Steven L. B. Jensen, a lead researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, will present a fundamental reinterpretation of the history of international human rights after 1945. Jensen focuses on the agency of the global south and their role in advancing human rights around the world. Jensen won the 2017 Best Book on Human Rights for his paradigm-shifting research. Join us for a fresh look at the making of human rights!
Alison Brysk is Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Brysk has been named both an International Studies Association and an American Political Science Association Distinguished Scholar of Human Rights. Her wide-ranging research draws both on global theorizing as well as fieldwork on human rights in Latin America and Asia.
In lieu of flowers, we ask that gifts in George's memory be made to Occidental College for physics undergraduate research (see below).
Join Boundless Brilliance in this can't-miss program. There will be light refreshments and a book signing. Get in free with a student ID or $5 for staff and community members.
$100 Amazon gift card to the winning team. Refreshments will be served!
Email mcifuentes@oxy.edu to sign up.
We have wild survivor dreams. In them, we are free. Join disability/ transformative justice/ femme of color activist and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha for a poetic keynote exploring how survivor brilliance is dreaming a work beyond sexual abuse, prisons and white supremacist ableist cissexist patriarchy.
Choi Auditorium is a wheelchair-accessible space. Please refrain from wearing fragranced products at the event.
During this session, you will learn the survey results, next steps for the Title IX office and plans for future surveys.
Israeli Apartheid Week Events:
4/10, 8:30 pm
Reflections on Palestine and 1492 with Linda Quiquivix in Choi Auditorium
4/11, 6:30 pm
Borders and Walls with Latinx Student Union in Fowler 302
4/12, TBH
Dabkeh performance at the JSC Quad
4/12, 2:00 pm
Tatreez with Students for Justice in Palestine in the Bengal Room
He will speak about his new memoir The World As It Is - a revealing behind-the-scenes account of Obama's presidency—and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive. After the lecture, Rhodes will be signing copies of his book, which will be available for purchase in the McKinnon Global Forum.
This event is free and open to the Occidental community. Registration is required at oxy.eventbrite.com.
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