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A workshop with Sam Moyn (IAS Visiting Fellow, Harvard Law School, Harvard University)

This is an invitation-only workshop, convened by Dr Claudia Stein of CHM and Charles Walton of the Eighteenth Century Centre, and in collaboration with the European History Research Centre and the Global History and Culture Centre.

During this two-day workshop, we will consider how to write the history of socioeconomic rights – rights to health, food, work, housing and education. These rights, which have received considerably less attention than civil and political rights, have recently come into focus among scholars and NGOs. Often considered to be ‘second generation rights’, that is, as twentieth-century additions to ‘core’ civil and political rights stretching back to the eighteenth century, notions of socioeconomic rights stretch back, in fact, to the Enlightenment. Socioeconomic rights exploded into the politics of the French Revolution. Since then, however, their legitimacy has been contested and has proved to be more precarious than that of civil and political rights. What accounts for this historical precariousness?

This workshop is being held during the IAS fellowship of Samuel Moyn (Harvard Law School, author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History). It will bring together scholars working from different disciplinary perspectives – history, law, politics, literature, philosophy, anthropology – in an effort to conceptualise problems and dynamics related to the history of socioeconomic rights. We aim to explore the complicated interactions between these rights and politics, political economy, philosophy, humanitarianism, theories of law and rights, biopolitics and health, international relations and economic conjunctures.

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A colloquium showcasing postgraduate research in the Department of Classics and Ancient History. Programme .

Millburn House is hosting an inaugural interdisciplinary symposium as part of the Faculty of Arts Postgraduate Research Festival, to provide a platform for postgraduates across the faculty to share and discuss research. The broad theme for the day is “Representation in the Arts”, and our programme of papers, performance pieces, and roundtable discussions will approach this theme from a diverse range of perspectives. The symposium aims to be the springboard for a more permanent interdisciplinary network of researchers, and we look forward to welcoming the PGR community. Follow us on twitter for live updates @millburnsymp, and join the discussion with #MHSymposium.

Dr Jim Jordan will present a paper entitled 'Narrative uncertainty and political implication in contemporary diasporic novels'.

In collaboration with WISC:

Dr Carlos Falci, Universiy of Minas Gerais, Brazil: 'Hidden memories of San Francisco River and Rio das Velhas River, Brazil'

Professor Gilson Schwartz, University of São Paulo, Brazil: '‘From "Motoboys" to "Motoangels": Urban Youth and Mobile Memories in São Paulo’ 

A lecture by Prof Sam Moyn (IAS Visiting Fellow, Harvard University)

The Trinidadian writer Lawrence Scott will be visiting the University of ÌÇÐÄTV to read from his new collection of short stories, Leaving by plane swimming back underwater, and to speak about his work.

For further information contact, please Michael Niblett m.niblett@warwick.ac.uk or Chris Campbell c.campbell.1@warwick.ac.uk

The Trinidadian writer Lawrence Scott will be visiting the University of ÌÇÐÄTV to read from his new collection of short stories, Leaving by plane swimming back underwater, and to speak about his work.

All are welcome. This event is free and open to all. For further information contact, please Michael Niblett (m.niblett@warwick.ac.uk) or Chris Campbell (c.campbell.1@warwick.ac.uk)

Wednesday 27^th May, 5-7pm, Room A1.28, Millburn House, University of ÌÇÐÄTV

Keynote Speaker: IAS Visiting Fellow, Professor Samuel Moyn, Harvard University.