Events

Past Events

Documenting Human Rights Advocacy: An Open House at The Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Visit the Lehman Social Sciences Library to view a wide variety of items from the Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research's human rights collections and archives during our annual Open House.

International Workshop on Historical Dialogue and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Saturday, October 22, 2016 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

This conference will explore how history can also engage with conflict resolution processes and the work of mass atrocity prevention. Topics will include textbooks, museums, historical commissions, archives, collective memory, and performative history.

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International Workshop on Historical Dialogue and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Friday, October 21, 2016 9:00 AM - Sat , October 22, 2016 5:00 PM

This conference will explore how history can also engage with conflict resolution processes and the work of mass atrocity prevention. Topics will include textbooks, museums, historical commissions, archives, collective memory, and performative history.

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Filming at the Borders Film Series - Burn the Sea (Brûle la mer) by Nathalie Nambot and Maki Berchache
Thursday, October 20, 2016 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Leaving Tunisia soon after the fall of the Ben Ali regime in 2011, Maki Berchache arrived in Paris and stumbled upon L'abominable, a cooperative artist-run analog film lab devoted to alternative cinema, and met with filmmaker and activist Nathalie Nambot.

Taikon
Film Screening: Taikon
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

This documentary tells the story of Katarina Taikon who was denied education, but went on to become a leading Romani author and human rights activist.

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