Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law is housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Lecture
Open to the public.
No RSVP required
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.