Juan E. Méndez Award Winner: Theresa Keeley’s Reagan’s Gun-Toting Nuns |
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The Duke Human Rights Center@FHI has announced the winner of our Juan E. Méndez Award for Human Rights in Latin America, Theresa Keeley’s Reagan’s Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America!
The judges were unanimous in their praise. Prof. James Chappel, Hunt Assistant Professor of History at Duke University, noted that the book “tells a great story that most people, myself included, know little about. Catholicism, like human rights, is both global and local, and it takes a special kind of historian to explore it with humanity, moral passion, and archival rigor. By integrating geopolitics, theology, and gender into one beautiful narrative, Keeley does all of us a great service.” Keeley will accept the award via a Zoom event that is open to the public. The event will take place on March 16 from
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DHRC@FHI Student Advisory Board Co-Chair, Lily Levin, responds to a letter to the editor in the Duke Alumni Magazine. "Duke, alongside other elite institutions, exists within—and reproduces—a brand of vicious white hypocrisy. Duke’s racist roots, the racist incidents that occur frequently on campus today, and the unexamined white privilege that its students experience allow opinions like Clutts’ to be published. Duke’s legacy grants these opinions legitimacy." Read more.
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My Name is Pauli Murray Premieres at Sundance |
Murray’s writings, photographs, and audio recordings, along with newly discovered footage and interviews, interlace to tell the story of a pioneer with a tenacious spirit. Murray’s personal letters reveal years of grappling with and resisting gender categories, affectionate exchanges with loved ones, and confident and resolute demands for justice. Pauli Murray has a legacy far-reaching and deep. Read more.
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Human Rights Archive Update: Reckoning With Our Past and Present |
Over the past 3 years, staff in the Rubenstein Library have engaged in a series of conversations, readings, and workshops to better understand white supremacy, racism, and racial bias; to explore the ways racism is institutionalized in the RL’s collections, staffing, services and practices; and to implement plans that will move us closer to being an inclusive, welcoming, and respectful organization. As a part of the efforts at Duke and the Duke Libraries to develop plans addressing systemic racism, the staff has developed a statement of commitment to anti-racism that sets their priorities and a four-year roadmap with concrete objectives. Learn more here.
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P.R.I.D.E. Training for Students, Staff, and Faculty |
Duke P.R.I.D.E. Training is the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity’s signature educational program aimed at increasing awareness of issues impacting those with marginalized sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions. All members of the Duke community, including students, staff, and faculty, may attend. Register here.
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The outdoor exhibit, 'In Plain Sight: Reflections Past & Actions Present in Durham’s Geer Cemetery' sponsored by the North Carolina Humanities Council, tells stories of the individuals buried at the cemetery, some celebrated and some forgotten, who helped make Durham the city it is today. It also puts the longstanding institutional neglect of this cemetery, and so many other African American burial grounds, into context, while highlighting the efforts of descendants, volunteers, students, and scholars, volunteers to reclaim and re-envision this sacred space.
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Borderless: International Relations, Local Connections |
Duke International Relations Association (DIRA) is launching a new biannual magazine - Borderless: International Relations, Local Connections. The goal of this magazine is to create a space to humanize and engage with international relations - often seen as complicated and hard to access - and the local communities and individual identities that are shaped by it. Borderless has compiled a refined collection of articles, essays, photography, and any other forms of expression to explain, analyze, and humanize international relations and global communities. Read the first issue of the biannual magazine, Borderless here.
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Fellowships in Human Rights and the Arts |
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The new Open Society University Network Center for Human Rights and the Arts, based at Bard College in New York is now inviting applications for two fellowships. They are searching for two one-year research and teaching fellows. The positions are open to individuals working in various fields where human rights and the arts intersect, including artists, curators, researchers, scholars, writers, filmmakers, advocates, and activists. The fellowships cover a period of one year, from July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022. All materials must be received by Friday, February 26, 2021. Learn more and apply.
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Eva Clayton Fellowship Program |
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The North Carolina Democratic Party (NCDP) is proud to offer the Eva Clayton Fellowship, an opportunity for deserving college students from underrepresented communities to learn the intricacies of North Carolina Democratic politics. As the first African-American woman to represent North Carolina in Congress, Eva Clayton’s life and work continue to inspire North Carolina Democrats. The NCDP is continuing her work by training the next generation of Democratic leaders. Interested students should read the description below and then submit a resume and cover letter to fellowship@ncdp.org. Learn more here.
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Democracy Summer Internship |
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Democracy Summer is a life-changing, hands-on internship experience for college students from across the state. All interns earn a (taxable) $3,700 stipend for their time. and receiving training that will help you start a career in social and political change. Now in its 22nd year, Democracy Summer is ideal for college students interested in working in social and economic justice, community-based advocacy, research, politics, law, nonprofits, or public service. This year's cohort of interns will work remotely for 9 weeks. Throughout that time, interns will engage in a plethora of organizing experiences, which include: empowering local volunteers; advocating for local and national policies that improve democracy; and gaining familiarity with North Carolina's power structure. Learn more here. Applications are due by 7 p.m. on Monday, March 15.
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Student Action with Farmworkers Internship |
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SAF (Student Action with Farmworkers) develops the leadership of college students from diverse backgrounds, giving them the opportunity to work directly with farmworkers in the Carolinas. Each year, SAF trains approximately 25 students on issues that farmworkers face and places them to work full-time with migrant education programs, legal aid offices, rural health clinics, community-based organizations, and farmworker unions. SAF interns increase the capacity of the organizations they work with by outreaching to over 5,000 farmworkers & their families each summer. Learn more here. Applications are due on February 4th. To apply, visit here.
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Human Rights Research Grant |
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Currently enrolled Duke undergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply for summer research funding from the Duke Human Rights Center@FHI. The goals of the grants are to strengthen research opportunities for students interested in developing, implementing, and working in human rights. Read about previous grant recipients and their projects. Grants are available for up to $2,000. Students from all backgrounds and academic disciplines are encouraged to apply. All applications and letters of support due by March 1, 2021. Learn more.
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Story+ : Humanities Research Opportunity this Summer |
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Story+ is a 6-week paid summer research experience for enrolled Duke University students – undergraduate and graduate – interested in bringing interdisciplinary humanities research to life through dynamic storytelling. For Summer 2021, Story+ will be a remote research program so that all students will be able to participate, no matter their location or health situation. Program dates are May 12 to June 25, 2021.
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Chronic Health Conditions Storytelling Group |
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The Health Humanities Lab is happy to announce the continuation of the Chronic Health Conditions Storytelling Group this Spring. The group uses short excerpts of fiction, poetry, autobiography, podcasts, video, and images as prompts for conversation and sharing about chronic health conditions. Students managing health conditions ranging from depression and anxiety to IBS and chronic pain to lupus and diabetes are warmly welcomed for supportive and creative dialogue on their journey to optimization both of their health and their education. Students dealing with the health problems of loved ones are also invited to participate. The first meeting will be held on 2nd February via Zoom. To get the Zoom links and learn more, join the listserv here. Read more about the group here.
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Common Ground is a student-led social justice retreat that explores individuals' various social identities and how it affects their daily experiences. By recognizing, examining, and reclaiming the differences that exist among us, we hope to challenge each other to think about who we are, both individually and collectively, at Duke and beyond.
The retreat is sponsored by the Center for Multicultural Affairs and takes place through Zoom during the spring 2021 semester. Over the course of weekends between February 13th and March 20th, we’ll use various interactive activities to discuss socioeconomic status, race, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. Common Ground is a unique opportunity to meet people from all walks of Duke. To learn more and register, visit here.
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Submissions for Koonz Human Rights Prize 2021 |
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Current undergraduates are invited to enter essays or projects related to human rights in our annual Oliver W. Koonz Human Rights Prize competition. You can learn more about the Prize and previous winners by visiting the website. Please send submissions to Emily Stewart. Awards will be announced in May 2021. All submissions are due by April 1, 2021.
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Book Event with Catherine Coleman Flowers, author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret |
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In this powerful book, Catherine Coleman Flowers tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions, not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West. Learn more about the book and register for this event.
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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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