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Defending Haitian Rights: A Transnational Challenge
The National Coalition for Haitian Rights (NCHR) papers documents this NGO’s advocacy for human rights in Haiti and for Haitian refugees in the United States. NCHR has conducted its mission reaching...
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Rights! Camera! Action! presents “Wasteland”
Rights!Camera!Action! Presents “Wasteland” (2010) Director: Lucy Walker Producers: Angus Aynsley and Hank Levine Full Frame Audience Award 2010 Total running time: 95:00 Artist Vik Muniz, known for...
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“Human Rights, Truth Telling, and Justice” Symposium
Date: Friday November 14th, 2014 Time: 9:00am-4:00pm Location: Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, Franklin Garage The Human Rights Archive is co-sponsoring a symposium that will focus on truth telling and justice...
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Jewish Voices from the Selma-to-Montgomery March
“For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was...
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Rights! Camera! Action! Presents “Granito: How to Nail a Dictator” (2011)
Date: Thursday January 22, 2014 Time: 7:00-9:00pm Location: FHI Garage, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, 2011 (Total Running Time: 103 minutes) Directors: Director: Pamela Yates...
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Rights! Camera! Action! Presents: “The One Who Builds”
Rights! Camera! Action! Presents: “The One Who Builds” (2013) Directors: Hillary Pierce, Peter Carolla, and Nick Gooler Total Running Time: 40 minutes Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2015 Time: 7:00-9:00...
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Presentation and Reading of The Beast by 2014 WOLA-Duke Book Award Winner...
Óscar Martínez, the winner of the 2014 WOLA-Duke Book Award, will give a talk and read an excerpt from The Beast: Riding The Rails And Dodging Narcos On The Migrant Trail. This book is Martínez’s...
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R!C!A! Film Screening: Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
Date: Thursday March 19, 2015 Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm Location: Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, Franklin Garage Contact: Patrick Stawski, patrick.stawski@duke.edu 919-660-5823. Rights!Camera!Action presents Escape...
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NEH grant will fund Voices of Change Project at the Rubenstein Library
The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University has received a grant of $200,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support Voices of Change: Preserving and...
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Human Rights Archive Collection Sheds Light on 1983 Assassination of Peruvian...
I am Carmen Valdivieso Hulbert, a New York-based journalist-filmmaker born in Peru. I am currently co-directing and producing Uchuraccay, an investigative, human rights documentary for my company,...
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The Incarceration Collections at the Rubenstein: The Role of Reading and...
The popular Netflix series Orange is the New Black, based on the memoir of the same name by Piper Kerman, has brought renewed attention to the conditions inside U.S. women’s prisons. While prison...
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Screamfest III: The Cutening
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2015 Time: 2:00-4:00 PM Location: Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room Contact: Amy McDonald, amy.mcdonald@duke.edu Y’all, we hear you. The semester is getting more and more...
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Onè! Respè! (Honor! Respect!)
The Radio Haiti archive project is underway! We’ve spent the first couple weeks creating a behemoth database… …assigning each and every tape a unique ID number, and putting the tapes in nice new...
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The Noise in the Silence: Radio Haiti During the Coup Years
What can we learn from the gaps, absences, and silences in an archive? What are the stories that are hidden between the lines? From September 1991 to October 1994, Haiti was ruled by a military junta...
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“Radio Haiti, You are the Rain. If You Didn’t Fall, We Could Not Bloom”:...
On November 28, 1980, the Duvalier regime unleashed a campaign of violent repression on the independent press and human rights activists, destroying the Radio Haiti station on Rue du Quai in downtown...
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The Lives and Voices of Guantanamo: The Work of the Witness to Guantanamo...
Date: January 21, 2016 Time: 6:00-7:00pm Location: Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room (Rubenstein Library Room 153) Contact: Patrick Stawski (patrick.stawski@duke.edu) January 22nd will mark the 6th...
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WOLA-Duke 2015 Human Right Book Award
WOLA-Duke 2015 Human Right Book Award Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala by Kirsten Weld February 11, 2016, 6:00pm-7:30pm Holsti Assembly Room (Rubenstein 153) The Washington...
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Encountering Ghanaian Political History in Durham, North Carolina
The Rubenstein holds the archives of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), perhaps the single most important point of connection for communities who, in their desire to confront...
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“The Poetic Inflections of a Voice Addressing a Tribe of Men Besieged by...
On December 29, 1972, the renowned writer, poet, and visual artist Frankétienne, one of the fathers of the Spiralist literary movement, wrote a letter to his friend, Jean Dominique. My very dear Jean,...
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Marshall Meyer and Argentina’s Jewish Movement for Human Rights
Today, March 24, 2016, marks the fortieth anniversary of the Argentine military coup that ushered in one of the Western Hemisphere’s most repressive regimes. Seeking to quash “subversion” and...
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