Spring 2018

Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018
Reading Group: "Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Right to Have Rights"
The Right to Have Rights (Verso, 2018)
Stephanie DeGooyer, Willamette University

Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018
Lecture: "Hannah Arendt and the Refugee Crisis"
(co-sponsored with the Department of English)
Stephanie DeGooyer, Willamette University

Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018
Lecture: "Hijacking Human Rights: Neoliberalism, the New Historiography, and
the End of the Third World"
(o-sponsored with the Department of English)
Joseph Slaughter, Columbia University

Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018
Pedagogy Workshop: Suspicion of Empathy in Teaching Human Rights
Joseph Slaughter, Columbia University

Monday, Feb. 5, 2018
Pedagogy Workshop -- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights Law
Elizabeth S. Anker, Cornell University

Monday, Feb. 5, 2018
Lecture: "Screening Immigrant Rights, or the Biopolitical Constitution of Europe"
(co-sponsored with the Department of English)
Elizabeth Anker, Cornell University

Friday, Feb. 16, 2018
Arms Transfers and Human Rights: A Conversation with Allan Suchinsky

Monday, Feb. 26, 2018
Pedagogy Workshop: Teaching the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Professor Alexandra Moore, Binghamton University

Wednesday, Mar. 21, 2018
Reading Group: Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantánamo Diary

Tuesday, Mar. 27, 2018
Public Dialogue with Mohamedou Ould Slahi, former detainee and author of
Guantánamo Diary

Monday, Apr. 9, 2018
Human Rights Institute Research Colloquium

Monday, Apr. 9, 2018
Keynote: "On Accountability and Human Rights"
Larry Siems, Knight First Amendment Institute, Columbia University

Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2018
Human Rights Institute Research Colloquium

Thursday, Apr. 12, 2018
Lecture: "An Aesthetics of Kin and the Rights of the Child in Minor U.S. Literatures"
(co-sponsored by the Department of English)
Crystal Parikh, New York University

Friday, Apr. 13, 2018
Pedagogy Workshop: Teaching Race and Rights
Crystal Parikh, New York University

Tuesday, Apr. 24, 2018
Michael Bronner, director, producer, screenwriter

Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2018
Pedagogy Workshop -- Teaching Capitalism and Human Rights
Professors Suzy Lee, Jakob Feinig, and Alexandra Moore, Binghamton University

Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2018
Human Rights, Indigenous Rights: A Dialogue about Decolonizing the Americas
Noel Altaha, Alex Jimerson, and Reynaldo Morales
Hosted by Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Binghamton University

Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Lecture: "Art and Activism"
Ricardo Dominguez and Amy Sara Carroll