Category: Events

The National Council for the Social Studies annual conference will be taking place in Boston, MA on November 22-24, 2024. There are a range of human rights focused sessions this year, and the NCSS Human Rights Education community will be featuring and hosting a variety of opportunities and events. Please see the promo and conference events links below for more details. Contact Chris Buckley and Jake Skrzypiec at ncss.hre@gmail.com with any questions. We hope to see you in Boston!

>> Register for the NCSS conference
>> Human Rights Education Featured Sessions and Events
NOTE: This document is being regularly updated up until conference weekend. Room information will be available soon.

>> Please email any questions to:  ncss.hre@gmail.com

HRE USA and Woven Teaching @NCSS

We’ll be at Booth 118 at NCSS with Woven Teaching! Stop by for resources and more information.

Nov 20, 2024 08:00 AM in Central Time (US and Canada)

The City of Salem and the Center for Childhood & Youth Studies at Salem State University will be holding a set of celebration events on November 20, which is Universal Children’s Day. The day events will include presentations from UNICEF and speakers from around the world on how a city like Salem could become designated as a Child Friendly Community, followed by in person workshops on what we together can do to make that happen.

Register here!

November 20th, 2024 at 9am–3pm

• Morning 9am–12pm: Introducing Salem as a Child-Friendly Community | SSU Central Campus Forten Hall
• Afternoon 1pm–3pm: Making It Happen Working Groups | SSU Central Campus Forten Hall
• 6pm–8pm: Presentations, music, and performances by children of all ages throughout Salem | Salem Visitors Center Auditorium

For registration and more information
>> Sarah Roy – sroy@salem.com
>> Yvonne Vissing – yvissing@salemstate.edu

Tuesday, May 14, 7:00 – 8:30pm CT

Allegations of genocide are being brought against a number of countries at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. This webinar, with speaker Dr. Ellen J. Kennedy, Executive Director, World Without Genocide, examines the apparent impunity of China, and charges against Israel, Russia, and Myanmar in a precedent set years ago in a case against Serbia.

REGISTER HERE

Co-sponsors:

• Children of Holocaust Survivors Association in Minnesota
• Citizens for Global Solutions – MN
• Federal Bar Association, Minnesota Chapter
• Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, St. Paul
• Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers
• Mitchell Hamline School of Law
• Minnesota Council of Churches
• Minnesota Nurses Association
• Mount Zion Temple
• Shir Tikvah Congregation
• The United Nations Association of Minnesota

Register by Tuesday, May 14 at 5:00 pm CT

Admission:

• $10 general public; $5 seniors and students (over age 13, please).
• $25 for 1.5 CLE credits for Minnesota lawyers.
• ‘Clock hours’ for teachers, social workers, and nurses.
• Mitchell Hamline students free – diversity credits are available.
• Qualifies as a University of St. Thomas Law Mentor Externship experience.

Register today to attend our next webinar —Supporting Youth Activism—set for this Tuesday, April 16, at 3:30 p.m. CT! Join Learning for Justice, along with a diverse group of panelists from academia to organizational leaders to current young people who are working to affect change in their communities.

You will learn about youth activism, including both its history and present day realities, as well as how to address pushback. Through real world examples, you will gain tools, resources, and insights for supporting young people as they engage in activism in their communities. You won’t want to miss it! 

Here’s information about the webinar panelists:

• Anoushka Lal is a high school senior from the Chicago Public School System and serves as her school’s Student Government president. Anoushka was previously the Public Health Chair of the Chicago Mayor’s Youth Commission at City Hall, working with two mayoral administrations to address the pressing needs of city youth, including mental health and resource consolidation for over 340,000 public high school students. She currently serves as a Civil Rights Scholar at the Chicago Public School District, countering bias-based harm, and has written socio-political Op-Eds in magazines like Teen Vogue to represent the voices of her generation.
   
• Sara O’Brien is the Director of Curriculum and Pedagogy for the EdEthics initiative, which is housed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. In this role, she creates pedagogical tools that help educators, school and district leaders, and policy makers think through challenging ethical questions in education. A variety of these tools help educators unpack the challenges of supporting student-led activism in schools and provide resources for those adults looking to serve as allies and promote youth voice in schools.
   
• Tamir Harper co-founded UrbEd Inc., a nonprofit that combines community organizing and policy to uplift students, educate communities, and develop coalitions to give students the education they deserve, at 16 years old. He is currently pursuing a Master’s in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and teaching 8th-grade students English and Social Studies in the School District of Philadelphia. Harper is a graduate of American University and an awardee of the Frederick Douglass Distinguished Scholars Program. 
   
• Justin is an associate professor of digital media in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department at MIT and the director of the Teaching Systems Lab. He is the author of “Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools” and “Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education”, and he is the host of the TeachLab Podcast. He has helped to develop numerous online courses including Youth In Front: Understanding and Supporting Student-Led Activism.

Thu, 2 May 2024 11:30 – 12:30 GMT-5

This event is happening in person and online. This Eventbrite page is for booking online only.

If you wish to attend in person at Kellogg College please use the link below:

The Inaugural Human Rights Lecture: Human Rights in a Fractured World Tickets, Thu 2 May 2024 at 17:30 | Eventbrite

Join President Professor Jonathan Michie and Fellows online as we welcome Bynum Tudor Fellow Ban Ki-moon to Kellogg to deliver the Inaugural Lecture in a new annual series of Kellogg Lectures on Human Rights . This year’s lecture is titled ‘Human Rights in a Fractured World‘.

Ban Ki-moon’s ten years as Secretary General to the United Nations was marked by many successes. Throughout, he strove to enhance human rights globally. Indeed, Ban Ki-moon’s other successes – such as the Sustainable Development Goals, establishing UN Women, and the Paris agreement to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5 degrees celcius – can all be seen as enhancing human rights broadly defined. The Sustainable Development Goals promote the whole range of economic and social rights. UN Women “is the UN organization delivering programmes, policies and standards that uphold women’s human rights”. And the climate crisis threatens the rights of millions, most immediately those who will be displaced, and those facing famine and disease as a result of climate change. Ban Ki-moon will reflect on the urgent need to defend and promote human rights, and will place this in the broader context of the need to promote women’s rights, pursue the Sustainable Development Goals, and tackle the climate crisis.

Professor Jonathan Michie, President of Kellogg College will chair the event.

You will be sent a link to watch the talk nearer to the event date.

Should you have any further queries, please contact events@kellogg.ox.ac.uk