This Thursday, join our community partners Formerly, Inc. and The Connecticut Collaborative on Poverty, Criminal Justice, and Race for an event at the CT State Capitol called "Take a Walk in My Shoes."
Participate in a reentry simulation designed to help you understand the struggles and complexities of reentry and the importance of providing support and resources to returning citizens. Join us for an impactful, transformative, and eye-opening experience, and help us build a more inclusive and compassionate community for all.
Space is limited. Register to join them at the link in our bio.
Ahead of the 2023-24 academic year, we're seeking to fill three Graduate Assistant positions in 1. Events & Communications (20 hours/week); 2. the Democracy & Dialogues Initiative (15 hours/week); and 3. the Malka Penn Award (10 hours/week).
Graduate Assistants work closely with HRI and Dodd Impact staff, receiving tuition waivers, subsidized health insurance, and a prorated stipend determined by their contracted hours.
We're thrilled to open these positions to any UConn student pursuing a graduate degree in AY2023-24. For more information and to apply, visit the link in our bio.
Today’s the day, #UConnNation! Join us in supporting human rights programming, research and scholarships through a gift to HRI. #UConnGives
Please visit the link in our bio to donate.
On March 22, join our Human Rights Film+ Series for a screening and discussion of 'After Zero Tolerance,' a @frontlinepbs film by @uconndmd Prof. Oscar Guerra confronting the grave experience of U.S. immigration policy and family separation through one family's firsthand account.
Link in our bio!
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Join us next week for #UConnGives, a 36-hour initiative, where you can celebrate your favorite aspects of UConn through giving. Put your paws in and help us celebrate our 20 year anniversary by supporting our programs, faculty research and student scholarships.
A gift to the Human Rights Institute Endowment, the Harrison Fitch Leadership Fund or the International Students, Scholars, and Refugee Fund helps us to advance human rights knowledge and practice through research, teaching and engagement and helps us prepare the next generation of human rights advocates.
Find the link to our personal giving page in our bio, or at s.uconn.edu/hri/uconngives2023
This Saturday, join us at @capitalcc_ct for an #Encounters dialogue discussing historic Black journalism and its legacy, inspired by Jelani Cobb. We welcome all to participate! Register at the link in our bio.
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Can new institutions subvert historical legacies of injustice? What performative, racial, and political power does the geography of the museum carry? Join us along with Prof. Asif Majid for the first of THREE seminars in our #ArtsandHumanRights program this spring to learn more!
Link to register in our bio.
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We are thrilled to announce that today the UConn Board of Trustees has renamed the Human Rights Institute the "Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute." The support and involvement of the Gladstein family have been invaluable to our growth and success. We are incredibly grateful for their generosity and guidance over many years.
From our Director Dr. Kathryn Libal: “This renaming recognizes the extraordinary contributions made by Gary Gladstein ’66 (CLAS), ’08 (HON), Dr. Phyllis Gladstein, and the Gladstein family over the past 25 years, beginning with the first endowment in 1998 that supported the Gladstein Visiting Professorship. This year also marks our 20th anniversary and an opportunity to reflect upon the development and contributions of the Gladstein Institute to the field of interdisciplinary human rights studies. Many thanks to Richard Wilson, who stewarded this relationship as the Founding Director of the Institute and in his role as the Gladstein Distinguished Chair of Human Rights. We are grateful as well to Dan Weiner, Vice President for Global Affairs, who has provided unparalleled leadership and engagement. We also acknowledge the tremendous support from the UConn Foundation.”
To read the full release in UConn Today, visit the link in our bio.
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The #BHRI Business & Human Rights Initiative has two thought-provoking online workshops planned for the upcoming weeks.
Next Friday, Feb. 24, we'll be joined by Michelle Kelsall of @soasuni School of Law to discuss her working paper on 'Business & Human Rights in an Unequal World: A Genealogy.'
The following Wednesday, March 1, Rita Mota of @_esade discusses 'Human Rights, Multinational Enterprises, & Legitimacy.'
More information and registration for each are available at the link in our bio. We hope you'll join us.
Register in advance to receive the paper each plan to discuss.
#ICYMI Our screening on Monday of 'Grit & Grace' was one for the books!
We were thrilled to be joined by Stamford Mayor Caroline Simmons, UConn President Radenka Maric, Congressman Jim Himes, former Senator Chris Dodd, and film director Prof. Oscar Guerra.
We're grateful to our phenomenal panelists for sharing their work addressing economic insecurity in Connecticut. Thank you to Natalie Coard, Marc Jaffe, Fran Pastore, and Ivonne Zucco for their invaluable insights.
We're inspired by just how engaged and motivated the crowd was following the screening and panel discussion. We thank all those who came to @uconnstamford to join us!
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Climate change poses immeasurable risks to progress toward human rights globally and locally. In this upcoming #ESRG event, we'll join with the Future Climate Venture Studio at UConn to discuss how collaboration on these issues benefits both.
Join us at the link in our bio.
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A new series we are proud to launch this semester is the Human Rights Graduate Research Forum. The Forum provides an opportunity for graduate students in any discipline or school doing human rights-related work to receive feedback from peers and faculty in an informal and supportive environment.
On this coming Wednesday, we'll be joined by Imge Akaslan, a Ph.D. candidate in @uconn_pols, for a discussion on her dissertation research "Global Labor Rights Enforcement in Small and Medium-Sized Textile Firms."
The Forum convenes once per month in person during the academic year. For more on our other sessions lined up and to register, check out the link in our bio!
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From @uconn.global 🇳🇱 Are you ready to learn more about #international and comparative higher education through a historical and #global context?
📚 Challenge the western view of higher education and explore what it means to be an active global citizen with this #ExperientialGlobalLearning program in the Netherlands!
💰 A $5000 scholarship is available to 1 HRTS student - email egl@uconn.edu for additional details on how to apply!
💡 Explore comparative methods and cross-cultural analysis to examine the broader issues of equity and access with a focus on race and social justice - email saran.stewart@uconn.edu if you have any ❓
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On Tuesday, February 7, Dr. Evan Perkoski of @uconn_pols will join the Human Rights Research & Data Hub at HRI to discuss his research on whether and how civil society affects mass killings.
This event is hybrid in modality. It will take place in the Dodd Center Room 162, and simultaneously be streamed online on Zoom. All are welcome to join us!
Link in our bio to register.
On Monday, Feb. 13, we invite you to join Dodd Human Rights Impact at @uconnstamford for an event celebrating the documentary 'Grit & Grace: The Fight for the American Dream,' produced by the 117th Congress's @fairgrowthcmte and directed by @uconndmd Associate Professor Oscar Guerra (@guerraproduction).
We'll be joined by U.S. Representative @repjimhimes and former U.S. Senator Chris Dodd, the film's director Oscar Guerra, and community leaders working across Connecticut.
We hope to see you there! Register to join us at the link in our bio.
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Tomorrow is the final day to see Madeline Baird's exhibition up in our main hall in the Dodd Center, so we're celebrating this striking work with a reception from 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm in the Lounge.
We encourage you to come out to join us and read our just-published companion piece in UConn Today!
Links to both in our bio.
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Coming up on Wednesday, February 1, we hope you'll join us for a reception with the photographer of our most recent exhibition in the halls of The Dodd Center for Human Rights.
Madeline Baird, a PhD student in @uconnanthro and the creator of the exhibition, will join us to describe the treacherous journey migrants take through the Darién Gap, and how her photography reveals both the dangerous individual experience in transit and the policy context that underlies it.
More info at the link in our bio!
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How can the #cleanenergy transition address historical inequities in how energy is produced and distributed? Join our Engineering for Human Rights team on February 1 for a community dialogue on what opportunities it poses in energy generation, infrastructure, transportation, and #environmentaljustice?
Register at the link in our bio.
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Our first event of the new year!
On Tuesday, January 24 at 4:00 PM, Carl Wilkens will join @uconn.global @uconnjuds and Dodd Human Rights Impact to share his first-hand account of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and discuss how society restores trust and justice after such devastation.
We hope to see you there!
Register at the link in our bio or s.uconn.edu/rwandas-restorative-journey
