News & Events
The UICHR encourages the active participation of faculty, students, and others both within and beyond the UI campus in the conception and execution of its diverse activities. Among the events planned by the UICHR are periodic academic conferences and symposia. Upcoming events are listed below!
You can learn more about past UICHR-sponsored events by checking our press releases. To learn more about upcoming events and activities of the UICHR, visit our interactive Web-based calendar, or sign up for our electronic mailing list to receive weekly updates on what's new at the UICHR.
Upcoming Events
UICHR@10 Human Rights Film Series
Friday, November 6, 2009 at 7:00 pm
November 6- Pray the Devil Back to Hell Shambaugh Auditorium
The Sparks Fly Upward: Learning About the Holocaust, Defying Genocide
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 from 7:00- 9:00 pm, UI Music Recital Hall, 1670 UCC
The Marvin and Rose Lee Pomerantz Lecture Series and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum Present "The Sparks Fly Upward: Learning About the Holocaust, Defying Genocide, " by Cathy Mansfield (Composer/Librettist and Drake Law School Professor), in the UI Music Recital Hall and coordinated by Mary Cohen (UI School of Music).
Children's Human Rights Today: Challenges and Prospects
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 from 7:00- 8:30 pm, 1117 UCC (**this is the updated and correct location for this event)
In honor of the 20th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), UICHR will host a panel discussion on "Children's Human Rights Today: Challenges and Prospects." Joan Nashelsky (UICHR Project Assistant) will moderate the discussion.
- Special guest Jonathan Todres, (Georgia State University Law School, and Campaign to Ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child) will be featured in the panel
- Burns Weston (Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus; Senior Scholar, UI Center for Human Rights; Project Director, Climate Legacy Initiative) , Rex Honey (UI Geography) and Bev Witwer (Teacher/Participant in the UICHR Child Labor Initiative) will also speak on the panel.
Ambassador Kenneth Quinn Speaks About World Hunger
Monday, November 9, 2009 at 12:00 pm in Room 22 Schaeffer Hall
Kenneth M. Quinn, former U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia and one of his generation’s most decorated foreign officials, assumed the leadership of the World Food Prize on January 1, 2000. Following the profound vision of Norman Borlaug, he has endeavored to establish the annual prize of $250 000 as “the Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture”. Ambassador Quinn’s own insight on agriculture and foreign affairs led to the final eradication of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. His plan on agricultural enhancements and rural roads dramatically improved the lives of Cambodian farmers during his term as U.S. Ambassador. Continue reading about Ambassador Quinn...
Screening of King Corn and Lecture by Ian Cheney
Thursday, November 19, 2009 from 7:00- 10:00 pm at the Iowa City Public Library in Meeting Rooms A, B and C.
One Community, One Book and ECO-Iowa City present the documentary King Corn as part of the ECO-Iowa City Film Festival. Following the film, Ian Cheney, King Corn writer and co-producer will give a lecture. This program is free and open to the public, with refreshments provided by New Pioneer Co-op. This event will be broadcast LIVE on The Library Channel, Iowa City cable channel 10.
In their documentary King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis hope to learn more about America's food by moving to Greene, Iowa and planting an acre of corn. They follow their crop as it moves into the food supply, showing how corn affects the way Americans eat and farm. 2007. 88 minutes.
"One Community, One Book" 2009
OCOB and Eco-Iowa City Films:
(All films at ICPL are free and open to the public, with free popcorn. Please contact Anne Mangano at 319-356-5200, option 5, with questions)
- The Garden- Friday, November 6, 2009 from 7-9:00 pm at the Iowa City Public Library Meeting Rooms A, B and C
- Fresh- Friday, November 13, 2009 from 7-9:00 pm at the Iowa City Public Library Meeting Rooms A, B and C
- King Corn- Friday, November 19, 2009 from 7-9:00 pm at the Iowa City Public Library Meeting Rooms A, B and C
Human Rights in the News
UICHR Staff Member Featured in the UI News
AmeriCorps VISTA workers to help connect UI students and community
College students' lives are largely defined by academic work, a world of theory and abstraction. To help them move beyond the academic bubble, volunteers with an organization dedicated to fighting poverty will work this coming year to educate students about the issues facing the greater Iowa City community and enlist them in finding solutions.
AmeriCorps VISTA worker Nick Stuber, 23, will work with the UI Center for Human Rights to support its mission of promoting and protecting human rights at home and abroad. And fellow VISTA worker Erin Gorman, 22, will work with the UI's Civic Engagement Program to strengthen students' commitment to citizenship. Click here to read the full story!