Reading List and Research Presentations
ESRG SCHEDULE AUTUMN 2012
September 11
THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT REVISITED
Dr. Shareen Hertel, Associate Professor, Political Science and Human Rights, University of Connecticut
Dodd 162, 12-1:30 pm
October 16
PETRO-JUSTICE, ALIEN CLAIMS, AND THE LIMITS OF HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE
Dr. Heather Turcotte, Assistant Professor, Political Science and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Connecticut
Dodd 162, 12-1:30 pm
November 13
HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS AFTER GENOCIDE: A CAMBODIAN EXAMPLE
Dr. Megan Berthold, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Connecticut
Dodd 162, 12-1:30 pm
December 4
HUNGRY FOR JUSTICE: SOCIAL MOBILIZATION ON THE RIGHT TO FOOD IN INDIA
Dr. Shareen Hertel, Associate Professor, Political Science and Human Rights, University of Connecticut, Dodd Lounge, 12-1:30 pm
ESRG SCHEDULE SPRING 2012
February 3
WORKER RIGHTS IN LAW & PRACTICE: NEW DATA & APPLICATIONS
Chad Clay, Assistant Professor, International Affairs, University of Georgia (August 2012)
Colin Barry, Doctoral Candidate, Political Science, Binghamton University
Dodd 162, 12-1:30 pm
February 29
ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS AND THE ATMOSPHERIC TRUST LITIGATION
Kelly Matheson, Program Manager for the Americas, WITNESS
Class of 1947 Room - Babbidge Library, 12-1:30 pm
March 30
THE COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC SERVICES IN INDIA
Dr. Vivek Srinivasan, Manager, Program on Liberation Technology, Stanford University
Dodd 162, 12-1:30 pm
April 13
KEYNOTE LECTURE FOR ESRG WORKSHOP, TBA
Konover Auditorium, 4:00 – 5:30 pm with reception & dinner following
April 14
ESRG WORKSHOP: “CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS”
April 27
TOPIC TBA
Dr. Gillian MacNaughton, Executive Director of the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, Northeastern University School of Law
Dodd Center Lounge, 12-1:30 pm
ESRG Fall 2011 Schedule
All Meetings are from 12-1:30
September 30
Dr. David Richards, Political Science/Human Rights, University of Connecticut
Roundtable on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Monteith 119
October 14
Dr. Prakash Kashwan, Political Science, University of Connecticut
“The Politics of Transition to Rights-Based Approaches to Conservation in India”
Monteith 119
November 18
Dr. Michael Goodhart, Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
“Who Pays for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights?”
Dodd Center, Room 162
December 7
Dr. Zehra Kabasakal Arat, Visiting Gladstein Professor and Juanita and Joseph Leff Distinguished Professor, Political Science and Women’s Studies, SUNY Purchase
Roundtable on Gendered Dimensions of Economic and Social Rights
Dodd Center Lounge
ESRG Spring 2011 Schedule
All Meetings are from 12-1:30
February 4 (162 Dodd)
Audrey Chapman (UCONN Health Center) and Ben Carbonetti (UCONN, Political Science): “Human Rights Protections for Vulnerable and Disadvantaged Groups: The Contributions of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”
February 25 (Dodd Lounge Area)
Steve Kutcha (UCONN, Economics): “Environmental Justice and ESC Rights: Derived Protections from the European Court of Human Rights”
March 25 (339 Monteith)
Blair Johnson (UCONN, Psychology): “HIV Prevention Efforts, Human Rights, and Other Structural Dimensions: Factors related to the Success of Interventions around the Globe.”
April 29 (162 Dodd)
Patrick Heidkamp and Colin Ryan (SCSU, Geography): "Spatial Considerations of Economic Rights Measurement"
April 9
ESRG Annual Workshop: “The State Of Economic and Social Rights”
ESRG Fall ’10 Schedule
All Meetings are from 12-1:30 in 162 Dodd Unless Otherwise Noted
September 24
Derek Johnson (UCONN, Economics): “On the Institutional Dilemmas of Human Rights Enforcement”
October 8
Chris Jeffords (UCONN, Agricultural and Resource Economics) and Corinne Tagliarina (UCONN, Political Science): “On the Right to Clean Water: On the Resolution Recently Passed by the UN General Assembly”
October 29 - Student Union, Room 318
Radhika Balakrishnan (Rutgers, Women’s and Gender Studies) and Diane Elson (Essex, Sociology): Macroeconomic Policy and Human Rights: A Case Study of the US and Mexico”
November 19 - Thomas J Dodd Research Center, Room 162
Sanjay Reddy (New School, Economics): “Economics and Human Rights: The Non-Conversation”
December 3 - Student Union, Room 324
Shawna Sweeney (UMASS-Dartmouth, Public Policy): TBA
ERG Spring ’10 Schedule
February 5 (12-1:30, 162 Dodd)
Shareen Hertel: On the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR’s
Claire Mahon, 2008. “Progress at the Front: The Draft Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,” Human Rights Law Review 8(4): 617-646.
March 5 (12-1:30, 162 Dodd) Changed
Kathy Libal and Michael Morrell on Cultural Rights
General comment No. 21, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Committee: Right of everyone to take part in cultural life (art. 15, para. 1 (a), of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)
Reidel, Laura(2010) 'What are Cultural Rights? Protecting Groups With Individual Rights', Journal of Human Rights, 9: 1, 65 — 80
March 26 (11-2, SU 303)
Thomas Pogge (Yale): "The Human Rights of the Global Poor: What Can We Do?" Faculty Seminar #1 arranged by the Human Rights Institute
April 2 (9:30-12, SU 320)
Thomas Pogge (Yale): "The Human Rights of the Global Poor: What Can We Do?" Faculty Seminar #2 arranged by the Human Rights Institute
Saturday April 17: Annual ERG Workshop
Note: Participation in the March 26 and April 2 Faculty Seminars must be prearranged through the Human Rights Institute
ERG Fall '09 Schedule
All meeting will be held from: 12 noon till 1:30 p.m.
Friday, 9/18/09
Dodd Center, Room 162
Christian Zimmerman (UConn, Economics)
“Unemployment accounts vs. unemployment insurance: A quantitative exploration”
Friday 10/9/09
Babbidge Library Administrative Conference Room
(* Go to main Babbidge Offices on the Plaza level; the Conference room is within that suite of offices; the receptionist will direct you.)
Kathy Libal (UConn School of Social Work)
“HR in the USA: Selected readings and discussion.”
- Risa L. Goluboff, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007) – Read “Introduction” (pages 1-15), and Chapter 3 “Claiming Rights in the Industrial Economy (pages 81-110).
- Philip Alston, “Putting Economic, Social & Cultural Rights Back on the Agenda of the United States,” in The Future of Human Rights: US Policy for a New Era, edited by William F. Schulz (Pennslyvania, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), pages 120-138.
Friday, 11/6/09
Babbidge Library Administrative Conference Room
Susan Randolph (UConn Economics)
"An Index of Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment: Country Scores and Rankings" (paper by by Susan Randolph, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Terra Lawson-Remer)
Friday, 11/20/09
Dodd Center, Room 162
David Richards (Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights)
“Three Doors Into the Same Room: Development, Rights, and Security”
ERG Fall ’08 Schedule
All Sessions are Fridays 12-1:30 in room 162, Dodd Center--except Oct. 31
September 12
- Samson Kimenyi:
"On Ethnic Division and Inequality in Kenya"
September 26
- Audrey Chapman:
"Globalization, Health, and Human Rights"
October 17
- Shareen Hertel:
"Human Rights in a Global Economy: Bringing Labor Rights Back In"
October 31 (room TBA)
- Philip Harvey:
"Returning the Favor: What Economists Can Learn from the Law"
November 14
- Rich Hiskes:
"The Human Right to a Green Future"
ERG Itinerary: Spring 2008
All Sessions are from 12-1:30
February 8 Rm. 162
- Oksan Bayulgen
Topic: Non-State Approaches to Institutionalizing Economic Rights
February 29 Rm. 162
- Topic: Hurricane Katrina and Human Rights
12-12:30 Readings and Discussion - Summary of The Gulf Coast Civic Works Act of 2007 (HR 4048).
- Where Did the Katrina Money Go? By Jeffrey Buchanan and Chris Kromm, Institute for Southern Studies, September 5, 2007.
- NESRI
- 12:30-? Film: When the Levees Broke (By Spike Lee)
March 28 Admin. Conference Rm.
- Shareen Hertel
Topic: The Effect of Constitutionalizing Economic Rights on Social Mobilization
April 11 Rm. 162
- Radhika Balakrishnan
Topic: Assessing Macroeconomic Policies and Human Rights
April 12
- 2nd Annual ERG Workshop on the Indivisibility and Interdependence of Human Rights
April 25 Admin. Conf. Rm
- Mark Boyer
Topic: Public Goods Theory Applied to Environmental Rights
ERG Itinerary: Fall 2007
All Sessions are from 12-1:30 at the listed Dodd Center Room
September 14 Rm. 162
- Lanse Minkler Topic: Economic Rights and the Policymaker’s Decision Problem
October 5 Admin Conference Rm
- Susan Randolph Topic: Measuring Household Level Food Security in Rural Senegal
October 26 Rm. 162
- Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Topic: Human Development and Human Rights: addressing the limitations of Human Rights Based Development
November 16 Rm. 162
- Tarp, Finn, 2006. “Aid and Development,” Swedish Economic Policy Review 13: 9-61.
- Clemens, Michael A., 2007. “Smart Samaritans - Is There a Third Way in the Development Debate?(The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It)(Book review of Paul Collier),” Foreign Affairs 86(5): 132-140.
December 7 Admin Conference Rm
- Stiglitz, J. and A. Charlton, 2005. Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Chapters 2,3, 5.
ERG Itinerary: Spring 2007
All meetings are on Fridays from 1:30-3pm
Febuary 2 Conference Room 162, Dodd Research Center
- Oksan Bayulgen
Topic: On Microfinance Research
Febuary 23 Administrative Conference Room, Dodd Research Center
- Kathy Libal
Topic: Economic Rights in 'General Comments' of UN
Human Rights Treaty-Monitoring Bodies
March 16 Administrative Conference Room, Dodd Research Center
- Audrey Chapman
Topic: TBA
April 6 Administrative Conference Room, Dodd Research Center
- Lanse Minkler
Topic: The Cost of Economic Rights
April 27 Administrative Conference Room, Dodd Research Center
- Shareen Hertel, Lyle Scruggs, and Patrick Heidkamp
Topic: On Ethical Consumption
ERG Itinerary: Fall 2006
All meetings are on Fridays from 1-2:30
September 15 Conference Rm. 162, Dodd
- Organizational Issues
- (Optional) Hertel, S. and Minkler, L., “Economic Rights: The Terrain.”
September 29 Administrative Rm., Dodd
- Alston, P., 2005. Ships Passing in the Night: The Current State of the Human Rights and Development Debate Seen Through the Lens of the Millennium Development Goals,” HRQ 27, 755-829.
- Harvard School of Public Health, FXB Center Working Paper series, No. 12: Arjun Sengupta, "Development Cooperation and the Right to
Development" (2003):
October 13 Conference Rm. 162, Dodd
- Lyle Scruggs, Political Science. Topic: On Social Insurance
November 10 Administrative Rm., Dodd
- Bandana Purkayastha, Sociology. Topic: TBA
December 1 Administrative Rm., Dodd
- Shawna Sweeney, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Topic: TBA
ERG Reading List: Spring 2006
January 30
- Philip Harvey, Rutgers Law School (topic: on the right to employment)
Febuary 20
- Stephen Pallage, University of Montreal, Economics (topic: on child labor)
March 13
- Michael Goodhart, University of Pittsburgh, Political Science (topic: on the right to an adequate standard of living)
April 3
- Susan Radolph, Uconn, Economics (topic: on measuring economic rights)
April 15
- Kathryn Libal, Uconn, Anthropology (topic: Debating Economic Rights in the First Wave International Feminist Movement, 1920s-1930s)
ERG Reading List: Fall 2005
September 20
- (1) Hertel, S., Forthcoming. "Why Bother? Advancing Work on Measuring Economic Rights," in Landman and Dahlerus (Eds).
- (2) Green, M., 2001. "What We Talk About When We Talk About Indicators:
Current Approaches to Human Rights Measurement," Human Rights Quarterly 23, 1062-1097.
October 4
- (1) Nickel, J., 2005. "Poverty and Rights," The Philosophical Quarterly 55, 385-402.
- (2) Beetham, David, 1995. _What Future for Economic and Social Rights,_ Political Studies 43, 41-60.
October 18
- (1) Kimenyi, S., 2005. " Economic Rights, Human Development Effort and Institutions," Paper to be presented at the Economic Rights Conference.
- (2) Blume, L. and S. Voigt, 2004. _The Economic Effects of Human Rights,_ University of Kassel Working Paper 66/04.
ERG Reading List: Spring 2005
Concepts
January 24
- Sen, Amartya, 2004. “Elements of a Theory of Human Rights,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 32, 315-356.
February 7
- From: Sunstein, Cass, 2004. The Second Bill of Rights. (Introduction and chapters 10-12).
Measures
February 28
- Milner, Wesley T., Steven C. Poe and David Leblang, 1999. “Security Rights, Subsistence Rights, and Liberties: A Theoretical Survey of the Empirical Landscape,” Human Rights Quarterly 21, 403-443.
March 14
- Cingranelli, David L. and David L. Richards, 2004. “Measuring Government Respect for Economic Human Rights,” paper prepared for the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 13 September 2004.
Policy
CHILD LABOR
March 28
- Basu, Kaushik, and Zafiris Tzannatos, 2003. “The Global Child Labor Problem: What Do We Know and What Can We Do?,” CAE Working Paper #03-06, June 2003.
LIVING WAGE
April 11
- “Beyond Questions of Principle: Exploring the Implementation of Living Wages in Today’s Global Economy,” A Report on the Fair Labor Association’s Living Wage Forum, October 20, 2003, Columbia University.
ERG Reading List Fall 2004
September 23
- Marks, Stephen, (2000-01). “The Human rights Framework for Development: Five Approaches,” Working Paper No.6, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health.
- Copp, David, 1992. “The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living: Justice, Autonomy, and Basic Needs,” in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Miller, and Jeffrey Paul (Eds), Economic Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
October 7
- Sen, Amartya, 1999. Development as Freedom, NY: Knopf. Chapters 3 and 4.
- Sugden, Robert, 1993. “A Review of Inequality Reexamined by Amartya Sen,” Journal of Economic Literature, 31, 1947-62.
October 21
- Gewirth, Alan, 1996. The Community of Rights, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Chapters 1 and 2.
November 4
- Pogge, Thomas. “A Cosmopolitan Perspective on the Global Economic Order,” in Harry Brighouse and Gillian Brock (Eds), The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism.
November 18
- Sachs, Albie, 2004. “The Judicial Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights: The Grootboom Case,” paper presented at a conference on Third Party Effects- What Happens When the State Promotes Rights?, 12th Annual Conference on “The Individidual Versus the Stat,” Central European University, Budapest, June 18-19.