Welcome to the Rapoport Center

Upcoming Events

• October 3, 2016

  Yes Justice, Yes Peace: The Role of Art in Confronting Inequality

  Speaker:

  • Darren Walker President, Ford Foundation
  The 2nd Annual Sissy Farenthold Endowed Lecture will explore the intersection of the arts and human rights, and the need for artists and non-artists alike to engage more fully with the power of artistic expression in the instigation of social change. Mr. Walker will be in conversation with bestselling author, curator, and professor Sarah Lewis.
• October 10, 2016

  The Exploitation Bias in the Transnational Law of Natural Resource Extraction

  Speaker:

  • Isabel Feichtner Assistant Professor of Law and Economics, Goethe University, Frankfurt
• October 13, 2016

  The Recognition Gap: Why Labels Matter in Human Rights Protection

  Speaker:

  • Stacy Kosko Assistant Research Professor & Associate Director, Minor in International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland
  Dr. Stacy Kosko will discuss how the formal categorizing of different types of ethnocultural minorities affects how international human rights law can protect them.
• October 17, 2016

  Extraction, Indigenous Rights and Prior Consent

  Speaker:

  • Patricia Tobón Yagarí Emberá indigenous activist and lawyer, National Indigenous Organization of Colombia
• October 17, 2016

  Film Screening: Under the Stack

  Meet the directors and join us for a screening and discussion of "Under the Stack," which examines the experiences and struggles of communities with prolonged relationships with the American Smelting and Refining Company.
• October 21, 2016

  Environmental Martyrdom & Defenders of the Forest

  Speaker:

  • Rob Nixon Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professorship in Humanities and Environment, Princeton University
• October 21, 2016

  The Anthropocene: The Promise & Pitfalls of an Epochal Idea

  Speaker:

  • Rob Nixon Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professorship in Humanities and Environment, Princeton University
• November 7, 2016

  Using Ghana’s Oil Wealth to Promote Social Rights: A Vanishing Dream?

  Speakers:

  • Lucie E. White Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  • William E. Forbath Associate Dean for Research & Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law, Texas Law
• November 21, 2016

  Violence Against Women and Resource Extraction

  Speaker:

  • Penelope Simons Professor of Law, University of Ottawa