Présentation

What are socioeconomic rights and what can their history tell us about modern concerns for well-being? This half-day workshop will explore aspects of socioeconomic rights in history, from the eighteenth-century European Enlightenment through to today. Speakers will discuss the political and philosophical debates over socioeconomic rights and seek to explain why these rights have tended to be less visible and more contested than civil and political rights.

Programme

14h - 15h 

Socioeconomic Rights in History: Questions and Problems
Charles Walton (University of Warwick)

Health and the History of Socioeconomic Rights since 1750
Claudia Stein (University of Warwick)

Pause

15h10 - 16h10

The Demise of Social Rights as Human Rights in Europe
Marco Duranti (University of Sydney)

The Human Right to Health: the Modern Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Sridhar Venkatapuram (King’s College London)

16h10 - 17h  Comments, Q & A