By Professor Ben Golder

Conference Papers

Golder B, 2015, 'Foucault and the Politics of Rights', University of Sydney, presented at Julius Stone Institute, University of Sydney, 26 November 2015 - 26 November 2015

Golder B, 2015, 'What is Critical about a Genealogy of Human Rights?', Monash University, Melbourne, presented at Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University, Melbourne, 23 September 2015 - 23 September 2015

Golder B, 2015, 'On the Genealogy of Human Rights: An Essay on Nostalgia Nostalgia', Australian National University, Canberra, presented at Aspirational Rituals: Promises and Utopias in Human Rights, Centre for International Governance and Justice, RegNet, Australian National University, Canberra, 30 July 2015 - 31 July 2015

Golder B, 2015, 'The View from Critical Theory', Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW Law School, Sydney, presented at Engaging Constitutional History Workshop, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW Law School, Sydney, 25 June 2015 - 25 June 2015

Golder B, 2015, 'Contemporary Legal Genealogies', Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, presented at Institute for Global Law and Policy Conference, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, 01 June 2015 - 02 June 2015

Golder B, 2015, 'Contemporary Legal Genealogies', Seattle, presented at Law’s Promise and Law’s Pathos in the Global North and the Global South meeting of the Law and Society Association, Seattle, 28 May 2015 - 31 May 2015

Golder B; Joyce D, 2015, 'Teaching Human Rights Through Film', Australian National University, Canberra, presented at Human Rights Tertiary Teachers’ Network Workshop, Australian National University, Canberra, 18 February 2015 - 18 February 2015

Golder B, 2014, 'Human Rights and the Exhaustion of Critique', University of Melbourne, Melbourne, presented at Human Rights Tertiary Teachers’ Workshop, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 21 February 2014 - 21 February 2014

Golder B, 2013, 'Theorising Human Rights', University of Melbourne, Melbourne, presented at Oxford Handbook of International Legal Theory Melbourne Authors’ Workshop, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 09 August 2013 - 09 August 2013

Golder B, 2013, 'The Critique of Human Rights in Contemporary International Legal Thought', University of Nottingham, Nottingham, presented at Second Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, 29 May 2013 - 30 May 2013

Golder B, 2013, 'The Critique of Human Rights in Contemporary International Legal Thought', University of New South Wales, Sydney, presented at Law School Seminar Series, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 April 2013 - 30 April 2013

Golder B, 2013, 'How Should we Teach the History of Human Rights?', Australian Human Rights Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, presented at Human Rights Tertiary Teachers’ Network Workshop, Australian Human Rights Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 February 2013 - 25 February 2013

Golder B, 2012, 'What Does the Recent History of Human Rights tell us about its Future?', University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, presented at Receiving Laws/Giving Laws, 31st Annual Australian and New Zealand Legal History Society Conference, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, 10 December 2012 - 12 December 2012

Golder B, 2012, 'On How to do Things with Critical Legal History: Human Rights, Reconsidered', University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, presented at Law Research Seminar Series, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, 12 September 2012 - 12 September 2012

Golder B, 2012, 'Discussant on Anthony Langlois, 'Institutionalizing Human Rights: The Meaning of Rights in the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights'', Whitlam Institute at the University of Western Sydney, presented at The Politics of Citizenship in the Era of Human Rights: An International Research Workshop, Whitlam Institute at the University of Western Sydney, 27 August 2012 - 29 August 2012

Golder B, 2011, 'Foucault, Rights and Freedom', University of Wollongong, Wollongong, presented at Legal Intersections Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 05 October 2011 - 05 October 2011

Golder B, 2011, 'Foucault and the Politics of Human Rights', Seattle, presented at The Politics of Rights, American Political Science Association Conference, Seattle, 01 September 2011 - 04 September 2011

Golder B, 2011, 'Limits to Critique', UTS Faculty of Law, Sydney, presented at Law and Culture Symposium, UTS Faculty of Law, Sydney, 01 July 2011 - 01 July 2011

Golder B, 2011, 'The Limits and Possibilities of a Foucauldian Politics of Rights', Birkbeck College, London, presented at Foucault Effect: 1991-2011, Birkbeck College, London, 03 June 2011 - 04 June 2011, http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/06/ben-golder-the-limits-and-possibilities-of-a-foucauldian-politics-of-rights/

Golder B, 2011, 'Foucault's Critical Affirmation: Three Figures of Rights', University of Alberta, Banff, presented at 2011 meeting of the Foucault Circle, University of Alberta, Banff, 25 May 2011 - 27 May 2011

Golder B, 2010, 'Foucault's Critical (Yet Ambivalent) Affirmation: Three Figures of Rights', University of Technology Sydney, presented at Law Research Seminar Series, University of Technology Sydney, 27 October 2010 - 27 October 2010

Golder B, 2010, 'Foucault's Critical (Yet Ambivalent) Affirmation: Three Figures of Rights', University of Melbourne, presented at Institute for International Law and the Humanities, University of Melbourne, 26 October 2010 - 26 October 2010

Golder B, 2009, 'Foucault and the Unfinished Human of Rights', University of Sydney, presented at Julius Stone Institute, University of Sydney, 24 September 2009 - 24 September 2009

Golder B, 2009, 'Foucault, anti-humanism and human rights', in Foucault: 25 Years On, Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia, Underdale, SA, presented at Centre for Post-Colonial and Globalisation Studies Conference, Foucault: 25 Years On, Adelaide, 25 June 2009, http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkeinstitute/publications/foucault-25-years/

Golder B, 2009, 'Foucault and the Unfinished Human of Rights', Melbourne, presented at Annual Australian Society of Legal Philosophy Conference, Melbourne, 05 June 2009 - 06 June 2009

Golder B, 2008, 'Foucault and the Subject of Human Rights', London, presented at Birkbeck College School of Law Staff Workshop, The Laws of Michel Foucault, London, 02 May 2008 - 02 May 2008

Golder B, 2007, 'Foucault's Law: Part One', Walls, London, presented at Critical Legal Conference, Walls, London, 14 September 2007 - 16 September 2007

Golder B, 2007, 'Foucault on Ethics and Law', Berlin, presented at Law and Society in the 21st Century: Transformations, Resistances, Futures, Berlin, 25 July 2007 - 28 July 2007

Golder B, 2007, 'Critical Ontology as Law', Colchester, presented at 8th Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory, Multitude, People, Resistance, Colchester, 21 June 2007 - 22 June 2007

Golder B, 2006, 'Racism and the Murderous Function of the State: Law and Sovereign Power in Foucault's 'Society Must Be Defended'', Gloucester, presented at 3rd Texas Wesleyan University School of Law Conference, 'Too Pure an Air': Law and the Quest for Freedom, Justice and Equality, Gloucester, 18 June 2006 - 20 June 2006

Golder B, 2005, 'Legal Definitions of Violence: The Symbolic Politics of Counter-Terrorism', Canterbury, presented at Critical Legal Conference, Resistance, Canterbury, 02 September 2005 - 04 September 2005

Golder B, 2005, 'Democracy's Definitional Disavowal, or The Semantic Economy of Political Violence', Colchester, presented at 6th Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory, Difference, Borders, Others, Colchester, 13 May 2005 - 14 May 2005

Golder B, 2002, 'Provoking Hatred: The Homosexual Advance Defence and the Politics of the Body', Wollongong, presented at Opening Law: Making Links – Crossing Boundaries, 20th Annual Law and Society Conference Australia, Wollongong, 09 December 2002 - 11 December 2002

Golder B, 2002, ''[I]t forced me to open more than I could bear': HAD, paedophilia, and the discursive limits of the male heterosexual) body', Melbourne, presented at Mediating Law: Theory Production Culture, Melbourne, 29 November 2002 - 01 December 2002

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