{"id":156,"date":"2010-09-20T16:59:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T20:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/2011-annual-meeting-apsa"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:06:16","slug":"2011-annual-meeting-apsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/2011-annual-meeting-apsa\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Annual Meeting &#8211; APSA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=apsa_section11\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>APSA invites proposals for the 2011 Annual Meeting.  Proposal submissions will be accepted online until December 15, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<h3>The Politics of Rights<\/h3>\n<p>Program Co-chairs: <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nd.edu\/~governme\/faculty\/profiles\/francis-hagopian\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frances Hagopian, University of Notre Dame<\/a>;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polisci.northwestern.edu\/people\/honig.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bonnie Honig, Northwestern University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 APSA Annual Meeting Program Chairs offer the following theme:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Jeremy Bentham called them \u201cnonsense upon stilts\u201d  but at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the discourse of  rights has never been more pronounced or contested. Around the globe,  people mobilize&#8211;and in courts, lawyers argue&#8211;on behalf of human,  civil, political, ethnic minority, aboriginal, women\u2019s, gay, alien,  children\u2019s, transgender, corporate, (sub)national, environmental, and  animal rights. Some of these are established rights that advocates seek  to expand for those previously excluded from their ambit. Others are new  rights. At the same time, the abrogation of such rights as habeas  corpus and the use of so-called \u201cenhanced interrogation techniques\u201d by  governments in established as well as new democracies in the decade  since September 11 have engendered new alliances of progressives and  rule of law liberals to defend the restoration and refurbishment of  rights. Movements to expand, create, defend, and entrench rights into  national and international law generate counter-claims, put rights under  pressure and, some argue, problematically privilege courts, legal and  centralized national institutions over other more democratic or popular  mechanisms of policy formation and self-governance. We propose that the  discipline bring its empirical and normative lenses to reflect on the  domestic, comparative, and international dimensions of the complex  politics of rights&#8230;.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apsanet.org\/media\/PDFs\/AnnualMeeting\/2011ThemeStatement.pdf\">View Full Theme Statement<\/a>&#160;(*.pdf)<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APSA invites proposals for the 2011 Annual Meeting. Proposal submissions will be accepted online until December 15, 2010. &#160; The Politics of Rights Program Co-chairs: Frances Hagopian, University of Notre Dame;Bonnie Honig, Northwestern University. The 2011 APSA Annual Meeting Program Chairs offer the following theme: Jeremy Bentham called them \u201cnonsense upon stilts\u201d but at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[19,20],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apsa-annual-meeting","tag-apsa-annual-meeting","tag-politics-of-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}