<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:16px">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.  </span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><p></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></p><div style="font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol""><h4 style="margin:0.75em 0px 0.25em;padding:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:800;line-height:1.2;font-size:1.092rem;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" dir="auto">To apply </h4><h4 style="margin:0.75em 0px 0.25em;padding:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:800;line-height:1.2;font-size:1.092rem;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" dir="auto"><div style="font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol""><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1p9HW_j0vHjaFBLRYeocTdXy0XO_z680LyHsgRjIeQL4/viewform?ts=66621f91&edit_requested=true" style="font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol"" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1p9HW_j0vHjaFBLRYeocTdXy0XO_z680LyHsgRjIeQL4/viewform?ts=66621f91&edit_requested=true</a></div></h4><h4 style="margin:0.75em 0px 0.25em;padding:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:800;line-height:1.2;font-size:1.092rem;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">Dates</h4><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">January 30-February 1, 2025<br>The Role of Memory and Historical Consciousness in Understanding Regional Violence, Conflict and Peacemaking</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Local Chair: <strong style="font-weight:700;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol"">Marian Schlotterbeck</strong>, UC Davis — Human Rights Studies and History</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">February 27-March 1, 2025<br>Reparative Responsibility in the Face of Institutional Discrimination and Hate</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Local Chair: <strong style="font-weight:700;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol"">Benjamin Weber</strong>, UC Davis — Human Rights Studies and African-American and African Studies</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">March 6-8, 2025  <br>Artistic and Literary Freedom and the Destruction of Culture, Education and Heritage in Times of Mass Atrocity</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Local Chair:<strong style="font-weight:700;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol""> Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, </strong>UC Davis — Human Rights Studies and Art and Art History<br><br>April 24-26, 2025<br>The Human Rights Framework and Global Solidarities</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Collaborating Chairs:  <strong style="font-weight:700;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol"">Keith David Watenpaugh</strong>, UC Davis — Human Rights Studies <br><strong style="font-weight:700;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol"">Bronwyn Leebaw,</strong> UC Riverside —Political Science <br> </p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Graduate Student Symposium Coordinator:  <strong style="font-weight:700;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol"">Adam Zientek</strong>, Human Rights Studies and History</p><h4 style="margin:0.75em 0px 0.25em;padding:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:800;line-height:1.2;font-size:1.092rem;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">Theory of the Conferences</h4><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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 “<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2023/12/01/uc-faculty-members-oppose-viewpoint-neutral-middle" style="text-decoration:underline;outline:0px;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";background-color:transparent;color:rgb(19,99,158)" target="_blank">viewpoint neutral Middle East history</a>.”  </p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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. </p></div><p></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>We invite UC faculty and graduate students from any field, discipline, regional focus, and time period to participate.</b></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Each three-day conference will include:</p><ul style="font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li style="font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol"">Graduate student symposium.</li><li style="font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol"">Film(s) from the UC Davis Human Rights Film Festival and cultural performances.</li><li style="font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol"">Directed public academic conversations among UC faculty members. </li><li style="font-family:proxima-nova,system-ui,-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,ubuntu,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol"">Informal, off-campus faculty convening to talk and share ideas.</li></ul></div>
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