Young Conversations The Young Initiative annually hosts a remarkable range of experts in global political economy and related international relations fields. These events give our campus community a chance to directly engage with those at the cutting edge of research and activism, per the following list of 2019-20 guests.
Alison Brysk September 3, 2019 Reproductive Rights Regression Alison Brysk is the Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance at UC Santa Barbara. Her research draws from global theory as well as fieldwork on human rights in Latin America and Asia. Brysk’s two most recent books are The Future of Human Rights (2018) and The Struggle for Freedom from Fear: Contesting Violence Against Women at the Frontiers of Globalization (2018).
Steven Jensen September 9, 2019 An Alternate History of Human Rights: A Global South Project? Steven Jensen is a lead researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. Jensen focuses on the agency of the global south and its role in advancing human rights around the world. Jensen’s The Making of International Human Rights: The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values won the 2017 Best Book on Human Rights for his paradigm-shifting research.
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