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CCNY’s Second Critical Perspectives On

Human Rights Conference:

Power And Rights

APRIL 20-22, 2022

The City College of New York,

CUNY, invites submissions for its
Second Critical Perspectives
on Human Rights Conference,
April 20-22, 2022

How do human rights work in a world that is both

territorialized in sovereign states and
deterritorialized through global
capitalism? CCNY’s Second Critical Perspectives
on Human Rights Conference (CPHRC) seeks to
interrogate the complex relationships that exist
between political and economic power, on the
one hand, and rights claims, on the other. In what
ways are rights, as codified in international law,
the product of postwar world order, and how are
they challenged—or supported by—neoliberal
economic norms, policies, and modes of
governance?  Do rights limit or undermine
contemporary forms of domination, or do they
perhaps legitimize them and even forestall
alternative projects? In other words, can rights

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have a transformative impact in the age of

neoliberalism? In what ways do rights discourse,
law, and human rights practice reproduce or
challenge social hierarchies of class, geography,
and legal status, as well as ability, gender, race,
and sexuality? The CPHRC welcomes papers that
consider this theme within the following broad
thematic areas:

• Historical and Philosophical Foundations of

Human Rights
• Politics and Ethics of Human Rights Practice

• Critical Theory and Human Rights

• Media and Human Rights in the Digital Age

• Changing Forms of Warfare and the

Challenge to Human Rights

• Basic Needs and Human Rights

• Labor and Human Rights

• Race and Human Rights

• Women's Rights as Human Rights

• Health and Human Rights

• Migration and Human Rights

• The Environment and Human Rights

• The Future(s) of Human Rights

Submission of proposals:

Paper proposals should include a title, an

abstract of no more than 300 words, and a one-
page CV. These should be submitted through the
conference website no later than January 31,
2022.  

Panel proposals should include a title, a panel

abstract of no more than 500 words, three to four
paper abstracts of no more than 300 words each,
and a one-page CV for each participant, including
the panel chair and/or commentator. We are
accepting proposals for panels that would
prefer to be conducted virtually.

Presentations: Panels will be 90 minutes in

length, and papers should be no more than 20
minutes each.

Individual Submissions: Click here

Panel Submissions: Click here

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Conference format and registration fees are yet

to be determined. We will make a final
determination by January 31, 2022.

Organizing Committee:

Carlos Agusaco (Chair, Department of

Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences)

Bruce Cronin (Professor, Political Science

Department, and Program Director of Human
Rights Studies)

Juan Carlos Mercado (Dean, Division of

Interdisciplinary Studies)

Kathlene McDonald (Associate Professor,

Division of Interdisciplinary Studies)

Renata Miller (Interim Dean, Division of

Humanities and the Arts)

Dee Dee Mozeleski (Vice President of the Office

of Institutional Advancement and and
Communications)

Andrew Rich (Dean, Colin Powell School for Civic

and Global Leadership)

Susanna Rosenbaum (Associate Professor, MA in

the Study of the Americas Program Director)

Irina Carlota Silber (Professor and Chair,

Department of Anthropology, Gender Studies and
International Studies)

Justin Williams (Associate Professor, Division of

Interdisciplinary Studies)

Martin Woessner (Associate Professor, Division

of Interdisciplinary Studies)

Danielle Zach (Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of

Interdisciplinary Studies)

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