Check out the Fall 2021 Human Rights Courses! You can find the full list of RIGHTS courses on the DHRC website and here are some of the offerings this Fall: Documenting the Middle East, Illness/Disability Narratives, Migration and Human Rights Trafficking, Documenting Black Experiences, Mass Incarceration/Citizenship, Politics of Sexuality, Historicizing Whiteness, History of Death and more! If you are interested in pursuing the Human Rights Certificate, please be in touch with Emily Stewart.
New Human Rights Audio Documentary Award
How do recording technologies, sonic vernaculars, activism, and dissent come together in a documentary art form that engages with our ears?This new award, sponsored by the Human Rights Archive and the Archive of Documentary Arts at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, seeks to support outstanding documentary artists exploring human rights and social justice and expand the audio holdings in the Archive for long-term preservation and access. In our inaugural year we will focus on works that explore language and the role of language in human rights.Read more.
Join the Pauli Murray Center and the Duke Human Rights Center on July 28th to discuss The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart by Alicia Garza. Dr. Antonia Randolph, a cultural sociologist and professor in UNC-Chapel Hill's American Studies department, will facilitate the discussion.
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.
