Hijacking Human Rights: An ISHR Student-Faculty Conversation Series

<h3>The Human Rights Lens: An ISHR Student-Faculty Conversation Series</h3>
<p>Please join Professor Joseph Slaughter, ISHR Executive Director with Josephine Koch, UHRP &#39;25, to discuss &quot;Hijacking Human Rights: Neoliberalism, the New Historiography, and the End of the Third World.&quot;</p>
<p>Recent histories of human rights identify the 1970s as a &quot;breakthrough&quot; period when they gained traction globally. However, most of the new historiographers adopt a restricted Americo-Eurocentric Perspective that disregards events and peoples in the rest of the world as makers of human rights history. For many in the Global South, the Western &quot;rediscovery&quot; of human rights in the 1970s looks more like retrenchment and repossession, part of a larger &quot;rollback&quot; on Third World agendas to decolonize and reshape the international order. This same period also saw an increased use of airline hijackings as a tactic of national liberation movements, which helped to speed a reversal in the official discourse on &quot;terrorism.&quot; Together, these forces facilitated a neoliberal hijacking of human rights that delegitimized national self-determination, narrowed international concern to the plight of individual political prisoners, and realigned the moral economy of human rights.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>**This series offers student-led conversations on human rights and social justice issues, examined through the work of ISHR faculty. Participants are asked to read the research in advance.&nbsp;Light lunch will be served.</em></p>
<p>Registration is required for this event.</p>
<p>Philosophy Hall Room 302</p>