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  • Oct
    9
    CANCELED: Impenetrable Landscapes: Artist Alice Miceli in Conversation with Caroline Fowler
    6:00 PM

    This event, while originally rescheduled, has been cancelled.

    The Arts & Human Rights Program and Boston Center for the Arts present Brazilian artist Alice Miceli in conversation with Dr. Caroline Fowler (The Clark Art Institute). They will discuss Miceli’s exhibition, Impenetrable Landscapes, curated by UConn professors Michael Orwicz and José Falconi.

  • Oct
    19
    Graduate Certificate in Human Rights Information Session
    1:00 PM

    Interested in how a graduate certificate in Human Rights may fit into your career goals? We welcome all graduate students interested in human rights to attend an information session about our Graduate Certificate in Human Rights.

  • Oct
    27
    Robert G. Mead Jr. Workshop
    Ryan Building
    12:00 PM
  • Oct
    27
    Robert G. Mead Jr. Lecture Series
    The Dodd Center for Human Rights
    3:00 PM
  • Oct
    29
    Emancipating Human Rights: A Preview
    12:00 PM

    Dr. Michael Goodhart discusses his upcoming book Emancipating Human Rights, which examines the complex and often contradictory role of human rights in political struggles, arguing that their emancipatory potential lies not in what human rights are, but in how people use them to pursue transformative social and political change.

  • Nov
    5
    When International Law Meets Geopolitics
    Gentry Building
    2:30 PM

    Join the Office of Global Affairs to hear Jagdish Koonjul, former Mauritian Ambassador to the UN, discuss the Chagos Archipelago and the broader diplomatic and legal questions surrounding its future. 

  • Nov
    5
    Human Rights Film+ Series: Holding Liat
    The Dodd Center for Human Rights
    4:00 PM

    Join us for a screening of Holding Liat and discussion with director Brandon Kramer. In the weeks after Liat’s kidnapping, her father Yehuda begins a mission to secure his daughter’s release while refusing to let her captivity be used to justify violence in Gaza. His efforts reveal rifts within the family, as each generation grapples with their fracturing emotional and political perspectives.

  • Nov
    9
    Dos gezang fun vilner geto – Songs from the Vilna Ghetto
    J. Louis von der Mehden Recital Hall, UConn Storrs
    6:30 PM

    Sponsored by the Hochberg Committee for Human Rights and Holocaust Education at Temple Bnai Israel, Willimantic and the Sheppard Fund for Holocaust Education through UConn Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Life. 

    Join us for a lecture and concert in commemoration of Kristallnacht, the Night of Shattered Glass. 

  • Nov
    10
    Graduate Certificate in Human Rights Information Session
    11:00 AM

    Interested in how a graduate certificate in Human Rights may fit into your career goals? We welcome all graduate students interested in human rights to attend an information session about our Graduate Certificate in Human Rights.

  • Nov
    11
    Accelerated MA in Human Rights Information Session
    11:15 AM

    Human Rights is a growing and diverse field, with UConn among few leading institutions globally with a specialist degree program to prepare graduate students. Join us for a virtual info session hosted by our Educational Program Administrator, Dr. Alyssa Webb, to learn more about our accelerated 4+1 Master of Arts in Human Rights program.