Events

Chair: Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung (Department of Political Science, UMass Lowell) Panelists: Adam Saltsman (Associate Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Director, Urban Action Institute, Worcester State University) Sung Chin Par (Human Rights Advocate and Co-Founder, Global Institute of Myanmar) Dr. Si Thura (CEO, Community Partners International) Discussant: Ken Maclean (Professor of International Development and Social […]

14 November 2023 |12:00 – 1:30| Higgins Lounge Dana Commons Especially for Students Lecture Speaker: Catherine Masud (Assistant Professor-in-Residence at the University of Connecticut, jointly appointed by the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute and the Department of Digital Media and Design) Human Rights Archives, Visual Storytelling, and Transformative Education  Human Rights-themed archival collections at the […]

This workshop brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars working on displacement and forced migration from Nazi-controlled Europe. Its participants ask how refugees from Nazism reimagined their sense of home and their identities as Europeans and/or Jews after their flight? Participating scholars draw on the methods of performance studies to complicate older paradigms […]