The Aesthetic of Human Rights Claims: Broadcasting African Poverty
The Aesthetic of Human Rights Claims: Broadcasting African Poverty
Tuesday, April 6, 201012:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Pacific)
Harri Englund is the Churchill Fellow and reader in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. He is the author most recently of Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006) in which he investigates how ideas of freedom and human rights have impeded struggles against poverty and injustice in Africa's emerging democracies.
Event co-sponsored by the Departments of English, History, and
Comparative Literature;
the Program in Modern Thought and Literature; the Center for African
Studies;
the Stanford Humanities Center; and the Center for South Asia
History, Memory, and Reconciliation is sponsored by the Research Unit in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at Stanford University.