January 14: Anna Holzscheiter at Socialist Medicine Seminar
Please join us for our monthly Socialist Medicine Seminar.
Anna Holzscheiter (TUD Dresden University of Technology) will present:
HUMAN-RIGHTS RELATED NORM COLLISIONS AND POST-PANDEMIC INSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE
Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5061
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In her talk, Anna Holzscheiter will address post-pandemic institutional reform in global governance with a view to human rights related norm collisions during Covid-19. As she will argue, norm collisions – i.e. the perceived incompatibility of two or more prescriptions of (socially/morally) appropriate behaviour (Gholiagha et al. 2020) – are epiphenomal to global crises. International organizations implicated in these crises, in turn, must be considered crucial sites for the articulation of norm collisions and for responding to such conflicting social/moral obligations in a variety of ways. Applying these theoretical propositions to global health governance, Holzscheiter's talk will revolve around norm collisions related to human rights norms during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, with a particular focus on the WHO as the focal organization in global health. She will discuss how policy choices in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic mirrored and amplified earlier norm collisions; and how these collisions led to reconfigurations of established norm hierarchies. Most importantly, she will highlight how responses to these collisions – particularly those involving private actors – reflect the shaky status of the human right to health in global governance.
ANNA HOLZSCHEITER is Professor of International Politics at TUD Dresden University of Technology. She is currently Visiting Professor at the Department of International Relations at LSE (2024/25). From April 2015 until December 2021, she was Head of the Research Group Governance for Global Health at WZB Social Science Research Centre Berlin. Previously, she was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Research Fellow at Harvard University (2014-15), Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2007-2010), Research Associate at the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy, Freie Universität Berlin (2006-2015) and Assistant Professor of International Relations at FU Berlin (2015-2019). Anna has published widely on global health governance, non-state actors in international politics, international human rights (particularly those of children and young persons), discourse analytical methods, and the turbulent biographies of norms in international relations.
January 14: Anna Holzscheiter at Socialist Medicine Seminar
Please join us for our monthly Socialist Medicine Seminar.
Anna Holzscheiter (TUD Dresden University of Technology) will present:
HUMAN-RIGHTS RELATED NORM COLLISIONS AND POST-PANDEMIC INSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE
Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5061
Sign up for the Zoom link by clicking here and filling out this form.
In her talk, Anna Holzscheiter will address post-pandemic institutional reform in global governance with a view to human rights related norm collisions during Covid-19. As she will argue, norm collisions – i.e. the perceived incompatibility of two or more prescriptions of (socially/morally) appropriate behaviour (Gholiagha et al. 2020) – are epiphenomal to global crises. International organizations implicated in these crises, in turn, must be considered crucial sites for the articulation of norm collisions and for responding to such conflicting social/moral obligations in a variety of ways. Applying these theoretical propositions to global health governance, Holzscheiter's talk will revolve around norm collisions related to human rights norms during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, with a particular focus on the WHO as the focal organization in global health. She will discuss how policy choices in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic mirrored and amplified earlier norm collisions; and how these collisions led to reconfigurations of established norm hierarchies. Most importantly, she will highlight how responses to these collisions – particularly those involving private actors – reflect the shaky status of the human right to health in global governance.
ANNA HOLZSCHEITER is Professor of International Politics at TUD Dresden University of Technology. She is currently Visiting Professor at the Department of International Relations at LSE (2024/25). From April 2015 until December 2021, she was Head of the Research Group Governance for Global Health at WZB Social Science Research Centre Berlin. Previously, she was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Research Fellow at Harvard University (2014-15), Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2007-2010), Research Associate at the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy, Freie Universität Berlin (2006-2015) and Assistant Professor of International Relations at FU Berlin (2015-2019). Anna has published widely on global health governance, non-state actors in international politics, international human rights (particularly those of children and young persons), discourse analytical methods, and the turbulent biographies of norms in international relations.
