Department of Sociology

Sociology

Whose Rights? How Right? - Programme

Programme for the Day

The team is happy to announce the finalised version of the programme of talks for the day. If you are one of the speakers and you have a question about the day, feel free to contact the chair for your stream, who will be more than happy to answer anything. All rooms have AV facilities including OHPs, computers for PowerPoint, and connections for laptops.

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13th March 2010

Programme

 

Time

Location

9.00-9.30

Registration and refreshments

9.30-9.45

H0.51

Welcome

9.45-11.15

H0.03

Stream 1

Chair: Melis Menent

M dot Menent at warwick dot ac dot uk

Špela Močnik: ‘Justice in Kantian and Smithian view: The aspect of human rights within the idea of cosmopolitanism’

Peter Munce: ‘The problem of rights inflation and the Northern Ireland Bill of Rights’

H0.58

Stream 2

Chair: Lucy Mayblin

l dot mayblin at warwick dot ac dot uk

Jolanda van der Noll ‘Support for Muslims’ religious rights in Germany –a matter of attitude?’

Evelyn Puga Aguirre-Sulem ‘Safeguarding indigenous rights or ‘indigenous rights’ as part of Westernisation? The case of Mexico and its indigenous groups’

H0.60

Stream 3

Chair: Kirsty Liddiard

k dot liddiard at warwick dot ac dot uk

Peace Tetteh ‘Child domestic labour – a child and gender rights issue’

Marc Bush and Cristina Sarb: ‘Getting it right? International and domestic concepts of disabled people’s human rights’

11.15-12.15

H0.51

Neil Stammers Key Note Address:

'Creating Change: Social Movements and Human Rights'

Presentation and questions

12.15-13.15

Foyer

Buffet Lunch

13.15-14.45

H0.03

Stream 4

Chair: Samaya Farooq

samaya dot farooq at warwick dot ac dot uk

Lucy Mayblin ‘Why is the UK so determined to restrict the right to asylum? Towards an explanation’

Stephanie Silverman ‘A question of liberal values: Community versus Individual rights in the discussion of immigration detention in the UK’

Matthias Vanhullebusch: ‘Towards unity in diversity: Race and human rights’

H0.58

Stream 5

Chair: Emma Hutchinson

e dot hutchinson at warwick dot ac dot uk

Weronika Orkisz: ‘Hearing local voices and making a global change’

Sioned Pearce: ‘Regeneration and rights’

H0.60

Stream 6

Chair: Emma Joy Lowman

e dot j dot b dot lowman at warwick dot ac dot uk

Josh Richards: ‘Privacy: a right without definition?’

Nathaniel Cornoiu-Jitarasu: ‘Does an enterprise have a personal life? Art.8 EHCR and the firm’s right to privacy’

14.45-15.00

Foyer

Coffee, tea, biscuits

15.00-16.00

H0.51

Lydia Morris Key Note Address:

'Asylum, welfare and the two faces of human rights'

Presentation and questions

16.00-17.00

H0.51

Round table discussion

Neil Stammers, Lydia Morris, Gurminder Bhambra, Robert Fine

Close of the day

17.00-19.00

Foyer

Wine reception


Page contact: Emma Hutchinson Last revised: Fri 12 Mar 2010
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