Human Rights, Legal Systems, and Customary Cultures Across the Global South

A Symposium co-sponsored by the African Studies Program, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Maurer School of Law
Location: Conference Room, Maurer School of Law
For full information see: www.law.indiana.edu/globalsouth

APRIL 9, 2010

9:00am
Introduction and Welcome

9:30-11:30am
Panel I: Problems of the Universal and the Particular
Moderator: Christiana Ochoa, Maurer School of Law

“Religion and Human Rights: Is there a Crossroads?”
Kamari Clarke, Yale University

“For the Orphan, Dispossessed, and Illegitimate: Human Rights beyond Republican and Liberal Traditions.”
Siba Grovogui, Johns Hopkins University

“The Application of Customary Law and its Implications for Women’s Rights.”
Muna Ndulo, Cornell University

12:45-3:15pm
Panel II: Claims in Context
Moderator: Bradley Levinson, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

“Gas Geopolitics and Indigenous Self-Determination Rights in Bolivia.”
Bret Gustafson, Washington University

“Maria da Penha Case and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights:Contributions to the Debate on Domestic Violence against Women in Brazil.”
Paula Spieler, Fundação Getúlio-Vargas – Rio de Janeiro

“Guilty as Charged: The Trial and Prosecution of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori for Human Rights Violations.”
Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University

“Democracy, Gender Equality, and Customary Law: Constitutionalizing Internal Cultural Disruption.”
Susan Williams, Maurer School of Law

3:15-3:30pm
Break

3:30-5:30pm
Panel III: Law, Struggle, and the Collective
Moderator: Shane Greene, Department of Anthropology

“The Power of Definition: Brazil’s Contribution to Universal Concepts of Indigeneity.”
Jan French, University of Richmond

“’Culture Fatigue’: The State and Minority Rights in Botswana.”
Jacqueline Solway, Trent University

“Between Global Governance and Indigenous Rights: The Right to Prior Consultation and the Proceduralization of Survival.”
César Rodriguez-Garavito, University of the Andes

5:30-6:00pm
Discussant: John Comaroff, University of Chicago

APRIL 10, 2010

9:30-11:30am
Panel IV: Rights Across the Global South
Moderator: Alfred Aman, Maurer School of Law

“Sex Equality in Family Law: Religion, Custom, and the State in Comparative Perspective.”
Mala Htun, The New School, and S. Laurel Weldon, Purdue University

“Pluralism, Universality: Putting Rights in Context and South/South Cooperation.”
Erika George, University of Utah

“Community Consultations: The Interplay of Corporations and Communities in the Extractive Industries.”
Patrick Keenan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

1:00-3:00pm
Panel V: The Politics of Belonging and Exclusion
Moderator: Beverly Stoeltje, Department of Anthropology

“Ethnographies of Social and Political Exclusion in Western Mexico.”
Guillermo de la Peña, CIESAS-Occidente

“Citizenship, Autochthony and Exclusion: Paradoxes in Present-day Politics of Belonging.”
Peter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam

“The ‘Right’ to be Trafficked.”
Charles Piot, Duke University

3:00-3:30pm
Discussant: Timothy Waters, Maurer School of Law