Monthly Archives: January 2008

Reminder: Human Rights Funding Deadlines, Feb 1, 2008

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Human Rights Fellowship CompetitionThe Human Rights Institute announces a one semester Human Rights Institute Fellowship for tenure track faculty that will provide a two course remission over one academic semester during academic year 2008-9. The objective of this competition is to support and promote faculty research projects on human rights and to facilitate the writing of external grant proposals.

For more information: http://humanrights.uconn.edu/rese_fellowship.htm

Faculty/Graduate Human Rights Research Grant Competition The objective of this competition is to support and promote research projects on human rights related questions. The program is open to all faculty and all masters and doctoral students from Storrs and regional campuses, in all disciplines.

For more information: http://humanrights.uconn.edu/rese_funds.htm

Faculty Human Rights Workshops The Human Rights Institute will fund two faculty-led human rights workshops in AY 2008-2009. These workshops will bring to the campus 5-10 scholars from external institutions to interact with UConn faculty over a 1-2 day period on a substantive human rights theme.

For more information: http://humanrights.uconn.edu/rese_faculty_workshops.htm

Symposium: Human Rights Archives and Documentation: Transforming Ideas into Practice

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The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center and the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut would like to invite you to join us for a symposium, “Human Rights Archives and Documentation:  Transforming Ideas into Practice.”

The Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network and the Center for Human Rights Documentation at Columbia University Libraries are co-sponsoring the event.  This one and a half day symposium will bring together archivists, librarians, and human rights scholars together to address specific needs and unique issues in human rights documentation and to create strategies for the future.  The keynote address for the symposium will be the Honorable Patricia Wald, who served on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.  The second day of the program will consist of working group sessions to share information and address issues specific to human rights documentation.  Trudy Huskamp Peterson, expert on preserving the records of Truth Commissions, and former Acting Archivist of the United States, will be our special guest.  Further information, a detailed schedule, and registration materials are available on our website:  http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/events/human_rights_symposium.htmThe symposium will take place at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, on Monday March 3, and Tuesday, March 4, 2008.  The event is free and open to anyone working with or interested in human rights collections, though there are a limited number of spaces available.   The deadline for registration is Friday, February 15.   

Focus the Nation Events!

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Thank you for your patience during the January lull.  Now that the semester is in full gear, I will be posting more frequently.  Look for updates on new books in the library, and upcoming events on campus dealing with human rights themes!

During the last week of January 2008, the University of Connecticut will join more than 1,450 colleges, universities, and K-12 schools as participants in Focus The Nation, a national climate change awareness and education event.

Events will be held at all of the UConn campuses, including the law school and health center, and will include a free showing of the new environmental documentary “The 11th Hour,” a free showing of “The 2% Solution,” and a faculty panel discussion on UConn’s role in addressing climate change.  

There will also be a teach-in taking place throughout the day on January 30th and 31st in which professors from over 20 different departments will facilitate discussions about climate change within the context of their respective disciplines.  

For more details and a complete schedule of events, please visit: www.ecohusky.uconn.edu/focusthenation.htm

Human Rights Documentation Issue of “Focus on Global Resources”

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The Center for Research Libraries (CRL)’s  FOCUS on Global Resources newsletter, Winter 2007-08 issue (“Human Rights Documentation”) is now available online.

In this issue:

  • Global Resources / Columbia University conference, Human Rights Archives and Documentation.
  • A roundtable discussion sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation examines the role of research libraries in preserving human rights related documentation.
  • The newspaper Aquí and the human rights struggle in Bolivia during the 1970s and 80s.
  • CRL human-rights related collections and archives:  adjudication of World War II era crimes against humanity in Europe and Asia. 
  • CRL collections supporting human rights research on:  Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

To view this and past issues of FOCUS, visit: http://www.crl.edu/focus/toc.asp

To download FOCUS in PDF format, go to: http://www.crl.edu/PDF/pdfFocus/Winter2007-08.pdf