{"id":121,"date":"2009-01-26T19:29:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T19:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanrightsresearch.wordpress.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2009-01-26T19:29:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T19:29:30","slug":"graduate-student-human-rights-conference-at-uconn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2009\/01\/26\/graduate-student-human-rights-conference-at-uconn\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Student Human Rights Conference at UConn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:normal;margin:0 0 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:13.5pt\" lang=\"EN\">CALL FOR PAPERS<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\">:<span>\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cHuman Rights: Ideals and Realities\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:normal;margin:0 0 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">Saturday, April 4, 2009<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:normal;margin:0 0 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, STORRS<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:normal;margin:0 0 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">* DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: FEBRUARY 16, 2009 *<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:normal;margin:0 0 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">The second annual multidisciplinary Graduate Human Rights Conference will be held on Saturday, April 4, 2009 at the Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut. The conference aims to bring together graduate students interested in human rights, from multiple disciplines, to present and share their research interests. The conference will include a keynote address as well as complimentary breakfast and lunch.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:normal;margin:0 0 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">Keynote Speaker: Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA and Associate at Harvard\u2019s Davis Center for Eurasian and Russian Studies.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:normal;margin:0 0 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">Panel Themes: The conference encourages interdisciplinary social science, law, and humanities approaches to understanding human rights issues. Panel themes may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">Economic Rights<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">Education and Human Rights<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">Environmental Rights<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">Foundations of Human Rights<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">Gender and Human Rights<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">Group Rights<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">Human Rights and International Law<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">Humanitarianism<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:normal;margin:0 0 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">If you would like to present a paper, please submit the following information to the Human Rights Institute at humanrights at uconn.edu by February 6, 2009:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:normal;margin:0 0 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">&#8211; YOUR FULL NAME<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:normal;margin:0 0 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">&#8211; INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:normal;margin:0 0 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri\">&#8211; E-MAIL, POSTAL ADDRESS, and TEL. 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