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San Francisco Rights Conference

The Question of Rights in U.S. Society


September 16-17, 2010

San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132


General Information | Conference Schedule


Conference Schedule

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Thursday, September 16
9:00-9:30 am Registration and Breakfast
9:30-11:00 am Voting Rights Judging Segregation: The Courts and Race LGBT Rights
11:30-1:00 pm Luncheon

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 Paradoxes in Rights Discourse Rights and Sex Disability Rights
3:00-4:30 pm Rights Fights at the Grassroots Universal Rights or Imperialism? Sacralizing Rights
Reception in Science 270
Friday, September 17
9:00-9:30 am 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
11:00-12:30 pm California Labor and the Struggle for Rights From Charity to Civil Rights Roundtable on Fehrenbacher and Dred Scott
12:45-1:30 pm Luncheon

James W. Fox, Jr.
Stetson University College of Law
Reconstructing Freedom and Citizenship through Black Civil Society and the Black Public Sphere: 1865-1900
1:45-3:15 pm Roundtable on Inventing Human Rights: A History by Lynn Hunt Human Right to Language Rights on the Street
3:30-5:00 pm Connecting Rights to People: Articulating Liberties and Justice The Rights of Children Rights Behind Bars

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