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Annual Report 2024

For the Human Rights Institute, 2024 was a year for collaboration on topics ranging from cultural exchange to environmental justice to modern slavery.  We focused our efforts in our areas of strength:  research and experiential learning. We fostered transdisciplinary academic research in human rights with partners both on and off campus that resulted in peer-reviewed publications and grant applications.  And we worked with undergraduate and graduate students on projects that involved experiential learning and public facing human rights research. In addition, we sponsored and co-sponsored events, talks, writing workshops, films, and conversations about a wide range of human rights topics, and were especially pleased to host two distinguished members of our external advisory board for multi-day visits around their respective expertise in modern slavery and environmental justice.

We began the year with a book launch event for a collection co-edited by Alexandra Moore and Elizabeth Swanson on The Guantánamo Artwork and Testimony of Moath al-Alwi: Deaf Walls Speak. The book features contributions by Joshua Reno, Professor of Anthropology, and Olivia Vinson and Maya Gamer, both of whom began work on the project as 91ÉçÇø University undergraduates, in addition to external scholars and practitioners with expertise in art and art history, rhetorics of social justice, and law and culture. The book also features two essays by former detainees, include Moath al-Alwi, whose testimony is remarkable both for his reflections on his artistic practice and the publication of his work while he was still detained (he has since been transferred to Oman).2024 ANNUAL REPORT

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