Rights in the Classroom Presents Phenderson Djèlí Clark |
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Take a glimpse into a Duke human rights class with a featured speaker. This new series makes a virtue out of our current Zoom reality by allowing the public to listen in. Topics include rights in speculative fiction, the future of the death penalty, and the changing map of US refugee resettlement. Watch the first conversation with author Phenderson Djèlí Clark, and second video in this series with Ellen Andrews on The Global Refugee Crisis and Refugee Resettlement in the Triangle.
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Interview with Juan E. Mendéz Award Winner, Theresa Keeley |
Zac Johnson: What inspired you to write Reagan’s Gun-Toting Nuns?
Theresa Keeley: I stumbled onto the topic. I was interested in exploring the relationship between people’s religious and political identities. I also wanted to do something connected to human rights and Latin America. During research for a first-year graduate seminar, I was reading newspaper articles about Central America. I came across the story of the four U.S. churchwomen – Sisters Maura Clarke, Ita Ford, and Dorothy Kazel, and lay missioner Jean Donovan – who were raped and murdered in El Salvador in December 1980. Read more.
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Statement of Solidarity Against Anti-Asian Violence |
We are stunned by the anti-Asian mass shootings in Atlanta and Acworth on March 16, 2021. Our hearts go out to the victims and their families who have suffered from this senseless act. Eight innocent lives were brutally taken away by a gunman, six of them women of Asian descent. This is not an isolated incident and comes out of the current-day repetition of long-standing racist sentiments targeting various minority communities fueled by political rhetoric. Read and sign the complete statement.
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A Genocide in Our Time?: China’s Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority |
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New Collections Spotlight: The Attica Prison Uprising |
The Human Rights Archive recently purchased two historical publications documenting the Attica Prison Uprising. In September of 1971 inmates at Attica Correctional Facility in New York, rebelled against prison authorities and took control of the facility. After four days of attempted negotiations the state police violently suppressed the rebellion leading to the death of 43 staff and inmates. The Attica Uprising was a watershed moment in the on-going fight to establish respect for human rights within the penitentiary system and to recognize and reform the racist practices and policies of the criminal justice system which feed the carceral machine. Read more.
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Why the Human Rights Certificate? Interviews with Stefanie Pousoulides and
Cecilia Cardelle
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Stefanie Pousoulides: I had already attended various events hosted by the Human Rights Center, and, after declaring three majors, two certificates, and a minor over the course of my time at Duke, I have yet to find a program that cares more deeply about its communities and reshaping education than the Human Rights Certificate program. Read more.
Cecilia Cardelle: As a Cuban American woman, I’ve always been fascinated by the discussion surrounding human rights and the ways that their presence or absence in certain areas of the world can greatly impact one’s perception of a government, country, or political regime. Read more.
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Pauli Murray Book Prize Finalists in Black Intellectual History |
The 5 finalists for the 4th annual Pauli Murray Book Prize for the best book in Black intellectual history are Brandon R. Byrd, The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti; Richard Kent Evans, Move: An American Religion; Garrett Felber, Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, & the Carceral State; Jessica M. Johnson, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, & Freedom in the Atlantic World; and Quito J. Swan, Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism & Environmental Justice. Read more.
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Professor Lovelace, Martin Luther King Jr., and Comparative Law |
By Zac Johnson, Class of ‘22
In his talk Martin, the Movement and the World of Comparative Law, Professor H. Timothy Lovelace Jr. challenged our understanding of Martin Luther King Jr. as purely an activist interested in domestic affairs. Lovelace argued that while King obviously lived in the United States and was interested U.S. constitutional law and politics, international and comparative law and politics also informed King’s activism. Read more.
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Is Fascism Back? Present Day Fascist and Antifascist Parallels |
By Gargi Mahadeshwar, Class of ‘24
Claudia Koonz, the Peabody Family Professor of History Emeritus at Duke, began by highlighting the purpose of finding historical analogies, saying “Analogies sound the alarm.” They help us diagnose problems by giving us the ability to find patterns in historical events. Read more.
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What is Antifa? Anti-fascism from 1930s Spain to 2020s North Carolina |
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Interview with Maria Carnovale, PhD '18 |
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This interview was conducted over email with Maria Carnovale, a Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy of the Harvard Kennedy School, by Gargi Mahadeshwar.
Gargi Mahadeshwar: Which human rights issues do you engage with most directly and how?
Maria Carnovale: I am very curious about trade-offs among values. For instance, as both individuals and a society, we value privacy, health, and safety. They are all important components of our well-being. However, what happens when those values collide? Read the rest of the interview.
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Interview with Alexandra Wisner, Class of ’18 |
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This interview was conducted over email with Alexandra Wisner, a former Associate Director at the Rachel Carson Council & current MEM Candidate at the Yale School of the Environment, by Gargi Mahadeshwar.
Gargi Mahadeshwar: What has been your path to your current position?
Alexandra Wisner: Upon graduation, I worked for 2.5 years as the Associate Director for the Rachel Carson Council, a non-profit focused on environmental justice, particularly looking to connect grassroots efforts to federal policy... Read the rest of the interview.
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Triangle-Area Asian Americans Suffer ‘Grief, Devastation’ in Wake of Atlanta Killing |
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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit North Carolina, Chutikan Hoover, a Thai massage therapist in Raleigh, said one of her employees no longer felt comfortable being seen in public. Her employee, who is Chinese, feared the impact of the rhetoric of some politicians, including then-President Donald Trump, which associated her nationality with the spreading virus. Asian American communities in the Triangle and across the country saw their fears realized Tuesday when eight people, including six Asian American women, were killed at three Atlanta-area spas. A white man has been charged in the shootings. Read more.
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A New Yorker Documentary in Virtual Reality
Reeducated: Inside Xinjiang’s Secret Detention Camps
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Apply for the Teaching for Equity Fellows Program |
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The Teaching for Equity Fellowship is a year-long series of workshops that give faculty tools to better engage all students in our classrooms, labs, and learning spaces. The workshops are specifically designed to address a number of teaching and mentoring topics that may arise around race and identity. Faculty fellows gain specific skills and strategies to create a culture that improves learning for all our students. Apply by April 23, 2021.
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Antiracist Pedagogy Across the Curriculum (ARPAC) |
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The ARPAC Institute provides intensive professional development for faculty committed to incorporating antiracist pedagogy into their courses; it is not a train-the-trainer program. ARPAC engages faculty in an analysis of systemic racism and provides a conceptual framework focused on antiracist pedagogy for a rigorous and relevant curriculum. The 10th annual Antiracist Pedagogy Across the Curriculum Institute will be held virtually through Zoom. The award-winning institute is open to teaching faculty from all higher education institutions. Learn more.
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Submit your Essay or Project for the Koonz Human Rights Prize |
Current undergraduates are invited to enter essays or projects related to human rights in our annual Oliver W. Koonz Human Rights Prize competition. The Duke Human Rights Center@FHI awards one $500 prize to the winners in each category. Learn more about the Prize and previous winners here. All submissions are due by April 1, 2021.
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Duke Immerse: Governance, Society and Policy |
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Applications are open for a new Fall 2021 Duke Immerse theme called “Governance, Society & Policy”. Through four themed courses, “Governance, Society & Policy” investigates how policy impacts life in urban cores around the world. The student cohort will travel to South Africa and the American South and conduct research. Applications are open through April 6th.
Courses include:
•Developmental State/South Africa (AAAS290, POLSCI 390, PUBPOL 290)
•Comparative Urban Politics (POLSCI 235S, PUBPOL 285S, ICS 213S, RIGHTS 235S, AAAS 234S)
•Research Seminar in Urban Politics (POLISCI 236S, RIGHTS 236S, AAAS 237S)
•US Comparative State Politics (POLSCI 319S, RIGHTS 319S)
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Duke Immerse: Pandemics, Health and Power |
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Exploring how history, culture, and inequality shape the delivery and receipt of care in times of pandemic and other disasters. Apply by April 6th on MyExperientialEd!
Whose lives matter? Who deserves care and who doesn't? What do disasters teach us about our shared humanity? The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed structural racism, ageism, sexism, classism, and ableism, all of which contribute to healthcare disparities and disproportionate rates of death. COVID-19 was not the first pandemic to affect the United States, and it will not be the last. We will explore questions related to the cultural and ethical dimensions of care, dis/ability, illness, storytelling, and death. Pandemics, Health and Power will dive deeply into a study of health inequities through a set of interlocking experiences, in the classroom and in Durham. Learn more.
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Identity and Cultural Center Trainings |
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Duke's Identity & Cultural Centers have announced a list of events and training for Spring 2021. Some of these are open to Duke faculty and staff as well.
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Center for Multicultural Affairs, Race 101: Participants will define and deconstruct race and racism and learn how race and racism inform our daily lives.
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Sheroes: Women Who Inspire Us, Join the CMA professional staff with our Keeping it Real series. Join the CMA staff every Tuesday-Thursday 4-5 pm (Zoom ID: 93505417712; Passcode: 136836)
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Many students experience a lack of food security. This can mean not having enough money or access to nutritious food. We want to understand food security among Duke undergraduate and graduate students. This survey takes about 10 minutes only to complete. Your perspective is extremely important. Participation is completely voluntary, and all responses are confidential. Upon completion, you can enter a raffle for a chance to win one of fifty $25 Amazon gift cards. Click this link.
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The Duke Human Rights Center @ the Franklin Humanities Institute brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, staff and students to promote new understandings about global human rights issues. |
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