Human Rights

Jenny Sealey (2017)

Oct 04, 2017

“The Arts as a Human Right” Jenny Sealey is the CEO and Artistic Director at Graeae Theatre in London, UK, the country’s flagship disabled-led theatre company. She has been the Artistic Director at the theatre since 1997. Her work has involved the development of a new [...]

Susan Stryker (2015)

Feb 25, 2015

“Transgender Histories and Futurities” Susan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is a historian, writer, educator, artist, documentary filmmaker, and human rights activist. Her work lies at the intersection of Queer [...]

Fredy Armando Peccerelli Monterroso (2015)

Jan 20, 2015

“The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation: Truth from the Graves and the Power of Identification” Fredy Armando Peccerelli Monterroso is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist, human rights activist, and founding member of the Forensic Anthropology [...]

Ariella Azoulay (2011-2012)

Jan 20, 2012

“Toward a Visual Declaration of Human Rights: Revisiting The Family of Man” Ariella Azoulay is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature at [...]

Ariel Dorfmann (1991-1992)

Jan 20, 1992

“The Authoritarian State” Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-Argentinian-American novelist, playwright, academic, and human rights activist. He is an exile from the Pinochet regime in Chile and the child of Holocaust refugees. At Duke University, Dorfman is the Walter Hines Page [...]