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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