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Untold Stories of Human Rights (Q&A): Lydia Liu, Apr. 2014

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  • Title:
    Untold Stories of Human Rights (Q&A): Lydia Liu, Apr. 2014
  • Author: Institute for Advanced Study
  • Subjects: Asian Literature ; Human Rights ; International Law ; Minneapolis ; Minnesota ; North America ; Postwar ; United Nations
  • Description: Shadows of Universalism: The Untold Story of Human Rights Around 1948 How did self-determination get written into human rights? And by whom? In her lecture, Lydia Liu reopens the story of how the postwar norms of human rights were radically transformed by an unexpected clash with the classical standard of civilization in international law. She analyzes the drafting of the document of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as the UN debates surrounding it to explore the translingual forging of universalism in the multiple temporalities of global history.
  • Creation Date: 2014
  • Language: English
  • Source: UMedia

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