
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Engaged Scholarship Showcase
1:00 - 1:15p Welcome & Opening Remarks
1:15 - 2:30p The Arts & Human Rights
2:45 - 4:00p Education & Human Rights
4:15 - 5:30p Human Rights at Home
“Principled Voices” - The Scallen Lecture in Human Rights
7:00 - 8:30p Until We Find Them film screening (30 min), with filmmaker Hunter Johnson (MHR ’20)
Remarks by Darwin Franco & Dalia Souza, Mexican journalists and film protagonists
Friday, November 19, 2021
Human Rights Defenders
8:00 - 8:50a First Person: Defending Human Rights in Armenia
9:00 - 9:30a Human Rights Defenders Research: Black Lives Matter
9:30 - 10:30a Protection Networks for Human Rights Defenders
10:45 - 11:45a Scholars at Risk
Keynote Address
12:30 - 1:30p “The Role of Academia in Advancing Human Rights”, Todd Howland, Chief of the Development, Economic, and Social Issues Branch, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Disappearances in Latin America
1:45 - 2:45p Observatory on Disappearances & Impunity in Mexico
4:00 - 5:00p Disappearances in the Post-Transition Era in Latin America Book Launch