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The Land and Water Research Cluster of the Human Rights Program invites you to the following roundtable:
“Land, Water and Human Rights: Multidisciplinary Intersections”
December 3, 2013 | 1:30 - 3 p.m. | Ingraham 206
1:30- 2:20 Group One (Facilitator: Heinz Klug)
- “Palestinian Rights to Water, or Between Human Rights and the Government of Self and Other”
Samer Alatout (Community and Environmental Sociology) - “Resource Extraction, Resistance, and the Legacies of PoliticalViolence in Guatemala”
Rachel Schwartz (Political Science) - “Access Conflicts and Forum Shopping on the Rangelands of Northern Afghanistan”
Kramer Gillin (Geography) - “Rights, Representation and the Struggle for Prior Consultation: Indigenous Organizing in the Andes”
Christina Ewig (Gender & Women's Studies/Political Science)
2:20-3:00 Group Two (Facilitator: Christina Ewig)
- “Constructing Communities: Culture and the Resistance to Water Privatization in Cochabamba, Bolivia”
Erica Simmons (Political Science/International Studies) - “Redistributing Through Property Rights? Assessment of Collective Land Tenure Systems in Colombia”
Tatiana Alfonso (Sociology) - “Land, Water and the Materiality of Human Rights”
Heinz Klug (Law)
Sponsors: The Human Rights Program is supported by a UW-Madison Mellon Foundation grant for the advancement of area and international studies and coordinated by the Global Legal Studies Center
Submitted by Law School News on November 22, 2013
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