CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
GETTING CLOSURE: HUMAN RIGHTS AFTER HUMAN RIGHTS
Monday, 4 May 2015
Venue: Room Spaak, Institute for European Studies, ULB, 39 avenue
F.D.Roosevelt, 1050 Ixelles
9.00: Welcome and opening of the Conference
9.30-10.30: Keynote Speech
Justine Lacroix (ULB): From the Rights of Man to Human Rights? Two critical
remarks on The Last Utopia
Chair: Emmanuelle Bribosia (ULB)
10.30-11.00: Coffee Break
11.00-13.00: Parallel Panels
(1) Revamping the Sources of Human Rights
Room Kant, IEE, ULB
Chair: Thea Staes (Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles / ULB)
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Frederick Cowell (Birbeck Law School): Towards a theory of defensive
relativism: recognising alternate sources of human rights
Laura Van den Eynde (ULB): Sources of human rights argumentation:
the innovative but puzzling aspects of comparative references
Olivier Van der Noot (Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles): Revamping
or Understanding? National Bills of Rights as sources of Human Rights Law
(2) Contentious Identities & Legal (Counter) Revolutions
Room Spaak, IEE, ULB
Chair: Ivana Isailovic (ULB)
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Uladzislau Belavusau (VU Amsterdam): Sex beyond the Internal
Market: Sexual Rights as Human Rights in the EU
Azeezah Kanji (School of Oriental and African Studies): Rights of
Sexual Minorities in Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law: A
Critique of the Discourse
Damjan Kukovec (Harvard Law School): Human Rights and Identity
Politics as Tools for Reproduction of Hierarchies
Christoph Sperfeldt (Australian National University): A Boat
Without Anchors: Dynamics of Identity Politics and Exclusion among
Stateless Minority Populations in Cambodia
13.00-14.30: Lunch
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14.30-16.30: Parallel Panels
(3) Reframing or Being Framed? On Alternative Human Rights
Discourses
Room Kant, IEE, ULB
Chair: Laura Van den Eynde (ULB)
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Chloe Delcour (Ghent University): Roma as both European minority
and outsider ‘par excellence’? Interactions between inclusionary and
exclusionary frames in the aftermath of a human rights violation
Vincent Chapaux (ULB): People are Animals too: On the current Animal
Rights and Human Rights Convergence
German Sandoval (National Autonomous University of Mexico):
Ayotzinapa, Mexico: The south of the global capitalism
(4) Narrating Human Rights: Stories and Histories
Room Spaak, IEE, ULB
Chair: Jacco Bomhoff (LSE)
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Olivier Barsalou (McGill University): Trusteeship and the Path to
Liberty: The Imperial Origins of the Right to Self-Determination in
International Law
Anna Isaeva (University of Florence): History of human rights in Soviet
legal doctrine and its impact on contemporary human rights practices in
Russia
Gjovalin Macaj (University of Oxford): Virtues of Vice: Selectivity and
global human rights progress
Jose-Manuel Barreto (Kate Hamburger Kolleg, University of
Bonn): Eurocentric and Decolonial Histories of Human Rights
16.30-17.00: Coffee Break
17.00-19.00: Keynote Speech
Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki): Human Rights: so 90s
Discussant: Jan Kleinheisterkamp (London School of Economics)
Salle Visio (NB28Vis), Ground Floor, Nouvelle Bibliothèque, ULB (see
the map of the Solbosch Campus)
19.30: Dinner
La Mirabelle, Chaussée de Boondael 459, Brussels
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Tuesday, 5 May 2015
11.00-12.30: Keynote Speech
Vidya Kumar (Birmingham Law School): Revolution and the Ends of Human
Rights: International Law and Emancipatory Discursive Histories
Chair: Isabelle Rorive (ULB)
12.30-14.00: Lunch
14.00-16.00: Parallel Panels
(5) ‘Foreignness’ as a Legal Experience
Room Spaak, IEE, ULB
Chair: Moritz Baumgärtel (ULB)
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Salvo Nicolosi (Ghent University): Citizen or foreigner? The long
arduous way towards a ‘residential citizenship’ for third country nationals in
European Union law
Rosa Freedman & Kieren McGuffin (Birmingham Law School):
Reconceiving Rights: A Case Study on the European Union and the Human
Rights of Irregular Migrants
Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias (Poznan Human Rights Centre)
& Witold Klaus (Polish Academy of Sciences): Governmental
Xenophobia towards “the Other”
Fabiane Baxewanos (University of Vienna): Fluffiness vs. Formalism?
Adjudicating Human Rights Responsibility in Cases of Offshored and
Outsourced Migration Control
(6) ‘Private Matters’: Beyond Human Rights?
Room Kant, IEE, ULB
Chair: Uladzislau Belavusau (VU Amsterdam)
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Valeska David (Ghent University): Property, inequality and the
flexibility of international human rights norms
Arnaud Louwette (ULB): Human rights as good practices in global health
public-private partnerships
Naheed Ghauri (Birbeck Law School): Interaction between European
human rights and private international law
16.00-17.00: Closing of the conference followed by a reception
Room Spaak, IEE, ULB
For registration please contact Moritz Baumgärtel (mbaumgrt@ulb.ac.be).
Please note that costs for a full-day attendance are 10 € (20 € for two days), which
includes coffee and lunch.
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