Friday, January 3, 9:30–11:30 a.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

28. Articulating Discourses of "Rights" in Non-Western Historical Contexts

Palmer House, LaSalle Room 5

Chair: Julia Thomas, University of Notre Dame

Papers: The Hindu Code Bill and Women's Rights in India
Rochona Majumdar, University of Chicago

Narrative Identities and Civil Liberties in Modern Iranian Political Discourses
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Illinois State University at Normal

From "Rights" to "Culture" in Later Nineteenth-Century Bengal
Andrew Sartori, University of Chicago

Comment: Douglas Howland, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

   

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