International Perspectives on Human Rights (organized by CICS and the Institute for the Humanities) promotes reflection, debate, and scholarship in the vast and controversial field of human rights.

Our mission is to address human rights globally and comparatively, to forge connections between existing human rights projects, to promote dialogue between scholars and human rights practitioners, and create alliances between academic institutions, government, and non-governmental organizations.

In these ways, the program shares expertise and resources with the broader intellectual and professional community at both local and international levels.

NEWS

2008-2009 CICS Fellows

Susan Waltz, Professor of Public Policy, Ford School of Public Policy at U-M, has been awarded a CICS Human Rights Fellowship for 2008.

Andrew Herscher, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning and Slavic Languages and Literatures at U-M, has also been awarded a CICS Human Rights Fellowship for 2009.

See Fellowship page for details

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Upcoming Human Rights Lectures

November 21 - Daniel Herwitz, U-M

African Renaissance and Human Rights:
Thabo Mbeki’s Certainty

Institute for the Humanities, 202 S Thayer NOON

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Wednesday, Oct 29, 7:30 p.m. Hill Auditorium
18th University of Michigan Wallenberg Lecture

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Past Lectures this fall

September 26 - Allen Feldman, NYU

Animality and the Inhumanization of Sovereignty

Institute for the Humanities, 202 S Thayer NOON

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September 30 - Susan Waltz, Ford School of Public Policy

When Does A Problem Become a Human Rights Issue?  Personal Reflections on the Evolution of the Human Rights Movement

Michigan Union - Vanderbilt Room, 3-5pm

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