A public lecture by Michael Ignatieff will kick off a History research workshop, “Taking Liberties: Historicizing 20th Century Human Rights in the English Speaking World,” on Thursday, March 1.
Ignatieff – former Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons, and a world authority on human rights history, theory and policy – will be speaking on how human rights have been conceptualized in the second half of the 20th century.
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