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Jean Cardinale is the head of the UConn Libraries' Public Programming, Marketing & Communications efforts.

Human Rights Archives News

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A couple of things, quickly, and then I have to run and catch my train! 

As of this evening, I will be in New York attending a conference at Columbia University: “Human Rights Archives and Documentation: Meeting the Needs of Research, Teaching, Advocacy, and Social Justice.”  So, there won’t be any new posts until Monday.

But, there are lots of exciting things to write about, so check back for information on upcoming events, including the next Human Rights Film Series event (Tuesday, October 9), and the opening of a new human rights archival collection here at UConn!

Major Human Rights Events at UConn, October 1-4

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The first week of October is jam-packed with Human Rights events at UConn!  Please join us for the following important events on campus!

All events are free and open to the public.

Monday, October 1, 2007

The Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights is being awarded on Monday, October 1 at 11 AM. Mental Disability Rights International and the Center for Justice and Accountability are this year’s recipients! The ceremony will take place in the plaza outside of the Dodd Research Center. (Rain location: Rome Ballroom, South Campus) Click here for more information.

Following the Thomas J. Dodd Prize for International Justice and Human Rights, the Dodd Research Center will host a special event including readings from the book, Letters from Nuremberg:  My Father’s Narrative of a Quest for Justice, by members of the Dodd family with a book signing by Senator Chris Dodd and Lary Bloom, on Monday, October 1 at 1:30pm in Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. 

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

On Tuesday, October 2 at 4 PM, Harold Koh, Dean of the Yale Law School, will give the Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture, “Repairing Our Human Rights Reputation.” The talk will be held in Konover Auditorium of the Dodd Research Center.

Dean Koh is a leading expert on international law and a prominent advocate of human and civil rights. From 1998 to 2001, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.  Before joining Yale, he practiced law at Covington and Burling and at the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice.  He has argued before the United States Supreme Court and testified before the U.S. Congress more than twenty times. He has been awarded ten honorary doctorates and two law school medals and has received more than twenty five awards for his human rights work. He is recipient of the 2005 Louis B. Sohn Award from the American Bar Association and the 2003 Wolfgang Friedmann Award from Columbia Law School for his lifetime achievements in International Law. He is author of eight books, including Transnational Legal Problems (with H. Steiner and D. Vagts) and The National Security Constitution, which won the American Political Science Association’s award as the best book on the American Presidency.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Lecture by Ela Gandhi (co-sponsored with the Asian American Studies Institute) at the Student Union Theatre, 4:30 pm.

Ela Ghandi, granddaughter of Mahatma Ghandi, has carried her family’s legacy and put those beliefs into practice for six decades of activism in South Africa.  During apartheid, she was banned from political activism and subjected to house arrest for nine years. In South Africa’s Parliament from 1994 to 2004, Ms. Gandhi aligned herself with the African National Congress party and represented the area of her birth in the KwaZulu Natal province near Durban. She founded the Gandhi Development Trust, developed a 24-hour program against domestic violence, and currently serves as Chancellor of Durban University of Technology. This event is free and open to the public, and sponsored by the Asian American Studies Institute, Asian American Cultural Center, Jain Center of Greater Hartford, Women’s Studies Program, Women’s Center, UNESCO Chair and Institute of Comparative Human Rights, India Studies Program, and the Department of History.

New Human Rights Books in Babbidge Library

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Here are the latest additions to the human rights holdings at Babbidge Library.   

Justice and Law 

SOCIAL JUSTICE: THEORIES, ISSUES, AND MOVEMENTS.  By Loretta Capeheart, 2007

 

GLOBAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT: CROSS-NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES.  Ed. Donatella Della Porta, 2007

 

HOW TO MAKE OPPORTUNITY EQUAL: RACE AND CONTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE, by Paul Gomberg, 2007

 

VIOLENCE, CONFLICT, AND WORLD ORDER: CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS ON STATE-SANCTIONED JUSTICE, by Gregg Barak, 2007

 

CONSTRUCTING JUSTICE AND SECURITY AFTER WAR, by Charles T. Call, 2007

 

EXPLORING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS: ESSENTIAL READINGS, by Rhonda L. Callaway, 2007

 

JUDGES, TRANSITION, AND HUMAN RIGHTS, by John Morison, 2007

 

EXTRAORDINARY JUSTICE: MILITARY TRIBUNALS IN HISTORICAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT, by Peter Judson Richards, 2007

 

ATROCITY, PUNISHMENT, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, by Mark A. Drumbl, 2007

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY: THE STRUGGLE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE, by Geoffrey Robertson, 2006

CONFLICT AND COMPLIANCE: STATE RESPONSES TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PRESSURE, by Sonia Cardenas, 2007

WHEN THE STATE NO LONGER KILLS: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS NORMS AND ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, by San Gmin Bae, 2007

SLAVERY, FREEDOM, AND THE LAW IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD: A BRIEF HISTORY WITH DOCUMENTS, by Sue Peabody, 2007

  Poverty and Economic Rights 

ECONOMIC RIGHTS: CONCEPTUAL, MEASUREMENT, AND POLICY ISSUES, by Shareen Hertel and Lanse Minker, 2007

 

FREEDOM FROM POVERTY AS A HUMAN RIGHT: WHO OWES WHAT TO THE VERY POOR?, ed. Thomas Pogge, 2007

 

ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS IN ACTION, ed, Mashood A. Baderin, 2007

 

MEMBERSHIP-BASED ORGANIZATIONS OF THE POOR, ed. Martha Chen, 2007

 

BATTLE FOR WELFARE RIGHTS: POLITICS AND POVERTY IN MODERN AMERICA, by Felicia Kornbluh, 2007

 

UNDER COVER OF SCIENCE: AMERICAN LEGAL-ECONOMIC THEORY AND THE QUEST FOR OBJECTIVITY, by James R. Hackney, 2007

 

  Human Rights General 

BLOOD AND SOIL: A WORLD HISTORY OF GENOCIDE AND EXTERMINATION FROM SPARTA TO DARFUR, by Ben Kiernan, 2007

 

WHITE MAN’S BURDEN: WHY THE WEST’S EFFORTS TO AID THE REST HAVE DONE SO MUCH ILL AND SO LITTLE GOOD, by William Easterly, 2007

 

POSITION OF ALIENS IN RELATION TO THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, by Helene Lambert, 2006

 

CRIME, SOCIAL CONTROL AND HUMAN RIGHTS: FROM MORAL PANICS TO STATES OF DENIAL: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF STANLEY COHEN, ed. David Downes, 2007

 

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF MARGINALISED GROUPS: PERSPECTIVES AND STRATEGIES, ed. Debal K. Singharoy, 2001

 

INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT: CONCEPTUALIZATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, by Thomas George Weiss, 2006

 

HUMANITARIAN DIPLOMACY: PRACTITIONERS AND THEIR CRAFT, ed. Larry Minear, 2007

 

 Indigenous People 

TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT ABORIGINAL HISTORY, by Bain Attwood, 2005

 

HONOUR AMONG NATIONS?: TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, ed. Marcia Langton, 2005

 

INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCE: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES, ed. Roger C.A. Maaka, 2006

 

INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND UNITED NATIONS STANDARDS: SELF-DETERMINATION, CULTURE AND LAND, by Alexandra Xanthaki, 2007

 

 Torture 

PHENOMENON OF TORTURE: READINGS AND COMMENTARY, ed. William F. Schulz, 2007

 

AMERICAN TORTURE: FROM THE COLD WAR TO ABU GHRAIB AND BEYOND, by Michael Otterman, 2007

 

 Russia and Chechnya 

RUSSIA’S ISLAMIC THREAT, by Gordon M. Hahn, 2007

 

CHECHNYA: FROM NATIONALISM TO JIHAD, by James Hughes, 2007

 

CHECHNYA: LIFE IN A WAR-TORN SOCIETY, by Valerii Aleksandrovich Tishkov, 2004

 

  Health 

READINGS IN COMPARATIVE HEALTH LAW AND BIOETHICS, by Timothy S. Jost, 2007

 

Sex and Gender 

LIMITS OF BODILY INTEGRITY: ABORTION, ADULTERY, AND RAPE LEGISLATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, by Ruth Austin Miller, 2007

 

SEXUAL POLITICS AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE NEW FEMINIST CHALLENGE, ed. R. Amy Elman, 1996

 

SEXUAL SUBORDINATION AND STATE INTERVENTION: COM- PARING SWEDEN AND THE UNITED STATES, by R. Amy Elman, 1996

 

LAW AND SEXUALITY: THE GLOBAL ARENA, ed. Carl F. Stychin, 2001

 

POLITICS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES, THE EUROPEAN UNION, AND GERMANY, by Kathrin S. Zippel, 2006

 

SEXUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A GLOBAL OVERVIEW, ed. Helmut Graupner, 2005

 

  Nigeria 

WOMEN AND CONFLICT IN THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR, by Egodi Uchendu, 2007

 

BIAFRA REVISITED, by Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe, 2007

 

SURVIVING IN BIAFRA: THE STORY OF THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR, by Alfred Obiora, Uzokwe, 2003

 

  

Morris Kight—One Man’s Road to the Gay Revolution and Beyond

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Please join us for a talk by Mary Ann Cherry

Morris Kight—One Man’s Road to the Gay Revolution and Beyond

Friday, September 28, at 10 AM

Room 162, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

Mary Ann Cherry, recipient of the Sigmund Strochlitz Travel Grant awarded by the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center to scholars conducting research in the Center’s unique collections, will read from her manuscript Morris Kight – The Authorized Biography of One Man’s Road to the Gay Revolution And Beyond on September 28, 10:00am, in Room 162 of the Dodd Center.  Cherry’s topic of study is the social activist and pacifist Morris Kight and his influence in the gay rights movement in the late1960s and early 1970s.  Through personal letters and records of the organizations that he helped to found, available in the Foster Gunnison Papers at the Dodd Center, as well as interviews conducted with his contemporaries, Cherry aims to explore the role of individual activists and the interplay of east coast and west coast organizations at a decisive time period in the movement’s evolution.  Questions and comments are welcome.  Refreshments will be served.

HOMER Issues and Where Else to Search

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As many of you have noticed, UConn’s online library catalog, HOMER, has been having a number of issues lately.  We’re currently working to solve those problems.  One of the issues we’ve been having is that HOMER is not accurately reflecting the latest library holdings, and new additions to the library’s collections are not showing up in the catalog. 

Until we get HOMER back up and running 100%, there are a couple of other places that you can search for library holdings at UConn.

WorldCat is probably the best place to search, as it is a comprehensive listing of books, serials, films, and other items held in libraries around the world.  WorldCat’s listings are up to date, so if a recently acquired title doesn’t show up in HOMER, it will come up in WorldCat.  Once you’ve found an item in World Cat, if UConn doesn’t have it, you can request it via Inter Library Loan (ILL).

Another place to looks is ReQuest, a catalog of most public and publicly-funded academic libraries in Connecticut. 

Both WorldCat and ReQuest can be found on the library’s Research Database Locator, as well as on the list of Most Used Databases linked on the main library page. 

Hopefully, HOMER will be back up and running soon, but in the mean time, WorldCat and ReQuest are the best places to look. 

“Goodbye, Hungaria” Screening Today at UConn

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Please join us this evening (Tuesday, September 18) at 6 PM for the opening night of UConn’s Human Rights Film Series.  We’ll be showing, Goodbye, Hungaria, which will be followed by a reception and Q and A with the filmaker and director, Jon Nealon.  The film will be shown in Konover Auditorium at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, and is free and open to the public. 

Hope to see you all then! 

UConn Libraries Celebrate Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month

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As part of the library’s continuing commitment to diversity and in celebration of Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month from Sept. 15- October 15, the Curator of Hispanic Collections and I have created a new webpage with library and archival resources for Latino Studies, as well as upcoming events on campus at the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center (PRLACC) located on the 4th floor of the Student Union.

2007-2008 Human Rights Film Series: A Cinematic Exploration through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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UConn wil be kicking off its annual Human Rights Film series next week! 

The first film is Goodbye, Hungaria, directed by Jon Nealon, which will be shown on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 6 PM in Konover Auditorium at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.  Director Jon Nealon will join us for a discussion and reception after the film. 

“Both political tale and love story, Goodbye Hungaria begins in a refugee camp in Hungary, home to hundreds of men, women and children fleeing war and oppression from every corner of the globe. To the refugees, Eastern Hungary is a cold and unwelcoming place; Asylum is rarely granted, and there are few opportunities for work.  For most, the only way out of this legal limbo is through a thriving underground smuggling ring. Jon Nealon’s cinema verité documentary chronicles the lives of Abed Al-Sahli a Palestinian refugee who acts as advocate and de facto translator for the camp’s Arab population, and Charu Newhouse, an American volunteer. As both Abed and Charu struggle to make life better for the refugees caught in red tape and subject to the vagaries of international politics, their fates become connected. The film traces their unlikely love story from the hopelessness of the camp to a dramatic arrival in New York City where they come to start a new life, together.”

For more information about the film series and other human rights events at UConn, go to http://www.humanrights.uconn.edu

RefWorks Bibliographic Management Tool

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We’re pleased to announce a new tool to assist students with managing journal articles and creating bibliographies and works cited pages. 

RefWorks

RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management program which allows you to:

*  Create a personal database of citations from journal articles, books, book chapters or other sources

*  Automatically generate a bibliography (works cited page) in APA, MLA, or other bibliographic styles in MS Word after downloading the RefWorks Write-N-Cite plugin

*  Export search results from the UConn Libraries’ research databases directly to RefWorks

*  Link to the full text of online articles from your RefWorks database using the ‘UConn Links’ button

*  Share your RefWorks database with others using RefShare

This is a really great tool which can be a total lifesaver when you’ve waited to the last minute to write your paper and don’t have time left to format your bibliography before running off to class.  RefWorks does that for you! 

** Click here to Create or Log in to your RefWorks account.  ** 

(For more information about RefWorks, go to http://refworks.uconn.edu/)

New Human Rights Books at Babbidge Library

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Sorry for the lack of updates this week.  The beginning of the semester is extremely busy for library staff as well!

New Human Rights Titles in Babbidge Library:

European Convention on Human Rights:  Achievements, Problems, and Prospects.  S.C. Greer, 2006.

People’s History of the European Court of Human Rights.  Goldhaber, Michael D.  2007.

Securitising Russia:  The Domestic Politics of Putin.  Bacon, Edwin, 2006. 

Nazi War Crimes, US Intelligence, and Selective Prosecution at Nuremberg: Controversies Regarding the Role of the Office of Strategic Services.  Salter, Michael, 2007.

Travesty:  The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice.  Laughland, John, 2007.

Humanitarian Imperialism:  Using Human Rights to Sell War.  Bricmont, J.  2006. 

American Torture:  From the Cold War to Abu Graib and Beyond.  Otterman, Michael, 2007.