Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute

Domestic Violence is a pervading issue across our world. During the fiscal year of 2021, over 38,989 people sought domestic violence services in our state of Connecticut alone. This number is not reflective of all those who endure domestic violence, as violence often goes unreported. We need to shatter the silence. Through education, engagement, and empowerment, this program will shed light on domestic violence and create social change.

Join us as we learn, listen, and reflect through small group discussions with facilitators, and engage with experts in domestic violence services about this critical issue.

This event is hosted by the Democracy & Dialogues Initiative, a program of Dodd Human Rights Impact, and The Alyssiah Wiley Program at Western Connecticut State University.

A light dinner will be provided.

Domestic Violence is a pervading issue across our world. During the fiscal year of 2021, over 38,989 people sought domestic violence services in our state of Connecticut alone. This number is not reflective of all those who endure domestic violence, as violence often goes unreported. We need to shatter the silence. Through education, engagement, and empowerment, this program will shed light on domestic violence and create social change.

Join us as we learn, listen, and reflect through small group discussions with facilitators, and engage with experts in domestic violence services about this critical issue.

This event is hosted by the Democracy & Dialogues Initiative, a program of Dodd Human Rights Impact, and The Alyssiah Wiley Program at Western Connecticut State University.

A light dinner will be provided.

Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In We, the Data, Wendy H. Wong argues that we cannot allow that to happen. Exploring the pervasiveness of data collection and tracking, Wong reminds us that we are all stakeholders in this digital world, who are currently being left out of the most pressing conversations around technology, ethics, and policy. This book clarifies the nature of datafication and calls for an extension of human rights to recognize how data complicate what it means to safeguard and encourage human potential. 

This event is sponsored by the Economic & Social Rights Program, Business & Human Rights Initiative, Engineering for Human Rights Initiative, and Human Rights Research & Data Hub at the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, as well as the UConn School of Law.

Abstract

Professor Krajewski will speak on experience(s) with German law, the status quo of the European Union’s EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), and the complementarity of human rights due diligence laws (HRDD) and UN treaty processes.

Professor Shareen Hertel will discuss the implications of due diligence legislation globally – both in countries where it originates and in the global South – using a “stakeholder” framework for understanding obligations and participation in norms development and implementation. 

Speakers:

Markus Krajewski is University Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and holds the Chair in Public Law and Public International Law. He is one of the programme directors of the MA in Human Rights and chairperson of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN). Professor Krajewski also chairs the Board of Trustees of the German Institute for Human Rights and is Secretary-General of the German Branch of the International Law Association. He is coeditor of the European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EYIEL) and routinely advises international governmental and non-governmental organizations on European and international economic law. Krajewski holds degrees in law, economics and political science from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and Florida State University, and has held previous positions at King’s College London, University of Potsdam, and the Collaborative Research Centre Transformations of the State at the University of Bremen.

Shareen Hertel is the Wiktor Osiatyński Chair of Human Rights and Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science and the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute. Her research focuses on changes in transnational human rights advocacy, with a focus on labor and economic rights issues. Her most recent book (Tethered Fates: Companies, Communities and Rights at Stake – Oxford University Press 2019) explores these themes. Hertel has served as a consultant to foundations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and United Nations agencies in the United States, Latin America and South Asia. She is editor of The Journal of Human Rights, serves on the editorial boards of Human Rights Review as well as Human Rights and Human Welfare, and is co-editor of the International Studies Intensives book series of Routledge.

Moderator:

Janne Mende is Senior Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, where her Research Group MAGGI (“The Multiplication of Authorities in Global Governance Institutions”) analyzes the governance authority of state, inter-state and non-state actors in the United Nations and the European Union. She also heads several projects in the issue area of business and human rights. She holds degrees from the University of Kassel, University of Giessen, and Free University Berlin, and has served previously in positions at the Technical University of Darmstadt, the University of Giessen and the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences. In her latest publication (Der Universalismus der Menschenrechte utb 2021), she develops a contextual and normatively open universalism of human rights. 

For more on the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium (HRRC), visit our website.

Media is under heavy censorship under the Taliban in Afghanistan. Many Afghan journalists have been forced to flee the country. Those remaining face the Taliban’s oppressive restrictions on free expression, including widespread political imprisonment and targeted violence. Based on extensive fieldwork and data collection in Afghanistan, we will examine how journalists navigate these risks and challenges under the Taliban regime. 

This event is a collaboration between the Human Rights Research & Data Hub and the Graduate Research Forum at the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute.

About the Speaker

Ahmadullah Archiwal is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of Connecticut. He is interested in state collapse, informal institutions, democratization, nonviolence, and social movements. His research is specifically focused on the question of how the Afghan elites failed the nation in August of 2021.

Between 2016 and 2019, Dr. Emma Shaw Crane worked with migrant and asylum-seeking children who were detained at the Homestead Temporary Shelter, a detention camp just south of Miami, Florida. Though ostensibly a place of humanitarian refuge, detained children were separated from their families and exposed to harmful sounds and toxic debris from an adjacent military base. This talk takes up racialized hazard at the detention camp in relation to the adjacent military base, a crucial node in the hemispheric circulation of weapons, soldiers, and military expertise.

Sponsor

This event is presented by the Research Program on Global Health & Human Rights at the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, and co-sponsored by El Instituto, the Department of Anthropology, and American Studies.

Associated Seminar

Following this lecture, a seminar with Dr. Emma Shaw Crane will take place down the hall from 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm. See Research Justice Against Migrant Detention for more information. Lunch will be served; please register to attend.

This lunchtime conversation will reflect on collaborative social movement research, with a particular focus on ethnographic and spatial research with movements for the abolition of migrant detention. We will explore the principles and practices of “research justice,” an approach to knowledge production that seeks to be accountable to movements for freedom and self-determination.

Sponsor

This event is presented by the Research Program on Global Health & Human Rights at the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, and co-sponsored by El Instituto, the Department of Anthropology, and American Studies.

Associated Lecture

This workshop follows a lecture by Dr. Emma Shaw Crane earlier in the morning. See Injuries of Empire: Detention and Debilitation in South Florida at 9:30 am in the nearby Konover Auditorium.

Lunch will be provided.

Please register below so we may order an appropriate amount of food.

Please join us for Encounters: Possessing Harriet, a special dialogue event that features small group discussions, on critical questions about the play, as well as specialist feedback and engagement. 

This conversation model will dive deeply into the themes of Possessing Harriet through facilitated, small-group dialogues followed by a “question and answer”-style conversation with our community partners. Readings from the play are provided beforehand to better encourage informed and informal dialogue within conversations that often prove to be polarizing, and thus unproductive. HartBeat Ensemble will collaborate with Human Rights Impact using their patented Encounters model to provide our audiences an opportunity to take a deeper dive into the intersectionality of abolition and suffrage in the 19th century and what it means in today’s battles around reparations and voting rights.

This event is hosted by the Hartbeat Ensemble and the Democracy & Dialogues Initiative, a program of Dodd Human Rights Impact.

Please register for this event through the Hartbeat Ensemble portal.

Please join us for Encounters: Possessing Harriet, a special dialogue event that features small group discussions, on critical questions about the play, as well as specialist feedback and engagement. 

This conversation model will dive deeply into the themes of Possessing Harriet through facilitated, small-group dialogues followed by a “question and answer”-style conversation with our community partners. Readings from the play are provided beforehand to better encourage informed and informal dialogue within conversations that often prove to be polarizing, and thus unproductive. HartBeat Ensemble will collaborate with Human Rights Impact using their patented Encounters model to provide our audiences an opportunity to take a deeper dive into the intersectionality of abolition and suffrage in the 19th century and what it means in today’s battles around reparations and voting rights.

This event is hosted by the Hartbeat Ensemble and the Democracy & Dialogues Initiative, a program of Dodd Human Rights Impact.

Please register for this event through the Hartbeat Ensemble portal.

In Recognition of World Mental Health Day

Theresa S. Betancourt, ScD, MA, Boston College School of Social Work

“The Mental Health of Children Affected by Armed Conflict: A Call to Action”

October 12, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM

Theresa S. Betancourt is the inaugural Salem Professor in Global Practice at the Boston College School of Social Work and Director of the Research Program on Children and Adversity (RPCA). Her primary research interest is to understand the protective processes that contribute to risk and resilience in the mental health and development of children and adolescents facing adversity in a variety of cultures and settings. Dr. Betancourt has led initiatives to adapt and test evidence-based behavioral and parenting interventions for children and families facing adversity; she additionally focuses on strategies for scaling out these interventions using implementation science approaches. She is Principal Investigator of an intergenerational study of war/prospective longitudinal study of war-affected youth in Sierra Leone, a scale-up Family-Strengthening Intervention for children and families in Rwanda, and community-based participatory research on prevention of emotional and behavioral problems in refugee children and adolescents resettled in the U.S.

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Join In-Person: J. Ray Ryan Bldg., Room 204

Livestream via YouTube

While engineering has been taught to depict engineering methods as neutral and objective, there is little evidence that engineering exists outside the political sphere. The curriculum is an opportunity to instill sociotechnical ways of thinking such that students can bring their whole selves into the field. Sociotechnical engineering education refers to an engineering paradigm that values the social, political, and economic considerations just as much as the technical (Cech, 2013).

In this talk, Dr. Desen Özkan will describe a qualitative research project that examines the experiences of minoritized engineering students enrolled in a sociotechnical curricular revision. She will then describe an engineering project that emphasizes the social, economic, and political contexts into a case of engineering decision-making for an offshore wind project in Connecticut. Ultimately, political engagement in engineering is not new and reflects the changing sociopolitical landscape (Wisnioski, 2012). By depicting the curriculum as sociotechnical, engineering educators can adapt to the changing climate in ways that attract and inspire people who historically have been excluded from engineering.

This event is sponsored by the Engineering for Human Rights Initiative, a collaborative venture between the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute and the School of Engineering.