ANTHROPOLOGY SYMPOSIUM - Culture and Rights: scepticism, hostility, mutuality
13 June 2012 to 14 June 2012
The relationship between the concept of culture and that of human rights has long been complex and contentious. For anthropologists the effects of this symbiotic relationship between culture and human rights can be traced at a number of different levels. It has been a key point of debate in the development of anthropological codes of ethics. Human rights, in its discursive and institutional contexts, has become another thematic aspect of anthropologists' subject matter - rights have been assimilated to culture. The capacity to participate in the dialogue between rights and culture has become integral to the political negotiation of fieldwork in many contemporary contexts, and of its ethical evaluation. Nevertheless, distinctively historical and political perspectives in anthropological writing have also generated substantial critiques, not only of human rights discourse, but of the ways it has been mobilised in particular social and political contexts.
Call for Papers
For this symposium we seek presentations of a maximum of 20 minutes in length, that open both the apparent hostility, and, at the same time, mutual dependence of cultural and rights-based perspectives to inquiry.
Please send title and abstracts to: anthropologysymposium2012@gmail.com before Monday 30 April 2012.
This symposium is hosted by the Department of Anthropology.
Time: TBA
Location: New Law School, the University of Sydney
Cost: Early bird: $150 full and $70 concession / Normal: $180 full and $90 concession
Contact: Katarina Ferro
Phone: 0405 627 443
Email: 3e144d27151a2a547b002e215d25142a48165c313c69340817613931
More info: http://anthropologycultureandrights.wordpress.com/