The UICHR hosts diverse collaborative events and innovative programs, teaches Human Rights courses, and engages in scholarly work reaching the UI community, the state of Iowa, and beyond.
The Center, a unit of the UI College of Law, teaches and collaborates with community organizations and UI departments, scholars, and student groups. UICHR’s publicly engaged programs and initiatives include:
Certificate in Human Rights
The Center for Human Rights offers the undergraduate Certificate in Human Rights, awarded by the College of Law.
Working Groups
The UICHR supports faculty working groups to encourage innovative, interdisciplinary research and scholarship on campus.
Iowa Human Rights Network
The Iowa Human Rights Network is a collective of faculty members from institutions across the state of Iowa.
Events
Winifred Tate | Art After the Unspeakable: Reflections on Works by Doris Salcedo and Jeremy Frey
This talk examines mourning and worldmaking through community action and art in the wake of violence, dispossession, and collective loss. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with communities in southern Colombia and rural Maine, Tate considers the intersections, possibilities and limitations of rights activism and art through an exploration of the visual repertoires and material practices of Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo and Passamaquoddy artist Jeremy Frey. This program is free and open to all...
Screening and talk by Andrew Freer of Go Fourth Media films, "2000 Metres to Andriivka"
A Community Collaborations Event
Presented in partnership with the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, with a portion of ticket proceeds going to The Center to Protect Journalists
Pre-screening there will be short films produced by Go Forth Media with filmmaker Andrew Freer in conversation
Please join us for a community collaboration with FilmScene on April 1 at 6:30 p.m. Andrew Freer, founder of Chicago based Go Fourth Media, will share some of the organization's recent documentary work...