Events

The War of Legitimacy: On the Cosmopolitan Occupation of Human Rights

Ayça Çubukçu will discuss her work on the World Tribunal on Iraq and the politics of human rights. Feedback and comments are especially welcome.

Ayça Çubukçu is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Committee on Global Thought. She received a Ph.D. with Distinction in political anthropology from Columbia University. Her research is concerned with the politics and history of human rights, discourses of "humanity" and international law, as well as global social movements. Her publications include "On the Uneven Geography of Islamic Globalization: The Fact of Iraqi Constitution, the Fatalism of Human Rights," monograph published by the Academy of Latinity (Rio de Janeiro, 2009); "Paradoxes of Sovereignty: War, Justice and the World Tribunal on Iraq" (Princeton, 2006), monograph published by World Politics/Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and "Can the Network Speak?" a review of Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, published in the Arab Studies Journal (2005).

Sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University.