Championing Human Rights Around the World
The Goldstein Lecture brings a distinguished scholar or leading expert on human rights to UNO each year.
Join us October 5, 2023
From 7:00-9:00 PM
Thompson Alumni Center, Bootstrapper Hall
2023
A Special Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights: Cosmic Justice: Desacralizing Human Rights in the Holy Land
Reza Aslan, University of California, Riverside
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
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