Category: Events

EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Monday, June 7, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm ET  
Where: Live Stream
Cost: FREE

Description:
Gerald Lenoir, a veteran organizer of the anti-apartheid movement in the United States and an organizer for racial justice today, will share lessons from the movement that helped bring down apartheid to help us better understand how to teach — and participate in — the ongoing Black Freedom Struggle.

This webinar is part of the series entitled, “Teach the Black Freedom Struggle” is hosted by the Zinn Education project and features leading historians from across the country. The classes are held at least once a month on Mondays at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET for 75 minutes. In each session, the historian is interviewed by a teacher and breakout rooms allow participants (in small groups) to meet each other, discuss the content, and share teaching ideas.

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Virtual workshop dates: June 21, 23, 25, 2021, 10AM – 2PM EST

This free online Summer Institute for Global Educators, sponsored by the Longview Foundation and the National Resource Center Program of the U.S. Department of Education, will allow in-service and pre-service secondary educators in all subject areas to develop courses and lesson plans with enhanced global and regional studies content. Educators from Title I schools are especially encouraged to apply.

Online synchronous and asynchronous sessions will include the use of film and media, simulations, games, and technology to enhance global learning and teaching. Pitt College in High School (CHS) teachers will have the opportunity to meet with CHS staff on foregrounding global issues while meeting University and district requirements. Participating Pennsylvania teachers can apply for Act 48 credits.
 
To Apply: Interested participants should complete the application and include a resume or CV and a brief (200-word maximum) statement about their desired outcomes from participation. For questions, please contact Susan Dawkins.

Application Deadline: June 2, 2021

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: May 19 – 27, 2021
Time: Various/on-demand
Where:  Online
Cost: $9/Ticket $70/Festival Pass

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, in its second digital edition, will be available to audiences across the U.S. from May 19 through 27, 2021, on its streaming site. 

As always, the films will span a range of current and pressing human rights issues from around the world, and Q&As will feature filmmakers, film subjects and human rights leaders with a focus on prioritizing space for identities, viewpoints, forms of expertise and experiences either silenced or marginalized in the film industry, news and media.

Students can get a discount on tickets using the code CHANGEHERE21 and HRW has set aside a set number of free tickets for anyone who needs them by emailing filmticket@hrw.org.

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Time: 11:30 – 12:30 ET
Where:  Virtual Webinar
Cost: FREE

Presenter: Anne Becker and Cornelia Roux, Stellenbosch University, South Africa 

Description:
Who is included in the ‘Human’ of human rights education? This webinar draws on data from the research project Human rights literacy: Quest for meaning, led by Cornelia Roux and on a paper by Anne Becker to be published in HRER Volume 4(2). The presenters invite us to reflect on the terms and content of human rights education, and to consider what a decolonial HRE might look like. They will consider the terms of our conversations and reflect on principles, assumptions and rules of knowing. These terms and HRE content are interrelated and sustained by continual movement between them. Decoloniality resists global coloniality of power, ontologies and epistemologies which are consequences of colonisation. The session will examine the Eurocentric assumptions and principles which frequently serve as premise for human rights and human rights education, arguing that researchers and educators need to explore pluriversal knowledges of human rights and problematising the Human of human rights. They will conclude with some thoughts on decolonising human rights education. Anne Becker’s paper can be read here.

EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Wednesday, April 21
Time: 6:00 pm ET  
Where: Live Stream
Cost: FREE

Description:
You are invited to join NEA President Becky Pringle for an exclusive conversation with the new secretary of education, Dr. Miguel Cardona. They will discuss Secretary Cardona’s experience in public schools, his vision for student opportunity and learning, and the Biden-Harris Administration’s priorities for our public schools and institutions of higher learning. Secretary Cardona will also answer questions directly from educators, parents, and community members. You can submit a question when you register.

EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Friday, April 23, 2021
Time: 5:30 – 7:30 Pacific
Where:  Virtual Webinar
Cost: FREE

Description:
The International & Multicultural Education (IME) Department at the University of San Francisco invites you to join “Gender and Racial Justice through a Human Rights Lens: A Dialogue with Loretta Ross & Dawn Wooten.” The discussion will be moderated by IME Professors Dr. Emma Fuentes & Dr. Monisha Bajaj, and students from the IME Department. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. 

• Loretta J. Ross is an activist, public intellectual, and scholar, and currently is a Visiting Associate Professor at Smith College. She is the author of multiple books, including Reproductive Justice: An Introduction (with Rickie Solinger, 2017) and Calling In the Calling Out Culture: Detoxing Our Movement due out in 2021.
• Dawn Wooten has risked her life and career to make sure that women’s human rights are not being abused or violated. As the ICE whistleblower, she brought attention to the conditions and procedures at a privately owned Detention Facility in Georgia in 2020. She is a mother currently pursuing her nursing degree.

This event is presented by the University of San Francisco, International & Multicultural Education Department and sponsored by HRE USA

Date: Friday, April 16, 2021
Time: 1 – 2 pm ET
Location: Virtual Webinar
Cost: FREE

Presenter: Justin Hansford, Executive Director, Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, Howard University.

Description:
Justin Hansford will discuss his experience in community-based legal advocacy and address how he incorporates his practitioner experience into his teaching and scholarship. Hansford worked to empower the Ferguson community through community based legal advocacy. He co-authored the Ferguson to Geneva human rights shadow report and accompanied the Ferguson protesters and Mike Brown’s family to Geneva, Switzerland, to testify at the United Nations. He has served as a policy advisor for proposed post-Ferguson reforms at the local, state, and federal level, testifying before the Ferguson Commission, the Missouri Advisory Committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission, the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

This event is part of a spring webinar series sponsored by the University and College Consortium for Human Rights Education (UCCHRE) and HRE USA.

Date: Friday, April 2, 2021
Time: 4 – 5 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Cost: FREE

In the first few months of 2021 alone, trans youth have been the target of efforts to restrict or eliminate LGBTQ rights. Whether it’s banning trans athletes from competing in school sports or prohibiting gender-affirming health care, these bills have brought the culture wars to our classrooms like never before and send a dangerous message to trans and nonbinary kids who have long struggled to find acceptance and understanding to live as their authentic selves.

Ahead of Transgender Day of Visibility next week, RFK Human Rights and the Human Rights Campaign have launched a new trans rights lesson plan that provides teachers with the compelling material they need to help students become better allies of and co-conspirators with the LGBTQ community.

Join them on April 2 for a deeper dive into the need for trans rights education during a virtual panel event featuring a host of activists and educators. Panelists will discuss the urgent need for trans rights education that centers and celebrates LGBTQ lives and how we can equip educators and students to become better advocates for this community through resources, empowerment, and support.