Are You An Undergraduate Researcher Who Focuses on Human Rights As Part of Your Work?
The Human Rights Institute is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a conference September 19-21, 2013, that will showcase the “Connecticut School of Human Rights”, an interdisciplinary, contextual approach to human rights that has been advanced at the Human Rights Institute of the University of Connecticut over the last ten years.
The Undergraduate Human Rights Conference will kick off with a poster display on Thursday, September 19, 2013 at the Dodd Research Center. The poster display is an effort to bring together undergraduate students from across many disciplines to present and share their research interests. Human rights related events will be held throughout the week, giving students the opportunity to engage in meaningful conversation about human rights issues.
The Undergraduate Conference encourages interdisciplinary social science, law and humanities approaches to understanding human rights issues. Poster themes may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Economic and Social Human Rights
- Education and Human Rights
- Environment Rights
- Foundations of Human Rights
- Gender and Human Rights
- Group Rights
- Health and Human Rights
- Human Rights and International Law
- Humanitarianism
- Literature and Human Rights
- Political and Civil Human Rights
Students who wish to present a poster must submit a 200-300 word abstract detailing the content of their presentation and how it would be displayed on a poster along with a short biography to the Human Rights Institute at humanrights@uconn.edu. Students are encouraged to submit their information as soon as possible.
Visit the Human Rights Institute’s Conference page at http://humanrights.uconn.edu/conferences/ for more information.