austin

"Cycles of Right to Health Litigation: the Elusive Argentine Experience"

LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor
November 19-December 1, 2010

Claudia Briones
Director of Graduate and Postgraduate Teaching in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, National University of Río Negro in Argentina

Respondent: Gerald Torres, Bryant Smith Chair in Law, University of Texas at Austin School of Law

"Bringing Anthropology to Court: The Promotion of Trialogues for the Enforcement of Indigenous Rights"

LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor
January 27-February 4, 2011

January 31, 2011

CCJ 3.210 (Jury Room)

Co-sponsored by LLILAS

Judith Kimerling
Professor of Law and Policy, The City University of New York

Respondent: Gerald Torres, Bryant Smith Chair in Law, University of Texas at Austin

"Oil, Litigation and Conservation in the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador:  Can Cowode Law Protect the Rights of Indigenous Huaorani in the Oil Patch and Yasuni Biosphere Reserve?"

For more information on Professor Kimerling's presentation, please see the following articles:

• Transnational Operations, Bi-National Injustice: Indigenous Amazonian Peoples and Ecuador, ChevronTexaco, and Aguinda v. Texaco

• Indigenous Peoples and the Oil Frontier in Amazonia: The Case of Ecuador, ChevronTexaco and Aguinda v. Texaco

• Rio + 10: Indigenous Peoples, Transnational Corporations and Sustainable Development in Amazonia

April 5, 2011

TNH 3.126

3:30-5:00pm

Co-sponsored by the The Center for Global Energy, International Arbitration and Environmental Law

Listen to audio (WMA file)

Julie Mertus
Professor, School of International Service, American University

"Leap Frog Feminism: Learning about Human Rights Institution Building from Local Actors"

April 18, 2011

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield Room)

3:30-5:30pm

Co-sponsored by the Center for Women's and Gender Studies

Listen to audio (WMA file)

Elizabeth Bartholet,
Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law & Faculty Director of the Child Advocacy Program, Harvard Law School

Respondent:

Charles R. Hale
Professor of Anthropology & Director, LLILAS, University of Texas

“A Human Rights Perspective on Unparented Children & International Adoption”

Download Related Reading:

International Adoption: The Human Rights Position, Global Policy (January 2010) (.pdf)

Written Testimony presented to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, OAS, at a Hearing on Human Rights of Unparented Children and Related International Adoption Policies, 137th Ordinary Period of Sessions, November 6, 2009 (.pdf)

With Paulo Barrozo, “Amid Disaster, Haitian Orphans Find Homes,” NPR on-line, January 21, 2010 (.pdf)

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Download Professor Hale's comments (.pdf)

Eduardo Restrepo,
Professor of Anthropology, Pontífica Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia

Respondent:

Gabriela Polit
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas

"Armed Conflict and Collective Rights in the Southern Pacific Region of Colombia"

LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor

Download Paper:

Armed Conflict and the Organizing Process of Black Communities in the Colombian South Pacific (English) (.pdf)

Conflicto armado y proceso organizativo en el Pacífico sur colombiano (Spanish) (.pdf)

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

María Victoria Uribe,
Colombian National Commission of Reparations and Reconciliation

Respondent:

Kaushik Ghosh
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas

"Analogies and Discontinuities in Colombia and Sri Lanka's Violence"

Co-sponsored by LLILAS

Download Related Reading:

Dismembering and Expelling: Semantics of Political Terror in Colombia (.pdf)

Memory in Times of War (.pdf)

Terror in the Antipodes: Sri Lanka and Colombia (.pdf)

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Adeno Addis,
William Ray Forrester Professor of Public and Constitutional Law, Tulane University

Respondent:

Barbara Harlow
Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literatures, University of Texas

"Neither Members nor Strangers: Imagining ‘The People' in the Age of the Diaspora"

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Cecilia Medina,
University of Chile and immediate past-president, Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Respondent:

Ariel Dulitzky
Clinical Professor of Law & Director, Human Rights Clinic, University of Texas

"The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Reflections on a Joint Venture—Twenty Years Later"

LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Sarah Snyder,
Cassius Marcellus Clay Fellow, Department of History, Yale University

“The Development and Influence of Helsinki Watch”

Download Paper: "Symbolic Politics And The Cold War: How Helsinki Watch Personalized Human Rights Abuses" (PDF)

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Lisa Hajjar,
Associate Professor & Department Chair, Law and Society, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Does Torture Work?”

Download Paper: "Does Torture Work? A Socio-Legal Assessment of the Practice in Historical and Global Perspective" (PDF)

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Murhabazi Namegabe,
Director, Bureau pour le Volontariat au Sevice de l’Enfance et de la Santé (BVES), Democratic Republic of the Congo

"Children and Armed Conflict "

Dr. Namegabe's happy hour discussed his work in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the ongoing conflicts in Africa, particularly as these conflicts affect young people.

Link to video recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Gillian Slovo,
South African born novelist, playwright and memoirist

"Ruth First and the South African Struggle"

Download Paper: "Portrait of an Activist: Ruth First and the South African Struggle"

Read an excerpt from Slovo's book: "Every Secret Thing"

Co-sponsored by the UT English Department

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Rhonda Evans Case,
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, East Carolina University

“Representing Refugees ‘Down Under’”

Co-sponsored by the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies.

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Susan Benesch,
Visiting Professor, University of Baltimore School of Law

"Song as Crime: the Prosecution of a Pop Star, and other New Cases on Incitement to Genocide"

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Gretchen Ritter,
Professor, Department of Government & Director of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies, University of Texas

"Women, Human Rights, and the 'War on Terrorism'"

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Kathleen Cleaver,
Visiting Professor, University of Texas at Austin School of Law

“Fighting for Human Rights in the Homeland”

Private Luncheon

Benjamin Gregg,
Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas

"Human Rights as Social Theory"

Download the paper (.pdf)

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Gustavo Meoño,
Coordinator, National Police Archives of Guatemala

CANCELLED

“Memory and Impunity: Mining the Archives of the Guatemalan National Police”

Co-sponsored by LLILAS.

Read more: Recovery of the Guatemalan Police Archives - An Update, by Kate Boyle (George Washington University, The National Security Archive: July 2, 2008).

See also our Projects and Publications: Impunity in Guatemala.

Shirin Ebadi,
Nobel Peace Laureate (2003), civil rights activist and lecturer in law, University of Tehran

Roundtable Discussion: “Law, Locality, and International Human Rights”

A conversation moderated by Rapoport Center Director Karen Engle, with UT Professors Kamran Ali, Mounira Charrad, Barbara Harlow, Neville Hoad, and Shannon Speed.

Immediately followed by a Reception.

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute and the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law.

Ebadi profile and public events schedule

Link to video recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Daniel Blocq,
Royal Netherlands Navy and University of Wisconsin-Madison

“UN Military Observers at Work”

Abstract of Paper (PDF)

Read the feature story.

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Dan Connell,
Simmons College, Boston

“From Resistance to Governance: How the EPLF/PFDJ Experience Shapes Eritrea's Regional Strategy”

Abstract of Paper (.pdf)

Audio: Connell presentation (Windows Media Player)

Read the feature story.

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Roberto Gargarella,
Universidad de Buenos Aires

“The Philosophy of Punishment, Human Rights, and International Criminal Law"

Download paper (.pdf)

LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor, October 20-25

Audio: Gargarella presentation (Windows Media Player)

Read the feature story.

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Helena Alviar Garcia,
Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá

“The Progressive Redistribution of Land in Latin America: Between Economic Development and Positivism”

Abstract of Paper (.pdf)

Audio: Alviar Garcia presentation (Windows Media Player)

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Philippe Sands,
University College London

"The Torture Team: International Criminal Liability for Lawyers?"

Related Reading:

Link to Vanity Fair article, "The Green Light" (May 2008)

Congressional Hearings (May 2008) (.pdf)

Congressional Hearings (July 2008) (.pdf)

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Itty Abraham
Director, South Asia Institute, University of Texas

Audio: "A Genealogy of Caring: A Long View of the Figure of the Refugee"

Álvaro Restrepo
Founder, El Colegio de Cuerpo de Cartagena de Indias

Video: "Individual Body/Collective Body"

Read the press release.

LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor, co-sponsored by the Performing Arts Center

Jennifer Harbury
Human Rights Lawyer

Video: "The US and Torture: History and Jurisprudence"

Barbara Harlow
Professor, Department of English, University of Texas

"Tortured Thoughts: The Example Set by Ruth First from her Interrogation in 1963 to her Assassination in 1982"

Alejandro Moreno
Physicians for Human Rights

Audio: "Implementation of the Istanbul Protocol - A Summary Report of the Efforts to Eliminate Torture and Ill-Treatment in Mexico." (Windows Media Player)

Karen Engle
Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law & Director, Rapoport Center,
University of Texas School of Law

Gerald Torres
Bryant Smith Chair in Law,
University of Texas School of Law

Panel Discussion: "Indigenous Roads to Development" (.pdf) and "Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Indigenous Peoples and Reparations" (.pdf)

Moderator/Discussant: Shannon Speed, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Anthropology

Audio: Panel Discussion (Windows Media Player)

Daniel Bonilla
Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes School of Law, Bogotá, Colombia

"Legal Pluralism and Extra-Legal Property: Class, Culture and Law in Bogotá." (.pdf)

Valentine Moghadam
Director of Gender Studies, Purdue University

"Globalization, States, and Social Rights: Negotiating Women's Economic Citizenship in the Maghreb." (pdf)

Audio: Professor Moghadam's presentation (Windows Media Player)

Vasuki Nesiah
Senior Associate, International Center for Transitional Justice

"Delimiting Accountability: Writing History out of Justice" (.pdf)

Audio: Professor Nesiah's presentation (Windows Media Player)

Patrick Macklem
William C. Graham Chair Professor of Law, University of Toronto

"What is International Human Rights Law? Three Applications of a Distributive Account." (.pdf)

Audio: Professor Macklem's presentation (Windows Media Player)

Thomas M. Franck
Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law Emeritus, New York University

"State Responsibility in the Era of Individual Criminal Culpability"

Paper: Tom Franck - State Responsibility in the Era of Individual Criminal Culpability (.pdf)

Draft for Rapoport Center Workshop on Human Rights and Justice, Sept. 25, 2006

Not for quotation or circulation outside the workshop.

Liliana Obregon
Professor of International Law, Universidad de los Andes Bogotá, Colombia

"A Historical Look at the Inter-American System of Human Rights"

For background on Professor Obregon's talk, please see her article, "Between Civilisation and Barbarism: Creole interventions in international law."

LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor

Amr Shalakany
Assistant Professor of Law, American University in Cairo, Egypt

"Comparative Law as Archeology: On Sodomy, Islamic Law and the Human Rights Activist"

Paper: Amr Shalakany - Comparative Law as Archeology: On Sodomy, Islamic Law and the Human Rights Activist (.pdf)

Co-sponsored by Middle Eastern Studies and the LGBTQ/Sexualities Research Cluster

Denise Gilman
L.L.M. Candidate & Teaching Fellow, Georgetown University

"Calling the United States' Bluff: How Sovereign Immunity Undermines the United States' Claim to an Effective Domestic Human Rights System"

Paper: Gilman - Calling the United States' Bluff (.pdf)

Forthcoming in Georgetown Law Journal , Vol. 95 (February 2007)

Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo
Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico

"Indigenous Peoples of Mexico and their Struggles for Rights: Gender Perspective on Cultural Citizenship"

Paper: National Law and Indigenous Customary Law: The struggle for justice of indigenous women in Chiapas, Mexico (.pdf)

LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor

Rachel Holmes
Author

"African Queen: The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus"

Co-sponsored by the English Department

Robert D. King
Audre and Bernard Rapoport Regents Chair of Jewish Studies and Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas Linguistics

"Language Rights?"

Derek Jinks and Scott Sullivan
Assistant Professors of Law, University of Texas

"Rule of Law in Wartime: The Issues and the Academic Program"

Audio: Jinks and Sullivan presentation (Windows Media Player)

Christine Kovic
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Houston, Clear Lake

"Central American Migrants and Mexico's Southern Border: Human Rights and the Criminalization of Poor Workers"

Co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department

Julio Solórzano Foppa
Writer, Director, Producer
Mexico

"Human Rights in Guatemala"

Audio: Solórzano presentation (Windows Media Player)

Co-sponsored by the Performing Arts Center and LLILAS

Andy Palacio
Garifuna Artist, Belize

"How Does One Assign Value to Culture?"

A Discussion about the History, Music and Cultural Survival of the Garifuna

Read more about Garifuna culture.

Audio: Palacio presentation (Windows Media Player)

Co-sponsored by the Performing Arts Center

Susan Marks
Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, & Director of Studies & Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge

"The Ticking Bomb and Other Modern Myths"

Abstract of talk (.pdf)

Paper: "Apologising for Torture" (.pdf)

Laurel Fletcher
Clinical Professor of Law & Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic, University of California, Berkeley

"Bystanders: The Limits of International Criminal Trials and Jurisprudence"

Paper: From Indifference to Engagement: Bystanders and International Criminal Justice (.pdf)

Erika George
Associate Professor of Law, University of Utah

Abstract of paper (.pdf)

Working paper: "Development Priorities, Human Rights Principles: Globalization and the Place of the Transnational Private Actor" (.pdf)

Ryan Goodman
Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard

Derek Jinks
Assistant Professor of Law, UT at Austin

"International Human Rights Law and the Socialization of States"

Paper: "International Law and State Socialization" (.pdf)

Additional suggested reading: Introduction, Parts I and V, and Conclusion of "How To Influence States" (.pdf)

Nathaniel Berman
Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

"The Law of War as a Field of Battle"

Handout for talk: "Law of War" (.pdf)

Paper: "Privileging Combat" (.pdf)

Judson Wood, Jr.
Attorney at Law,
Cox Smith Matthews Incorporated

"San Antonio's La Villita, Pan-Americanism and World War II"

Description and biography (.pdf)

Kerry Rittich
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

"Redesigning Workers' Rights for the Global Economy: Core Labor Rights Confront Labor Market Flexibility"

Tony Buti
Senior Lecturer in Law, Murdoch University,
Perth, Western Australia

"The Australian 'Stolen Generations' and Reparations"

Abstract (.pdf)
Paper (.pdf)

Daniel Brinks
Assistant Professor, Department of Government, UT at Austin

"The law, politics and impact of litigating social and economic rights in the developing world"

Abstract (.pdf)

Paolo Carozza
Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School & Member, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

"Trafficking in Human Rights in the Postmodern Age"

Abstract (.pdf)

Ralph Wilde
Lecturer, Department of Laws
University College London

"From Guantanamo Bay to Abu Ghraib: Extraterritorial State Action and International Human Rights Law"

Michael Dale
Director
Northwest Workers Justice Project

Brown bag with students and guest speaker at Transnational Worker Rights Clinic seminar taught by Bill Beardall

Neville Hoad
Assistant Professor, English
University of Texas at Austin

"Disorientations: Sexuality Rights Claims and Imperial Geography"

Jules Lobel
Professor
University of Pittsburgh Law School

"Anticipating the War on Terror: Preventative Detention at Home and Pre-emptive War Abroad"

Joanne Mariner
Deputy Director
Americas Division, Human Rights Watch

"Crisis in Darfur" (with commentary by Rebecca Lorins) and brown bag with students

Lance Compa
Senior Lecturer
Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Brown bag to present January 2005 Human Rights Watch report "Blood, Sweat and Fear: Workers' Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants"

Gretchen Ritter
Associate Professor,
UT Department of Government

“U.S. Gender Politics in Transatlantic Dialogue: Internationalism and the Debate of Women's Rights in the U.S. in the 1940s”

Pascale Bos
Professor,
UT Department of Germanic Studies

"Interpreting the Politics of Wartime Rape: Berlin 1945"

Lama Abu-Odeh
Associate Professor,
Georgetown University Law Center

“The Regulation of Crimes of Honor in the Contemporary Islamic World”

Anthony Anghie
Professor,
University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law

“Self-Government, Imperialism, and the Birth of International Institutions”

Flavia Agnes, Sarah Buel, and Barbara Hines

"Violence Against Women: Emerging Transnational Approaches" (Panel Discussion)

Charles Hale
Professor, UT Anthropology

“Struggles for Human Rights and Against Impunity in Guatemala: Lessons from the Myrna Mack Murder Trial”

David Kennedy
Henry Shattuck Professor of Law
Harvard Law School

“The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem?”

Martti Koskenniemi
Professor, University of Helsinki

“Human Rights, Politics, and Love”

Shannon Speed
Professor, UT Anthropology

“Rights at the Intersection:
Gender and Ethnicity in Nicolás Ruiz, Chiapas”