Advocacy in Hard Times: Representing Marginalized Groups in Times of National Crisis is part of a larger project examining the effects of crises on the agendas, strategies, and efficacy of organizations representing marginalized groups in U.S. politics. Combining data from a survey of advocacy organizations with information from interviews, gove...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Strolovitch, Dara
Created:
2009-05-07
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Advocacy in Hard Times: Representing Marginalized Groups in Times of National Crisis is part of a larger project examining the effects of crises on the agendas, strategies, and efficacy of organizations representing marginalized groups in U.S. politics. Combining data from a survey of advocacy organizations with information from interviews, gove...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Strolovitch, Dara
Created:
2009-05-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
A Guantánamo Site of Conscience? Remembering Gitmo long before‚Äîand long after‚Äî9/11.Guantánamo has become an international symbol of torture, detention, national security, and conflict over America's War on Terror. It has divided US society, the US and Cuba, and the US and its international allies. After more than a decade of bitter struggle ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sevcenko, Liz
Created:
2011-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
A Guantánamo Site of Conscience? Remembering Gitmo long before‚Äîand long after‚Äî9/11.Guantánamo has become an international symbol of torture, detention, national security, and conflict over America's War on Terror. It has divided US society, the US and Cuba, and the US and its international allies. After more than a decade of bitter struggle ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sevcenko, Liz
Created:
2011-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part of a conference entitled Contested Past, Contested Present: Social Memories & Human Rights in Post-Communist Europe Session 1: Competing Images of the Past: Stalinism vs. Nazism. Lars Breuer (Free University of Berlin): Victimhood in Vernacular Memory in Germany and Poland. Matti Jutila (University of Minnesota): Constructing Genocidal Marx...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Breuer, Lars; Jutila, Matti; Baer, Alejandro
Created:
2015-03-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Embodying Empathy: Canadian Settler-Colonial Genocide and the Making of a Virtual Indian Residential School. This presentation introduces and reflects on some of the key challenges facing researchers involved with the multidisciplinary critical and creative Embodying Empathy project now underway at the University of Manitoba. Embodying Empathy s...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Muller, Adam
Created:
2015-11-18
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Global Crisis of Displacement and Undoing Border Imperialism. Presentation and discussion on the global refugee crisis and its implications for North America by reformulating immigrant and refugee rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor exploitation, settler colonialism, state building, and racialized empire. Harsha...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Walia, Harsha
Created:
2016-11-17
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Is Water a Human Right? The Global Struggle for Environmental Justice from Flint to Minnesota. A discussion with Charles Simmons, Emeritus Professor of Media and Human Rights, Marygrove College, Detroit; Matt Simcik, Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, UMN; Oscar Garza, Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Care and Health System, ...
Part of a conference entitled Contested Past, Contested Present: Social Memories & Human Rights in Post-Communist Europe. Session 4: Law and Memory in Transition. Ryan Moltz (University of Minnesota): Lustration in the Former Yugoslavia. Adam Czarnota (UNSW Australia): Collective Memories and Post-Communist Legal Institutions. Respondent: Joachi...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Czarnota, Adam; Moltz, Ryan; Savelsberg, Joachim
Created:
2015-03-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Life in an American Concentration Camp: The Japanese American Experience during World War II. Sally Sudo is a Japanese American and former internee during WWII. 75 Years After Japanese American Incarceration Speaker Series This speaker series is a part of the IAS Heritage Collaborative and the Asian American Studies course AAS 3920. We have invi...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sudo, Sally
Created:
2016-10-04
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Respect for Sacred Sites: Protecting Indigenous Burial Grounds under International Law. Prof. Anaya has practiced law representing Native American peoples and organizations in matters before United States courts and international institutions and is the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Issues. Anaya is the author of Indigenous Peoples in Inte...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Anaya, S. James
Created:
2008-12-10
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Exhumations, Memory, and the Return of Civil War Ghosts in Spain Since 2000, the exhumation of mass graves from the Spanish Civil War and the Post-War years, mostly involving the largely abandoned graves of civilians killed in the Francoist rearguard by paramilitary groups, has become a central element in contemporary social and political debate...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ferrandiz, Francisco
Created:
2014-05-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Exhumations, Memory, and the Return of Civil War Ghosts in Spain Since 2000, the exhumation of mass graves from the Spanish Civil War and the Post-War years, mostly involving the largely abandoned graves of civilians killed in the Francoist rearguard by paramilitary groups, has become a central element in contemporary social and political debate...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ferrandiz, Francisco
Created:
2014-05-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Surviving Forced Disappearance: Identity and Meaning Due in large part to humanitarian law and transitional justice, the categories of detained-disappeared and forced disappearance are today well established -- so much so that in some places like Argentina and Uruguay an intense social life has taken shape around them and in their wake. Victims ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Gatti, Gabriel
Created:
2014-11-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Analogy Problem in Human Trafficking Reform. What work takes place when slavery becomes the accepted language through which we come to understand human trafficking? Taking the website slaveryfootprint.org as a starting point, I consider the ways the slavery analogy restricts how we understand human trafficking, and offer instead an alternati...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Hua, Julietta
Created:
2016-04-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part of a conference entitled Contested Past, Contested Present: Social Memories & Human Rights in Post-Communist Europe. Session 5: The Arts and the Politics of Representation. Michal Kobialka (University of Minnesota): Of Contested Pasts and Contested Presents: Tadeusz Kantor's Theatre and the Politics of Representation. Margarita Kompelmakher...
Brazilian Truth Commission: Is It Time to 'Reframe' the Gross Human Rights Violations? Glenda Mezarobba provides an overview of the Brazilian Truth Commission and reflects on the meaning and the implications of the work of countries, like Brazil, to revisit their legacies of dictatorship (1964-1988). She presents possibilities of these contempor...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Mezarobba, Glenda
Created:
2014-03-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.