The 21st century demands an interdisciplinary recognition of and a critical wrestling with ideas of human rights in our world, our communities, and our scholarship. As scholars, through our observations, investigations, and research, we are witnesses to a wide range of phenomena that validate and that also deny the human rights of people. Through our findings, interpretations, and conclusions, we, as scholars have a responsibility to the communities that our research serves. All scholarship produces knowledge that is both affected by people and that also deeply affects these communities. Research is both a witnessing and a responsibility. People and communities at home and abroad are inventing their futures in dignity and self-determination. We can learn from them and they can learn from our research. Bringing the best undergraduate and graduate research and creative work in the region together for a one-day conference, Human Rights: Witnessing and Responsibility, will serve as a space where we can investigate these connections across multiple disciplines.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas of inquiry:
- Narrative and human rights
- The social psychology of dignity
- Disaster and displacement
- Community empowerment
- Civic engagement and energy policies
- Date rape and silence regimes
- New media and political mobilization
- Ethics and cognition
- Diversity in higher education
- Globalization and human rights
- Incarceration and family rights
- Neoliberal discourses of rights
Conference Date: January 27th, 2012
Proposal Submission Deadline: December 5th, 2011
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