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Upcoming Events

• September 30, 2020

  Gender, Human Rights, and COVID-19

  University of Minnesota: The coronavirus pandemic creates a perfect storm for exacerbating gender-based violence and discrimination. In every area—from employment to school closures to domestic violence to health outcomes—we see evidence of disproportionately negative impacts based on gender.
• October 1, 2020

  Charles M. Blow: “Is this really a racial reckoning?”

  Speaker:

  • Charles M. Blow New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, Author of "Fire Shut Up in My Bones"
  Join the Rothko Chapel and the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin for the 6th annual Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights.
• October 5, 2020

  Prabha Kotiswaran: “An Ode to Altruism: How Indian Courts Value Unpaid Domestic Work”

  Speaker:

  • Prabha Kotiswaran Professor of Law & Social Justice, King’s College London
  Respondent: Erik Encarnacion, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Texas at Austin
• October 19, 2020

  Adelle Blackett: “Racial Capitalism’s Challenge to Labor Law in the Age of Pandemic”

  Speaker:

  • Adelle Blackett Professor of Law, Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labor Law and Development, McGill University
  Respondent: Bedour Alagraa, Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin
• November 2, 2020

  Juan De Lara: “Essential Workers or Disposability Politics? Organizing in the Age of Pandemic Capitalism”

  Speaker:

  • Juan De Lara Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Founding Director of the Center for Latinx and Latin American Studies, University of Southern California
  Respondent: Sharmila Rudrappa, Professor of Sociology, Director of the South Asia Institute, University of Texas at Austin

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