Where: Patton Hall (RLP) Room 1.302D, 305 E 23rd Street, Austin, TX 78712

Sponsored by: Bernard & Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice

Join us for a report-back event featuring graduate student researchers presenting their findings from summer fieldwork supported by the Sissy Farenthold Fund for Peace and Social Justice. Hear from Laura Botero, Jazmin Muñoz, Andrea Richardson, and Kirill Veselkin about their research, and learn how you can apply for these fieldwork grants.  Laura Botero: “(En)gendering Extraction: Bodies, Territories, and Dispossession in Indigenous Amazonia” 

Jazmin Muñoz: “Mutant Ecologies: Nuclear Contamination as an Ecological Process in Durango, Colorado, 1912–1980” 

Andrea Richardson: “Community Solutions for Reproductive Justice: Strengthening Infrastructures to Promote Maternal Health”

Kirill Veselkin: “The Radioactive Toxicity of Nuclear Memory: Slow Violence and the Cultural Afterlife of Hiroshima” 

If you need an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the event sponsor or the Texas Law Special Events Office at specialevents@law.utexas.edu no later than seven business days prior to the event.

More information: https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/events/environmental-justice-fieldwork-report-back/

Where: TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)

Sponsored by: Bernard & Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice

Healthcare conscientious objection allows providers to refuse treatment based on moral or religious beliefs. Alongside the legalization of abortion since the 1970s, conscience clauses have expanded globally. In response, some legislative bodies and courts have implemented institutional safeguards to ensure that conscience-based refusals do not become insurmountable obstacles for patients.  This talk will argue that while these institutional safeguards hold potential, they have not fundamentally altered the dominant understanding of medical objection, which frames the conflict and its resolution as a situation involving two equally balanced parties. 

Elizabeth W. Sepper, Crillon C. Payne II Professor of Health Law at the University of Texas School of Law, will serve as a respondent for the event.

If you need an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the event sponsor or the Texas Law Special Events Office at specialevents@law.utexas.edu no later than seven business days prior to the event.

More information: https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/events/agustina-ramon-michel-palermo-and-cedes-argentina-conscientious-objection-to-abortion-comparative-legal-frameworks-and-debates/