Wednesday, Oct. 15 12:45–1:45 p.m. 265 BLB Join the student lead book club for this year's book selection Wastelands: The True Story of a Farm Country on Trial. Copies of the book are available for loan at the Law Library, UI Main Library, and local Public Libraries to read before the Book Club. Come ready to discuss! Questions? Email henry-dambach@uiowa.edu

    The UICHR Fall 2024 Webinar Series will examine Industrial Agriculture: Impacts, Advocacy, and Community. Join experts from across the United States for a series of panels discussing the impacts of industrial agriculture on the environment, community, and health of agricultural states.  Legal Advocacy and Environmental Litigation: From North Carolina to Iowa     Wednesday, Oct. 16     Noon to 1 p.m. CST     Zoom ID:  977 5557 6923     During the second webinar, join environmental...

Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will hold a roundtable conversation with UI health care students on eugenics policies and the medical profession in Nazi Germany.  The event is organized by the UI Center for Human Rights, Carver College of Medicine, and US Holocaust Memorial Museum with support from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and International Programs & the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization. The event was made possible through the...

Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will discuss how Jim Crow-era eugenics policies in the United States served as a model for Nazi Germany. This event is designated as a Lawyers & Leaders event for UI College of Law students.  The event is organized by the UI Center for Human Rights and US Holocaust Memorial Museum with support from Pentacrest Museums, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, and International Programs & the Stanley-UI Foundation Support...

One Community, One Book - Author Keynote Sunday, Oct. 20 from 3 to 4:15 p.m. at Old Brick The Fall 2024 One Community, One Book selection is Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial, by Corban Addison. The program is an annual community-wide reading project! This event is free and open to the public and sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative, and the Iowa City Book Festival. We look forward to seeing you for the event! Here...

The UICHR Fall 2024 Webinar Series will examine Industrial Agriculture: Impacts, Advocacy, and Community. Join experts from across the United States for a series of panels discussing the impacts of industrial agriculture on the environment, community, and health of agricultural states.  Agricultural Workers and Extreme Heat: OSHA’s Proposed Heat Safety Rule Wednesday, Nov. 13 Noon to 1 p.m. CST Zoom ID:  977 5557 6923 Join occupational safety, labor, and environmental experts discussing...

Join us as we commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 25th anniversary of the UI Center for Human Rights. Opening remarks from UI President Barbara Wilson will be followed by a lecture by Adrien K. Wing, associate dean for international and comparative law and director of the UI Center for Human Rights. This lecture will have American Sign Language interpretation.

The annual Iowa Human Rights Research Conference takes place on Saturday, April 12, 2025, at the University of Northern Iowa. The conference is hosted by the Iowa Network of Human Rights Academics and the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights. The call for student proposals will be posted in Fall 2024.  Registration details and conference schedule will be updated at: https://iowahumanrights.org/conference/conference-information