Colombian Democracy at a Crossroads Tuesday, June 8, 2021 3:00pm – 4:30pm (EDT) [2pm (Colombia) / 9 pm (Spain)] REGISTER HERE Massive and popular protests have taken the streets of Colombia daily, creatively and belligerently for over a month now. The demands for change and the demands to turn around the history […]
Author: Glenn Mitoma
Cutline: Democracy and Community
What do we want our democracy to look like? The present historic moment demands robust participation in our political system and commitment to the values on which it was built. How can we support participation by all members of our community? This month, Dodd Impact’s Democracy and Dialogues Initiative partnered with CT Humanities, Connecticut […]
Chris Dodd: Lessons of Nuremberg After 75 Years
A version of this letter appears in The New York Times here. November 29, 2020 Seventy-five years ago this week, my father, Thomas J. Dodd, stepped to the podium to address for the first time one of the most important trials in history: the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Over the next 11 months, he and his […]
Human Rights Film+ Series: Love, Life and the Virus
PBS Frontline Love, Life & the Virus by Oscar Guerra Virtual Screening and Discussion featuring Oscar Guerra Luciana Lira The Neighbor Fund Thursday, December 3, 2020 5:00pm – 7:00pm via Zoom Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlceypqDMvHN3OzRSiMcS0wL61Jwj_3rUV About the Film: A mother’s fight to survive COVID and see her newborn baby. How the coronavirus hit one […]
Encounters: American Dreams
DODD HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT is proud to co-sponsor AMERICAN DREAMS It’s a Game. It’s a Show. It’s America Imagine a world where the only way to gain U.S. citizenship is by competing in a live online game show. Welcome to American Dreams where each night, you, the audience gets to choose who will become your […]
DAWNLAND: Screening and Discussion
DAWNLAND VIRTUAL FILM WATCH & DISCUSSION Thursday, October 1, 2020 4:00pm – 5:30pm with gkisedtanamoogk (Mashpee Wampanoag) Maine-Wabanaki TRC Co-Chair Gail Werrbach Maine-Wabanaki TRC Member Adam Mazo Co-Director, Dawnland Mishy Lesser Learning Director, Upstander Project For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from their homes to save them from being Indian. […]
July 15, 2020 – Open Letter to International Students
July 15, 2020 Open letter to UConn International Students: UConn’s Office of Global Affairs stands with you. Yesterday, in a Massachusetts court room, the U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agreed to rescind its July 6th rule for international students. It was a win not only for international students but also for the United […]
July 13, 2020 – Statement by Institute Directors
The Africana Studies Institute, the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, the American Studies Program, the Center for Judaic Studies, El Instituto (Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies), the Human Rights Institute, the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP), Dodd Human Rights Impact, the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, […]
Joint Statement from the Dodd Center and Human Rights Institute
Joint Statement from the Dodd Center and Human Rights Institute Black lives matter. We share the grief, sadness, and anger at the loss of George Floyd, whose murder follows so closely on that of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and so many others. Each of their lives, like each and every Black life in our community […]
Statement from Centers, Institutes, and Programs
Statement from Centers, Institutes, and Programs on Racial Injustice and Ending White Supremacy We, the faculty and staff of the interdisciplinary Centers, Institutes, and Programs, stand together to express our shock, our heartbreak, and our outrage at the horrific and senseless killing of George Floyd and the ongoing violence against Black people. George Floyd, David […]