DHRC@FHI Updates

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  A Time for Reflection

  Eladio Babodilla August 19, 2014 With the end of my first summer of research comes a time of reflection. First of all, I want to thank the Franklin Humanities Institute […]

   
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  The Politics of Forgetting

  Laura Brody August 15th, 2014 If I have learned anything at all in the past few months, it is that the conflict in and about Northern Ireland is much deeper […]

   
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  The U.S.-Mexico Border: Where History, Policy, and Tragedy Collide

  July 25, 2014 By Eladio Bobadilla I wanted to see the border first-hand. The first time I crossed it, I was undocumented, but young, and as several migrants have told […]

   
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  When Museum Narratives Contradict Personal Memories

  July 25, 2014 By Laura Brody After DukeEngage and a short trip to the Netherlands, I returned to Northern Ireland last week to the realization that it was beginning to […]

   
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  Tibetans’ Optimism While Fighting TB

  July 25, 2014 By Rinchen Dolma In Dharamsala, sun rises around 6am but most people here start their day around 5:30am. Early in the morning, you could hear neighbors chanting […]

   
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  Migrant Farmworkers: Alone and Away from Home

  July 22, 2014 By Simar Nagyal After driving an hour or so towards the Blue Ridge Mountains, we finally arrived at the labor camps. Situated on the outer edge of […]

   
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  Reinventing the Spaces of Memory

  July 27, 2014 By Giulia Ricco The Fifa Fun Fests all over Brazil are being dismantled: the last stretch of the beach in Copacabana will now become accessible again to […]

   
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  The Center for Justice & Accountability To Donate Historical Archives To Duke University’s Human Rights Archive

  Archive Documents Human Rights Abuses, Strategies and the Historical Development of Human Rights Thoughts and Action The Center for Justice & Accountability (CJA) will donate its historical records to the […]

   
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  The Bear that Wasn’t: Israel, Palestine and one student’s views

  By Leo Lou At a recent workshop I attended for young West Bank Palestinian students and activists, a leader told the story of “The Bear that Wasn’t,” using some beautiful illustrations. […]

   
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  Interview challenges with Tibetan patients

  By Rinchen Dolma After 18 hours of flight, I landed in Indira Gandhi Airport New Delhi on the 3rd of July around 3am Indian time. Despite the heat and humidity, […]

   
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