Human Rights Program, UW-Madison
Events for spring 2014
January 30, 2014
Coffee, Frogs, and Workers’ Rights: The Frontiers of Conservation in Southern India, Paul Robbins, Director, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW-Madison, Thursday, January 30, 2014, Noon - 1 pm, Room 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Dr, Center for South Asia Spring Lecture Series & Human Rights Program Brown Bag Series. All are welcome.
February 21, 2014
"Performing participation: Mining, power, and the limits of community consultation in Bolivia," Tom Perreault, University of Syracuse, Noon-1:15pm, Lubar Commons, HRP, land and water cluster
February 27, 2014
HRP workshop on Relief from Pain and Suffering as a Human Right, Health Sciences Learning Center, Room 1325, 4-5:30pm, Speakers: “Palliative Care as a Human Right: the Legal Foundation,” Mr. DiederikLohman, Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch, Heinz Klug (tbc) and Jim Cleary (moderator)
March 13, 2014
Wesahl Domingo, GLS visiting scholar, details pending
April 3-4, 2014
Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of the Military Coup in Brazil, Pyle Conference Center. The conference will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the 1964 military coup that was followed by a 21-year-long authoritarian regime that relied on suppression of civil and political rights, censorship, and torture and disappearances, among other tactics and practices that seriously infringed upon human rights in Brazil. Sponsored by the Brazil Initiative of the Division of International Studies, the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS), and the Latin American History Program of the History Department, the Goldberg Fund (History) and Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Consulate General of Brazil in Chicago and HRP
April 4-5, 2014
“Creation of International Law: Exploring the International Law Components of Peace,” WILJ annual symposium, 2260 and 3250 Law, sponsored by WILJ, GLS, ILS, ASM, EALSC and other sponsors, keynote speakers: Professors Christine Chinkin and Penny Andrews with a video message from Professor Hilary Charlesworth. For details visit:
Thursday, April 10, 2014
"Human Rights in Russia: Challenges of 2014," Anna Sevortian, 4:00pm, 206 Ingraham Hall, sponsored by CREECA and co-sponsored by HRP
April 15, 2014 (tbc)
HRP: Women’s right to health brown bag
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Anton Burkov, "Strategic Litigation: Bringing the European Convention for Human Rights to Russia"4:00pm, 206 Ingraham Hall, sponsored by CREECA and co-sponsored by HRP
May 2-3, 2014
HRP: Workshop on Forced Migration, Health and Human Rights, details pending