Workshop – „The Interdisciplinarity of Business and Human Rights: Curse, Blessing, or Opportunity?“

Workshop - "The Interdisciplinarity of Business and Human Rights: Curse, Blessing, or Opportunity?" with Prof. Dr. Harry Van Buren 

Description

Harry Van Buren is a Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Tennessee and a leading scholar in the field, particularly known for his work on human rights, stakeholder theory, and the moral foundations of the firm. His research contributes to bridging normative theory and management practice in BHR. The workshop topic addresses broader conceptual and methodological questions relevant across disciplines, which is why we would like to warmly invite PhDs, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty to attend. 

Abstract

Scholars from legal studies and management have long been contributing within their home disciplines to the BHR field of study. This has been essential but also problematic; it has hampered the evolution of BHR, which to date has been multi-disciplinary rather than interdisciplinary. Scholarly work in the field has adopted multiple disciplinary lenses, but it has not yet developed frameworks that bring insights from each of them together in a way that generates genuinely new insights not possible with singlediscipline BHR scholarship. Interdisciplinarity provides a way forward for the BHR field: different disciplinary lenses and approaches can provide a more holistic and complete view of BHR if its constituent disciplines actually converse with (as well as within) each other. In this workshop, participants will consider the ways in which interdisciplinary approaches to BHR scholarship can inform their own work. 

Registration is required and can be completed by contacting Milena Störmer directly via email: milena.m.stoermer@fau.de