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Selected Past Events

Spring 2012:

  • April 10 - "At Your Own Risk: What Is To Be Done?"
    Van Jones, environmental advocate and co-founder of Rebuild the Dream, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, artist (organized by University Community Service Center; co-sponsors: portoluz; the Museum of Contemporary Art; and The College, Office of Civic Engagement, Office of Sustainability, International House Global Voices Program)
    View poster

  • April 11 - "Mayan Cultural Politics and the Guatemalan Dream: Understanding Mayan cosmovision at the intersection of politics, spirituality and the material world"
    Carlos Escalante, Intercultural Coordinator, Sustainable Development for Guatemala (DESGUA) (co-sponsors: the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for International Studies, and Sustainable Development for Guatemala - DESGUA)
    View poster

  • April 17 - May 15 - "Human Rights: Ideas + Institutions"
    A lecture series by Professor Elizabeth Borgwardt
    Richard & Ann Pozen Visiting Professor in Human Rights, University of Chicago
    Associate Professor of History, Washington University in St Louis
    View poster

    • April 17 - "The Transformation of the Modern International Human Rights Regime"
      Introduction by Professor James Sparrow, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago
      [watch: mov]

    • May 1 - " 'Constitutionalizing' Human Rights: The Rise and Rise of the Nuremberg Principles"
      Introduction by Professor Jane Dailey, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago
      [watch: mov]

    • May 15 - "Commerce and Complicity: Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses"
      (co-sponsor: Public Law Workshop)

  • April 19 - "NATO: Where It Came From & Where It's Going"
    John Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago (co-sponsors: University Community Service Center (UCSC) and the College)
    View poster

  • April 24 - "Challenges in Combatting Torture: A Conversation with Juan E. Mendez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture"
    Juan E. Mendez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (co-sponsors: International House Global Voices Program)
    View poster
    [watch: mov]

  • May 5 - "Atomic Age II: Fukushima" Symposium (organized by the Committee on Japanese Studies and Center for East Asian Studies
    co-sponsors: the Franke Institute for the Humanities and the Program on the Global Environment)
    View poster

  • May 31 - 2012 Robert H. Kirschner, M.D. Memorial Human Rights Lecture: "Reconnecting in the Aftermath of El Salvador's Civil War: The Joys and Challenges of Finding Family"
    Prof. Margaret E. Ward and Nelson Ward de Witt
    View poster
    View program
    [watch: mov]

Winter 2012:

  • January 12 - "All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals"
    David Scheffer, former ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, Director, Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University School of Law. Introduction by Susan Gzesh, Executive Director of the Human Rights Program (organized as a part of The World Beyond the Headlines lecture series of the Center for International Studies; co-sponsors: International Human Rights Law Society and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore)
    View poster
    [watch: mov]

  • January 18 - Jabuary 21 - "The Blessing Next to the Wound: Imagination and Social Change"
    Hector Aristizábal, psychologist, actor, and human rights activist and Diane Lefer, playwright and author
    View poster

    • January 18 - Sneak Preview of Beneath the Blindfold, followed by a Q&A with Hector Aristizábal and filmmakers Ines Sommer and Kathy Berger

    • January 19 - Performance by Hector Aristizábal: Nightwind, followed by a book signing for The Blessing Next to the Wound by Hector Aristizábal and Diane Lefer

    • January 20 - Brown Bag Lunch and Discussion on advocacy and Theater of the Oppressed with Hector Aristizábal and Diane Lefer

    • January 20 - Reading/Performance by Diane Lefer

    • January 20 - Workshop with Hector Aristizábal: Awakening the Imagination for Social Change

    • Jabuary 21, 10m-12:30 pm - Workshop with Diane Lefer: Teaching Writing as a Tool for Social Change
      (co-sponsors: the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, the Civic Knowledge Project, the Film Studies Center, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Writer's Studio program at the Graham School of Continuing Professional and Liberal Studies, International House, the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, the Theater and Performance Studies Program, and the Urban Teacher Education Program)

  • Febuary 7-28 - "Cities on Speed: Global Visions for an Urban Future"- A documentary project of four films on the challenges posed by megacities (organized by the Center for Latin American Studies
    co-sponsors: the South Asia Language and Area Center, the Committee on Southern Asia Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for East Asian Studies, and the Center for International Studies)
    View poster

  • March 2 - "Truth and Reconciliation after the Holocaust? The Case of Lithuania"
    Ellen Cassedy, Author of "We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust" (co-sponsors: The Chicago Center for Jewish Studies and The Newberger Hillel Center)
    View poster

Autumn 2011:

  • October 3 - "Budrus" - Film Screening at Doc Films (Seeing Human Rights)
    co-sponsor: Students for Justice in Palestine
    View poster

  • October 11 - International House Global Voices Author Night Series - "Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy"
    Susan N. Herman, President, American Civil Liberties Union; (co-sponsors: Seminary Co-op Bookstore, International House Global Voices Program, the University of Chicago Press, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois and the ACLU of UC)
    View poster

  • October 12 -Convening of Chicago Student Human Rights Network (co-sponsors: The Midwest Coalition for Human Rights, DePaul University International Human Rights Law Institute, Amnesty International USA)
    View poster

  • October 18 - "Human Rights - From Syria to Chicago"
    Panel: Susan Gzesh, HRP; Debra Erenberg, Amnesty International; Noura Almasri and Alaa Basatneh, Syrian American Activists; Tio Hardiman, CeaseFire of Illinois (organized by South Side Amnesty International, cosponsored by HRP)
    View poster

  • November 5 - "The Ground Up: Exploring the Right to the City" - A Film Symposium (Seeing Human Rights) Films: Land of Opportunity (2010, Dir. Luisa Dantas), Voices of Cabrini: Remaking Chicago's Public Housing (1999, Dirs. Ronit Bezalel and Antonio Ferrera) and excerpts of Cabrini Green: Mixing It Up (2011, Dirs. Ronit Bezalel and Brenda Schumacher); Panel: Ronit Bezalel, Filmmaker; Deidre Brewster, Human Rights organizer
    Luisa Dantas, Filmmaker; Janet Smith, Associate Professor, CUPPA-UIC; Moderated by Judy Hoffman, Cinema and Media Studies and Visual Arts, University of Chicago (co-sponsors: the Film Studies Center, the Civic Knowledge Project and Chicago Studies)
    View poster
    View program
    http://humanrights.uchicago.edu/righttothecity/

  • November 7 - "Impunity and Cycles of Violence in Zimbabwe"
    Speakers: Farai Maguwu, Director, Center for Research and Development, Eastern Zimbabwe; Tiseke Kasambala, Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch (co-sponsor: Chicago Committee for Human Rights Watch)
    View poster

  • November 10 - "The Ongoing Struggle for Land, Justice and Indigenous Rights in Guatemala"
    Maria Choc, Indigenous Rights Activist; (co-sponsors: Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America, the Guatemala Human Rights Commission, the Center for Latin American Studies)
    View poster

  • November 11-12 - American Red Cross Undergraduate Workshop on International Humanitarian Law: "Humanitarian Action & Humanitarian Principles in Armed Conflict"
    (co-sponsor: Chicago office of the American Red Cross)
    View poster

  • November 21 - NALACC National Tour - "The Tragedy of Migrants in Transit from Central America-Mexico to the U.S."
    Panelists - Father Alejandro Solalinde; Cristian Pineda Flores, artist; Marcela Zamora, filmmaker; (co-sponsor: National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities - NALACC)
    View poster

Spring 2011:

  • April 4 - “Living Juárez: Collateral Damage in Mexico’s Drug War” - Film screening and discussion
    Laura Carlsen, Director of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy (co-sponsors: the Center for Latin American Studies, the Katz Center for Mexican Studies, the Chiapas Media Project, and the Center for International Policy Americas Program)
    View poster

  • April 6-20 - “Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples in the New Millennium”
    A lecture series by Rodolfo Stavenhagen
    Richard and Ann Pozen Visiting Professor in Human Rights, University of Chicago Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2000 - 2008) Professor Emeritus in Sociology, El Colegio de México View poster

    • April 6 - "Are universal human rights for everybody? The Nation-State and the Vanishing Indians"
      Introduction by Mark Bradley, Professor in History and Co-chair of the Faculty Board of the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago
      [watch: mov]

    • April 13 - "Anti-Colonialism and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights"
      Introduction by Judy Hoffman, Senior Lecturer, Department of Visual Arts and Department of Cinema & Media Studies; Member of Human Rights
      Program Faculty Board
      [watch: mov]

    • April 20 - "The Confessions of a Special Rapporteur: the United Nations and the Search for Justice"
      Introduction by Alan Kolata, Neukom Family Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences
      [watch: mov]

      (co-sponsors: the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Katz Center for Mexican Studies)
      For more information on Stavenhagen’s visit to campus: http://humanrights.uchicago.edu/stavenhagen.shtml

  • April 7-May 8 - "Inside the Hidden City: Photographs from Ciudad Oculta" — Photo exhibit at Rockefeller Chapel View poster

    • May 6 - Closing Lecture and Reception: Jasmine Heiss, Former Human Rights Intern (AB ‘10), Fundación ph15 and Mariela Szwarcberg, Postdoctoral Lecturer, Center for Latin American Studies (co-sponsors: The University of Chicago Arts Council, The Franke Institute for the Humanities, Rockefeller Chapel and the Center for Latin American Studies) View poster

  • April 22 - "The Die is Caste" – Film screening and discussion with director Ranjan Kamath (organized by the South Asia Language and Area Center and the Committee on Southern Asian Studies View poster

  • April 28-30 - “A Film Unfinished” - Film Screening and Special Events with Director Yael Hersonski; Dedicated to the memory of Miriam Bratu Hansen (organized by the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies; co-sponsors: the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, the Film Studies Center) View poster

  • April 29 - “The Arab Democratic Revolutions”
    Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, History, Columbia University (co-sponsors: Center for International Studies, International House Global Voices Program, and Center for Middle Eastern Studies) View poster
    [watch: mov]

  • May 5 - “Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today” (The Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration) - Film Preview and Q&A
    Sandra Schulberg, Film Restoration Producer, and Susanne Lüdemann, Professor of Germanic Studies at The University of Chicago (organized by Germanic Studies Department; co-sponsor: Doc Films)
    View poster

  • May 17 - "The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence"
    Susie Linfield, Journalist and Professor, Director of Cultural Reporting and Criticism at New York University (co-sponsors: Human Rights Workshop, the Franke Institute for the Humanities and the University of Chicago Press) View poster

  • May 20 - "Understanding Human Rights" — One-day seminar for NGO staff and general public (co-sponsor: Graham School of General Studies) View poster

  • June 2 - Robert H. Kirschner, M.D., Memorial Human Rights Lecture - "Rage Against the Machine: Torture, Bystanders and the Failure of Journalism"
    John Conroy, Author and Journalist
    View poster
    View program
    [watch: mov]

Winter 2011:

  • January 17 - Fighting for Immigrant and Labor Rights
    Discussion with Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) and Unite Here (organized by University of Chicago Coalition for Immigrant Rights) View poster

  • January 21 - “Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy”
    Documentary film screening & Discussion (organized by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture; co-sponsors: International House Global Voices Series, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for International Studies, Rising in Solidarity with Ayiti (R.I.S.A) and UChicago for Haiti) View poster

  • January 24 - "Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti, Me and The World"
    Performance by Gina Athena Ulysse (organized by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture; co-sponsors: Court Theatre, the Center for International Studies, the Center for Gender Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, UChicago for Haiti and R.I.S.A. (Rising in Solidarity with Ayiti) View poster

  • January 27 - "Presence Without Empowerment? Gender Quotas, Reproductive Rights, and Violence Against Women in Latin America"
    Mala Htun, Associate Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research (organized by Center for Latin American Studies; co-sponsor: Center for Gender Studies) View poster

  • February 23 - “After the Vote: Challenges and Opportunities for a Two-State Sudan”
    Rebecca Hamilton, author of “Fighting for Darfur” (organized by: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Chicago Careers in Journalism (CCIJ) Workshop; co-sponsors: Center for International Studies, and the Department of Political Science) View poster

Autumn 2010:

  • October 11 - “In the Time of the Coup d’état: Defending Human Rights in Honduras”
    Berta Oliva, General Coordinator, Committee of Families Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) (co-sponsors: Center for Latin American Studies, and La Voz de los de Abajo) View poster

  • October 20 - “Human Dignity: Its Origins in Classical Thought/La Dignidad Humana: Sus Orígenes en el Pensamiento Clásico”
    Antonio Pele, Assistant Professor in Legal Philosophy, Carlos III University of Madrid; Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago Human Rights Program (co-sponsor: Center for Latin American Studies)
    View poster

  • November 1 - “Neo-liberalism's Global Workforce: The End of a Dream?”
    Stephen Castles, Research Professor of Sociology, University of Sydney; Associate Director, International Migration Institute (IMI), University of Oxford (co-sponsors: Undergraduate Program in International Studies, the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, and the Center for International Studies Norman Wait Harris Fund) View poster
    [watch: mov]
    [Listen: mp3]
  • November 1 - “The Paper Market: The Borrowing, Renting and Buying of Identities”
    Ellie Vasta, Associate Professor, Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University View poster
  • November 8 - S’bu Zikode, President of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Shack Dweller's Movement of South Africa (organized by the African Studies Workshop; co-sponsors: National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, Human Rights Workshop)
  • November 30 - “From the Struggle for Labor Rights to the Struggle for Life: Workers' Rights, Feminicide and the 'War on Drugs' in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico”
    Cipriana Jurado, Human Rights Defender (co-sponsors: Center for Latin American Studies, and the Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America) View poster

Spring 2010:

  • April 15 - "The New Reality of Mexico-US Migration"
    Douglas Massey, Princeton University and the Mexican Migration Project. View poster
    [watch: mov]

  • May 14-15 - Human Rights and the New Sciences Symposium. View poster
    Symposium Page

  • May 20 - "Latino Immigrants in the Windy City: New Trends in Civic Engagement". View poster

  • June 3 - Robert H. Kirschner, M.D., Memorial Human Rights Lecture - "Literature and Individual Sovereignty"
    Aleksandar Hemon. View poster 1, View program
    [watch & listen: mov & mp3]

Winter 2010:

  • January 6 - February 3 - "Reason and Passion: The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law"
    A lecture series by Justice Albie Sachs. View poster

    • January 6 - "Terrorism, Torture and the Rule of Law"
      Introduction by Susan Gzesh, Executive Director, Human Rights Program, Senior Lecturer in the College. View poster
      [watch & listen: mov & mp3]

    • January 13 - "Punitive Justice vs. Restorative Justice"
      Introduction by Christine Stansell, Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in United States History. View poster
      [watch & listen: mov & mp3]

    • January 18 - "Reflecting on the Anti-Apartheid Movement: South African & U.S. Perspectives"
      A Special MLK Day Event: A conversation with Justice Albie Sachs & Prexy Nesbitt. View poster
      [watch & listen: mov & mp3]

    • January 20 - "Social and Economic Rights as Fundamental Human Rights"
      Introduction by Adam Green, Associate Professor of American History. View poster
      [watch & listen: mov & mp3]

    • January 27 - "Does the Law Have a Sense of Humor?"
      Introduction by Jane Dailey, Associate Professor of American History. View poster
      [watch & listen: mov & mp3]

    • February 3 - "The Secular and the Sacred: The Right of Same Sex Couples to Marry"
      Introduction by Geoffrey Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor, The Law School. View poster
      [watch & listen: mov & mp3]

  • January 22 - "Living With Land Mines"
    Exhibition opening with photographer V. Tony Hauser (co-sponsor: UChicago Arts Grant and Center for International Studies). View poster

  • February 18 - "The Moral Challenges of Asymmetrical War: The Case of Israel"
    Moshe Halbertal, Hebrew University and New York University School of Law
    (co-sponsors: The Chicago Center for Jewish Studies and Center for Middle Eastern Studies). View poster

  • February 22 - "Israel's Occupation through the Lens of the Education System"
    Neve Gordon, Ben-Gurion University. View poster

  • February 23 - "Are Human Rights Still Universal?"
    Wiktor Osiatynski, Central European University, Budapest. View poster

Autumn 2009:

  • September 30 - "Impunity in Colombia: One Woman's Story"
    Yessika Hoyos Morales (co-sponsor: U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project). View poster

  • October 21 - "Plan Mexico, the Drug War and Human Rights in Mexico"
    Laura Carlsen and General José Francisco Gallardo (co-sponsors: Center for Latin American Studies and Katz Center for Mexican Studies). View poster

  • November 10 - "Voices for Justice: Human Rights Advocacy in Ethiopia"
    Daniel Bekele and Leslie Lefkow (co-sponsors: Office of Multicultural Student Affairs and Human Rights Watch). View poster

Spring 2009

  • April 15 - Robert H. Kirschner, M.D., Memorial Human Rights Lecture; Juan Méndez, President, International Center for Transitional Justice, “Prevention, Peacemaking and Transitional Justice” View poster.
    [watch: mov]
    [listen: mp3]

  • April 16 - Obie C. Porteous (former HR Intern) “In Search of Humanity: Blogs of an International Aid Worker”. View poster.

  • April 20 - Chesa Boudin, “Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America”. View poster.

  • May 4 - Reception with International Network on Migration and Development (co-sponsors: CLAS and Katz Center). View poster.

  • May 5 - Débora Nunes da Silva of MST, “Hard Times: Brazil's Landless Movement Faces the Economic Crisis” (co-sponsor: CLAS). View poster.

  • May 8 - Jacob Haar (former HR Intern) “A Right to Credit?: The Experience of a Human Rights Alumnus in Microfinance”. View poster.

  • May 11-May 26 - Exhibit and Keynote Lecture (May 13) with Rebecca Tinsley, “Drawings of Genocide: Darfur through the eyes of its children”. View poster.
    [watch: mov]
    [listen: mp3]

  • May 27 - “Dear President Obama: Lessons from Chicago on the Issue of Torture”. View poster.

  • June 1 - Ignacio Martín-Baró Human Rights Essay Prizes Award Ceremony; Susan Bird, “Ignacio Martín-Baró's Vision Today: Progress for All in El Salvador?”. View poster.

Winter 2009

  • January 26 - Justice Albie Sachs, “Tock Tick: The Working of a Judge's Mind”. View poster.
    [watch: mov]
    [listen: mp3]

  • February 4 - “Thou Shall Not Steal: Putting an End to the National Epidemic of Wage Theft”. View poster.

  • February 21 - Symposium on Human Rights and History. View program.

Autumn 2008

  • October 20 - Teach-In Honoring the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. View poster.
    Introduction and Welcome
    [watch: mov]
    [listen: mp3]
    Keynote Address: “The UDHR at Sixty”
    [watch: mov]
    [listen: mp3]
    Panel 1: The United States, Chicago and Global Rights Talk in the 1940s
    [watch: mov]
    [listen: mp3]
    Panel 2: The Practice of Human Rights: the next generation speaks
    [watch: mov]
    [listen: mp3]
    A Conversation on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    [watch: mov]
    [listen: mp3]

  • December 4 - “Human Rights at Home: The United Nations and the Chicago Police Torture Cases”. View poster.

Spring 2008

Winter 2008

Autumn 2007

  • October 12-13 - Migration and Human Rights in the North American Corridor:Dilemmas, Contradictions, and Challenges. View agenda.

Autumn 2006

  • September 28 - A conversation with Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji and Martha Nussbaum. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Norman Wait Harris Fund of the Center for International Studies, the International House Global Voices Program, the University of Chicago Divinity School, the Committee on Creative Writing and openDemocracy magazine. See the poster for this event.
  • October 21 - Global AIDS Human Rights Conference. View the conference poster.
  • November 13 - Human Rights Program Distinguished Lecturer: Gillian Slovo, "Human Rights and the Arts: Guantanamo in the Theatre." View the poster for this event.

Spring 2006

  • March 31: Zackie Achmat, South African Activist - “Realizing Human Rights: Access to HIV/AIDS Medication and the Role of Civil Society in South Africa”
    [listen: mp3 | RealAudio]
    Introduction by John Comaroff    , Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology [listen: mp3 | RealAudio]
    presented in collaboration with Students for Global Public Health and the World Beyond the Headlines Series
  • April 4: HR Intern Alum '03 Obie Porteous on his work with Action Against Hunger in Uganda.
  • April 17: David Cole, author of Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism - "Is the Commander-in-Chief Subject to the Rule of Law?: On Torture, Spying,  and Detention in the War on Terror"
    [listen: mp3 | RealAudio]
    presented in collaboration with the World Beyond the Headlines Series

Winter 2006

Autumn 2005

Spring 2005

Autumn 2004

Spring 2004

Winter 2004

Autumn 2003

Winter 2003

  • Jan 23: "Freedom and Bread: The Judicial Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights" - lecture by Justice Albie Sachs (listen to the lecture in RealAudio)
  • Feb 20: Health Care for All? A University of Chicago Policy Debate

Spring 2002

  • April 17: Practice of Human Rights Series - Dalia Mina Valencia, Witness for Peace, Colombia.
  • April 26: Practice of Human Rights Series - Bill Goodman, Center for Constitutional Rights
  • May 3: Practice of Human Rights Series - Ben Davis, Regional Program Director, Americas Solidarity Center, AFL-CIO Washington D.C.
  • May 9: Ignacio Martin-Baro Award Presentation - Benjamin Cuellar, Director of the Human Rights Institute of the Central American University in San Salvador (IDHUCA).

Winter 2002

  • January 9: "Violence at the Intersections" - Spoken word presentation by staff of Apna Ghar, a Chicago domestic violence shelter that has served over 3800 domestic violence clients since its inception in 1990.  Co-sponsored by the School of Social Service Administration (SSA) Pan-Asian Students Association, and the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance.
  • January 16: The Practice of Human Rights: The Work of Amnesty International - Speakers include staff of Midwest Amnesty International and former political prisoner, Mustapha Kamal (Morocco), Instructor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.
  • January 24: Immigration Policy I (student organized program-Amnesty International chapter) Speakers: Saskia Sassen (Professor, Sociology); Mae Ngai (Assistant Professor, History); and Susan Gzesh (Director, Human Rights Program, University of Chicago). Moderator: Emilio Kouri (History).
  • February 7: Immigration Policy II  (student organized program-Amnesty International chapter) Speakers: Fred Tsao, Immigration and Citizenship Coordinator of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR); Spring Miller, Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights; and Roberto de la Cruz, Midwest Coordinator for the Coalition for Immigration Reform, on behalf of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Moderator: Dan Morgan (Living Wage Campaign).
  • February 13: The Practice of Human Rights: Police Torture and Impunity in Chicago Speakers: Juan Mendez, Professor of Law at Notre Dame University Law School and Commissioner of the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights; Dr. Robert Kirschner, Pathology and Pediatrics, University of Chicago; Locke Bowman, Director, MacArthur Justice Center, University of Chicago Law School; and Flint Taylor, Peoples Law Office
  • February 22: "Strangers in the House: Reflections on the Relation of Human Rights and Politics in Palestine and Israel." Speaker: Raja Shehadeh (Founder, al-Haq) 

Autumn 2001

  • October 11: Human Rights 2002 Internship Information Session/Welcome Reception
  • October 12: The Recovery of Historical Memory Project (REHMI), Guatemala. Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Divinity School, this program brought Guatemalan activists who participated in the preparation and publication of a report that documented the human rights abuses that occurred during Guatemala's 36-year civil war that targeted indigenous populations.
  • December 3,8,9: Antigone Project. Collaboration with University Theater and the Kovler Center. Short plays written by University of Chicago students and clients of the Kovler Center for survivors of torture; performed in Mandel hall and off campus by University of Chicago students.
 
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