UICHR is celebrating 25 years! This milestone is a testament to the unwavering support of our campus partners and community friends as well as the tireless efforts of our team, past and present. Throughout the 2024-25 academic year, we’ll be commemorating past accomplishments while looking to the future. We’re focused on continuing to strengthen the Center’s unique role in examining and responding to present and impending human rights challenges through transformative teaching, cutting-edge scholarship, and innovative public engagement.

Since its founding in 1999, our Center has provided unique opportunities for University of Iowa students to gain high impact experiences in human rights work. These include our Cmiel and Weston summer funding programs, travel support for experiential courses, Rex Honey Internship program, and the Iowa Human Rights Conference. Please consider contributing to our 25th anniversary campaign to support and expand experiential human rights opportunities for University of Iowa students using the link below.

In addition to our usual programming, we have a number of special events planned for our anniversary year. This year’s One Community, One Book selection, Wastelands by Corban Addison, and our webinar series “Industrial Agriculture: Impacts, Advocacy, and Community” anchor our fall thematic programming. Special events this semester include a talk by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Senior Historian, Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice and our Human Rights Day event featuring remarks by President Wilson and a lecture by our Center's Director, Associate Dean Adrien K. Wing.

Fall programming highlights:

· September 18: Webinar #1 – Industrial Animal Agriculture: Impacts on the Environment, Communities, and Health

· October 16: Webinar #2 – Legal Advocacy and Environmental Litigation: From North Carolina to Iowa

· October 17: How Healers Became Killers: Physicians & Medical Crimes in Nazi Germany, Old Capitol Senate Chamber

· October 20: One Community, One Book keynote lecture with Corban Addison, Old Brick

· November 13: Webinar #3 – Agricultural Workers and Extreme Heat: OSHA’s Proposed Heat Safety Rule

· December 10: Human Rights Day Lecture, Old Capitol Senate Chamber

We’re organizing dynamic programming for the spring capped with an anniversary celebration event in April. Keep on eye on this web page for updates and join us as we honor a quarter-century and advance the Center’s tradition of working collaboratively to promote and protect human rights locally and globally.