Human Rights in the USA

Conference October 22-24, 2009 • Storrs, CT As international human rights laws and institutions rose to global prominence in the latter half of the twentieth century, conventional wisdom in the United States held that human rights were only for beleaguered foreign populations. US citizens did not require international human rights protections, it was argued, because […]

In the Balance: Humanitarianism and Responsibility

Conference of Humanities Institute and the Human Rights Institute of the University of Connecticut October 10-12, 2008 • Storrs, CT The central aim of this conference is to think through the rapidly expanding body of scholarship on humanitarianism – both as a discourse and practice – beyond its longtime amalgamated human rights framework. We hope […]

Humanitarian Responses to Narratives of Inflicted Suffering

Conference of the Humanities Institute and the Human Rights Institute of the University of Connecticut October 13-15, 2006 • Storrs, CT This international conference will analyze humanitarian responses to private and public narratives of politicized suffering that has been inflicted by states, private political groups and also by more structural causes such as apartheid, colonialism, […]

Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement, and Policy Issues

Conference October 27-29, 2005 • Storrs, CT Scholars and policymakers are increasingly attempting to link socio-economic and classic civil and political rights in unprecedented and innovative ways. The University of Connecticut will host a conference on “Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement, and Policy Issues” (October 27-29, 2005) to move this new research and debate forward. Having […]

Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism

Inaugural Conference September 9-11, 2004 • Storrs, CT In the globalizing, post Cold War era of the 1990s, human rights came to play a more salient role in establishing stability in the global order, and ensuring more democratic forms of political and economic participation at the local level. During this time, significant advances were made […]