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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:36th Annual Davis\, Markert\, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom
DESCRIPTION:The annual Davis\, Markert\, Nickerson (DMN) Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom will take place on Thursday\, November 5\, 2026\, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm. The event will support both in-person attendance and a livestream. Light refreshments will be provided for those who can attend in person. This lecture is sponsored by the Faculty Senate as a showcase event underscoring the U-M community’s collective interest in academic freedom.\n\nThe invited speaker is Michael Ignatieff\, who served as President and Rector of Central European University (CEU) between 2016 and 2021\, the turbulent years which saw CEU’s expulsion from Budapest and its re-establishment in Vienna. He now is a professor in CEU’s department of historical studies. Ignatieff came to CEU after serving as Edward R. Murrow Chair of Press\, Politics\, and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.\n\nAbstract:\n\nIn 2017\, Central European University in Budapest became the first free institution in Europe to be targeted by an authoritarian populist regime. Michael Ignatieff was Rector of CEU and led the fight against Victor Orban’s campaign to declare the university illegal and then have it expelled. Orban’s eventual victory—successfully forcing the university to relocate to Vienna—set the pattern for the attacks on ‘woke’ ‘liberal’ institutions in the United States. In a lecture commemorating McCarthy era battles to defend academic freedom\, Ignatieff identifies the ideological and geopolitical factors that have made the battle to defend academic freedom a global challenge.
UID:154055-21917083@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154055
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Academic Freedom
LOCATION:Ruthven Administration Building - 2000
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DTSTAMP:20261026T150055
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T113000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Donia Human Rights Center Panel. Human Rights Reporting: Stories from the Field
DESCRIPTION:Tanzil Asif\, Erica Hellerstein\, and Shan Li\, three of this year's Knight-Wallace Fellows\, will discuss their experiences covering human rights stories in China\, Ukraine\, India\, and Latin America\, as well as challenges they faced in reporting these stories. The panelists will offer comparative insights from their field experiences and lessons for all of us seeking to better understand how journalists navigate risks and conduct investigations in often precarious contexts.\n\nCan't attend in person? Click on the link below to register to watch the livestream.\n\nhttps://myumi.ch/ykJ4P\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\nTanzil Asif\nFounder\, Main Media\n\nTanzil Asif is an Indian journalist and founder of the Bihar-based hyperlocal news platform\, Main Media. His work includes video reporting and writing on a wide range of issues\, including politics\, climate change\, systemic development\, and the marginalization of minorities\, including India's Muslim minority. He has contributed to outlets such as Al Jazeera\, The Hindu\, The Wire\, The Quint\, Outlook Magazine and BehanBox. \n\nErica Hellerstein\nImmigration and Labor Reporter\, El Tímpano\n\nErica Hellerstein is the senior immigration and labor reporter at El Tímpano\, an outlet serving the Bay Area's Latino and Mayan immigrants. Previously\, she spent more than a decade reporting on human rights across the U.S.\, Latin America\, Africa and Europe\, investigating labor exploitation\, gender-based violence\, rising authoritarianism and the surveillance state. In 2025\, she reported from Ukraine on her hidden family history and how Jewish Ukrainian identity is evolving amid Russia's invasion. \n\nShan Li\nSouth Asia Correspondent\, Wall Street Journal\n\nShan Li is the South Asia correspondent for The Wall Street Journal\, covering politics\, culture and economic issues in India and the surrounding region. She previously served as China correspondent for The Journal\, reporting on the global influence of Chinese tech companies and the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic from Wuhan. She and other colleagues had their press credentials revoked and were expelled from China by the Chinese government in 2020.\n\nAbout the Moderator\nLynette Clemetson\nDirector\, Wallace House Center for Journalists\n\nLynette Clemetson is Director of Wallace House Center for Journalists\, home of the Knight-Wallace Fellowships for Journalists and the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists at the University of Michigan. She came to the university from NPR\, where she was Senior Director of Strategy and Content Initiatives. Her career in journalism spans newspapers\, magazines and audio across a range of platforms. As a reporter\, she was a Washington-based correspondent for The New York Times and Newsweek. Prior to her domestic correspondent work\, she was an international correspondent for Newsweek based in Hong Kong.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at umichhumanrights@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:152225-21913398@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152225
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:human rights,Journalism
LOCATION:Michigan League - Koessler Room
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DTSTAMP:20261023T115958
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T183000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Donia Human Rights Center 10th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate 10 year of the Donia Human Rights Center! This celebration will consist of a student panel titled\, \"Back from the Field: Donia Human Rights Student Interns and Fellows Presentation\,\" and a panel of faculty from U-M and Stanford University titled\, \"The Relevance of Human Rights Today: Perspectives from Law\, Social Science\, Arts\, and Diplomacy.\" A reception will follow.\n\nStudent Panel\nBack from the Field: Donia Human Rights Student Interns and Fellows Presentation\n\nChelsea Hyppolite\nIntern\,\nAfrican Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests\nEdéa\, Cameroon\n\nThrough the Human Rights and Environmental Justice in Edéa Cameroon Internship Program\, Chelsea Hyppolite (she/her) was the Communications Intern for The African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF)\, a nonprofit organization with the mission of advancing women’s rights across 20 West and Central African nations through direct community involvement. Chelsea is a Senior majoring in Political Science and minoring in AfroAmerican and African Studies. Chelsea's career aspiration is to be a human rights attorney in nonprofit spaces.\n\nElizabeth Foley\nIntern\,\nSocial Change Initiative\,\nBelfast\, Northern Ireland\n\nElizabeth Foley is a senior at the Ford School of Public Policy\, minoring in Economics. Her academic and professional focus is on development and human rights.\n\nHana Manjusak\nRobert J. Donia Graduate Student Fellow\,\nBosnia and Herzgovina\n\nHana is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability. Her doctoral research examines the political ecologies of war and peace\, using landmine clearance in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a lens to explore the enduring political and environmental legacies of armed conflict. Her experience spans academic and policy-oriented research\, including work with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)\, the United Nations\, and the Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS).\n\nJainyn Boyd\nIntern\,\nMuseum of Memory and Human Rights\nSantiago\, Chile\n\nI am a Donia Human Rights Center Fellow graduating this winter with a double major in International Studies and Spanish. My academic and research interests include gender-based violence\, decolonization\, LGBTQ+ rights\, and gender equality. This past summer\, I participated in the DHRC Fellowship with the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago\, Chile\, where I developed frameworks for revising museum documentation to more accurately represent the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ Chileans before\, during\, and after the Pinochet dictatorship.\n\nFaculty Panel\nThe Relevance of Human Rights Today: Perspectives from Law\, Social Science\, Arts\, and Diplomacy\n\nEmilia Yang\nAssistant Professor of Art and Design\nUniversity of Michigan\n\nEmilia Yang is a Central American artist\, memory organizer\, and researcher based in Detroit. Her creative practice utilizes expanded media to create community-based feminist\, anti-racist\, and transformative justice memory projects and collective futures with people from Central America\, its diasporas\, and beyond.\n\nShe serves as the Director of AMA y No Olvida\, Memory Museum Against Impunity\, a community memory transmedia initiative created in collaboration with the Association Mother of April (AMA)\, an organization of families of victims of state violence in Nicaragua.\n\nHer artworks have been exhibited in international spaces such as the Resistance Biennial\, Guatemala\; the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC)\, Costa Rica\; Casa América and the Museum and Vanguard Art Center Neomudéjar\, Spain\; Le Commun Contemporary Art Building\, Geneva\; and the Games and New Media Summit at Tribeca Film Festival.\n\nShe is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. www.emiliayang.org\n\nKiyoteru Tsutsui\nFormer DHRC Director (2016-2020)\nProfessor of Sociology\nStanford University\n\nKiyoteru Tsutsui is the Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor and Senior Fellow in Japanese Studies at Shorenstein APARC\, the Director of APARC and the Japan Program at APARC\, a senior fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies\, and Professor of Sociology\, all at Stanford University.\n\nPrior to his appointment at Stanford in July 2020\, Tsutsui was Professor of Sociology\, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies\, and Director of the Donia Human Rights Center at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor.\n\nTsutsui’s research interests lie in political/comparative sociology\, social movements\, globalization\, human rights\, and Japanese society. More specifically\, he has conducted (1) cross-national quantitative analyses on how human rights ideas and instruments have expanded globally and impacted local politics and (2) qualitative case studies of the impact of global human rights on Japanese politics. His current projects examine (a) changing conceptions of nationhood and minority rights in national constitutions and in practice\, (b) populism and the future of democracy\, (c) experimental surveys on public understanding about human rights\, (d) campus policies and practices around human rights\, (e) global expansion of corporate social responsibility and its impact on corporate behavior\, and (f) Japan’s public diplomacy and perceptions about Japan in the world.\n\nHis research on the globalization of human rights and its impact on local politics has appeared in American Sociological Review\, American Journal of Sociology\, Social Forces\, Social Problems\, Journal of Peace Research\, Journal of Conflict Resolution\, and other social science journals. His book publications include Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan (Oxford University Press 2018)\, and two co-edited volumes Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World (with Alwyn Lim\, Cambridge University Press 2015) and The Courteous Power: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific Era (with John Ciorciari\, University of Michigan Press\, forthcoming). He has been a recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship\, National Science Foundation grants\, the SSRC/CGP Abe Fellowship\, Stanford Japan Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship\, and other grants as well as awards from American Sociological Association sections on Global and Transnational Sociology (2010\, 2013\, 2019)\, Human Rights (2017\, 2019)\, Asia and Asian America (2018\, 2019)\, Collective Behavior and Social Movements (2018)\, and Political Sociology (2019).\n\nTsutsui received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Kyoto University and earned an additional master’s degree and PhD from Stanford’s Department of Sociology in 2002.\n\nSteven Ratner\nFormer DHRC Director (2020-2026)\nBruno Simma Collegiate Professor\nMichigan Law\n\nSteven R. Ratner is the Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and former Director of the Donia Human Rights Center (2020-2026). He teaches and writes in the field of public international law on a range of issues\, including war and peace\, human rights\, foreign investment\, the United Nations (UN)\, territorial and ethnic-based disputes\, and business and human rights. He is also interested in the intersection of international law and political philosophy and other theoretical issues. He has served on three high-level United Nations panels investigating human rights violations -- in Cambodia\, Sri Lanka\, and Ethiopia.\n\nAmb. Susan D. Page\nDirector\, Weiser Diplomacy Center\;\nProfessor of Practice\,\nFord School & Michigan Law\n\nAmbassador Susan D. Page is a seasoned diplomat with extensive experience in international relations\, conflict resolution\, and human rights advocacy. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Diplomacy\, an Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration\, a member of the Association of Black American Ambassadors\, and serves on various boards\, including The Carter Center Board of Trustees\, the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area\, Road Scholar\, and Lex Collective (Formerly Global Diligence Alliance).\n\nAmbassador Page had a distinguished diplomatic career\, including serving as the first U.S. Ambassador to the newly independent Republic of South Sudan and as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Haiti. In addition to working at the U.S. Department of State in senior leadership positions such as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs\, Ambassador Page also served as a regional legal adviser and foreign service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)\, held high-level appointments with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)\, the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Sudan (UNMIS)\, and with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)\, where she played an instrumental role in the peace negotiations and drafting of the peace agreement for Sudan that resulted in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement for Sudan (CPA).\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at umichhumanrights@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:153587-21916065@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153587
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:activism,Advocacy,Donia Human Rights Center,Human Right,human rights,humanitarianism,Legal Rights,social justice
LOCATION:Michigan League - Henderson Room
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