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The Duke Human Rights Center (DHRC) is the intellectual home to university-wide scholarly initiatives that bring together faculty and students in the humanities and social sciences with public policy and law. A joint constituent center of the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Kenan Institute for Ethics, DHRC promotes new understandings of human rights by leading interdisciplinary conversations and programming that actively engage local, national and international human rights practitioners, policymakers and scholars.
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Anne Cubilié, DHRC’s Inaugural Resident Fellow
UN Consultant and author Anne Cubilié will be in residence at Duke from January 29 to February 4. During her one-week stay, Dr. Cubilié will deliver a public lecture; lead an installment of the “What Are Human Rights?” series for Duke faculty and graduate students; host a lunch and learn event with undergraduates; and take a series of meetings with faculty, administrators, and local human rights practitioners.
For the past decade, Dr. Cubilié has worked in humanitarian and development policy at United Nations headquarters. Her book, Women Witnessing Terror: Testimony and the Cultural Politics of Human Rights, focuses on ethics, trauma and witnessing. Prior to joining the United Nations, Cubilié was an assistant professor of transnational feminist cultural studies at Georgetown University. She has lived and worked in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Egypt.
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Impossible Ethics: Justice, Responsibility to Protect and Operational Practice
January 31, 2012 4:00 pm
Human rights scholar Anne Cubilié will discuss her experiences in disaster zones and humanitarian interventions, focusing on the issue of testimony and issues of ethics and witnessing. What are our ethical obligations as witnesses to these events? How do different groups, among them women, experience abuses and then relate those stories to outsiders? In her [...]
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What Are Human Rights? Anne Cubilie, “Engaged Scholarship: Can We Be Ethical Witnesses for Human Rights?,” Feb. 1
February 1, 2012 6:15 pm
Visiting human rights scholar Anne Cubilié will lead the fourth installment of the What Are Human Rights? dinner series on February 1. Her discussion, which will be based on Women Witnessing Terror: Testimony and the Cultural Politics of Human Rights, her latest book, will follow up on the themes of ethics, trauma and witnessing, specifically focusing [...]
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