Human Rights and Global Wrongs: The Role of Human Rights Discourse as a Response to Trafficking
Date & Time: November 10, 2015 | 07:00 PM – 08:30 PM
Location: 236 Katz Building
John Christman, professor of philosophy, political science, and women's studies at Penn State will speak on Human Rights and Global Wrongs: The Role of Human Rights Discourse as a Response to Trafficking from 11:00 am to 12:30 p.m. on November 10 in room 236 Lewis Katz Building.
Christman specializes in contemporary social and political philosophy, moral theory, figures in the history of political philosophy, and feminism. His recent courses include Politics and Social Theory, Philosophy of Law, and Rousseau's Social and Political Philosophy.
The following is a list of his recent publications:
- Freedom and the Extended Self. Ethical Perspectives 21 no.2, June 2014
- The Politics of Persons: Individual Autonomy and Socio-Historical Selves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism: New Essays, co-edited with Joel Anderson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, January 2005