Duke Human Rights Center

Stepping Into Durham’s Long Civil Rights Movement: A Downtown Walking Tour

June 1, 2013 10:00 am

Stepping Into Durham’s Long Civil Rights Movement: A Downtown Walking Tour Saturday, June 1 and  Saturday, August 3, 2013, 10 a.m. – 12 noon Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, Anti-War Actions, Anti-Klan Rallies and the fight for LGBTQ rights are all a part of Durham’s history. Join us as we visit the sites of these protests, [...]

Historic Fitzgerald Family Cemetery: Memorial Day Ceremony

May 27, 2013 10:00 am

Historic Fitzgerald Family Cemetery: Memorial Day Ceremony Monday, May 27  from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Maplewood Cemetery – Kent Street near Morehead Avenue

Scholarship, Advocacy, and Activism: Duke Faculty Perspectives on Human Rights

April 18, 2013 4:30 pm

Rights! Camera! Action! Film Screening: The First Year

April 11, 2013 7:00 pm

LOCATION: FHI Garage, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse The First Year (2001)   Five young teachers in Los Angeles public schools are followed through their first year of teaching in some of the U.S.’s toughest elementary, middle and high schools. Maurice Rabb, Nate Monley, Geneviève DeBose, Joy Kraft-Watts, and Georgene Acosta struggle to keep their students [...]

Han Dongfang Speaks on Labor Issues in China

April 6, 2013 1:15 pm

Han Dongfang is a keynote speaker at the 2013 Duke-UNC China Leadership Summit.  He will address labor issues in China. Labor tensions have become a much talked-about issue with an increasing interest in the relationship between globalization, world sweat factories, and consumerism. In recent years, U.S. media is putting spotlight on the working conditions at [...]

Transnational North Korea and Northeast Asia: Migration and Urbanization Workshop

April 5, 2013 9:30 am

Transnational Film Series Screening: Desert Dream

April 3, 2013 7:00 pm

LOCATION: Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater Film Screening: Desert Dream (Zhang Lu, 2007, 123 min, South Korea/France, in Mongolian and Korean with English subtitles, 35mm) In a vast desert area somewhere at the border between Mongolia and China, Hungai lives together with his wife and child. Dutifully, Hungai plants little trees in the desert. After his [...]

How Mass Incarceration Affects Us All — and what we can do about it

March 25, 2013 7:00 pm

LOCATION: FHI Garage in Smith Warehouse A Talk by Dr. Heather Ann Thompson   Professor Thompson (African American Studies and History at Temple University) is the leading historian of mass incarceration in the United States. Thompson is writing the first comprehensive history of the Attica Prison Rebellion of 1971 and its legacy (Pantheon Books, forthcoming). [...]

Last Call at the Oasis Screening

March 22, 2013 5:00 pm

LOCATION: FHI Garage at Smith Warehouse The Last Call at the Oasis, a documentary about water supplies, will be screened by the Duke Human Rights Center as part of the “Water, Climate and Health in Africa” workshop at Duke University this March. The documentary presents an argument for placing the global water crisis at the front of [...]

Theorizing Human Rights

9:00 am

LOCATION: 101 West Duke Building A Conference in Honor of James Nickel For more than 30 years, James Nickel has provided a clear voice on human rights and mentored students in human rights law and theory, jurisprudence, and political philosophy. In honor of his distinguished career and work, KIE will be hosting a conference on March [...]

Transnational Film Series Screening: Our School

March 20, 2013 7:00 pm

LOCATION: White Lecture Hall Film Screening: Our School (Kim Myeong-joon, 2007, 131 min., South Korea, Korean with English subtitles, DVD) A documentary film about the lives of ethnic Korean students in a Chongryon-run pro-North Korean high school in Hokkaido, Japan. Introduced by Prof. Nayoung Aimee Kwon (Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)! Co-sponsored with:Department [...]

Workshop on DNA in Human Rights and Human Trafficking

9:00 am

LOCATION: FHI Garage at Smith Warehouse The DHRC@FHI is partnering with The Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics on a project that explores the uses of DNA in human trafficking. Please join us for the first workshop in this series on March 20! For more information about the [...]

Transnational Film Series Screening: Goodbye, Pyongyang

March 6, 2013 7:00 pm

White Lecture Hall – Free and Open to the PublicFilm Screening: “Goodbye, Pyongyang” (Yang Yong-hi, 2009, 81 min, South Korea/Japan, in Korean with English subtitles, color, DVD) This documentary portrays the growth of a girl who was born and living in Pyongyang, North Korea. Director YANG tells the stories of her niece Sona whose father [...]

Pauli Murray: Durham’s First Saint

March 5, 2013 7:00 pm

LOCATION: Durham Main Library Pauli Murray: Durham’s First Saint Reverend Michael B. Curry, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, will lead a discussion about the sainthood of Durham native Pauli Murray. The question of sainthood, of the Episcopal Church’s choice of  Murray for sainthood and of Murray’s impact on Durham today will be [...]

Panel on “Social Transformation: The Legacy of Pauli Murray”

March 2, 2013 3:50 pm

Across the Threshold ConferenceThe Panel on “Social Transformation: The Legacy of Pauli Murray” will take place on March 2 from 3:50 to 5:20 p.m. as part of the  Across the Threshold Conference at Duke University. Panel members include Barbara Lau (Director of the Pauli Murray Project), Courtney Reid-Eaton (Exhibition Director at the Duke Center for [...]

Dr. Tricia Rose, “What is Our Education’s Worth?”

February 28, 2013 6:30 pm

Dr. Tricia Rose, “What is our Education’s Worth?” Goodson Chapel in the Duke Divinity School Dr. Rose received a BA in Sociology from Yale University and her Ph.D. from Brown University in the field of American Studies.  She is currently a Professor of Africana studies at Brown University and has published multiple works that can [...]

Story-telling and Human Rights: Teaching at a Liberal Arts College

6:00 pm

“Story-telling and Human Rights: Teaching at a Liberal Arts College” James Dawes is Chair and Professor of English at Macalester College, and founder and Director of the Program in Human Rights and Humanitarianism. He is author of Evil Men (Harvard University Press, 2013), That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity (Harvard University Press, 2007), and The Language of [...]

Movements and Exchanges in an Unequal World Conference

5:00 pm

The International Comparative Studies at Duke is celebrating it’s 40th anniversary with a conference on international migration. The Movements and Exchanges in an Unequal World Conference will feature panel discussions, a film screening and performance, and a keynote speaker. Please follow this link for more information and to register for the conference.

Dawn Purvis

February 27, 2013 5:00 pm

“Reconciliation – are the concrete walls the stumbling blocks to peace building?” LOCATION: FHI Garage, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse Purvis, chairs Healing Through Remembering, a cross-community project working on the legacy of the past as it relates to the conflict in and about Northern Ireland. Purvis represented the East Belfast constituency as a member of [...]

DDS Women’s Center Annual Jill Raitt Lecture: Sarah Azaransky

12:20 pm

Room 0016 Westbrook, Duke Divinity School Lecture from Sarah Azaransky: DDS Women’s Center Annual Jill Raitt Lecture Sarah Azaransky is the author of “The Dream is Freedom: Pauli Murray and American Democratic Faith.” Dr. Azaransky teaches in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego. She is a graduate of Swarthmore [...]

Book Signing with Sarah Azaransky

February 26, 2013 7:00 pm

Sarah Azaransky, author of “The Dream is Freedom: Pauli Murray and American Democratic Faith” will be signing her book at The Regular Bookstore as part of the Duke Divinity School Women’s Week! Co-sponsored by the Pauli Murray Project and the Duke Divinity School 

Panel with Refugee Students from North Korea

February 15, 2013 6:30 pm

“An Insider’s View on North Korea: A Talk With Two Student Refugees” Two student refugees (ages 19 and 21) will be speaking at Duke University about their experiences living and escaping North Korea, as well as their hopes for the future in South Korea. A short reception with refreshments will follow and attendees will have [...]

Colonel Morris Davis

January 31, 2013 4:00 pm

LOCATION: Duke East Parlor, 210 East Duke Building Read Colonel Morris Davis’ OP-ED in the New York Times, “Unforgivable Behavior, Inadmissible Evidence.”

Rights! Camera! Action! Film Screening: Banished

January 17, 2013 7:00 pm

LOCATION: FHI Garage, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse Banished (2007) 6pm Reception with director Marco Williams 7pm Screening and panel discussion Banished examines the legacy of racial cleansing incidents that occurred in communities scattered throughout the United States in the early twentieth century, when violent mobs forced thousands of African-American families to abandon their homes. Three [...]

Student Advisory Board Organizational Meeting

January 13, 2013 3:00 pm

LOCATION: FHI Garage, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse What motivates you to be involved in social justice or human rights organizations? Are you interested in meeting other faculty and students who care about similar issues? The Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute is creating a Student Advisory Board to collaborate with our Faculty [...]

Spotlight on…

December 9, 2012 5:00 pm

THREE EXHIBITS ABOUT FARMWORKERS AND FOOD OPEN AT DUKE DURHAM, NC – Three new library exhibitions at Duke explore the human experience of farmworkers and the history of a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving their lives. For twenty years, Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) has worked to bring together students, community members, and farmworkers in [...]

Rights! Camera! Action! Film Screening: I for India

December 4, 2012 7:00 pm

LOCATION: FHI Garage, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse I for India A bittersweet time capsule of alienation, discovery, racism and belonging, this is a chronicle of immigration in Britain, as seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera. In 1965, Yash Pal Suri left India to pursue his medical studies in England. [...]

John Prendergast, “Ending the Deadliest War in the World: Conflict-free Phones and Congo

November 29, 2012 6:00 pm

John Prendergast has worked for more than 25 years to promote peace in Africa, including serving as a special advisor on African affairs for the White House, the U.S. State Department, UNICEF and numerous other government and non-profit agencies. He is co-founder of the Enough Project, an initiative to end genocide and crimes against humanity, [...]

Harvesting a Legacy of Action: Immigration Activism and Human Rights

November 12, 2012 5:30 pm

North Carolina has a long history of support and activism on behalf of immigrant communities. But only recently have immigrant activists begun to view their work from a human rights perspective. That will be the topic of a community discussion on immigration and human rights at 6:00 p.m., November 12, in the Rare Book Room [...]

Roundtable Discussion

November 8, 2012 12:00 pm

Protecting Environmentally Sensitive Areas in Russia’s Kuban Delta from Oil and Gas Development—the Role of Civil Society Organizations Roundtable discussion with representatives of the Russian environmental group, Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus Citizen efforts at environmental protection in Russia have become an increasingly risky prospect over the past years. However, groups like the Environmental [...]

Still Walking for Justice

November 3, 2012 10:00 am

Women’s Walk to Commemorate 65th Anniversary of 1947 Journey of Reconciliation, the “First Freedom Ride” 10 a.m. Send Off Rally in Durham Corner of W. Chapel Hill & Carroll Streets Pauli Murray Historic Marker 3:30 p.m. Welcome Rally in Chapel Hill Inter-Faith Council, 100 W. Rosemary at N. Columbia Street Across from the Journey of [...]

Reconstructing Community after Conflict in Colombia

October 29, 2012 12:00 pm

Smith Warehouse, BorderWork(s) Lab, Bay 5 “To be displaced is an easy thing. Returning home, now that’s hard.” -Fernando Pamplona, resident of San Carlos, Colombia. Drawing from her fieldwork in Colombia, Erin Parish explores the process of rebuilding lives, homes, and communities after conflict, focusing on avenues for greater individual, communal, governmental, and institutional collaboration [...]

Human Rights and Civic Engagement Stories from DukeEngage 2012

October 18, 2012 4:30 pm

LOCATION: 227 Perkins Library DukeEngage volunteers often find themselves on the frontlines of human rights work in the U.S. and overseas. Whether their service involves them in research, monitoring, advocacy or direct involvement in reconciliation efforts, they confront the challenges of understanding the roots of deep-seated social conflicts while also taking responsible action to advance [...]

Rights! Camera! Action! Film Screening: Our Brand Is Crisis

October 2, 2012 7:00 pm

LOCATION: FHI Garage, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse Our Brand Is Crisis (2005) To mold the strategy for his 2002 campaign for the presidency of Bolivia, Gonzalo “Goni” Sánchez de Lozada hired an American consulting firm. Stanley Greenburg, James Carville and Robert Shrum applied lessons from U.S. elections on branding and marketing to lead Goni to a [...]

THREE EXHIBITS ABOUT FARMWORKERS AND FOOD OPEN AT DUKE

September 20, 2012 5:00 pm

LOCATIONS: Perkins Library Gallery Student Action with Farmworkers: 20 Years of Growing Farmworker Activists at the Perkins Library Gallery. The Art of SAF at the Perkins Library Gallery. Documenting the Politics of Food at the Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. The opening reception is September 20th at 5:00p.m. in the Rare Book Room at Perkins Library. [...]

Dams, Human Rights and Local Livelihood in Lake Turkana Region, Ethiopia: A Lunch with Ikal Angelei

September 12, 2012 12:00 pm

LOCATION: BorderWork(s) Lab, Bay 5, Smith Warehouse Please join us for a lunchtime conversation with Ikal Angelei, 2012 recipient of the Goldman Prize for Environmental Activism.  Angelei founded Friends of Lake Turkana (FoLT) in response to the proposed construction of the Gibe III Dam, a project that could threaten food security and local economies of [...]

Remembering the Historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

August 28, 2012 7:00 pm

Location: Main Library 300 N. Roxboro St. FREE and OPEN to EVERYONE Join Mandy Carter of the Bayard Rustin Centennial Project, and Barbara Lau of the Pauli Murray Project for a discussion of Rustin and Murray’s role in this historic civil rights event that took place 49 years ago. On August 28, 1963, 250,000 people [...]

Screening and Talk: 12th and Delaware

March 13, 2012 7:00 pm

Join us for a screening of 12th and Delaware, an installment in the Rights! Camera! Action! film series. 12th and Delaware takes its name from an intersection in Fort Pierce, Florida, where an abortion clinic named A Woman’s World sits across the street from the pro-life Pregnancy Care Center. Pregnant teenagers and women often mistake [...]

Spotlight On…

February 21, 2012 4:30 pm

Summer Retreat for Students Interested in Human Rights and Social Justice Join United Students Against Sweatshops and other student organizers for the first annual summer campout! Share and enhance your organizing skills – learn more about what tactics work best, how to grow grassroots democracy and ways to build a southern foundation of solidarity among [...]

An Encounter with Simone Weil: Film Screening and Talk

February 16, 2012 7:30 pm

Join us for  ”An Encounter with Simone Weil,” the award-winning documentary directed by Julia Haslett and scored by Daniel Thomas Davis. The screening, a sneak preview just before the film’s theatrical release in New York, will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker and composer. Co-sponsored by the Department of Music. February 16, 2012, [...]

NGOs, The Cold War and the Idea of Civil Society

12:00 pm

Mark Mazower, author, history professor and director of the Center for International History at Columbia University, will deliver a talk suggesting new historical frameworks within which to understand the emergence of NGOs and their role in international aid activism. He is the author of seven books, including the Duff Cooper Prize winning Salonica City of Ghosts: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Screening and Talk, Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary

January 24, 2012 7:00 pm

Join us and special co-sponsor Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) for a screening of Arturo Perez Torres’s Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary, winner of the 2005 Full Frame Spectrum Award.  This screening is part of a year-long celebration of Student Action with Farmworkers’ 20th Anniversary. Wetback follows undocumented migrant workers from their home in Nicaragua across [...]

Human Rights: The Historical Foundation of a Research Field

January 15, 2012 1:30 pm

CLICK THROUGH TO REGISTER: Join us for a one-day conference that will trace the rise of human rights as a discipline from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Key themes include the historical transition from natural rights to human rights, the nexus of terror and human rights, the complex relationship between violence comprehended as terror, and [...]

George Letsas, “Dialogue, Deference and the Legitimacy of International Courts”

November 28, 2011 1:30 pm

Join us for a talk by Dr. George Letsas of University College London Faculty of Laws. Dr. Letsas is currently the Co-Director of UCL’s Institute for Human Rights. His research interests are in jurisprudence and human rights with particular emphasis on the philosophy of rights, the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights, theory of [...]

Pauli Murray Day, Nov. 20

November 20, 2011 1:00 pm

Join the Pauli Murray Center for public art project, historic marker unveiling, and celebration in honor of Pauli Murray’s birthday.

Good Times: Second Film in the Rights! Camera! Action! series

November 15, 2011 7:00 pm

Join us for the Full Frame Jury Award winning (Best Short) Good Times, the second film in the 2011-2012 Rights! Camera! Action! series. Good Times was shot in Abu Dis, a small Palestinian village divided in two by a wall built by the Israeli government. The film follows the villagers’ lives before the wall was built [...]

What Are Human Rights? Suzanne Katzenstein, “The Pragmatic Turn in Human Rights Advocacy,” Nov. 9

November 9, 2011 6:30 pm

Visiting assistant professor of law Suzanne Katzenstein will lead the third installment of the What Are Human Rights? dinner series on November 9. Her talk, “The Pragmatic Turn in Human Rights Advocacy: Necessary Detour, Wrong Exit, or a Better Route?,” will focus on several human rights issues, including female genital cutting, child labor, and the prosecution of war [...]

WOLA/Duke Book Award Reception and Reading

November 2, 2011 5:00 pm

Join us to honor Kathryn Sikkink, author of The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World and winner of the WOLA/Duke Book Award. Professor Sikkink will speak beginning at 5:00, followed by a reception and book signing. Copies of The Justice Cascade will be available at the event, which will run until 7:00pm [...]

Durham: Are We So Different?

October 23, 2011 2:30 pm

Join the Pauli Murray Project’s Barbara Lau and Mayme Webb for a conversation drawing from RACE: Are We So Different, a new Museum of Life and Science exhibit. The conversation begins at 2:30 at the  Stanford L. Warren Branch of Durham Public Library (1201 Fayetteville Road, just south of 147).

Next in “What Are Human Rights” Series: Ellen McLarney on Islam, Gender and Rights

October 19, 2011 6:30 pm

Ellen McLarney, Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature and Culture in the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies department, Duke University, will deliver a talk and lead a discussion about Islam, Gender and Rights. Graduate students and faculty are invited to take part in this and the other informal workshops and research talks in the series.

Human Traffic: Past and Present

October 15, 2011 1:00 pm

Duke alumnus Siddharth Kara will deliver the keynote at Human Traffic: Past and Present, a three-day conference exploring new thinking on the ethical and political dilemmas of human trafficking in all its historical variations and contexts. Panelists will address questions regarding the ways in which human trafficking is related to a liberal political economy and the extent [...]

ARIEL DORFMAN: Feeding on Dreams reading

October 5, 2011 4:00 pm

American novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist, and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman will read from his new memoir, Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011). This is the sequel to his award-winning book, Heading South, Looking North, which was the basis for the documentary A Promise to the Dead, short-listed for [...]

“I Have No Right to Be Silent” exhibit

October 3, 2011 5:30 pm

“I have no right to be silent in the face of injustice!” Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer said in a sermon delivered at his alma mater, Dartmouth University, in 1991. An ordinary American whose extraordinary convictions, faith, and impetuous personality impelled him to become a leading human rights activist during Argentina’s Dirty War (1976-1983), Meyer, who died [...]

What Are Human Rights? dinner seminar series

September 14, 2011 6:30 pm

Graduate students and faculty are invited to take part in this series of informal workshops and research talks designed to highlight different disciplinary, theoretical, and methodological perspectives. The series kickoff on September 14 will feature a discussion of Allen Buchanan’s scholarship. For more information and to RSVP, contact Amber Diaz. Open to Duke faculty and [...]

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)

September 13, 2011 7:00 pm

Join us for the first film in the 2011-2012 Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Screening Series. Filmed over the course of 23 years, The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) is the epic story of a Lao soldier family’s journey from war-torn Laos to New York City. Co-directed by Thavisouk Phrasavath, who describes his own life as a young [...]

Constitutionalism and Diversity: Sexual Orientation in South Africa

September 6, 2011 4:00 pm

South African Constitutional Court Justice Edwin Cameron will speak about his country’s post-apartheid efforts to guarantee rights for gay, lesbian, trans-gendered and queer citizens, referring to “Somewhere Over the Rainbow Nation: Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Activism in South Africa,” a 2008 article by Ryan Richard Thoreson published in the Journal of South African Studies. Cameron [...]

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars

July 14, 2011 7:00 pm

Duke Gardens Parking available at the Duke Gardens Lot Free and open to the public Free Drinks and Popcorn Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars (2005, 78 minutes), Filmmaker’s Award for Social Change and Emerging Pictures Audience Award, 2006; Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award, 2006: The plight of the refugee in today’s war-torn world is [...]

Mining and Violence in Guatemala: Indigenous Women Resist

April 13, 2011 12:00 pm

“To Buy the Sun” at Duke

March 31, 2011 7:00 pm

Another chance to see the outstanding play about Pauli Murray brought to you by the Pauli Murray Project and Hidden Voices. 209 East Duke Building, East Campus, Duke University, Durham, NC Free and open to the public. Celebrate her history; create our future. Join us as we commemorate the 100th anniversary of Pauli Murray’s birth [...]

BorderWork(s) Humanities Lab Open House

March 28, 2011 4:00 pm

4:00-6:00 PM All undergraduates welcome–regardless of majors! Learn about BorderWork(s), a new Humanities Lab starting in fall 2011! Refreshments Provided Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) C105, Bay 4, 1st Floor Smith Warehouse Come to the open house to find out: Just what is a humanities lab? Some hints here How to get involved as researchers in group projects with faculty and [...]

Toward a Moral Consensus Against Torture

March 25, 2011 3:30 pm

Toward a Moral Consensus Against Torture: A Gathering of Students, Clergy, People of Conscience, and People of Faith March 25-26, 2011 Open to the public Registration fee – $10 for students and $35 for non-students (Includes two meals and snacks on Saturday morning Registration deadline – Friday, March 18, 2011. Experts in theology, religion and [...]

Taking Root

March 24, 2011 7:00 pm

Rare Book Room at Perkins Library Free and open to the public Parking available at the Bryan Center Garage Free Drinks and Popcorn Taking Root (2008, 81 minutes), Full Frame Women in Leadership Award, 2008: Planting trees for fuel, shade, and food is not something that anyone would imagine as the first step toward winning [...]

3/23 NEW YORK EVENT: The Legacy of Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer

March 23, 2011 6:30 pm

6:30 pm to 8:30 pm New York City The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary Alperin Lobby, 3080 Broadway RSVP to rights@duke.edu Please join us at the opening reception for the exhibition: “I Have No Right to Be Silent – The Human Rights Legacy of Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer.” Opening comments and reflections will be provided [...]

3/22 — To Buy the Sun at UNC

March 22, 2011 7:00 pm

Another chance to see the outstanding play about Pauli Murray brought to you by the Pauli Murray Project and Hidden Voices. @ The Sonja Haynes Stone Center — UNC Chapel Hill Free Admission Driving Directions Celebrate her history; create our future. Join us as we commemorate the 100th anniversary of Pauli Murray’s birth and explore [...]

Daughters of the American Revolution: Progressivism, Feminism and Human Rights in the United States

March 3, 2011 5:30 pm

Richard White Auditorium Free and open to the public Parking available on East Campus Dorothy Q. Thomas will speak about recovering  a legacy of progressive Americanism for contemporary women’s rights activists, drawing on her on-going research for a book that chronicles the lives of some of her female ancestors, including descendants of former presidents John [...]

al margen: Photographs from Latin America –Reception with Petra Barth

February 24, 2011 4:00 pm

Frederic Jameson Gallery, Friedl Building al margen or “Living on the Margin” is the result of seven years of photography by Petra Barth in fourteen countries of South America, Central America and the Caribbean. The exhibit will be on display from 17 January – 1 May 2011. It is composed of 70 gelatin silver prints [...]

Human Rights in Islam: The Politics of Cultural Translation

8:45 am

8:45 AM – 7:30 PM 240 John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University Parking Free and open to the public Discussions by prominent scholars in human rights and Islam Do Muslim Women Have Rights? (Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University) Religious Liberty and the Minority Problem: A Middle Eastern Genealogy (Saba Mahmood, University of California, Berkeley) Don’t Ask [...]

Beyond the Brink: Addressing Human Health and Security in a Changing Climate

February 11, 2011 8:30 am

Searle Center at Duke University 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM Register here Hosted by DGHI and the Student International Discussion Group, this symposium will examine the impacts, implications, and adaptations related to global climate change. Leaders in the field will explore questions such as: What physical changes are occurring due to the changing climate? What [...]

From Protest to (product) RED: Generational shift in human rights activism

February 10, 2011 5:00 pm

Rare Book Room in Perkins Library Free and open to the public This unique panel is scheduled to open the annual Latin American scholars’ conference. The panel features the current and the former directors of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). WOLA is the premier US-based human rights organization working on Latin America. Marking [...]

To Buy the Sun

January 28, 2011 7:30 pm

Friday, January 28, 7:30 PM Saturday, January 29, 7:30 PM Sunday, January 30, 3:00 PM Hayti Heritage Center Friday, February 4, 8:00 PM Saturday, February 5, 8:00 PM The ArtsCenter Tickets — $10 online and at the door Celebrate her history; create our future. Join us as we commemorate the 100th anniversary of Pauli Murray‘s [...]

Citizen King

January 13, 2011 7:00 pm

Rare Book Room at Perkins Library Free and open to the public Parking available at the Bryan Center Garage Free Drinks and Popcorn Citizen King (2004, 115 minutes), 2004 Full Frame/Emerging Pictures Audience Award: On a steamy afternoon in August 1963, a thirty-four-year-old minister gave a speech that enthralled a crowd of more than two [...]

Hostage Nation: Colombia’s Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs

December 7, 2010 5:00 pm

Perkins Library Rare Book Room A reception follows the reading Free and open to the public With Hostage Nation authors Victoria Bruce, Karin Hayes and Jorge Enrique Botero Hostage Nation won the 2010 WOLA/Duke Book Award for best book in English about human rights in Latin America. The authors will read from their blistering journalistic [...]

Dr. Khassan Baiev Discusses Wars in Chechnya

November 30, 2010 5:30 pm

Islam in the News Presents: Saving Lives under Fire: War and Children in Chechnya Speaker: Dr. Khassan Baiev, Chechen-American trauma surgeon who treated soldiers & civilians in the Chechen Wars; Dr. Baiev has authored two memoirs, “The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire” and “Grief of My Heart: Memoirs of a Chechen Surgeon.” Introduction by Shireen [...]

Pauli Murray Birthday Party

November 21, 2010 3:00 pm

Come celebrate Pauli Murray’s birthday with cake, poetry and poster presentations by Architecture students from NC State University School of Design about visions for the future of Pauli Murray’s Childhood Home! Community Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park 1313 Halley Street, Durham 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Free and Open to the Public

BC Plaza Birthday Celebration for Pauli Murray

November 19, 2010 11:30 am

Bryan Center Plaza 11.30am-3pm Free and open to everyone The Pauli Murray Project is an organization dedicated to raising awareness of the Human Rights history of the Durham area through the legacy of Pauli Murray. As a visionary scholar, poet, civil and human rights activist Pauli Murray is an example for the community. Pauli Murray [...]

“I Have No Right to Be Silent”: Marshall Meyer Human Rights Traveling Exhibit

November 18, 2010 12:00 pm

November 18, 2010, OAS Headquarters, Washington DC. “I Have No Right to Be Silent” human rights traveling exhibit. Rabbi Marshall Meyer was an ordinary man whose extraordinary convictions, faith, and impetuous personality impelled him to become one of the most important human rights activists during Argentina’s Dirty War (1976-1983). Marshall is remembered for what he [...]

Israeli filmmaker Uri Rosenwaks’ “Back and Forth”

November 17, 2010 7:00 pm

Social Sciences 136 Free and Open to the Public Parking available at the Bryan Center Garage – Introduction and post-film Q&A w/ filmmaker Uri Rosenwaks! Back and Forth (2010, 55 min: in Hebrew/Arabic w/ English subtitles): Four promising Bedouin directors from the Negev Desert point a camera at themselves and their society to record a [...]

Rain in a Dry Land

November 16, 2010 7:00 pm

Rare Book Room at Perkins Library Free and open to the public Parking available at the Bryan Center Garage Free Drinks and Popcorn The film will be followed by a panel discussion including director Anne Makepeace and Kenan Institute for Ethics associate director Suzanne Shanahan. Rain in a Dry Land (2006, 82 minutes), Working Films [...]

The Road From Kampala Conference

November 12, 2010 7:00 pm

Duke University Law School Friday & Saturday, November 12-13, 2010 Free to Duke-affiliated students and faculty; Open to the Public for $25 registration fee Friday events are by invitation only; Saturday events are open to everyone. Please register if you plan to attend. The Road From Kampala Conference: An Analysis of the First Review Conference of [...]

Cancelled: Second Annual Jill Raitt Lecture: “Justice Notes” by Emelie Townes

November 11, 2010 12:30 pm

This event was cancelled due to the speaker’s illness 0016 Westbrook @ the Duke Divinity School on Campus Directions and Parking: http://divinity.duke.edu/about/directions-parking The second annual Jill Raitt Lecture at Duke Divinity School will feature Emilie M. Townes, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology at Yale Divinity School, speaking on “Justice Notes.” [...]

Dave Eggers Lecture

November 10, 2010 6:00 pm

Page Auditorium Free and Open to the Public – seats available on first-come, first-served basis Award-winning author Dave Eggers will discuss his recent book Zeitoun. Zeitoun tells the true story of Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a Syrian immigrant living in New Orleans who stayed behind during Hurricane Katrina, and the harrowing ordeal he and his family endured in [...]

Community Clean Up – Pauli Murray Childhood Home

November 6, 2010 10:00 am

906 Carroll Street (near Morehead Avenue in Southwest Central Durham) An opportunity to work with your neighbors and friends to show this important historic property some much needed TLC. There will be two sessions: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. and 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Please wear long pants and long sleeves and NO OPEN [...]

Pauli Murray vs. UNC: Wrestling with Change in the Jim Crow South

November 3, 2010 5:15 pm

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Exhibit Opening: Pauli Murray, the Birth of an Activist

5:00 pm

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Lest It Never Be Told: A Conversation about Durham Histories

12:00 pm

Panel Discussion John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240 Free and Open to the Public What are the stories we know about Durham? What about stories we haven’t heard so often? How do some stories become well known while others fade from public view? How do histories shape the way we think about our hometown? What [...]

Dialogue with Aniruddhan Vasudevan, Indian LGBT rights activist

November 2, 2010 6:00 pm

C-105, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (Bay 5, Smith Warehouse) Free and Open to the Public Aniruddhan Vasudevan will be giving a short talk on his work in furthering gender / sexuality rights and creating a forum for dialogue both within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender / transsexual (kothis and hijras) community as well [...]

Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos

November 1, 2010 7:00 pm

Carolina Theater Free and open to the public Parking available at the Durham Civic Center garage Part of the Latin American Film Festival Brother Towns (2010) is a story of two towns linked by immigration, family, and work: Jacaltenango, a highland Maya town in Guatemala; and Jupiter, a coastal resort town where many Jacaltecos have [...]

We Carried Your Secrets screening: presented by DukeEngage in Belfast 2010

October 27, 2010 8:00 pm

DukeEngage in Belfast 2010 presents a film screening of We Carried Your Secrets Wednesday, October 27th at 8.00pm Smith Warehouse, Bay 4 (the Garage) Reception with refreshments will follow “We Carried Your Secrets” features the true stories of people from all sides of the conflict in Northern Ireland, including both perpetrators and victims of abuse. [...]

A Community Visioning Gathering: Imagining a Future for Pauli Murray’s Childhood Home

October 16, 2010 9:00 am

Meeting at the Community, Family Life, and Recreation Center at Lyon Park: 1313 Halley Street at Kent Street, Durham (9am-12pm) Free and Open to Public Pauli Murray wrote eloquently about the home at 906 Carroll Street that was the center of life for her family including her aunt Pauline Dame and her grandparents, Robert and [...]

After Innocence

September 23, 2010 7:00 pm

Rare Book Room at Perkins Library Free and open to the public Parking available at the Bryan Center Garage Free Drinks and Popcorn A RECEPTION AT 6:30 PM IN THE RARE BOOK ROOM LOBBY PRECEDES THE SCREENING After Innocence (2005, 95 minutes) Content+Intent=Change Award, 2005 and Working Films Award, 2005: This gripping documentary  tells the dramatic and compelling [...]

Brazil: Globalization and modern-day slavery

September 22, 2010 12:00 pm

12:00 pm-1:15 pm Franklin 240 Light lunch included Free and open to the public Parking vouchers available for the medical center decks Binka Le Breton is a writer, environmentalist and human rights activist. Her latest book is Where the Road Ends: a Home in the Brazilian Rainforest She has authored numerous other books, including The Greatest [...]

Commemorating Courage: A Community Dialogue about School Desegregation

August 22, 2010 3:00 pm

3:00 – 5:30 p.m. Durham County Library Auditorium, 300 N. Roxboro Street Free and open to the public We honor our history by remembering, we honor our history by listening to the experiences of others and sharing our own stories. On Sunday we will honor the first African American students to integrate several of Durham’s [...]

Pauli Murray Project Summer Reading Group

August 7, 2010 3:00 pm

Caffe Beyu 335 West Main Street Durham, NC  27701 We will be discussing Murray’s memoir, Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family, and selections of poetry from her book,Dark Testament, posted on the Pauli Murray Project web site. For more information, please contact Barbara Lau at the Pauli Murray Project, part of the Duke [...]

Pauli Murray Project Summer Reading Group

July 31, 2010 3:00 pm

Caffe Beyu 335 West Main Street Durham, NC  27701 We will be discussing Murray’s memoir, Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family, and selections of poetry from her book, Dark Testament, posted on the Pauli Murray Project web site. For more information, please contact Barbara Lau at the Pauli Murray Project, part of the [...]

Pauli Murray Project Summer Reading Group

July 24, 2010 3:00 pm

Caffe Beyu 335 West Main Street Durham, NC  27701 We will be discussing Murray’s memoir, Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family, and selections of poetry from her book, Dark Testament, posted on the Pauli Murray Project web site. For more information, please contact Barbara Lau at the Pauli Murray Project, part of the [...]

Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Screening series

July 13, 2010 7:00 pm

Trouble the Water (2008, 90 minutes) Duke Gardens Winner, 2008 Anne Dellinger Grand Jury Award Nominated for an Academy Award for best feature documentary, TROUBLE THE WATER takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. It’s a redemptive tale of two self-described street hustlers who become heroes-two unforgettable people who [...]

Pauli Murray celebration

July 1, 2010 7:00 pm

Please join us to celebrate the centennial of Pauli Murray’s birth…

Our City, Our Stories II

May 13, 2010 6:30 pm

The Pauli Murray Project presents Our City, Our Stories Community Dialogues Inviting Diverse Durham Stories All Durham residents are invited to attend to share their stories and enjoy free refreshments: Thursday, May 13 at the downtown Durham Main Library, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. The Pauli Murray Project wants to give everyone the chance to tell [...]

Our City, Our Stories

April 22, 2010 6:30 pm

The Pauli Murray Project presents Our City, Our Stories Community Dialogues Inviting Diverse Durham Stories All Durham residents are invited to attend to share their stories and enjoy free refreshments: Thursday, April 22 at the Stanford L. Warren Library – 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 13 at the downtown Durham Main Library, 6:30 – [...]

WEAVING A NET OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Taking on extraordinary rendition at the state and regional level

April 9, 2010 9:00 am

Accountability for extraordinary rendition in North Carolina

Scott Horton: The Unresolved Legacy of Guantánamo

April 8, 2010 7:30 pm

Extraordinary rendition and accountability for human rights abuses committed during the “war on terror.”

An End to Torture of the Divine Image

5:30 pm

An Interfaith Worship Service 5:30-6:15 pm Goodson Chapel, Duke Divinity School Duke University Free and open to the public A light dinner in The Refectory Cafe follows The service will attune us to the cries of the tortured as they rise to the Holy One by means of Divinity’s infinite names, some of which we [...]

A Sense of the Past: Looking Back on the Partition of India

5:00 pm

Carr 103 Free and open to the public Writer, publisher, feminist, activist and historian Urvashi Butalia speaks about her recent work on India, largely based on collected oral histories. Born in Ambala, India in 1952, Butalia attended Delhi University and received her Masters in South Asian Studies from the University of London in 1977. In [...]

The mandate of the OTP in the Selection of Situations and Cases and the Office’s Prosecutorial Strategy for 2009-2012

April 7, 2010 12:15 pm

Duke Law School Room 3037 Free and open to the public A light lunch will be served A Gambian lawyer who serves as Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Bensouda will speak about the office’s goals and priorities for the future. Bensouda was a government prosecutor, Solicitor General, Attorney General and Minister of [...]

Performing Truth and Reconciliation: Aeschylus’s “Oresteia” in South Africa

March 17, 2010 12:00 pm

Aeschylus’ “The Oresteia” against the background of South Africa’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission

Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Series Screening

March 16, 2010 7:00 pm

The right-to-die debate goes West in this riveting portrait of a man and his family grappling with a darker side of rugged individualism.

Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Healthcare

March 3, 2010 12:00 pm

The story of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, a group of health care professionals working in the Deep South during the struggle for civil rights…

Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Series Screening

January 26, 2010 7:00 pm

A fascinating look into the difficulties of keeping migrant children in school.

Cambodians’ responses to the Khmer Rouge Trials: Justice, Desire for Revenge and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

January 20, 2010 4:30 pm

Can international human rights trials improve the mental health of a traumatized people?

Pauli Murray: Activating History for Social Change

November 19, 2009 7:00 pm

At the first annual Pauli Murray Lecture, Beverly Guy-Sheftall will speak about this Durham native’s enduring legacy to civil and human rights.

Guantánamo Bay: Beyond the Law’s Reach?

November 14, 2009 5:00 pm

A panel discussion and fundraiser for

The Pauli Murray Project: Mapping Human and Civil Rights Activism in Durham

November 11, 2009 12:00 pm

Inspired by Pauli Murray’s life-long efforts to promote human rights and reconciliation, we are getting Durham talking about the issues that divide us and celebrating the experiences that stitch us together.

“What is a Human Right?”

November 10, 2009 5:15 pm

“What is a Human Right?”a lecture by  John Tasioulas Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 5:15 p.m. • Room 4042 What is that that we are talking about when we talk about human rights? John Tasioulas, a Reader in Moral and Legal Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, defends [...]

Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Series Screening

November 3, 2009 7:00 pm

SPECIAL ELECTION DAY DOUBLE FEATURE: “No Umbrella” & “Please Vote for Me”

Speaking Without Tongues

October 27, 2009 7:00 pm

As part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Carrboro-based nonprofit group Hidden Voices presents “Speaking Without Tongues,” a performance by and about the survivors of violence against women.

Amb. Heraldo Muñoz and The Dictator’s Shadow

October 15, 2009 5:00 pm

The ambassador will read from his poignant and wide-ranging memoir, recounting how Chileans brought the former dictator to account for some of his crimes right until his death in 2006.

Jerusalem Women Speak

October 13, 2009 4:00 pm

Tuesday, October 13 4-5:30 pm Social Sciences 139 Parking available off East Campus Partners for Peace brings Jerusalem women – Christian, Jewish and Muslim, Palestinian and Israeli —  who work for peace across the existing divides. They will talk about how they see the conflict in Israel and the Occupied Territories and what students can [...]

Rights! Camera! Action!

September 29, 2009 7:00 pm

“At the Death House Door ” – A look at the death penalty through the eyes of the death house chaplain to the infamous “Walls” prison unit in Huntsville, Texas.

Premeditated: Meditations on Capital Punishment

September 16, 2009 5:00 pm

Show features silkscreen images and paintings dealing with the death penalty and penal institutions. With special guests are Darryl Hunt and State Rep. Floyd McKissick

Food Across Borders Fall Tour

September 10, 2009 12:15 pm

Melody Gonzalez, the National Coordinator for Fair Foods Across Borders (FFAB), will present “Paying the Price: Migrant Workers in the Toxic Fields,” about human rights abuses against Mexican farm workers.

The Iranian Political Crisis: Duke and UNC perspectives

September 3, 2009 12:00 pm

This is a panel discussion about the June 2009 Iranian presidential elections and the protests that followed.