Martin Uhrmacher, Institute for History, Universität Luxemburg
Thursday, 21 May
18.00: Introduction
Jean-Paul Lehners, Emeritus Professor, UNESCO Chair in Human Rights, University of Luxembourg
18.30: Croesus’s World: Human Rights in the Age of Inequality.
Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History, Harvard University
20.00: Reception
Friday, 22 May
9.30: History, Emotions and Human Rights.
Lynn A. Hunt, Distinguished Research Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
10.15: Towards a Materialist Theory of Human Rights. Against “Revisionism” and the “Religious Turn”.
Bill Bowring, Professor, School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London
11.00: Coffee break
11.15: The Ambivalence of the Good. An Interpretation of International Human Rights Politics since 1940.
Jan Eckel, Lehrstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
12.00: Human Rights in the Transformation of State and Society. A Sociological Interpretation of the Evolution of Human Rights.
Mikael Rask Madsen, Professor and Director of iCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
14.30: A Subject Theory of Human Rights. The Debate of Physical Integrity in 19th Century German.
Sibylle Van der Walt, Senior Research Fellow at the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights, University of Luxembourg
15.15: Why there aren’t many human rights-oriented social movements. The example of recognition struggles.
Andreas Pettenkofer, Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt
16.00: Coffee break
16.15: The General Pendulum Theory of Human Rights.
Tom Hadden, Honorary Professor at the School of Law at the University of Kent and Emeritus Professor at the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast
17.00: The Delusion of Human Rights?
Guy Haarscher, Professeur émérite de l’Université libre de Bruxelles et professeur au Collège d’Europe, Bruges
17.45: The Need for Multidisciplinary Human Rights Research: A Lawyer’s Modest Plea.
Jan Wouters, Professor of International Law and International Organizations, KU Leuven
Saturday, 23 May
9.15: Of Human Rights and Human Rights Scepticism.
George Ulrich, Professor and Rector of Riga Graduate School of Law
10.00: Human Rights and the Limits of State Sovereignty.
Attracta Ingram, Emeritus Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin
11.00: Panel : A propos des chartes africaines du 13e siècle : Controverses, légitimations, politisation.
- Silenciation des droits de l’homme : cas de « La Charte du Mandé » du 19e au 21 e siècle,
Mamadou Diakité, Maître assistant de recherche CLAD, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar
- Kurukan Fuga, la plaine de la discorde. De l’appropriation des droits humains en Afrique, Mamadou Diawara, Professor, Institut für Ethnologie, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main
- À la recherche d’autochtonie – Pourquoi les Maliens acceptent la Charte du Manding
Jan Jansen, Lecturer, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University
- Le griot, l’historien, le chasseur et l’Unesco: Conte mandingue aujourd’hui
Francis Simonis, Maître de conférences HDR en Histoire de l'Afrique à l'Université d'Aix-Marseille, Directeur de recherche à l’Institut des Mondes Africains, Aix
13.00: Concluding remarks
Jean-Paul Lehners, Emeritus Professor, UNESCO Chair in Human Rights, University of Luxembourg