Upcoming and Past Events

Upcoming Events

• March 24-25, 2011, Storrs, CT.  Testimony, Oral History, and Human Rights Documentation:
  A Conference Workshop.  Human Rights Institute and the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut.
• April 15-16, 2011, Tuscon, AZ.  Information Rights as Human Rights AND Workshop:  Libraries and Human Rights.  Information Ethics Roundtable.
• April 26-27, 2011, Berkeley, CA. Advancing the New Machine: Human Rights and Technology conference. Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley.
• May 28 - June 1, 2011, Philadelphia, PA. SALALM LVI Preserving Memory: Documenting and Archiving Latin American Human Rights. Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials.
  

Archive of Events

• December 9-10, 2010, Dundee, Scotland. Memory, Identity and the Archival Paradigm: an Interdisciplinary Approach. Centre for Archive and Information Studies (CAIS) at the University of Dundee
• September 17- October 29, 2010, Rome, Italy. ICCROM Course on First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Conflict 
• September 13-18, 2010, Oslo, Norway. CITRA 2010 . (Will include human rights themed sessions)
• September 1-3, 2010, Manchester, England. Society of Archivists Annual Conference. (Will include human rights themed sessions)  
  August 30-31, 2010, The Hague. Archives without Borders Conference, The Royal Dutch Society of Archivists and the Flemish (Belgian) Association of Archivists (V.V.B.A.D.)
• August 10-14, 2010, Washington DC. Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting. (Will include several human rights-themed meetings and sessions)
• February 11-13, 2010, New Haven, CT. A2K: Access to Knowledge and Human Rights Conference, Yale University.
• January 27- February 2, 2010. ONLINE. New Tactics in Human Rights Online Dialog, Documenting Violations:  Choosing the Right Approach.
• December 5, 2009, Washington DC. "The Conscience Un-Conference: Using Social Media for Good." The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• November, 11, 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. "Seminar Recording Mass Violence: Media and Collective Memory of Severe Injustice." Huizinga Institute and The Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam.
• November 5-8, 2009, Montréal, Québec, Canada. “Remembering War, Genocide and other Human Rights Violations: Oral History, New Media and the Arts.” The Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling & the Montreal Life Stories Project, Concordia University.
• October 27, 2009, Berkeley, California. "Human Rights Advocacy, Mobilizing Action in the Visual Age." Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley.
• September 21, 2009, Bueno Aires, Argentina. Regional Meeting on Archives and Human Rights, Panel "Archive and testimony," Memoria Abierta.
• September 10-11, 2009, York, England. "Responsibility to the Story: Testimony and Ethics in Human Rights Research and Narratives." Alcuin Research Resource Centre, University of York.
• June 25-27, 2009, Dublin, Ireland. "Photography and International Conflict." The University College Dublin Clinton Institute for American Studies
• June 19, 2009, New York, New York. 2009 Open Video Conference: Human Rights and Indigenous Media: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities. New York University.
• June 4-5, 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmo, Sweden. International Conference on "Memory, Archives and Human Rights."
• May 15 - 17, 2009, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) Annual Conference: "Rights, Responsibilities, Trust: Archives and Public Affairs"
• May 4-5, 2009, Berkeley, California. "The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media." Human Rights Center at the University of California Berkeley.
• December 9-11, 2008,  Mexico City, Mexico.  “Primer Foro Internacional de Archivos y Derechos Humanos" (First International Forum on Archives & Human Rights)
  November 6-7, 2008, Montevideo, Uruguay. " Acceso a los Archivos de Derechos Humanos: Modelos y Experiencias" (Accessing Human Rights Archives: Models and Experiences)
• September 5, 2008, Paris, France. "The Right to Know, the Right to Truth: How Archives and Records help Combat Impunity"
• July 21-27, 2008,  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  “16th International Council on Archives Congress.” 
  August 26-30, 2008,  San Francisco, CA.  “Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting.”
• June 30- July 3, 2008,  Nantes, France.  “3rd World Forum on Human Rights.”
• May 30-31, 2008.  Olsztyn, Poland.  “8th International Conference on Human Rights: Right to Knowledge and Information in a Heterogenic Society.” 
• May 2-3, 2008,  Ann Arbor, MI.  “Archives and the Ethics of Memory Construction.”
• March 31- April 2, 2008,  Ramallah, Palestine.  “International Conference on Libraries from Human Rights Perspective.” 
• March 3-4, 2008, Storrs, CT. "Human Rights Archives and Documentation: Transforming Ideas into Practice."
• October 4-5, 2007, New York, NY . "Human Rights Archives and Documentation: Meeting the Needs of Research, Teaching, Advocacy, and Social Justice.