Human Rights and Anthropology

November 8, 2019
Anthropology and Human Rights: The Impact of Sally Engle Merry
NYU School of Law, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at New York University held a conference celebrating the work of Professor Sally Engle Merry.
Speakers:
• Julie Billaud (Graduate Institute, Geneva) Strategizing for Relevance: NGO’s Submissions to the Universal Periodic Review
• Jane Cowan (University of Sussex) Words, Numbers, Culture: Thinking with Sally Merry at the Universal Periodic Review
• Mark Goodale (Lausanne) Vernacularization as Anthropological Ethics
• Sam Martinez (U Conn) Beyond the Vanishing Point: What Can Ethnography Add to Today’s Anti-Slavery Efforts?
• Fred Myers (NYU Anthropology) Rites of Culture: Legal Frameworks, Indigenous Protocols, and the Circulation of Culture in Australia