Human Rights Happy Hour Speaker Series
Paola Bergallo discusses Argentine health litigation, November 2010.
The Happy Hour Speaker Series features faculty, activists, and scholars from various disciplines from around the world to deliver lectures focusing on today's pressing human rights issues. Past speakers have highlighted topics from international criminal liability for lawyers to the progressive redistribution of land in Latin America. Speakers are also encouraged to present works in progress so that the participants might be involved in the development of their work.
Lectures are held periodically throughout the academic year at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Events typically take place on Mondays from 3:30-5:30pm.
For biographies of upcoming speakers, please see the Biographies page. Past Happy Hour Speaker Series schedules and information can be found in the Series Archives. Biographies for past speakers can be found in the Biography Archives.
Spring 2012 Schedule
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Jorge Contesse Respondent: Daniel Brinks, Associate Professor of Government and Co-Director, Rapoport Center, University of Texas at Austin |
"Inter-American Constitutionalism: The Creation and Internalization of Human Rights" Read the paper upon which the talk is based. Click here to view. Link to audio recording: .mp3 |
Date: February 20, 2012 Time: 3:30-5:00pm Location: TNH 3.142 Co-sponsored by the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies |
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Benjamin Gregg Respondent: Catherine Boone, |
"The Social Construction of Human Rights in Africa" Link to audio recording: .mp3 |
Date: April 16, 2012 Time: 3:30-5:00pm Location: Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111) |
Fall 2011 Schedule
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Inderpal Grewal Respondent: Barbara Harlow, Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor in English Literature, University of Texas at Austin |
"Humanitarian Citizenship and Race: Katrina and the Global War on Terror" |
Date: September 19, 2011 Time: 3:30-5:30pm Location: Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111) Co-sponsored by the Center for Women's and Gender Studies Link to audio recording: .mp3 Read the recap here! |
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Catalina Smulovitz Respondent: Ariel Dulitzky, Director of the Human Rights Clinic, University of Texas at Austin |
"Legal Inequality and Domestic Violence. Who gets what and when at the Sub national Level?" Read the paper upon which the talk is based. Click here to view. |
Date: October 3, 2011 Time: 3:30-5:30pm Location: Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111) Co-sponsored by LLILAS and the Center for Women's and Gender Studies Link to audio recording: .mp3 Read the recap here! |
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Tara Melish Respondent: Dan Brinks, Associate Professor of Government and Co-Director, Rapoport Center, University of Texas at Austin |
"From Monuments to Ladders: Collapsing Social Rights Typologies into a New Enforcement-Oriented Schema" |
Date: October 17, 2011 Time: 3:30-5:30pm Location: Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111) |
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John Ciorciari |
"Archiving Memory after Mass Atrocities" |
Date: October 31, 2011 Time: 3:30-5:30pm Location: Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111) Link to audio recording: .mp3 Read the recap here! |
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Henry Steiner Respondent: Kamran Ali, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director, South Asia Institute, University of Texas at Austin |
"Muslims in Europe: Multiculturalism, Cultural Clash, Human Rights" |
Date: November 14, 2011 Time: 3:30-5:30pm Location: Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111) Link to audio recording: .mp3 Read the recap here! |
