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Global Poverty and the Obligations of Rich Countries: A conversation at The New School in New York City | Sponsored by the Center for Public Scholarship | http://www.newschool.edu/cps | http://www.newschool.edu | The New School, a university in New York City offers graduate programs in non-profit management, urban policy, human resources, and related fields. This conference is the 25th in the Social Research conference series and celebrates the tenth anniversary of the New School graduate program in International Affairs. Experts and scholars explored human rights as a mediating language for discussions of social justice and the role human rights can and does play in an evolving global economy. A) Do We Have Legal Obligations to Strangers? • Margot E. Salomon, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and the Law Department, London School of Economics and Political Science B) Shifting Ideas and Politics of the Right to Development • Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Professor of International Affairs, The New School for Public Engagement C) What Responsibilities Flow from Having Benefited from Global Injustice? • Christian Barry, Deputy Director, Research School of the Social Sciences (RSSS), Australian National University D) Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank • Galit A. Sarfaty, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Moderator: Philip G. Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University School of Law This event was included in the Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA) 10th Anniversary Seminar Series: http://www.gpia.info/10thAnniversary The conference was organized as a collaboration among professors Sakiko Fukuda-Parr (International Affairs, The New School for Public Engagement), Miriam Ticktin (Anthropology, The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts), Nehal Bhuta (International Affairs, The New School for Public Engagement), and Arien Mack, Alfred and Monette Marrow Professor of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, editor of Social Research since 1970, and founder of the conference series in 1988. Social Research: An International Quarterly is the flagship journal of The New School for Social Research. The conference proceedings are available in a special issue of Social Research, Vol. 79, No. 3 (Fall 2012). You may also join our event mailing list by contacting us at cps@newschool.edu. This conference was made possible by generous support from Climate Change Narratives, Rights and the Poor project at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway, and Milano School for International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at the New School for Public Engagement. SOCIAL RESEARCH: AN INTERNATIONAL QUARTERLY |http://www.newschool.edu/cps/social-research/ THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH |http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/ THE NEW SCHOOL FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT |http://www.newschool.edu/public-engagement/ EUGENE LANG COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS |http://www.newschool.edu/lang/ THE NEW SCHOOL | http://www.newschool.edu