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2020 Program Sessions

615. Law, Literature, and Human Rights

5:15 PM–6:30 PM Jan 11, 2020 (US - Pacific)

WSCC - 204

Session Information

Presentations

1: Two Appeals to the World! W. E. B. Du Bois, Harry Truman, and the Turn from Human to Civil Rights

Joseph Darda, Texas Christian U

2: Conditions of Entry: Hospitality and the State in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Writing

Carolyn Ownbey, U of Chicago

3: Contando Muertos: Narrating and Counting the Dead in Alia Trabucco Zerán’s La resta and Chile’s Rettig Report

Callie Ward, Stanford U

4: Are Guantánamo Detainees Human in a Human Rights Context? Readings in History, Law, and Literature

Alexandra S. Moore, Binghamton U, State U of New York

Presider

Melissa J. Ganz, Marquette U

Christine L. Holbo, Arizona State U

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