Symposium: Vulnerability, Precarity and Human Rights
Friday, September 19, 2014 9:00 AM EDT
Arlington Campus
Symposium: Vulnerability, Precarity and Human Rights
GMU (Arlington campus) 9am - 5.30pm
Friday 19th September 2014
In recent years, a growing political discourse has emerged around issues of vulnerability and precarity. These concepts are mobilized to justify political action in the name of 'the vulnerable' as well as to question our models of 'the human' and to problematize the very idea that some individuals or groups are 'naturally' more vulnerable than others. To what extent is vulnerability a helpful political category? How can it be mobilized in the interests of social justice?
Speakers will address these issues and more in relation to: gender and conflict, sexual politics, race, immigration and asylum, feminist and queer politics, disability, protest movements, global health equity, and international human rights discourses, including children's rights.
This event is free and open to all, but registration is required (we have materials to distribute to participants in advance). If you would like to attend, please send an email by Friday 12th September to Dr Rachel Jones at rjones23@gmu.edu with your name and any dietary requirements. It would be helpful if you could also indicate if you intend to attend part or the full day.
This event is being organized by faculty members in the Philosophy Department and Women & Gender Studies Program at George Mason University, with co-sponsorship by African and African American Studies, The Center for the Study of Gender and Conflict, Cultural Studies, LGBTQ Resources, Modern and Classical Languages, & The Office of Disability Services.
