HRE USA welcomes its second cohort of 2022 Summer Edmonds Fellows. The fellows will work on the the following 2022 Summer Fellowship Projects: Veronica Bido and Hallie McRae will work on HRE USA Community Engagement and Development, Natalie Roach will focus on Strengthening HRE USA Regional Representative Community. For more information about the fellows, please visit the 2022 Edmonds Summer Fellows page.
Thu, April 28, 2022
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CDT
Join Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work for another Critical Feminist Social Work Roundtable. We will hear Zakiya Luna, Stephanie Begun, and Erica Goldblatt Hyatt discuss their use of critical feminisms in social work research. Mery Diaz, Editorial Board member at Affilia, will moderate.
This Zoom webinar is hosted and co-sponsored by the New York College of Technology’s Human Services Department, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Center for LGBTQ Studies. Live Zoom transcription will be enabled for this event.
Below are bios and recent articles by the moderator and panelists. Articles will be available open-access April 21 – May 5.
Learn more about Affilia at https://journals.sagepub.com/home/aff and follow us on Twitter @AffiliaJournal.
FAQ
What is the purpose of the webinar? To showcase criticial feminist research and scholarship in social work; promote dialogue and education related to critical feminisms; promote authors who publish in Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work; promote readership, submissions, reviewers, and leadership for Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work.
Will participants be able to ask questions? Participants can ask questions in the Eventbrite registration form and during the webinar via the Q&A function. Moderators will review questions and choose a select number to pose to the panelists during the Q&A portion of the webinar.
Will the chat be open? The chat will be closed for all roundtables. With the number of registrants, we want our moderator and panelists to be able to focus on the questions and prompts at-hand.
Moderator: Mery Diaz
Mery F. Diaz, DSW, is an Associate Professor in the Human Services Department at the New York City College of Technology, CUNY. Her work examines the minoritized, racialized, and gendered school experiences of young people, school mental health services, and social justice issues. She is co-editor of Narrating Practice with Children and Adolescents (Columbia University Press, 2019) and is on the editorial board of Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work.
Read Dr. Diaz’s recent co-authored publication in Affilia, From Abortion Rights to Reproductive Justice: A Call to Action at https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099221077153.
Panelist: Zakiya Luna
Zakiya Luna, PhD is Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar in the Department of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Luna’s research is in the areas of social change, sociology of law, health, and inequality. She is interested in social movements, human rights, and reproduction with an emphasis on the effects of intersecting inequalities within and across these sites. She recently published Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice (New York University Press, 2020). She is currently working on an edited volume, Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis with Whitney Pirtle under contract with Routledge Press. Dr. Luna was also the lead author of the Reproductive Justice review article in the 2013 volume of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science and is the co-creator and former co-editor of the University of California Press book series, Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century.
Explore the edited volume that Dr. Luna is currently working on with Whitney Pirtle, Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis at https://blackfeministsociology.com/ and the book series she co-created and co-edited, Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century at https://www.ucpress.edu/series.php?ser=rjnv
Panelist: Stephanie Begun
Stephanie Begun is an Assistant Professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, where she also co-founded and co-directs the Youth Wellness Lab, a research collaborative that convenes academic researchers, community-based partners, and youth with a shared goal of improving services and outcomes across multiple intersecting domains by, with, and for youth. Stephanie’s experiences in reproductive justice policy and community organizing prompted her commitment to an academic career in social work research and advocacy. Her scholarship focuses on improving family planning access, education, and outcomes among equity-seeking youth populations, with particular attention paid to youth experiencing homelessness.
Read Dr. Begun’s co-authored publication in Affilia, Pedestal or Gutter: Exploring Ambivalent Sexism’s Relationship with Abortion Attitudes at https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109914555216
Panelist: Erica Golblatt Hyatt
Dr. Erica Goldblatt Hyatt is an Associate Teaching Professor and Acting Director of the DSW Program at the Rutgers University School of Social work. She is an administrator, clinician, author, and activist. She is one of the few specialists in the United States working with people and families who have ended a pregnancy due to fetal anomaly. Her published “ACCEPT” model and DOUBLE RAINBOW approach (co-authored with Judith McCoyd) are the only interventions available for social work and mental health clinicians to support this group specifically. She works with women across the spectrum of perinatal/baby loss, and also specializes in infertility. She is passionate about Reproductive Justice and has been frequently welcomed to advocate for abortion access alongside Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf.
Read one of two publications Dr. Goldblatt Hyatt recently published in Affilia, Examining Social Work Students Knowledge of and Attitudes About Abortion and Curriculum Coverage in Social Work Education at https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099211068241
Wed, 27 April 2022
10:30 – 11:30 CDT
Human rights education as a framework for transmitting religion as cultural heritage
Eva Lindhardt, University College Copenhagen, Denmark
The child’s right to freedom of religion and belief and fundamental principles such as equality and non-discrimination constitute an international frame for religious education (RE). However, these rights risk being undermined when RE is allocated a major role in transmitting the majority religion as national cultural heritage and national identity. In this presentation Eva Lindhardt will explore and discuss this question. She will draw on her analysis of the transmission of Christianity as cultural heritage in the national RE curriculum for primary and lower secondary schools in Denmark. She argues that human rights education principles could provide a basis for an alternative pluralistic, objective, and critical approach to RE, thus enabling the classroom to function as a community of disagreement. The author’s full paper is Lindhardt, E. (2022). Human rights education as a framework for transmitting religion as cultural heritage. Human Rights Education Review, 5(1), 5–27. https://doi.org/10.7577/hrer.4452
It can be read at https://humanrer.org/index.php/human/article/view/4452
About the organizers
The WERA IRN on Human Rights Education was established in Spring 2019 and launched in London in June that year. The coordinators are Professor Audrey Osler (USN, Norway, University of Leeds, UK ) and Professor Hugh Starkey (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, London, UK). The two pillars of the IRN are Human Rights Education Review and UCL’s International Conference on Education and Democratic Citizenship (ICEDC) conference.
Contact: for any questions or comments please contact Professor Hugh Starkey h.starkey@ucl.ac.uk or Professor Audrey Osler a.h.osler@leeds.ac.uk
In observance of #InternationalEarthDay, Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is hosting a webinar “Climate Praxis: A Reflection on Youth Activism for Environmental Justice” on Friday, April 29, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. EDT.
Pre-register via https://tinyurl.com/EarthDayHREA.
Friday, April 22
9-11:30 am
Zoom Meeting: https://salemstate.zoom.us/j/83687034292?pwd=bThxVDBOQXc4dkl5alQ0SCtFY0pMQT09
Meeting ID: 836 8703 4292 Passcode: 467853
Woodhull Freedom Foundation is pleased to invite you to our 12th annual Sexual Freedom Summit (August 4 – 7, 2022) – the event where everything comes together in spectacular conversations about sexual rights.
At the Summit, we work toward identifying ways to expand freedom and eradicate injustice, and we put our bodies, our desires, and our personal autonomy at the core.
The Sexual Freedom Summit features human rights activists, sexuality educators and researchers, professionals from the legal and medical fields, authors, sexual freedom movement leaders, and organizational partners all working toward the time when sexual freedom is fully recognized as a fundamental human right.
This Summit is for EVERYONE interested in learning about the issues in the realm of sexual freedom, advancing their current knowledge, and gaining the tools to actually create the change we need to accomplish.
In what ways can creating and implementing a district Code of Character, Conduct, and Support serve as a catalyst for systemic change and create more equitable policies and practices that foster every student’s social, emotional, and academic growth?
Find out! Join an online convening on Recalibrating a Code of Character, Conduct, and Support: A Pathway to Equity conducted by Engaging Schools staff and sponsored by BOCES.
“The Code convening started or sparked a more thoughtful dialogue and the small group break-out discussions were very helpful. The hours flew by!” — Helen Deranian, CREST Collaborative, December 2021
There are two options to participate:
Thursday, April 7, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm – Nassau BOCES. For more information and to register, please click here.
Thursday, May 5, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm – Eastern Suffolk BOCES. For more information and to register, please click here.
Audience: District and school leaders and administrators; district teams recommended.
Learn more about working with Engaging Schools on District Codes of Character, Conduct, and Support.
The Educators’ Institute for Human Rights has partnered with the VII Foundation, an organization dedicated to building peace and ending conflict through photojournalism. EIHR has written lessons based on VII Foundation’s exhibit and website, Imagine: Reflections on Peace (www.reflectionsonpeace.org). The countries represented are Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Colombia, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, and Rwanda; each country has foundational lessons (timeline and photo activities, etc.) as well as two extension lessons.
We would love help piloting these lessons. Teachers can choose a country and pilot the whole unit or select lessons, or can choose more than one country to teach. We ask that teachers provide feedback on a provided form once the lessons have been completed.
The lessons can be accessed at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dfbobooUxdYidj32LJXrmrk7DKeoQQ9C, and the evaluation form is at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0iU7IUlCFCkn1LnVcN07EUFbY9m2Tbhh21uUbyPaJQ8V80w/viewform.
Any questions can be directed to Kim Klett (kim@eihr.org).
Examining relationships and sex education through a child rights lens: an intersectional approach Francesca Zanatta, Univ East London, UK
Wed, 6 April 2022
10:30 – 11:30 CDT
Register here
Examining relationships and sex education through a child rights lens: an intersectional approach
Francesca Zanatta, Cass School of Education and Communities, University of East London, UK.
In this presentation, Francesca Zanatta examines how teaching and learning about rights in an intersectional way can inform the topic of Relationships and Sex Education (RSE), drawing on her experiences of teaching an undergraduate child rights module. The module, designed for future educators, intersects elements of children’s rights education with the theoretical positions of queer studies and critical pedagogy. Drawing on data from two focus groups, consisting of students following the programme, she analyses students’ views and attitudes to RSE, using Foucault’s overarching concept of problematisation and the concept of sites of struggle. Data analysis reveals tensions and potential clashes between the students’ professional selves, their personal values, and elements of the theoretical framework adopted in the course. These tensions are nevertheless constructive, highlighting the potential of children’s rights education to contribute to transformative human development. The author’s full paper is Zanatta, F. (2021). Examining Relationships and Sex Education through a child rights lens: an intersectional approach. Human Rights Education Review, 4(1), 49–69. https://doi.org/10.7577/hrer.3991
It can be accessed at: https://humanrer.org/index.php/human/article/view/3991
Webinar recordings can be viewed on the YouTube Channel
About the organizers
The WERA IRN on Human Rights Education was established in Spring 2019 and launched in London in June that year. The coordinators are Professor Audrey Osler (USN, Norway, University of Leeds, UK ) and Professor Hugh Starkey (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, London, UK). The two pillars of the IRN are Human Rights Education Review and UCL’s International Conference on Education and Democratic Citizenship (ICEDC) conference.
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