The Comparative Literature Department invites you to Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series A New Universal for Human Rights? The Particular, the Generalizable, the Political By Domna Stanton Wednesday, September 30 | 12:15-1:30 p.m. (free hour) Rosenthal Library Room 230 This is the inaugural lecture in a series devoted to the relevance of the study of the humanities for the promotion of human rights in the academy, the community, and the government, both locally and globally. Domna Stanton is Distinguished Professor of French at the CUNY Graduate Center as well as a Commissioner of Human Rights for New York City. She has served as a member of Human Rights Watch and is active in the Women's Right Division and the Policy Committee. Former president of the Modern Language Association, Prof. Stanton is a renowned scholar and widely published author. Her latest work is The Dynamics of Gender in Early-Modern France: Women Writ, Women Writing (Ashgate, 2014). Sponsored by the Comparative Literature Department and the Dean of the Humanities