Program Events

 
Saturday, January 28 (1-4:30 pm,  William Mitchel College of Law)

Conference: Water, War and Conflict

Dr. Charlie Clemens
Executive Director, Carr Human Rights Center, Harvard University
"The Human Right to Water"

Graham Russell
Co-Directer, Rights Action
"Crisis in Guatemala"

2.5 Standard Ed. CLE credits ($25)
General Public $10
Registration (may also walk in)

World Without Genocide, William Mitchell College of Law
Cosponsored by Human Rights Program & Program in Human Rights and Health

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Wednesday, February 8  (7pm, McNamara Alumni Center)

All Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals

David Scheffer
Director of the International Center for Human Rights
Northwestern Law School

Free & Open to the Public

Sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Human Rights University 
Human Rights Program, Ohanessian Chair (CLA), Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Cosponsored by the Human Rights Center, Program in Human Rights and Health,
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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Spring 2012 Course

PubH 6807 Global Health, Relief, Development, and Religous & Non-Religious NGOs
(3 Cr., Weds., 5:40-8:30 pm, 1/18-5/2, #59681)

PHRH Web and Podcasts

Most Neglected Among Stigmatizing Tropical Diseases?
Podoconiosis (non-filarial elephantaisis):
A Hidden Disease Leading to Hiddenness
Sara Tomczyk, RN
International Orthodox Christian Charities (5/3/2011)
Public Health Lecturer, Addis Ababa School of Nursing
TOMS Shoes Podoconiosis Initiative Health Project Manager

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Cultural Beliefs and Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Namibia
Elizabeth Lightfoot, PhD, MSW
University of Minnesota School of Social Work (4/11/11)

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The Gifts of the Body: Organ Procurement for Transplantation
Gilbert Meilaender, PhD
Valparaiso University &
former member of President's Council on Bioethics (11/11/10)
Download, Instaplay

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Differing Impacts of Disability on Earnings in China and the USA:
A Policy Effect?
Samuel L Myers, Jr, PhD
Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice
University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs (9/20/10)

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A Public Health Journal: Human Rights and Health Care
Ed Ehlinger, MD; Kirk Allison, PhD, MS (7/21/10)

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The Philosophy of Abortion - A Debate 
Prof. Peter Kreeft, Boston College Department of Philosophy
Prof. David Boonin, University of Colorado Department of Philosophy
(4/30/2010)

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Treatment Behind Bars? Evidence-based Treatment
For Addiction in Correctional Settings: Access, Ethics and Human Rights
R. Douglas Bruce, MD, MS, MSc
Yale University Center for Clinical Investigation (4/5/2010)

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Public Interest, Public Health, and Political Hubris:
The Making of Tobacco Litigation and United States v. Philip Morris
Sharon Eubanks, JD
Ms. Eubanks is the former U.S. Justice Department case attorney
(SPH Gaylord Anderson Memorial Lecture, 2/19/2010)

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Forgotten No More!
International Human Rights Advocacy for Persons with Mental Disabilities
and the new UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Eric Rosenthal, JD
Executive Director, Mental Disability Rights International (4/17/2009)

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Darfur! Responding to a Public Health Disaster
Ashis Brahma, MD
Phoenix Global Humanitarian Foundation (2/11/2009)

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Genocide, 'Ethnic Cleansing' & Cloaks of Invisibility
Gregory Stanton, PhD
Executive Director, Genocide Watch &
James Farr Professor of Human Rights, University of Mary Washington (11/19/2008)

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Bioethics and Moral Pluralism
H. Tristram Engelhardt, MD, PhD
  Rice University Department of Philosophy,
Mary Faith Marshall, PhD
U of M Center for Medical Humanities and the Arts, Center for Bioethics (4/3/2008)

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From Eugenics to Deadly Medicine and Back (Spring 2008)
Medical Apartheid - Harriet Washington (2/28/2008)
Putting Faces to a Faceless Crime: Profiles of Nazi Euthanasia Victims
Patricia Heberer, PhD, US Holocaust Memorial Museum (4/13/2008)
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics
Hans-Walter Schmuhl, PhD, University of Bielefeld (3/27/2008)
Race and Eugenics: Minnesota and the University of Minnesota
Mark Soderstrom, PhD, State University of New York (4/17/2008)
On Surviving Medical Atrocity: Testimony of a Survivor
Margot DeWilde (4/24/2008)

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Human Rights, the Burden of Disease, and Internatonal Tobacco Control
Public Health Roundtable (4/27/2007)
John Finnegan & Harry Lando, Carolyn Dressler, Benjamin Mason Meier
Kirk Allison, Doug Blanke, Patricia Lambert

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The Body on Display: Controversies and Conversations
Boundaries and Bodies: Cultural and Religious Perspectives
Kirk Allison, Linda Schulte-Sasse,  Lucia M Tanassi,
Terry Nichols, Margaret P Moss, Mary Faith Marshall (7/6/2006)