{"id":1082,"date":"2011-10-24T18:30:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T22:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=event&#038;p=1082"},"modified":"2012-01-09T12:44:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T17:44:15","slug":"states-of-exception-children%e2%80%99s-human-rights-and-the-humanities","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/states-of-exception-children%e2%80%99s-human-rights-and-the-humanities\/","title":{"rendered":"States of Exception: Children\u2019s Human Rights and the Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/states-of-exception-event.jpg\" alt=\"States of Exception event\" title=\"states-of-exception-event\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/states-of-exception-event.webp 590w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/states-of-exception-event-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/states-of-exception-event-300x199.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s McIntyre lecturer, Wendy S. Hesford, integrates critical legal studies and feminist rhetorical criticism to examine the figure of the child as a limit condition to the liberal subject of human rights law. Through her analysis of contemporary representations of children living in varied states of political exception and social exclusion&mdash;stateless children, children born to illegal immigrants, children born of wartime rape&mdash;she demonstrates how these limit conditions challenge the norms and power relations that produce, and ultimately, govern children as subjects of human rights. Reassessing humanities-based approaches to human rights, she calls for the development of a critical ethos based on an awareness of the historical contingencies and rhetorical exigencies of ethical responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Wendy S. Hesford is Professor of English at Ohio State University and affiliate faculty of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is the author of <em>Framing Identities: Autobiography and the Politics of Pedagogy<\/em> and <em>Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms<\/em>; co-editor with Wendy Kozol of two collections, <em>Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the \u201cReal\u201d<\/em> and <em>Just Advocacy? Women\u2019s Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation<\/em>. She has published in a range of journals, including <em>PMLA<\/em>, <em>Biography<\/em>, <em>College English<\/em>, <em>Humanity<\/em>, <em>Journal of Human Rights<\/em>, <em>Rhetoric Society Quarterly<\/em>, and <em>TDR: Journal of Performance Studies<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s McIntyre lecturer, Wendy S. Hesford, integrates critical legal studies and feminist rhetorical criticism to examine the figure of the child as a limit condition to the liberal subject of human rights law. Through her analysis of contemporary representations of children living in varied states of political exception and social exclusion&mdash;stateless children, children born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1084,"template":"","tags":[19,124,142,36,59,69,42,28,95],"class_list":["post-1082","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-academy","tag-children","tag-family","tag-history","tag-human-rights","tag-immigration","tag-policy","tag-violence","tag-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}