Human Rights Minor at UMass Boston

Wonderful event with Professor Beth Richie on abolition, feminism, and human rights. March 5.

https://heritageradionetwork.org/episode/tracing-food-memory-through-migration-and-displacement

Tracing Food Memory through Migration and Displacement | Heritage Radio Network What does food sustain? Elora Halim Chowdhury joins Gastronomica’s Signe Rousseau to discuss her new article on family, class, and culture in South Asian identity-making. Reflecting on her food nostalgia for the family mealtimes of her childhood in Rajshahi, Dhaka, and New Delhi, Elora discusses h...

Join us February 14: Conversations on South Asia with Elora Halim Chowdhury

12:15–1:15 PM ET (via Zoom)
Cinematic media have long been important for remembering and memorializing the 1971 Bangladesh War of Liberation (or, Muktijuddho). They have also been important vehicles for critiquing and reconciling with war’s trauma.
Analyzing Muktijuddho films through Black and transnational feminist frameworks, Elora Halim Chowdhury (University of Massachusetts Boston) considers the power and potential of human rights cinema in her latest book, Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh (Temple University Press, 2022). As Chowdhury shows, cinematic representations not only portray marginalized experiences but also put those experiences on a global stage.
Join us to learn more!

https://tinyurl.com/ChowdhurySouthAsia

Film and media scholars Gwendolyn S. Kirk (Indiana University Bloomington) and Alka Kurian (University of Washington Bothell) will be joining the author for this discussion.

Please mark your calendars for a WGS forum Celebrating International Women’s Day:

Reproductive (In)Justice After the Fall of Roe

Featured speaker:

Brigitte Amiri, Deputy Director, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project

Joined by panelists:

WGS Prof. Shoshanna Ehrlich
WGS Prof. Chris Barcelos
&
WGS Major Jackie Miranda


Wednesday March 8th 2-4
Campus Center Ballroom A

We still have some human rights events lined up for the Fall Semester. See the flyer for more details!

On Tuesday, December 6th Dr. Harleen Singh will deliver a Human Rights Keynote Lecture titled:
Honorable Deaths / Dishonorable Lives: Narratives of Partition, Women, Silence, and Truth. See the flyer below for more details and we hope to see you there!

Do join us as we mark World AIDS Day today! There will be an AIDS-Ribbon Making activity as well as a lecture. Se flyer for more details.

It's almost time for our Fall Human Rights Keynote! Will we see you there on December 6th?

Don't miss our next fabulous Human Rights event coming up on December 5th!

Don't miss your chance to see Dr. Rachel Afi Quinn next week on December 5th!

Her talk will focus on Gender and Sexuality in Ghana

Join us at 11am! Zoom link is embedded