Annual Report 2024
For the Human Rights Institute, 2024 was a year for collaboration on topics ranging
from cultural exchange to environmental justice to modern slavery. We focused our
efforts in our areas of strength: research and experiential learning. We fostered
transdisciplinary academic research in human rights with partners both on and off
campus that resulted in peer-reviewed publications and grant applications. And we
worked with undergraduate and graduate students on projects that involved experiential
learning and public facing human rights research. In addition, we sponsored and co-sponsored
events, talks, writing workshops, films, and conversations about a wide range of human
rights topics, and were especially pleased to host two distinguished members of our
external advisory board for multi-day visits around their respective expertise in
modern slavery and environmental justice.
We began the year with a book launch event for a collection co-edited by Alexandra
Moore and Elizabeth Swanson on The Guant谩namo Artwork and Testimony of Moath al-Alwi:
Deaf Walls Speak. The book features contributions by Joshua Reno, Professor of Anthropology,
and Olivia Vinson and Maya Gamer, both of whom began work on the project as 成人AV视频
University undergraduates, in addition to external scholars and practitioners with
expertise in art and art history, rhetorics of social justice, and law and culture.
The book also features two essays by former detainees, include Moath al-Alwi, whose
testimony is remarkable both for his reflections on his artistic practice and the
publication of his work while he was still detained (he has since been transferred
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The institute hosted a seminar series titled "Landscapes of Injustice, Landscapes
of Repair" in collaboration with the Citizenship, Rights and Cultural Belonging Transdisciplinary
Area of Excellence, Sustainable Communities Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence,
and Narrating Sustainability project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. As
part of the "Futures of Democracy Lecture Series", the institute hosted Kate Starbird
from the University of Washington, who presented on "Unraveling the Big Lie: Participatory
Disinformation and Its Threat to Democracy".
The institute organized the "Lubna Chaudhry Human Rights Lecture Series", which featured
speakers discussing topics related to international labor rights, such as a documentary
on Walter Rodney and a talk by Ram铆rez Cu茅llar on the legacy of genocide and human
rights challenges in Colombia's new political period.These events and collaborations
highlight the institute's engagement with contemporary human rights issues, interdisciplinary
approach, and partnerships with scholars and organizations from various institutions
globally.
