Past Events / Archive
HRRC Salon
June 2, 2022
Stephan Sonnenberg (Professor of Law, Seoul National University School of Law, South Korea)
Sustainable Development Goals: A New One-Size-Fits-All Universal Standard?
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HRRC Annual Conference:
Human Rights and Global Challenges: Geopolitics - Environment - Migration
May 11-12, 2022 | In person conference, University of Connecticut (Storrs and Hartford)
Keynote: César Rodríguez-Garavito (Professor of Clinical Law, Chair and Faculty Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York University School of Law): Climatizing Rights: Human Rights for the Anthropocene
Welcome by Theresia Bauer, Minister for Science, Research and Art of the German State of Baden-Württemberg
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Panelists include Karin Amos | Kiel Brennan-Marquez | James Cavallaro | Ercüment Çelik | Kat Geddes | Joshua C. Gellers | Shareen Hertel | Nora Hertz | Prakash Kashwan | Florian Kastner | Thomas Keenan | Frauke Lachenmann | Anat Lior | Tobias Lebens | Kathryn Libal | Samuel Moyn | Elisa Orrù | Sandra Sirota | Isabell Sluka | Silja Voeneky
HRRC Salon
April 7, 2022
Manuela Wagner (German Studies and Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies, University of Connecticut) and Sandra Sirota (Experiential Global Learning & Human Rights, University of Connecticut)
Narratives of Injustice and a Quilt of Hope: Teaching for Human Rights and Intercultural Citizenship
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HRRC Lectures at the University of Connecticut
Sigrid G. Köhler (Chair of German Literature, University of Tübingen)
April 4, 2022
Die Abolition auf der Bühne. Deutschsprachige Theaterstücke im Kampf gegen Sklavenhandel und Sklaverei (1770-1800) (in German)
Organized by the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Consortium in collaboration with the German Studies Colloquium
April 5, 2022
Human Rights and the Knowledge of the World in German Journal Debates and Popular Literature (1770-1800) (in English)
Organized by the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Consortium and co-sponsored by the Human Rights Institute, the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut Global Affairs, and the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Art
HRRC Salon
March 3, 2022
Sigrid G. Köhler (Chair of German Literature, University of Tübingen)
Human Rights Speeches against Racism and Slavery? German Literature und Journal Reporting (1770-1800)
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HRRC Salon
February 3, 2022
Lynne Tirrell (Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut) and Richard Wilson (Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Law and Anthropology, Gladstein Chair of Human Rights, Associate Dean for Research, School of Law,
Discursive Violence: Context, Causation, and Prevention
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HRRC Salon
December 2, 2021
Sebastian Wogenstein (German Studies/Hebrew and Judaic Studies, University of Connecticut)
Human Rights as Paradigm in Contemporary German Jewish Literature
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HRRC Salon
November 4, 2021
Avinoam Patt (Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and
Contemporary Jewish Life, University of Connecticut)
The Politics of Holocaust Analogies in the Age of COVID
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HRRC Salon
October 7, 2021
Christina Binder (International Law and International Human Rights Law, Bundeswehr University Munich)
European Human Rights Protection in a Time of Crisis? The COVID-19 Pandemic as Challenge and Opportunity
Discussant: Mateja Steinbrück Platise (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg)
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HRRC Annual Conference: Democracy and Human Rights
June 24, 2021
Keynote Speaker: Wilfried Hinsch (Chair of Practical Philosophy, University of Cologne, Germany): Human Rights, Discrimination, and Social Justice
Additional Speakers: Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Lewis Gordon | Mathias Risse | Janne Mende | Silvia Steininger | Nora Hertz
FRIAS Lecture Series: Human Rights in Times of Crisis
May - July 2021
Speakers: Javier Martinez Torron | Rüdiger Wolfrum | Alicia Ely Yamin | Molly Land | Gerald L. Neuman | Ercüment Celik | Mathias Risse | Julian Nida-Rümelin
For the lecture recordings, click here.
HRRC Salon
May 6, 2021
Silja Vöneky (Public International Law and Comparative Law, University of Freiburg, Germany) and Philipp Kellmeyer (Neuroethics and Artificial Intelligence Ethics, University of Freiburg, Germany)
Scientific, Ethical and Legal Perspectives - Global Harmonisation of Standards for Brain Organoid Research and Therapy?
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University of Connecticut Provost Distinguished Lecture Series
April 21, 2021
Katharina von Hammerstein (Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, German Studies, University of Connecticut, USA): Voices of Genocide: From German Colonialism in Africa to the Court for the Southern District of New York
HRRC Salon
April 1, 2021
Frauke Lachenmann (Former Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International Public Law and the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, Heidelberg, Germany): The Good Faith Principle in Interdisciplinary Perspective
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Conference and Legislative Initiative: "Building Bridges: Connecticut at the Crossroads"
COVID-19, the Connecticut State Budget Crisis and the Path Towards Decarceration, Public Safety and Community Investment
Click here for more information on the initiative, including the White Paper on Criminal Justice Policy, and here for video recordings of the conference panels.
A collaboration of the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy and the University Network for Human Rights.
February 23-24, 2021
"No Final Resting Place: Narratives of My People. The Ovaherero Genocide."
Ngondi Kamatuka, University of Kansas
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February 11, 2021
Inaugural Conference "Human Rights in Times of Crisis"
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November 9, 2020
