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Thursday, September 16 |
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9:00-9:30 am
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Registration and Breakfast
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9:30-11:00 am
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Panel 1: Voting Rights
Chair: Charles Postel
San Francisco State University
Peyton McCrary
U.S. Department of Justice
From Gomillion v. Lightfoot to City of Pleasant Grove v. United States: Annexations, De-annexations, and the Voting Rights Act
Morgan Kousser
California Institute of Technology
The Voting Rights Act and Redistricting
Vernon Burton
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
Voting Rights in Historical Perspective
Comment: Charles Postel |
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Panel 2: Judging Segregation: The Courts and Race
Chair: Anders Walker
St. Louis University School of Law
Steve Estes
Sonoma State University
Fade to Brown:
School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charleston, South Carolina
William M. Wiecek and Judy Hamilton
Syracuse University College of Law
Structural Racism and the U.S. Supreme Court Since 1970
R. Ben Brown
University of California, Berkeley
Progressive Legal Academics and the Warren Court’s Rights Revolution
Comment: Anders Walker |
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Panel 3: Changing Perspectives on LGBT Rights
Chair: Patricia Minter
Western Kentucky University
Jonathan Lurie
Rutgers University
Rights and Reality Concerning DADT
Mitchell Newton-Matza
Westwood College
Hopefully Soon: The Changing Status of the Transgendered in America
David Reichard
California State Unviersity, Monterery Bay
“These Classes Are Relevant to Gay Rights”: California Law Students and Gay Liberation in the 1970s
Comment: Patricia Minter |
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11:30-1:00 pm
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Luncheon (The Towers)
Welcome: Dean Joel Kassiola
Anders Walker
St. Louis University School of Law
Shotguns, Weddings, and Lunch Counters: Why Cultural Frames Matter to Constitutional Rights |
| 1:15-2:45 pm
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Panel 4: Paradoxes in Rights Discourse
Chair: Vernon Burton
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Cold War Origins of the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Divide
Jason Morgan Ward
Mississippi State University
The District of Columbia as a Segregationist Battleground, 1944-1963
Max Grivno
University of Southern Mississippi
Commies or Kluxers, We Need to Work Together: Labor and Civil Rights in Mississippi’s Piney Woods, 1930-1975
Comment: Vernon Burton
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Panel 5: Rights and Sex
Chair: AJ Jaimes-Guerrero
San Francisco State University
Melissa Barthelemy
University of California, Santa Barbara
Abolishing Yellow Slavery: Women Reformers in their Quest to "Redeem" San Francisco
Ava Baron
Rider University
Telling Tales of Sex at Work: Cultural and Legal Narratives of Sexual Harassment
Comment: AJ Jaimes-Guerrero |
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Panel 6: Disability Rights
Chair: Trevor Getz
San Francisco State University
Timothy Lillie and Glenn P. Lauzon
University of Akron
Natural Rights and Disability Rights: Modern Foundational Documents and Issues
Rabia Belt
University of Michigan
The Disenfranchisement of People with Mental Disabilities: A Historical Perspective
Liat Ben-Moshe
Syracuse University
Remembering Paul Longmore
Paul Longmore, one of the planners of this conference, passed away in August. We will be honoring him in this session. Paul had planned to chair this session and comment on these papers.
Comment: Eugene R. Chelberg
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| 3:00-4:30 pm
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Panel 7: Rights Fights at the Grassroots
Chair: Steven Leikin
San Francisco State University
Craig Scott
San Francisco State University
San Francisco Values 1960: An Emerging Paradigm of Rights and Responsibilities of Gay Citizens
Micah Bennett
Western Kentucky University
To Be Treated Like Everyone Else: The Battle to Enact Fairness Ordinances in Kentucky in 1990s
John A. Kirk
Royal Holloway, University of London
The Sit-Ins and the Courts: Little Rock, Lupper and the Law, 1960-1964
Comment: Steven Leikin
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Panel 8: Universal Rights or Imperialism?
Chair: Trevor Getz
San Francisco State University
Joe Renouard
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
Human Rights in American Foreign Policy: The Problem of Consistency
Taghreed Abu Sarhan
Bowling Green State University
Women’s Liberation? Baghdad Burning and American Rationalizations for the War in Iraq
Erin Moore
University of Chicago
Brideprice in Uganda: An Act of Love or a Human Rights Violation?
Amy Shuman and Carol Bohner
Ohio State University and Dartmouth College
Contradictions Between Human Rights and Political Asylum Policy
Comment: Trevor Getz
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Panel 9: Sacralizing Rights
Chair: Molly Oshatz
Florida State University
Linda Przybyszewski
University of Notre Dame
Sacralizing Religious Liberty in Nineteenth Century America
Patricia Hagler Minter
Western Kentucky University
Marriage is Between One Man and One Woman: Competing Visions of Rights and Theology in Kentucky’s 2004 Marriage Amendment
Charles Postel
San Francisco State University
The Baptist-Iconoclast Controversy and the Meaning of Religious Liberty in Late Nineteenth Century Texas
Comment: Molly Oshatz
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Reception (Science 270) |
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Friday, September 17
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9:00-9:30 am
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Registration and Breakfast |
| 9:30-10:45 am |
Keynote Address
Humanities Symposium Room (Hum 587)
Welcome: President Robert Corrigan
Introduction: Barbara Loomis
Lynn Hunt
University of California, Los Angelas
Tortured Bodies, Novel Readers, and the Origins of Human Rights |
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11:00-12:30 pm
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Panel 10: California Labor and the Struggle for Rights
Chair: Eileen Boris
University of California, Santa Barbara
Judy Branfman
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Making Free Speech History in 'The Land of Orange Groves and Jails'
Carol Cini
De Anza College
Labor, Civil Rights and the Creation of California's Commission on the Status of Women, 1964-1966
Comment: Eileen Boris
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Panel 11: From Charity to Civil Rights
Chair: Lynne Curry
Eastern Illinois University
Audra Jennings
Western Kentucky University
When the Personal Became Public: Disability Activism and the Second World War
Bess Williamson
University of Delaware
How Much Does Equality Cost? Charity and Civil Rights in ‘Reasonable Accommodation’ Debates
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Panel 12: Roundtable on Fehrenbacher and Dred Scott
Chair: Christopher Waldrep
San Francisco State University
Lea VanderVelde
University of Iowa College of Law
Austin Allen
University of Houston, Downtown
Michael Caires
University of Virginia
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12:45-1:30 pm
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Luncheon (The Towers)
Welcome: Dean Gail Evans
James W. Fox, Jr.
Stetson University College of Law
Reconstructing Freedom and Citizenship through Black Civil Society and the Black Public Sphere: 1865-1900 |
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Panel 13: Roundtable on Inventing Human Rights, by Lynn Hunt
Chair: Sarah Curtis
San Francisco State University
Dan Edelstein
Stanford University
Waldo Martin
University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Laqueur
University of California, Berkeley
Comment: Lynn Hunt
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Panel 14: The Right to Language
Chair: Thomas Holcomb
Ohlone College
Lawrence Siegel
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
The Right to Communication and Language
Kristin Snoddon
Ryerson University
Equity in Education: Signed Language and the Courts
H-Dirksen L. Bauman
Gallaudet University
From Hearing Loss to Deaf Gain—Audism, Attitude Planning, and the Future of Deaf Education
Comment: Thomas Holcomb
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Panel 15: Rights on the Street
Chair: Alex Gerould
San Francisco State University
Laura Macia-Vergara
University of Pittsburgh
Staying When Asked to Leave: A Case Study on Racial Profiling
Adam Richard Rosenblatt
Stanford University
The Language of Rights and the Crime of Disappearance:
Truth, Knowledge, Mourning and Identity as Human Rights
Comment: Alex Gerould
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3:30-5:00 pm |
Panel 16: Connecting Rights to People: Articulating Liberties and Justice
Chair: Lynne Curry
Eastern Illinois University
Natalie Mendoza
University of California, Berkeley
Voices from Within:
Mexican-American Political Participation in Late Twentieth Century California
Judy Kutulas
St. Olaf College
Civil Liberties at the Grass Roots: The Northern California Branch of the American Civil Liberties Union as a Catalyst for Organizational Change
Patrick Peel
Johns Hopkins University
Justice Brought Home to Every Man’s Door
Comment: Lynne Curry
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Panel 17: The Rights of Children
Chair: Joseph Illick
San Francisco State University
Sherry Keith
San Francisco State University
Children’s Rights in Brazil and the United States
Nicholas Bastine
York University
Trokosi: An Investigation into Oppression of Ghanaian Women and the Relevance of National and International Laws for the Protection of Women and Children in Ghana
Nadia Smith
Boston College
Dorothy Macardle, Children of Europe, and Children’s Rights in the Twentieth Century
Comment: Joseph Illick and Lisa Dodson
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Panel 18: Rights Behind Bars
Chair: Daniel Macallair
Executive Director, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
San Francisco
Liat Ben-Moshe
Syracuse University
The Limits of Legal Advocacy on the Way to Abolition: Anti-Prison Activism and Deinstitutionalization in Context
Anne E. Parsons
University of Illinois, Chicago
Freedom from Rehabilitation: Prison Politics in Pennsylvania, 1968-1978
Mary Jo Wiatrak-Uhlenkott
University of Minnesota
Between Transnational Prison Abolition and the Proliferation of the Minnesota Model
Comment: Daniel Macallar
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