[Ted Laros]

All are welcome to join our session on world literature and human rights at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in Washington, DC:

Session 15 – World Literature and Human Rights

Thursday, 6 January 2022 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM, Marquis 16 (Marriott Marquis)

For related material, visit http://www.oslit.nl/literature-law-and-society/

Presider

Ted Laros, Open U of the Netherlands

Presentations

Understanding Cultural Difference within the Framework of World Literature and the UDHR David Tse-chien Pan, U of California, Irvine

Globalizing the Novel of Human Rights Cassandra Falke, Arctic U of Norway

Ethics and Empathy: Human Rights Discourses and Lamentation as Politics in Home Fire Sauleha Kamal, U of York

Session Information

• Program: Special Sessions
• Subject: Comparative Literature – Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Keywords

• world literature
• human rights
• postcolonialism
• novel
• law and literature

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