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

Upcoming Human Rights Events at UConn

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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 Served

Sponsored 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

UConn Student Activist Conference

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Idealists United has created a conference that will teach students how to move beyond charity and take a step toward advocacy. The aim of this conference is to train students in strategies that will allow them to overcome typical barriers to progress and become more effective activists, regardless of cause. Our hope is to give you, the student, the confidence and knowledge needed to create change within the societal issues you feel most passionate about.

            The conference will take place in the Dodd Center Saturday, February 23rd from 10am-6pm. For more information or to register stop by the Human Rights Institute or e-mail Idealists.united@gmail.com.

The conference will contain a keynote speaker, 3 sets of workshops, a peer-networking lunch, and a closing activity.The workshops are as follows:

Set 1:
Leading a Successful Meeting
Talking with Your Peers about Controversial Issues
Grassroots media

Set 2:
Effectively Lobbying Politicians
Getting the Media to Listen
Coalition Building

Set 3:
Running Successful Promotional Events
Leading a Direct Action Campaign
Creating a Social Movement

Conference registration will end on February 14th at 11:00pm. Students will still be able to attend the conference if they are not registered, but only registered students will be guaranteed a free lunch and have their choice of workshops.

To register drop-off a completed registration form at Human Rights Institute or send your name, workshop preference (ordered 1-3 for each set), organization name(s) if applicable, and any leadership role you hold within the organization(s) to Idealists.United@gmail.com.  Feel free to send any questions or comments to this address as well.

Human Rights Film Series– Tying the Knot– Feb. 12, 2008

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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)
 

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

Searching for Human Rights Materials on the Internet

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I’ve received more questions about finding human rights articles online.

For those conducting academic research (UConn Human Rights Minors, this means you!)  subcription databases, available through the library’s website, such as Gale Academic OneFile, Lexis Nexis, and CIAO, are the best places to look for human rights articles.  Another option is to browse through peer-reviewed human rights journals, such as the Journal of Human Rights, Human Rights Quarterly, etc.  You can find a listing of human rights journals and databases available through UConn’s library on the Journal Articles page of the Human Rights Subject Guide, http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/bysubject/humanrights/hrdatabases.html

For those who do not have access to the subscription resources of a university, there are some great places to look for journal articles and human rights information online.  The Key Websites page on the Human Rights Subject Guide has a listing of good places to start your online search. I’ve listed just a few examples here.  Individual NGOs often provide information and publish reports as well. 

The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library includes a wide array of human rights documents, treaties, and other information. 

The HuriSearch Portal is a search engine designed for human rights activists, students, and educators, and it searches over 4, 000 human rights websites for information. 

Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is an international non-governmental organization that supports human rights learning and has information on a variety of human rights themes.

For a more comprehensive listing of places to look on the internet for human rights information, please check the Key Websites page on the University of Connecticut Libraries Human Rights Subject Guide .