[Poscgrad] Fwd: UC Davis Human Rights Studies Program

[Marissa Brookes]

The UC Davis Human Rights Studies Program, in conjunction with faculty from
across the University of California system, will host a series of meetings
in winter and spring 2025 to explore the ways in which our research,
teaching and public scholarship individually and through collaboration can
confront violence, oppression and impunity; promote and protect fundamental
human rights; and imagine and articulate radical solidarities that will
foster just and lasting peace.

To apply
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1p9HW_j0vHjaFBLRYeocTdXy0XO_z680LyHsgRjIeQL4/viewform?ts=66621f91&edit_requested=true
Dates

January 30-February 1, 2025
The Role of Memory and Historical Consciousness in Understanding Regional
Violence, Conflict and Peacemaking

Local Chair: *Marian Schlotterbeck*, UC Davis — Human Rights Studies and
History

February 27-March 1, 2025
Reparative Responsibility in the Face of Institutional Discrimination and
Hate

Local Chair: *Benjamin Weber*, UC Davis — Human Rights Studies and
African-American and African Studies

March 6-8, 2025
Artistic and Literary Freedom and the Destruction of Culture, Education and
Heritage in Times of Mass Atrocity

Local Chair:* Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, *UC Davis — Human Rights Studies
and Art and Art History

April 24-26, 2025
The Human Rights Framework and Global Solidarities

Collaborating Chairs:  *Keith David Watenpaugh*, UC Davis — Human Rights
Studies
*Bronwyn Leebaw,* UC Riverside —Political Science


Graduate Student Symposium Coordinator:  *Adam Zientek*, Human Rights
Studies and History
Theory of the Conferences

In late 2023, human rights studies faculty at UC Davis began to explore the
possibility of a UC-wide symposium around key scholarly, professional and
ethical issues raised by the conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, as
well as the way the UC administration has responded to external political
advocacy and governmental intervention, including the call to teach “viewpoint
neutral Middle East history
<https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2023/12/01/uc-faculty-members-oppose-viewpoint-neutral-middle>
.”

Our resolve to explore these issues intensified when peaceful student-led
campus protests demanding the University of California respond effectively
to genocide and mass atrocity and fulfill its institutional
responsibilities for reparation, were met with an admixture of contempt,
silence and violence.

*We invite UC faculty and graduate students from any field, discipline,
regional focus, and time period to participate.*

Each three-day conference will include:

   - Graduate student symposium.
   - Film(s) from the UC Davis Human Rights Film Festival and cultural
   performances.
   - Directed public academic conversations among UC faculty members.
   - Informal, off-campus faculty convening to talk and share ideas.
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