Leadership
Helen Stacy (Project Coordinator) - FSI / Law School
Benedetta Faedi (Graduate Student Coordinator) - Law School

This 2009-10 interdisciplinary research workshop examines the trajectory of human rights discourse and institutions in Africa by means of regional and international comparisons. Africa is the third, and most recent, region to establish a regional human rights court, the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights (ACPHR). At this critical juncture in African human rights, there is an urgent need for deeper understandings and applications of the law of human rights.

This workshop will be of interest and benefit to faculty and graduate students conducting research in the following areas: African studies; human rights; law; anthropology; cultural studies; history; political science and international relations; philosophy; and sociology.

The workshop, coordinated by Helen Stacy (Law School, FSI), will meet once this quarter and between three and four times during the Winter and Spring quarters of the 2009-2010 academic year. Workshop discussions will be based around selected interdisciplinary readings. Harri Englund (Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor; Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa) will give a talk in the spring, and other outside speakers will occasionally be invited to discuss their work.

This quarter the workhop will meet:

Thursday, December 3, 2009
6:30 - 7:30 PM
Encina West, Rm 208
A light dinner will be served

Please email notification of your intention to attend to: Benedetta Faedi
bfaedi@stanford.edu  Readings will be emailed to you as pdf files.

This workshop is funded by the federal Title VI program which supports area studies programs through both program support and fellowships for graduate students. At Stanford, four area studies centers have been funded by the Title VI program: African Studies, East Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, and Russia, East European, Eurasian Studies. Each of these Centers supports ongoing human rights research.

Contact
Benedetta Faedi (bfaedi@stanford.edu)

Funding provided by
• Federal Title VI Program via the Center for African Studies