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BlogsThe Romano Human Rights Digital Photograph Collection now contains 23 new images of from cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast. The images are available to UConn students, faculty and staff through HuskyCT. Please contact the curator with your NetID to request access.
More information, as well as PDF versions of Robin Romano’s lectures on child labor, are available on the Human Rights Institute’s website.
The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, The Human Rights Institute and The UNESCO Chair in Comparative Human Rights invite you to join us for a talk by Thulani Mabaso.
“Struggle and Forgiveness in the South African Anti-apartheid Movement”
A Conversation with Thulani Mabaso
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Public Lounge
Monday, April 21, 2008
4:00 PM
Reception to Follow
Thulani Mabaso will speak on his experiences in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and his imprisonment at Robben Island. Mabaso was imprisoned in 1984 for sabotage and was a contemporary of Nelson Mandela, Patrick Chamusso, and other important figures jailed during the struggles against apartheid. Originally from Vryheid in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa, Mabaso currently resides in the township of Khayaletsha in Cape Town, and tells his story on a regular basis as a tour guide at the Robben Island Prison Museum.
For more information, please visit the Dodd Center’s website.
The Dodd Center has a number of archival collections relating to South Africa and the anti-apartheid movement. They include:
African National Congress Collection (a small collection of memorabilia collected as part of the UConn ANC Partnership in 1999)
African National Congress Oral History Transcripts Collection (133 transcripts of oral history interviews with leading anti-apartheid activists conducted between 2000 and 2006.)
Impact Visuals Photographic Collection (photographs and slides which document the anti-apartheid movement and 1994 democratic elections in South Africa)
Tambo (Oliver) Papers (microfilm copies of the papers of anti-apartheid activist, Oliver Tambo; original documents are located at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa)
Xuma (A.B.) Papers (microfilm copies of the papers of anti-apartheid activist, A.B. Xuma; original documents are located at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa)
The Human Rights Section of the International Studies Associaition (HR-ISA) is pleased to announce two paper awards for papers presented at the ISA annual conference in March 2008: a Graduate Student award and a Faculty/Professional award.
1. Steven C. Poe Graduate Student Paper Award
HR-ISA has named its Graduate Student Paper Award in honor of the late Steven C. Poe in recognition of his contributions in the field of human rights and support to graduate students. To be eligible for the award, the paper must be presented at the ISA annual meeting immediately preceding the deadline (not restricted to the human rights section panels), and must be original (not presented or published elsewhere) research in the field of human rights. Papers presented as posters are also eligible for the award. The award will be accompanied by $100 as well as a paid one-year membership in the Human Rights Section. In addition, the winner will receive $300 to subsidize travel to the following year’s ISA meeting (contingent upon provision of receipts). Papers may be nominated by panel chairs or other conference participants, and by authors. Papers should have been uploaded to the ISA website by the deadline. Alternatively, if you are submitting your own paper for consideration, please submit it electronically to the Chair of the committee, Clair Apodaca (Apodaca@fiu.edu) by 15 May.
Deadline for submission: May 15th.
Award committee: two at-large members of the executive committee and one additional member (non-executive committee) chosen by the section Chair.
The section would like to recognize the generous contribution made by the Journal of Human Rights and its editor, Richard Hiskes, in funding this award. The Journal of Human Rights is a Routledge/Taylor and Francis publication.
2. Faculty/Professional Best Paper Award
This award will be given to the best paper presented at the ISA annual conference 2008 by a faculty member (not restricted to rank) or professional or activist. Eligibility is limited to Human Rights Section-sponsored panels, and must be original (not presented or published elsewhere) research in the field of human rights. The award is accompanied by $100 as well as a paid one-year membership in the Human Rights Section. In addition, the winning paper will be forwarded to the Journal of Human Rights for special consideration for publication.
Papers may be nominated by panel chairs or other conference participants, and by authors. Papers should have been uploaded to the ISA website by the deadline. Alternatively, if you are submitting your own paper for consideration, please submit it electronically to the Chair of the committee, Daniel Whelan, (Whelan@hendrix.edu) by 15 May.
Deadline for submission: May 15th
Award committee: two at-large members of the executive committee and one additional member (non-executive committee) chosen by the section Chair.
The Department of History invites everyone to attend the 90th Foreign Policy Seminar on Friday, March 7 at 5:00 PM in the Konover Auditorium. Guest lecturer Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, will present “Sowing Crisis: The United States and the Cold War in the Middle East.” The lecture and reception are free.
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 Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights with the Honorable Patricia Wald, who served on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The Sackler Lecture, on March 3, at 4 PM in Konover Auditorium at the Dodd Research Center, is free and open to the public.
The second day of the program will consist of working group sessions with human rights archivists and librarians to share information and address issues specific to human rights documentation. More information is available on our website.
Patricia Wald, who served for two decades on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and also was U.S. Judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague, Netherlands, will deliver the 14th Annual Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights.
Her talk, “Perplexing Predicaments in Human Rights Law: Women, Terror, and Tribunals,” will take place at Konover Auditorium in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, beginning at 4 p.m on Monday, March 3.
Wald received her bachelor’s degree from Connecticut College and her law degree from Yale Law School, were she was editor of the Law Journal. She began her career as a law clerk to Judge Jerome Frank of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
She was an associate in the Washington, D.C. firm of Arnold, Fortas & Porter; an attorney in the Office of Criminal Justice of the Department of Justice; attorney for Neighborhood Legal Services; member of the District of Columbia Crime Commission; co-director of the Ford Foundation’s Project on Drug Abuse; attorney with the Center for Law and Social Policy; and litigation director of the Mental Health Law Project.In 1977, Wald was appointed Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs in the U.S. Department of Justice; and in 1979 President Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she served until her retirement in 1999. From 1999 to 2001, she served on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, where she rendered significant decisions in the field of international humanitarian law.From 2002 to 2004, she was chair of the Open Society Justice Initiative; and from 2004 to 2005, was a member of the President’s Commission on U.S. Intelligence Capabilities Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction.Wald is a council member and former first vice president of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
She is the author of Law and Poverty (1965), and co-author of Bail in the United States (1964) and Dealing with Drug Abuse (1973). She has also published many articles on a wide range of legal subjects.Wald is a fellow of the American Philosophical Society and a former member of the executive board of the American Bar Association’s Central European and Eurasian Institute.She received the American Bar Association Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award; the annual award of the Environmental Law Institution; and the annual award of the International Human Rights Law Group.
She has received many honorary degrees from universities and law schools, including most recently the degree of Doctor of Law at Yale University.
February is packed full with human rights events! Here are some lectures happening in the next week!
Monday, February 18, 2008:
David Held, Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science Co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics will speak on “Global Challenge: Creating Effective and Accountable Global Policies.”
Presented by the Human Rights Institute & the Center for International Business & Education Research (CIBER)
Monday, February 18, 2008
Konover Auditorium
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
4:00pm – Reception to follow
Tuesday, February 18, 2008:
Eugene Harkins, author of Where Witch Birds Fly, will give a lecture, “Human Rights and Sierra Leone. Sponsored by the UNESCO Chair & Institute of Comparative Human Rights.
Eugene Harkins’ lecture will not only highlight the devastation caused by the civil war in Sierra Leone, but will focus on the sense of hope and the democratic renewal occurring in the country since the civil war. He will also provide updates on the Charles Taylor trial presently before the Hague.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
12:30 – 1:45 p.m.
CUE Room 122
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Mary Crawford (Psychology) will speak on “Sex Trafficking in Nepal: A Critical Feminist Analysis”
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
4:00 – 5:30 pm
CLAS 301, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Refreshments ServedSponsored by the UConn Humanities Institute.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Screening of Invisible Children, sponsored by Love146. (See Love146’s Facebook group for more information)
7:00- 8:30 PM
Konover Auditorium,
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Monday, February 25, 2008
Robin Romano, “Migrant Child Labor in the USA”.
Romano is a reknowned human rights photographer, filmmaker, and educator who will be screening segemnts of his new film, “The Harvest/La Cosecha” as well as segments from his award winning documentary on child labor, “Stolen Childhoods.” Romano will speak on related policy issues in the United States and internationally.
Monday, February 25, 2008
4 PM
Konover Auditorium
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Tonight’s screening of Tying the Knot is being postponed due to forecasted inclement weather. Updated information will be available soon.
My apologies for the infrequency of postings here– February and March are jam-packed with events and work deadlines, so I haven’t been posting here as much as I’d hoped!
But there are lots of human rights events coming up, and I’ve been ordering new books for the library, so keep checking back for further information.
The 2007-2008 Human Rights Film Series, “A Cinematic Exploration through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” continues with our first film of 2008, Tying the Knot, on Tuesday, February 12, at 6 PM in Konover Auditorium at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.
A description of Tying the Knot (2004) is below.
“When a bank robber’s bullet ends the life of police officer Lois Marrero, her wife of thirteen years, Mickie, is honored as her surviving spouse but denied all pension benefits. When Sam, an Oklahoma rancher, loses his beloved husband of 22 years, long-estranged cousins of his late spouse try to lay claim to everything Sam has. As Mickie and Sam’s lives are put on trial, they are forced to confront the tragic reality that in the eyes of the law their marriages mean nothing. From an historical trip to the Middle Ages, to gay hippies storming the Manhattan marriage bureau in 1971, Tying the Knot digs deeply into the past and present to uncover the meaning of civil marriage in America today.” (From the film’s website)
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