Anthropology Symposium: Culture and rights - scepticism, hostility and 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.
Location: New Law School, 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: 2f07214a443f2608171754013d1e250649575d2f177626322f5c0205
More info: http://sydney.edu.au/news/arts/2247.html?eventid=9138