Human Rights Archives - Witness to Guantanamo Gallery Exhibit |
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The past year has marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and this month the 20th anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees at Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. An entire generation has been raised in a post 9/11 world, and many have little knowledge of Guantanamo and the impact it has had on the world. Witness to Guantanamo, both the exhibit and the collection, provides an intimate connection to that history through the literal faces and voices of the detainees and the many others whose lives have been touched and forever changed by Guantanamo.
These first-hand testimonies reveal the physical, emotional, and political scars inflicted by Guantanamo and underscore how the treatment of detainees and the extra-legal procedures deployed at Guantanamo hobbled rather than enabled the rule of law.
Gallery Exhibit Dates:January 20, 2022 – February 27, 2022. Read More.
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Interview with Patrick Stawski - Human Rights Archivist and DHRC Faculty Advisory Board Member |
"The events take the opportunity to expand on aspects of the exhibit. Chris Sims, e.g., is a professor here at Duke, but also a documentary photography that has done work in Guantanamo. Likewise, Rushan Abbas has gone on to be the voice behind Campaign for the Uyghers. It was Peter Honigsberg's decision to create the Witness to Guantanamo collection. I consider events a way to expand an audience and look for those roads and moments when a patron can connect with a subject, and hopefully through that expand into other areas, or issues the exhibit addresses."
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2021 Juan E. Méndez Book Award - Winners Announced |
The Water Defenders: how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed (Beacon Press, 2021) by Robin Broad and John Cavanaugh is the winner of the 2021 Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America.
This is the thirteenth year of this prestigious award. The award is supported by the Duke Human Rights Center@the Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Human Rights Archive at the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscripts Library.
Robin Kirk, chair of the selection committee and co-director of the Duke Human Rights Center, noted that the book is both timely and representative of long-standing conflict around natural resources in Latin America. The judges were unanimous in their praise. Broad and Cavanagh will accept the award and talk about their work at a virtual event on Tuesday, February 22 at 5 pm EST. Read more.
Please register in advance here.
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Koonz Prize - Call for Applications 2022 |
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.
Please send submissions to rights@duke.edu by April 1, 2022. Awards will be announced in May 2022.
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Columbia Journal of Politics and Society - Call for Papers Fall 2022
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The Journal of Politics & Society published by the Helvidius Group of Columbia University is seeking submissions of scholarly research from undergraduate students in colleges and universities around the world.
Idea submissions need to be original, creative, and rigorous articles in the fields of political science, economics, sociology, history, psychology, linguistics, law, anthropology, criminology, cultural and area studies, development studies, and demography.
The deadline for applications is February 11, 2022. For more information, click here.
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22-23 Duke Global Fellows Program - Applications Open
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The Global Fellows program provides leadership training and learning opportunities to develop global competencies. Throughout the year, a cohort of 10 undergraduates will attend monthly training sessions, attend relevant globally focused events on campus and sharpen written communication skills. In addition, fellows may be called upon to represent Duke as they develop leadership and diplomatic skills.
The deadline for applications is February 14, 2022.
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Disability Cultural Center hiring a Graduate Assistant! |
We are excited to announce an important step forward for the Disability Cultural Center advocated by Duke Disability Alliance: Student Affairs is hiring a graduate assistant to staff the Center! Graduate students who might be interested are encouraged to apply.
The position is 12-15 hours per week.
The deadline for applications is February 17, 2022. For more information, click here.
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Democracy NC Summer Internship - Applications Open |
Democracy Summer is an innovative internship program that exposes young leaders to new ideas and political movements. We teach our interns how to organize people around a shared vision for a better democracy in our state, address structural barriers to civic engagement, and build power alongside historically marginalized groups. This program equips young people with lifelong skills that they can use to work for positive social change in their communities.
The deadline for applications is March 14, 2022. For more information, click here.
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Duke University Libraries Summer Research Grants - Call for Applications 2022
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Are you a first-generation and/or low-income undergraduate student? Do you have a cool idea for a project that will involve extensive use of specialized research resources, such as archival materials or foreign language books, either virtually or in person? Then you should consider applying for the Duke University Libraries Summer Research Grants. We welcome applications from students with all levels of prior experience using library materials. Awards are granted up to a maximum of $4500.
The deadline for applications is March 15, 2022. For more information, click here.
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Duke Human Rights Summer Research Grant - Call for Applications 2022 |
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 grant are to strengthen research opportunities for students interested in developing, implementing and working in human rights. Special consideration is given to students whose research projects contribute to a senior thesis or project. Grants are available of up to $2,000.
The deadline for 2022 applications is March 25, 2022. For more information, click here.
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Physicians for Human Rights Spring 2022 Internship - Applications Open |
Every semester, PHR is fortunate to host a group of academically successful and passionate students who represent the next generation of human rights advocates. Students joining the PHR intern team come from a wide range of academic backgrounds, including public health, international relations, nonprofit management, human rights, humanitarian studies, political science, medicine, and law, among others.
PHR interns perform a range of substantive work, including research, data and video analysis for documentation of human rights violations, fundraising and event planning, and monitoring and reporting on human rights developments around the world.
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Prisons and Public Memory: The Ethics of Oral Histories, Human Rights, and the Archive |
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Duke University’s Leela Prasad will guide this conversation with special guests Peter Jan Honigsberg(University of San Francisco School of Law, founder of “Witness to Guantanamo”) and Cahal McLaughlin (Queen’s University Belfast, director of The Prisons Memory Archive), drawing on the panelists’ experiences conducting oral history and documentary projects with survivors of human rights abuses.
This discussion will explore the practice of documenting and archiving human rights abuses through oral history and documentary film, the creation of memory and collective memory, and the ethical issues implicated in providing access to personal stories of trauma, loss, and torture. Register here.
Date: February 10, 2022
Time: 12pm.
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A talk with Rushan Abbas – Uyghurs: China’s Genocide in a Mute World |
This talk is part of the exhibition Witness to Guantanamo. Even with the meteoric rise in media attention covering the Uyghur genocide, the world’s actions have fallen short.
Rushan Abbas has been an activist since her university days, where she co-organized pro-democracy protests in the mid and late 80s. Since coming to the United States in 1989, she has been a tireless advocate for Uyghur rights. In September 2018, her sister, Dr. Gulshan Abbas, was abducted by the Chinese regime and illegally sentenced to prison in retaliation for Rushan Abbas’s activism. Today, Abbas continues to advocate for her sister’s release and the freedom of millions of other Uyghers. Abbas received an N24 Freedom Fighter 2019 Award for her work.
Date: February 15, 2022
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Power Plant Gallery
Cosponsors: Duke Human Rights Center @FHI, The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment, Duke Center for International and Comparative Law, Duke Law International Human Rights Clinic, Duke Middle East Studies Center, Duke Islamic Studies Center. Additional sponsors for this talk include: Department of Religious Studies, Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, and the Center for Muslim Life.
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Rights! Camera! Action! Screening of "Advocate" |
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Join us for the screening of Advocate. Israeli human-rights lawyer Lea Tsemel is a force that won’t be deterred. Having defended Palestinians against a host of criminal charges in Israeli courts for nearly five decades, she is a staunch supporter of compassion within the court system.
In this impressive documentary, Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaïche masterfully juxtapose two of Tsemel’s cases, one professional and the other personal: the defence of a minor accused of attempted murder and a past case in which she defended her activist husband from an accusation of treason against the state. Advocate is an original, provocative film that both exposes the human fallout of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and provides hope for a peaceful resolution.
Date: March 2nd, 2022
Time: 7 pm
Venue: The Garage at the Smith Warehouse
Ticketing: Free | Paid Parking in the Smith Lot.
Click here for more information.
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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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