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Faculty of LawAcademy for European Human Rights Protection

Symposium: Misappropriation and Human Rights Implosion

Details

6.-8. November 2023
Schloss Herrenhausen, Herrenhäuser Straße 5, 30419 Hannover

Description

The symposium aims to investigate and conceptualise the phenomenon of “misappropriation” of human rights in authoritarian regimes and liberal democracies, understood as the abusive use of human rights seeking or at least ultimately entailing a decrease of human rights protection. Drawing on perspectives from scholars, practitioners, and civil society, the symposium asks about the legal and non-legal strategies used to construct abusive human rights narratives, the relevant actors involved, the reasons for choosing misappropriation instead of outright rejection and the criteria to determine that human rights are misappropriated. In addition, the symposium addresses the consequences of misappropriation on the human rights regime, how human rights are perceived within societies, the consequences on scholarship and international relations, as well as the differences between misappropriation in authoritarian and liberal regimes and across generations. With this, the symposium is dedicated to a significant driving force for the headwinds blowing against human rights worldwide. 

Call for Abstracts

Please find attached the call for abstracts for this event.

  • We invite early career researchers to submit an anonymized abstract in English (max. 450 words) by 14 August 2023 only via this link. Abstracts will be considered via a blind review process.
  • Selected candidates will be notified by 21 August 2023.
  • Position papers (max. 3000 words, including footnotes) must be submitted by 29 October 2023.

We envisage publishing extended versions of these contributions in an open access edited volume. The symposium is planned as an on-site event. The travel and accommodation costs of the selected participants will be covered. This call primarily addresses early career researchers who will be given the opportunity to participate in the three-day symposium, together with other pre-invited participants. Preference will be given to scholars from the Global South. If you have any questions, please contact us at humanrights-weekSpamProtectionuni-koeln.de

Organising comittee

Dr. Júlia Miklasová
Dr. Paula Rhein-Fischer
Dr. Cathérine Van de Graaf

The Symposium is funded by VolkswagenStiftung.