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Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights

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  5. Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights

Championing Human Rights Around the World

The Goldstein Lecture brings a distinguished scholar or leading expert on human rights to UNO each year.

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Join us September 26, 2024

From 7:00-8:30 PM
Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center, 201/205/209

This lecture will reconstruct the origins of humanitarian law: the attempt to impose legal rules on the conduct of war with the goal of reducing war’s brutality. From the start, some thinkers have worried that implementing laws of war would backfire, or even make war permanent. The talk will reflect on the implications of recent wars since 9/11/2001, examining whether these worries were misplaced or well-founded.
SPEAKER: Samuel Moyn, J.D., Ph.D.
Samuel Moyn is Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University. He received a doctorate in modern European history from the University of California-Berkeley in 2000 and a law degree from Harvard University in 2001. Professor Moyn’s areas of interest in legal scholarship include international law, human rights, the law of war, and legal thought, in historical and current perspective.
In addition to multiple scholarly books and articles, his work has appeared in venues such as Boston Review, the Chronicle of High Education, Dissent, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. His newest book is Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2021).

2023
Technology and its Impact on Human Rights
Betsy Popken, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center (HRC) at UC Berkeley School of Law.

2023
A Special Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights: Cosmic Justice: Desacralizing Human Rights in the Holy Land
Reza Aslan, University of California, Riverside
Livestream from Jerusalem

2022
Is Religion Bad News for Human Rights?
Rev. Dr. Gary Mason, Northern Ireland Good Friday Peace Agreement

2021
A Special Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights: The Right to Health, Equity & the Pursuit of Justice
Dr. Nada Fadul, University of Nebraska Medical Center


2020
Angelic Troublemakers and Immigration: How Faith Leaders Use Ritual as a Human Rights Tool
Najeeba Syeed, Chicago Theological Seminary


2019
A Special Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights: The Current State of International Criminal Justice
The Honorable Richard Goldstone


2019
The Future is History
Masha Gessen

2018
A Revolution of Value in the Age of Trump
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Princeton University

2017
ENSLAVED: A Visual Story of Modern Day Slavery
Lisa Kristine, Humanitarian Photographer

2016
Different Kinds Of Minds Contribute to Society
Temple Grandin


2015
Rights and Resources: Understanding Contemporary Challenges to Human Rights in Central America
Angelina Snodgrass Godoy


2014
Human Rights and the Rights of Nature in an Era of Climate, Energy, Food and Water Crises
Winona LaDuke


2013
What Makes a Family? Is Same Sex Marriage a Human Right?
Zach Wahls


2011
The Black Swan of the Middle East
Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Middle East and North Africa Division Human Rights Watch


2010
Are Human Rights Organizations Helping or Hurting Relations between Israel, Palestine and the Arabs?

Robert L. Bernstein, Publisher and Human Rights Activist


2009
Hope for Darfur

Brian Steidle, former Marine Captain and executive director of HOPE (Helping Other People Everywhere)


2008
An Evening with Minky Worden
Minky Worden, Media Director Human Rights Watch


2007
An Evening with Natan Sharansky
Natan Sharansky, Chairman of the Institute for Strategic Studies, The Shalem Center


2006
Human Rights in Development Competing Claims and Economic Empowerment
Stephen P. Marks, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights
Harvard School of Public Health and Visiting Professor, School of Law City University of Hong Kong


2005
Genocide Emergency Sudan: Who will survive today?

Jerry Fowler, J.D. Staff Director Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum


2004
Human Rights: Morality versus Power
David Chandler, Senior Lecturer Centre for the Study of Democracy University of Westminster, London


2003
Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights
Dr. William Schulz, Executive Director, Amnesty International


2002
Easy Targets: Children and Human Rights
Jo Becker, Children's Rights Division Advocacy Director Human Rights Watch


2001
China's Great Leap: What Olympic Legacy for Human Rights in China?
Lashawn R. Jefferson, Director of the Women's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch


2000
An Evening with Kenneth Roth
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director Human Rights Watch


1999
On the tenth anniversary of the crackdown at Tiananmen Square
Xiao Qiang, Champion of Democracy

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