The 50th Annual Comparative Literature Symposium

TTU Comparative Literature Symposium 2018
(April 6-7, 2018)

Human Rights Now: Texts, Contexts, Comparisons

Program

Supported by the Ethics Center, the College of Visual and Performing Arts, the Departments of English and Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures.

Our symposium invites papers on literature, film, media, history, philosophy, and theory that illuminate some of these issues. Fiction, drama, memoirs, journalistic reportage, poetry, and philosophical accounts represent various responses to the globalized vocabulary of human rights. Some contemporary topics the papers may address are:

• Texts and contexts of anti-colonial resistance movements such as those in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean
• Representations of civil, regional, ethnic, racial, and tribal conflict in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas
• Representations of civil, regional, ethnic, racial, and tribal conflict in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas
• Oral history, reports, films, music, letters, diaries, and memoirs about major wars over the past century such as the World Wars, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, and the Gulf Wars, including national responses and international responsibilities amid the "wars" on terror
• Manifestoes, prison narratives, epistolary communication, testimonies, websites, and social media in environmental struggles against the thirst for oil such as the Movement for the Struggle of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) in Nigeria, the U'Wa Defense Working group in Colombia, and Standing Rock in the United States
• Real and virtual communities such as Black Lives Matter, One Billion Rising, and Bring Home Our Girls' representation of the value and worth of human lives in the face of violence
• International groups such as Amnesty International, Human Rights First, the International Human Rights Commission, the Red Cross and others facilitating rights and creating a corporatist rights agenda
• The role of public humanities and public intellectuals in creating awareness about social justice and human rights.

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