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  • Conference on Human Rights and the Humanities
    21-22 October 2005

    We invite you to the Conference on Human Rights and the Humanities, sponsored by the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and the Modern Language Association of America, chaired by Judith Butler and Domna C. Stanton.

    The following speakers are scheduled to appear:

    Lila Abu-Lughod, Abdullahi Admed An-Na'im, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Omar Barghouti, Jacqueline Bhabha, Edouardo Cadava, Pheng Cheah, Samera Esmeir, Michael Feher, Margaret Higonnet, Thomas Keenan, David W. Kennedy, Iain Levine, Bruce Robbins, Kenneth Roth, Alisa Solomon, Sidonie Smith, Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak, Shibley Telhami, and Leti Volpp.

    The conference is sponsored by the following programs and centers at the Graduate Center:

    The Ph.D. Program in French, and the Ph.D. Programs in English and in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Languages and Literatures; the Masters in Liberal Studies (MALS); the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS); the Center for the Humanities; The Ralph Bunche Institute

    Further information will be available on the Web Sites of the MLA Web site (www.mla.org) and of the French Ph.D. Program in September.

 

  • On December 10, 2004, to commemorate International Human Rights Day and the eve of the first anniversary of novelist and human rights activist Ahmadou Kourouma's death, the Ph.D. Program in French, the Ralph Bunche Institute of International Studies, and the Africa Research Group of The City University of New York's Graduate Center held a roundtable discussion on the condition of human rights in Africa today. This roundtable brought together scholars of Kourouma's literary works, and human rights scholars and practitioners for an afternoon conversation. The discussion was followed by a lecture by Boniface Mongo-Mboussa, Professor of Francophone Literature, Columbia University (Paris). For more information about this event, please click here.