Date
October 8, 2014

Location

Pulitzer Hall, Third Floor Lecture Hall


Time
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Event Organizer

Event Sponsor

Event Co-Sponsor(s)

Co-sponsored by the Center for International History, Critical Inquiry, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Department of History, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Middle East Institute


Around 1948: Human Rights and Global Transformation

Leading scholars Rashid Khalidi, Lydia H. Liu, Samuel Moyn, and Deborah Nelson discuss the advent and the global impact of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Moderated by Eugenia Lean.

Panel Discussion

“Around 1948: Human Rights and Global Transformation”

Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University

Lydia H. Liu, Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University

Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History, Harvard University

Deborah Nelson, Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago

Moderated by Eugenia Lean, Associate Professor of Chinese History, Columbia University

Wednesday, October 8

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Pulitzer Hall, Third Floor Lecture Hall

No registration required.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/after_1948.html

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