Priority in Practice: A Research Network
	Human Rights and the New Global Order: An Interdisciplinary Conference Harvard University, May 8 – May 10, 2008 Sponsored by the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics; the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government; the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy; the University Committee on Human Rights Studies; the Harvard Kennedy School; and the Harvard University Provost’s Office Conference Organizer: Mathias Risse, John F. Kennedy School of Government The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers from different disciplines (social sciences, philosophy, and law) who explore either the foundations of human rights or their role in and impact on international politics. This event is free and open to the public. All talks will be in L140 (Littauer Building, first floor) at the Kennedy School Thursday, May 8 9.15 am Introduction; and First Session: Human Rights – the Philosophical Work Still Undone Chair: Tim Scanlon, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University Speaker: James Griffin, Department of Philosophy, University of Oxford “Human Rights: The Philosophical Work Still Undone” Commentator: Rainer Forst, Departments of Political Science and Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany 11 am Break 11.15 am Second Session: Toward a Revival of Consequentialist Human Rights Theory Chair: Michael Rosen, Department of Government, Harvard University Speaker: William Talbott, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington, Seattle “Toward a Revival of Consequentialist Human Rights Theory” Commentator: Daniel Markovits, Yale Law School, Yale University, New Haven 12.45 pm Lunch Break; Lunch for panelists and invited guests at Henrietta’s Table 2 pm Third Session: Human Rights as a Political Practice Chair: Erin Kelly, Department of Philosophy, Tufts University Speaker: Charles Beitz, Department of Politics, Princeton University Commentator: Michael Doyle, Law School, School of International and Public Affairs, and Department of Political Science, Columbia University 3.30 pm Break 3.45pm Fourth Session: Human Rights as Membership Rights in the Global Order Chair: Arthur Applbaum, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Speaker: Mathias Risse, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University “Human Rights as Membership Rights in the Global Order” Commentator: Simon Caney, Department Politics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 5.15 pm End of Program Friday, May 9 9.30 am First Session: International Law and Human Rights Chair: Chris Stone, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Speaker: Beth Simmons, Department of Government, Harvard University Commentator: Jonathan Wolff, Department of Philosophy, University College London, London, UK 11 am Break 11.15 am Second Session: Can the Human Rights Movement Achieve its Goals? Contrasting Visions Chair: Nancy Rosenblum, Department of Government, Harvard University Speakers: Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; James Ron, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University “Can the Human Rights Movement Achieve Its Goals?” Commentator: Stephen Walt, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 12.45 pm Lunch Break; Lunch for panelists and invited guests at Henrietta’s Table 2 pm Third Session: Justice on the Ground? International Criminal Courts and Domestic Empowerment Chair: Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard Law School and Kennedy School, Harvard University Speaker: Jane Stromseth, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC Commentator: Lukas Meyer, Department of Philosophy, University of Berne, Switzerland 3.30 pm Break 3.45Fourth Session: The Role of Consequences, Comparison, and Counterfactuals in Thinking Ethically and Politically about Human Rights Trials Chair: John Ruggie, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Speaker: Kathryn Sikkink, Department of Political Science and Law School, University of Minnesota Commentator: Richard Miller, Department of Philosophy, Cornell University 5.15 End of Program Saturday, May 10 9.30 am First Session: Why Nations, Not International Society, are the Proper Guardians of Human Rights Chair: Jane Mansbridge, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Speaker: Jeremy Rabkin, School of Law, George Mason University Commentator: Philippe van Parijs, Chaire Hoover, Université Catholique de Louvain and Department of Philosophy, Harvard University 11am: Break 11.15 am Second Session: Human Well-Being, Not Human Rights Chair: Rachel Brewster, Harvard Law School Speaker: Eric Posner, Law School, University of Chicago, Chicago “Human Welfare, Not Human Rights” Commentator: John Tasioulas, Department of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 12.45 pm Lunch Break 1.45 pm Third Session: Can Human Rights be Localized? Unpacking the Vernacularization Process. Chair: Stephen Marks, Harvard School of Public Health Speaker: Sally Engle Merry, Department of Anthropology, New York University “Making Human Rights in the Vernacular” Commentator: Samantha Besson, Law School, University of Fribourg, Switzerland 3.15 pm Break 3.30 pm Fourth Session: Paradoxes in Humanitarian Intervention Chair: Eric Beerbohm, Department of Government, Harvard University Speaker: Martha Finnemore, Department of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, DC Commentator: Ryan Goodman, Harvard Law School 5 pm End of Conference
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