Thursday, September 15, 2011

8:30-9:00 Registration and breakfast

9:00-10:30 Franklin Roosevelt and Rights

Chair/Comment: Catherine Powell, San Francisco State University

Brigid O’Farrell, “Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights.”

Jeff Roquen, Lehigh University, “Franklin D. Roosevelt and The Executive Prerogative of

Human Rights, 1932-1945.”

Healthcare for All, a Human Right

Chair/Comment: Catherine Kudlick, University of California, Davis.

Dr. Mary Pat Donegan: "The Faith and Spiritual Basis of Healthcare as a Human Right."

Dr. Arno Vosk: "Health Professionals and the Politics of Healthcare for All."

Chuck Pennaccchio, "American Healthcare as History, and as Human Right." 

The Antelope: Slavery in the Atlantic World

Chair: Alfred Brophy, University of North Carolina

Jonathan Bryant, Georgia Southern University, "By the Law of Nature, All Men are

Free:" The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope through American Courts.” 

Respondents:

Barbara Loomis, San Francisco State University

Sally Hadden, Western Michigan University

Eva Sheppard Wolf, San Francisco State University

Alfred L. Brophy, University of North Carolina

10:45-12:15 National Power and Human Rights

Chair/Comment: Michael Fitzgerald, St. Olaf College.

Diana Wuerthner, San Francisco State University, "Southern Judicial Bias in the North:

Justice Robert C. Grier and the Castner Hanway Treason Trial of 1851."

John A’Hearn, San Francisco State University, “Lawyers, Treason, and the Political

Dynamics of the Christiana Riot Trial.”

Lindsay Ehrisman, San Francisco State University, "Folkways and Stateways: Segregated

Landscapes and the Limits of Governmental Power."

Labor Rights in the Public Sector:
Chair: John Logan, San Francisco State University
William B. Gould, Professor of Law, Stanford University, and former chair of the National

Labor Relations Board
Nelson Lichtenstein, MacArthur Foundation Chair in History, Director, Center for the

Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, University of California, Santa Barbara

Carolyn Doggett, Executive Director, California Teachers Association

International Sex Trafficking

Chair/Comment: Alex Gerould

Jeffrey Snipes, San Francisco State University, "Bridging Program Evaluation and

Intelligence Gathering:  An Academic's Undercover Operation of the Sex

Trafficking of Minors."

12:30-2:00 Lunch: Welcome: Dean Paul Sherwin

keynote speaker: Jefferson Cowie,  "Whatever Happened to Collective Economic

Rights?"

2:00-3:30 Roundtable on Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class.

Chair: John Logan. San Francisco State University

Robert Cherny, San Francisco State University

Nelson Lichtenstein, MacArthur Foundation Chair in History, Director, Center for the

Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, University of California, Santa Barbara
David Brody, Emeritus, UC Davis, and Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UC Berkeley

Comment: Jefferson Cowie

3:45-5:15 Open Forum: DADT is repealed: What follows in its wake?

Chair: Jonathan Lurie, Rutgers University

Whitney Strub, Rutgers University

Aaron Belkin, San Francisco State University

Deborah Cohler, San Francisco State University

The International Labor Organization and the Evolution of Human and Workers’ Rights

Chair/comment: John Logan, Director of Labor Studies, San Francisco State University

J.P. Daughton, Stanford University, “Colonial Rights? The International Regulation of

Colonial Violence in the Interwar Years.”

Katherine Marino, Stanford University, “Pan-American Feminism at the 1936

ILO Santiago Conference: Equal Rights and Maternity Legislation  for the

Americas”

Jill Jensen, UC, Santa Barbara, “The ILO and the 1950s U.S. Political Abandonment

of Human Rights Protocols: Internationalizing the Dilemma.”

Comment: Dana Frank, UC Santa Cruz

New Directions in Southern Legal History

Chair/Comment: Patricia Hagler Minter, Western Kentucky University

Sally Hadden, Western Michigan University, “Grand Jury Presentments in Eighteenth-

Century South Carolina.”

Lisa Lindquist Dorr, University of Alabama, “Southern Women and Alcohol during

Prohibition.”

Andrew Siegel, Seattle University School of Law, “Legal Education in the “Valley of

Hope”: The Transylvania University Law Department in Cultural Context.”

Alfred Brophy, University of North Carolina, “The World Made By Laws and the Laws

Made by the World of the Old South.”

Thomas N. Ingersoll, Ohio State University, “Rustlers, Race, and Judicial Rigor: Cattle

Thieves in a French Colonial Court.”

Friday, September 16, 2011

8:30-9:00 Registration and Breakfast

9:00-10:30 The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Bay Area

Chair: Larry Rafael Salomon, San Francisco State University  

Eduardo Contreras, Hunter College, City University of New York "Latinos, their Unions,

and Civil Rights Liberalism."

Paul Miller, “The Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights: African American in San Francisco.”

Mark Brilliant, University of California, Berkeley, “The Color of America Has Changed:

How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 1941-1978.”

Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment

Chair/Comment: Michael Les Benedict, Ohio State University

Ben Graber, San Francisco State University, “Sovereignty, Citizenship, and the

Fourteenth Amendment.”

Cordelia M. Kish Chadwick, San Francisco State University, "The Fourteenth
Amendment: San Francisco’s Dirty Laundry, 1875 to 1905."

Information as a Right and a Right as Rhetoric in Brazil and South Africa

Chair/ Comment: Trevor Getz, San Francisco State University

Myra Ann Houser, Howard University, “Rights Rhetoric and the Dismantling of South

Africa’s Apartheid System.”

Amanda Viriginia Albuquerque dos Santos, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, “Access to

Social Rights in Brazil: Reference Center of Social Assistance (CRAS) as

Gateway.”

10:45-12:15 Elections in the Courts: Litigating how we vote and count votes

Chair/Comment: Robert Cherny, San Francisco State University

Josiah Daniel, III, Partner, Vinson and Elkins, LLP, “LBJ v. Coke Stevenson:  Law,

Lawyering, and Candidates' Rights in the Litigation Aftermath of the Texas

Democratic Party Senatorial Primary Election of 1948.”

Charles L. Zelden, Professor, Nova Southeastern University, “The Southern Roots of the

Reapportionment Revolution: Rights, Race and the Origins of ‘One Person, One

Vote’”.

Comment: Anders Walker, Saint Louis University Law School

Rethinking Rights and Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

Chair/Comment: Steve Estes, Sonoma State University

Stephen A. Berrey, University of Michigan, “Fighting Words: Racial Violence and

Dialogues of African American Militancy in Jim Crow Mississippi.”

Michael Vinson Williams, Mississippi State University, “State Ballots, White Bullets and

Black Resistance: Voting Rights and the Meaning of Social Struggle in Mississippi.”

Jason Morgan Ward, Mississippi State University, "'For Revolution's Sake': Grassroots

Militancy, White Resistance, and the Meaning of Freedom in Rural Mississippi."

Gender, Children, and Rights in a Global Perspective.

Chair/Comment: Julietta Hua, San Francisco State University.

Saridalia Giraldo Gomez, San Francisco State University, “Colombian Women:

Human Rights Casualties.”

Karen Mercado, Director Be Foundation, Mexico City, “The Invisibles: Should non-

Existent Children have Rights?”

Sherry Keith, San Francisco State University, “Contributions of the Pan American

Women’s Movement to the Redefinition of Rights.”

12:30-2:00 Lunch: Welcome: President Robert Corrigan.

Keynote speaker: Eric Foner, Columbia University, “Reconstruction and the

Origins of Civil Rights.”

2:15-3:30 Roundtable on The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.

Chair: Christopher Waldrep, San Francisco State University.

Michael Fitzgerald, St. Olaf College.

Leon Litwack, University of California, Berkeley.

Michael Les Benedict, Ohio State University.

Waldo Martin, University of California, Berkeley.

Clarence Walker, University of California, Davis

Comment: Eric Foner.

3:45-5:15 Why Lynching Matters

Chair/Comment: Waldo Martin, University of California, Berkeley.

Amy Wood, Illinois State University, "Lynching and the Problem of Retributive Justice."

William Carrigan, Rowan University and Clive Webb, University of Sussex, “Why

Ordinary People Lynched.”

Christopher Waldrep, San Francisco State University, “Democracy and Lynching in

America.”

Slavery and Antislavery, Abolition and Citizenship

Chair/Comment: Bridget Ford, CSU East Bay

Christiane Warren, Empire State College – State University of New York, “The Woman’s

Question” in the ante bellum Anti Slavery Movement – An Examination of the Debate over the Importance of Women to the Abolitionist Movement.”

Joel Black, University of Oregon, “Sometimes the Dissents Matter: Citizenship, Rights

and the Legacy of Dred Scott.”

Health Rights: the Potential and Problems of a Rights-based Discourse in Increasing

Health Equity

Chair/Comment: Lynne Curry, Eastern Illinois University
Paula Braveman, University of California, San Francisco, “A rights-based approach to

health equity and the social determinants of health.”

Andrea Corage Baden, University of California, San Francisco, “Exploring health equity in

U.S. public health discourse.”
Katherine Record, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown

University, “A right to health? Judicial hostility to a global norm.”

Abby Goldman, Duke University, “The Emergency Maternity and Infant Care Program

and America’s attempts to create a right to health during World War II.”