Talk by Ayten Gündoğdu on May 18th: "Rightlessness in an Age of Rights"

There have been remarkable developments in the field of human rights in the past few decades. Still, millions of asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented immigrants continue to find it challenging to access human rights. Ayten Gündoğdu will address these challenges in her presentation on her new book, Rightlessness in an Age of Rights, which builds on Hannah Arendt's political theory and offers a critical analysis of human rights by examining immigration detention, deportation, refugee camps, and struggles for regularisation.

Monday, May 18th. 2015

IB204, South Campus

Boğaziçi University

14:00 – 16:00

Ayten Gündoğdu, assistant professor of political science, at Barnard College. Professor Gündoğdu’s current research centers on critical approaches to human rights, contemporary problems of citizenship, and political and ethical dilemmas of international migration. She has recently published a book titled Rightlessness in an Age of Rights (Oxford University Press, 2015). Professor Gündoğdu is the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University, Sawyer Dissertation Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and several other grants and awards from Barnard College and the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.