Research Program on Arts & Human Rights

The Research Program on Arts & Human Rights explores how the arts can promote the full exercise of human rights and the consolidation of a democratic culture. The arts not only make human rights visible. They also advance democratic thinking as they help us imagine new futures and open unique spaces for dialogue and debate, ushering us into novel modes of experience that provide concrete grounds for rethinking our relationship with one another. Thus, the arts can act as a powerful means of sustaining individual and collective reflection on human rights, and of linking individual and collective public experience, social belonging, and citizenship.

Jan

28

Democracy & Modern Art in 1940s Cuba: Discussion with Dr. Alejandro Anreus
Homer Babbidge Library

3:30 PM

Between 1940 and the 1952 coup by Fulgencio Batista, Cuba experienced a democratic system of government as well as a vibrant cultural renaissance, particularly in the visual arts. Cuba scholar and art historian Alejandro Anreus explores how Cuban artists collaborated to create distinct visual languages that reflected postwar hemispheric solidarity and cultural exchange between democracies.

Photography from the Front Line on Exhibit

Scott Wallace, associate professor of journalism, discusses his experiences as a war reporter in advance of a panel discussion at 4 p.m. at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.
From Conflict to Peace: The Role of Art

Memorials commemorating a nation’s past conflicts can help build a more peaceful future, say two UConn researchers.
UConn Professor Studies Middle East Conflict Through Refugee Camp Theater Group

Dramatic arts professor Gary English is spending a year working with the Freedom Theatre in a Palestinian refugee camp.