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Program on Global Justice begins workshop series

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The Program on Global Justice will begin its series of Linda Randall Meier Research Workshops on October 1, 2010. This series examines questions of global justice including: poverty, inequality between nations, oppressive regimes, identity, human rights, and our duties to one another. Some of the guest speakers will be Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Institiute, Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School and Ruth Grant, Duke University.The workshops bring together faculty and graduate students from across the university to investigate the complexities of these questions and to discuss possible answers. Cosponsored by the Program on Global Justice and the Stanford Humanities Center. Please see the events calendar for time and location:

The Program on Global Justice will begin its series of Linda Randall Meier Research Workshops on October 1, 2010. This series examines questions of global justice including: poverty, inequality between nations, oppressive regimes, identity, human rights, and our duties to one another. Some of the guest speakers will be Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Institiute, Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School and Ruth Grant, Duke University.The workshops bring together faculty and graduate students from across the university to investigate the complexities of these questions and to discuss possible answers. Cosponsored by the Program on Global Justice and the Stanford Humanities Center. Please see the events calendar for time and location:

 

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Post Doctoral Fellows teach Global Justice class

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Allegra McLeod, Post Doctoral Fellow for the Program on Global Justice, and Kieran Oberman, Post Doctoral Fellow for the Program on Global Justice and the Center for Ethics in Society, are seen preparing for a session of Introduction to Global Justice. Each year the program's Post Doctoral Fellows have the opportunity, as part of their appointment, to teach the Stanford course which includes recent work in political theory on global justice. The course is designed to encourage students to think critically about some of the important questions regarding such issues as global poverty, human rights, fair trade, immigration and climate change. Questions include: Do developed countries have a duty to aid developing countries? When is humanitarian intervention justified? and Is torture ever justified? Readings include Charles Beitz, Thomas Pogge and John Rawls.
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Immigration as a Human Right

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Kieran Oberman is a post-doctoral fellow in the Program on Global Justice and the Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford Univeristy.  He completed his PhD at Oxford University in 2009.  His thesis,  "Immigration and Freedom of Movement," argued that people have a human right to freedom of movement that entails a right to cross  international borders. Before coming to Stanford he held a short post-doctorate position at the University of Louvain in Belgium.  While at Stanford he has continued his work on the ethical issues surrounding international migration.  His article, "Immigration, Global Poverty and the Right to Stay", which argues against using migration as a means to address global poverty, is forthcoming in Political Studies.  

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Kieran Oberman Post Doctoral Scholar Speaker Program on Global Justice /Center for Ethics in Society, Stanford University
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Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop on Global Justice

Public Rights, Private Relations

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Jean Thomas received her B.A. and an M.A. in English literature from the University of Toronto, where she also completed her J.D. She received her doctoral degree in law, as well as her L.L.M, from New York University. Her main interest is in the area of legal philosophy, and in rights theory in particular. Her doctoral research was grounded in the question of which private actors should, under which circumstances, bear the burdens associated with public law rights. Her dissertation explored the possibility of human rights enforcement in private litigation, and the relationship between human rights and private obligations.

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Jean Thomas Post Doctoral Scholar Speaker Center for Ethics in Society, Stanford University
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Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop on Global Justice

Humanity Reconsidered: New Approaches to the History of Humanitarianism [Department of History]

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10:00 - 10:15: Introductory Remarks

J. P. Daughton, Stanford University

Panel 1

10:15 - 12:00: Humanitarian Relief as a Historical and Methodological Challenge

"Assisting Civilian Populations: Notes on an Ongoing Research Project"

  • Davide Rodogno, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

"Who Qualifies as the Object of Humanitarian Relief? Italian Refugees after World

War II"

  • Pamela Ballinger, Bowdoin College
  • Comment: Priya Satia, Stanford University

 

Panel 2

1:15 - 3:00: In the Wake of War: Rebuilding 1920s Europe

"Foreign Humanitarian Actors in Poland, 1918-1923"

  • Shaloma Gauthier & Francesca Piana, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

"Post-WWI Humanitarian Efforts in Poland's Eastern Borderlands"

  • Kathryn Ward, Stanford University

"A Sketch of Humanitarian Emergency Relief Operations in Greece during the 1920s"      

  • Davide Rodogno, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
  • Comment: Robert Crews, Stanford University

 

3:00 - 3:15: Coffee Break

Panel 3

3:15 - 5:00: European "Humanity" in Global Context

"Early Humanitarianism and Local Knowledges: Black Experts and the Conference on the African Child of the Save the Children International Union (Geneva, 1931)"

  • Dominique Marshall, Carleton University

"Humanitarian Internationalism, the South Asian Refugee Regime, and the ‘Kashmir Refugees Fund', 1947-1951"

  • Cabeiri Robinson, University of Washington

"Human Rights and Saharan Prisons in Post-Colonial Mali"

  • Gregory Mann, Columbia University
  • Comment: Liisa Malkki, Stanford University

Sponsored by:

  • Transnational, International, and Global History Program, Department of History
  • Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
  • The Mediterranean Studies Forum
  • Stanford Humanities Center

BOARD ROOM, STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER

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