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Events

The Rapoport Center sponsors numerous events throughout the academic year. The Center's Human Rights Happy Hour Speaker Series brings activists and scholars from around the world to deliver lectures focusing on today's pressing human rights issues. Along with the Happy Hour Series, the Center organizes various conferences that bring together multidisciplinary panels featuring academics, artists, and policy-makers. To receive information about upcoming events, please join our mailing list.

Upcoming Events

February 20, 2012
Human Rights Happy Hour Speaker Series
Jorge Contesse
"Inter-American Constitutionalism: The Creation and Internalization of Human Rights"
Location: TNH 3.142
Time: 3:30-5:30pm

March 1-2, 2012
Annual Conference
Property Rights and the Human Rights Agenda
This multidisciplinary and comparative conference will explore the ambivalent relationship between human rights and property and the extent to which the right to property might advance a human rights agenda. Conference panels will consider such topics as changing conceptions of property, the role of property rights in dispossession and redistribution, and the implications of private titling.

March 29, 2012
Human Rights Happy Hour Speaker Series
Rick Battistoni
Location: TBD
Time: 3:30-5:30pm

April 16, 2012
Human Rights Happy Hour Speaker Series
Benjamin Gregg
Location: TBD
Time: 3:30-5:30pm

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