HRS News & Events

HRS on Social Media

For the latest news and information about the Human Rights Studies program at Purdue, and for images from our events and community gatherings, follow us on social media:

Facebook: @HumanRightsPurdue

Twitter: @HumanPurdue

Past HRS Events

Below is a list of colloquia, symposia, Human Rights Labs and other events the Human Rights Studies program at Purdue has hosted over the past several years. For information on upcoming events, follow our social media feeds linked to above.

Human Rights Labs

MORGANNA LAMBETH

Purdue University

"Does Genetic Enhancement Instrumentalize Offspring? A New Framework for Thinking about Instrumentalization"

February 2020

MELANIE BEASLEY

Purdue University

"The Right to Recognition: Stable Isotope Analysis as a Method for Provenancing Human Skeletal Remains"

January 2020

ELENA BENEDICTO

Purdue University

"IYIL - International Year of Indigenous Languages: Where Are We 500+ Years Later"

November 19th, 2019

LEONARD HARRIS

Purdue University

"Human Rights, Necro-being and the Unsay-able"

October 23rd, 2019

ANDREW FLACHS

Purdue University

“Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability, and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India”

September 11th, 2019

LACEY J. DAVIDSON

Purdue University

“That’s Racist! Descriptive and Explanatory Accounts of Human Rights Violations”

February 13th, 2019

SWATI SRIVASTAVA

Purdue University

“Amnesty International and the Politics of Sovereign Independence"

January 15th, 2019

JENNIFER KAUFMANN-BUHLER

Purdue University

"Everything but the Computer: The Politics and Logistics of Ergonomics in American Office Design"

November 13th, 2018

MARY X. MITCHELL

Purdue University

"Radiation and Rights"

October 16th, 2018

AMBER NICKELL

Purdue University

"From Babi Yar to Bogdanovka: Encounters with the Holocaust in Contemporary Ukraine"

September 18th, 2018

T. COLE JONES

"The Problem of Prisoners of War in the American Revolution"

April 10th, 2018

ANN MARIE CLARK

Purdue University

"The Justice Politics of Rights: Human Rights and Global Development Advocacy"

March 7th, 2018

PAUL DANYI

Purdue University

"Bypassing Democracy: Why Domestic Human Rights NGOs in Democracies Use International Institutions"

January 23rd, 2018

SORIN ADAM MATEI

Purdue University

"Humanitarian Informatics: What It Is and What It Can Be"

November 14th, 2017

JOZEF MAJERNIK

University of Chicago

"Jan Patočka: The Life of a Dissident Philosopher Under Communism"
October 25th, 2017

ELLEN GRUENBAUM

Purdue University

"Extending Gendered Human Rights: The Case of FGM/C in a World of Harmful Global Practices"

April 5th, 2017

WILLIAM G. GRAY

Purdue University

"Almost Infamous: Why West Germans Stopped Highlighting Human Rights Abuses in Brazil"

March 21st, 2017

ELIZABETH WIRTZ

Purdue University

"Keeping and Breaking Promises: The Shifting State of Refugee Policy Under the Current US Administration"

February 8th, 2017

Science and Social Context Lecture Series

ALICE PAWLEY

Purdue University

"Asking Questions We Walk: Developing a Moral Infrastructure in Engineering Education to Improve Diversity and the Response to the Climate Crisis"
November, 2019

FREDERICK R. DAVIS

Purdue University

"Policies of Toxicity: Science and Pesticides"

November 29th, 2018

HALEY OLIVER

Purdue University

"Building Food Technology Capacity to Improve Food Security in Afghanistan"

November 16th, 2017

DIEGO SOARES DA SILVEIRA

Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

"Copyright, Knowledge, and Intercultural Translation Practices: Science and Indigenous Knowledge in Contemporary Brazil"

November 3rd, 2016