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Miry Whitehill - Welcome, Neighbor

Welcome, Neighbor is led by Miry Whitehill, founder and executive director of Miry’s List. Miry started Miry's List in Eagle Rock in July 2016 when a friend introduced her to a family of new arrival Syrian refugees resettling in Los Angeles with kids the same age as her own.

Join the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs, the Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy for a discussion on Refugees resettlement on September 20, at 1:55 pm in Choi Auditorium.

An Alternate History of Human Rights

Steven L. B. Jensen, a lead researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, will present a fundamental reinterpretation of the history of international human rights after 1945. Jensen focuses on the agency of the global south and their role in advancing human rights around the world. Jensen won the 2017 Best Book on Human Rights for his paradigm-shifting research. Join us for a fresh look at the making of human rights!

Reproductive Rights Regression

Alison Brysk is Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Brysk has been named both an International Studies Association and an American Political Science Association Distinguished Scholar of Human Rights. Her wide-ranging research draws both on global theorizing as well as fieldwork on human rights in Latin America and Asia.

Wild Survivor Dreams: Dreaming a Future Beyond Sexual Assault

We have wild survivor dreams. In them, we are free. Join  disability/ transformative justice/ femme of color activist and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha for a poetic keynote exploring how survivor brilliance is dreaming a work beyond sexual abuse, prisons and white supremacist ableist cissexist patriarchy.

Choi Auditorium is a wheelchair-accessible space. Please refrain from wearing fragranced products at the event.

Israeli Apartheid Week Event: Reflections on Palestine and 1492 with Linda Quiquivix

Israeli Apartheid Week Events: 

4/10, 8:30 pm

Reflections on Palestine and 1492 with Linda Quiquivix in Choi Auditorium

4/11, 6:30 pm

Borders and Walls with Latinx Student Union in Fowler 302

4/12, TBH

Dabkeh performance at the JSC Quad

4/12, 2:00 pm 

Tatreez with Students for Justice in Palestine in the Bengal Room