Here, you can browse the research, field experiences and addresses given at the University of Dayton Human Rights Center's Social Practice of Human Rights conferences. Note: Most of the items in the collection are working papers or abstracts for papers that have not yet been published. For completed papers, contact the individual authors.
This biennial conference provides a unique space for scholars, practitioners and advocates to engage in collaboration, dialogue and critical analysis of human rights advocacy — locally and globally. Learn more about the Human Rights Center at the University of Dayton >>>.
Proposals from 2017
The Power and Pathologies of Language: How Human Rights Messaging Can Also Affect Support for Violent Non-State Actors, Alexandra Haines, Michele Leiby, and Matthew Krain
The New Disappeared: Illegality, the Deportation Regime, and the Resurrection of State Violence, Miranda Cady Hallett
Impacts of the Trump Administration’s Policies on Immigrants and Refugees in Dayton, Miranda Cady Hallett and Theo J. Majka
The Socialization of Human Rights as an Inroad to Protect Sacred Space, Leonard Hammer
Building Academic/Practitioner Teams for Human Rights Projects: Examples, Lessons Learned, and Pitfalls to Avoid, Theresa Harris
Transformations of Free Movement: Syrian Refugee Rights within Neoliberal Signal Territories, Jordan Hayes
Teaching about Modern Slavery: Highlighting Human Rights Principles in Evaluating Economic Systems, Barbara E. Hopkins
Drawing Upon Our Roots and Charism to Address Climate Change and Build Bridges of Dialogue in Addressing Human Rights and Achieving an Integral Ecology, Leanne M. Jablonski
Engaging Human Rights Norms to Realize Universal and Equitable Health Care in Massachusetts, April Jakubec, Mariah McGill, and Gillian MacNaughton
Homophobia, Human Rights and Diplomacy, Douglas Janoff
Narrating Human Trafficking: Advocacy Strategies in the Face of Apathy, Invisibility, and Indifference, Kelli Lyon Johnson
Factors Affecting Domestic Refugee Policy Development: An Analysis of South Korea’s Case, Yun Ju Kang
Doing Greater Good, While Doing No Individual Harm: A Public Health Approach to Human Trafficking Using a Human Rights-Centered Model, Patrick L. Kerr and Rachel Dash
Faith-Based Resistance, Human Rights, and Emancipatory Practices, Curtis Kline
Where Do We Go from Here? Charting Perceptions of the Impact of the Human Rights City Boston Resolution, Kostas Koutsioumpas, Maggie Schneider, and Matthew Annunziato
Silenced Agency Gains a Voice?, Katarina Lucas
Human Development, Human Rights, and the 50th Anniversary of Populorum Progressio, Ellen Maccarone
Inequalities, Human Rights, and Sustainable Development Goal 10, Gillian MacNaughton
Elections in the Shadow of Ebola: Sierra Leone’s African Socialist Movement and the Struggle for Democracy, Joshua McDermott
Gender, Displacement and Transitional Justice, Sinead McGrath
Out of the Prison and Onto the Streets: The Trafficking of Incarcerated Women (a Trans-Disciplinary Media Research Project), Mei-Ling McNamara
Naming Rape: The Social Practice of Power, Agency, and Victimization in the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1936-1940, Caroline Waldron Merithew
Brothers-in-Arms: Religious Extremism and Economic Growth in India, Sirisha C. Naidu
Displacement, Urban Populations, and the Right to Space and Place: Syrians in Istanbul and Colombians in Medellín, Stephanie Nawyn and Claudia Maria Lopez
Making the Sustainable Development Goals Really Sustainable: Human Rights Strategies to Improve Land Tenure Rights and Wages for the Poor, Paul J. Nelson
Multi-Method Research in Partnership with Myanmar Refugee Women in Dallas, Texas: Understanding How Ethnic Diversity Influences the Design and Development of a Resettlement Community Center, Chie Noyori Corbett and David Moxley
Shaming the Truth: Naming and Shaming and Transitional Justice, Christopher F. Patane and Marc S. Polizzi
A New Future? The Catholic Church, Grassroots Justice, and Accountability, Regina Menachery Paulose
Roundtable – Teaching Human Rights: Challenges and Best Practices, Shayna Plaut, Kristi Kenyon, Joel Pruce, and William Simmons
Cross-National Coverage of Cross-Border Transit Migration: A Community Structure Approach, John C. Pollock, Kevin O'Brien, Madison Ouellette, Maria Gottfried, Petra Kovacs, Lauren Longo, and Taylor Hart-McGonigle
Encounters with Climate Change: How SDG 13 Can Move from Awareness to Action, Rebecca C. Potter
Participatory Community Action Research in Homeless Shelters: Utilization of Service-Learning Pedagogy in Research and Advocacy, Roger N. Reeb, Charles Hunt, Sara Wetter, and Cassandra Hartman
To Be Human in a Dehumanizing World: Black Lives Matter and the Human Rights Framework, Maria Rohani
Gay Teachers in Catholic Schools: A Conflict of Human Rights, Ish Ruiz
State Sovereignty and Human Security: The Migration-Securitization Nexus in the Global South, Eugene R. Sensenig
The Economic Concept of Exploitation and Economic Justice, Hee-Young Shin
Joyful Human Rights Activism, William Simmons
Localizing Human Rights in Response to Global Urban Crises and Right-Wing Populism, Jackie Smith
Pope Francis and Alternative Economic Visions, John Sniegocki
Indigenous Rights in the Trump Era, Tereza M. Szeghi
We Just Need to Pee: Bathroom Bills and the Intersection of Human Rights, Gender, and Race, Lena Tenney
Faith-Based Civil Society Organizations and the Protection of Victims of Human Rights Abuses in Nigeria, Nathaniel Umukoro
2017 Conference Program, University of Dayton Human Rights Center
Building a Bridge Across the Sea, Abby Wheatley
The PATH (Partners Against Trafficking in Humans) Project: Development of the PATH Model, Fanell Williams
Interrogating Rights: How the United States is Not Complying with the Racial Equality Treaty, Malia Lee Womack
Leveling the Fields for Migrant Farmworkers: Developing Human Rights Public Policies Using Human Rights-Based Approach, Luis E. Zavala
Submissions from 2016
Call for Papers 2017: The Social Practice of Human Rights, University of Dayton
Proposals from 2015
Exploring Public Opinion on the Role of Human Rights in Foreign Policy (abstract), Michelle Allendoerfer
Status of Public Access to Government Information as an International Human Right (abstract), Amin Amiri
International Organizations as Normative Agenda Setters: Social Influence and Reputational Costs in the effects of the International Human Rights Regime, Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz and Aldo F. Ponce
On Solid Ground: Evaluating the Effects of Foundational Arguments on Human Rights Attitudes (abstract), Stephen Arves and Joe Braun
Plenary Dialogue: Sustainable Environment, Tariq Banuri, Richard Hiskes, and Jacqui Patterson
Human Rights in Russian-Occupied Crimea (abstract), Jaroslaw Bilocerkowycz
Fostering Empathy through Visual Culture Art Intergration (abstract), R. Darden Bradshaw
Plenary Dialogue: Sustainable Human Development, J. Mark Brinkmoeller, Ejim Dike, Kate Donald, Natalie Florea Hudson, and Jane Sloane
Crafting the Humanitarian Narrative: Development Organizations and Cause-Marketing Campaigns (abstract), Alexandra Cosima Budabin
Disciplining Human Rights (abstract), Sarita Cargas
Linking History to Practice: Mapping the History of Nigeria as a Tool to Combat Human Trafficking Today (abstract), Robin P. Chapdelaine
To Err is Human Rights: Toward a Pragmatist Activism (abstract), Geoff Dancy
Human Rights: East vs. West (abstract), John H. Davis
Promoting Human Rights through the Professions (abstract), Debra DeLaet, Emily Sadecki, and Holly Atkinson
Imagining International Justice in Post-Genocide Cambodia (abstract), Haley Duschinsky, Katie Conlon, Elizabeth Cychosz, and Samantha Rommel
Opening Address: Mark Ensalaco, University of Dayton Human Rights Center, Mark Ensalaco
Social Movements, Protest, and Human Rights: Latin America and Beyond (abstract), James C. Franklin
The Migrant Rights Gap: How Non-State Actors Meet the Unrecognized Economic and Social Rights of Undocumented Immigrants (abstract), Barbara Frey and Melissa Pardo
A Human Rights Lens on Full Employment and Decent Work in the Post-2015 Development Agenda (abstract), Diane F. Frey and Gillian MacNaughton
Contemporary Rhetoric, Ethics, and Human Rights Advocacy (abstract), Richard K. Ghere and Kathleen Brittamart Watters
Indignation, or, Reconsidering the Place of Dignity in Human Rights Theory and Practice (abstract), Michael Goodhart
Oral History as a Methodology for Teaching Human Rights (abstract), Carol J. Gray
The Potentiality of a Digital Revolution: Alienated Activists and the Surveillance State (abstract), Jennifer Grubbs
Plenary Dialogue: Corporate Sustainability, Valentina Gurney, Katherine Gallagher, and Arvind Ganesan
Roundtable: Does All Human-Rights Funding Use a Human Rights-based Approach?, Matthew Hart, Jason Franklin, Diana Samarasan, Mona Chun, and Katy Love
Anti-Sex Trafficking Hysteria, False Narratives and the Rights of Sex Workers (abstract), Lonya M. Humphrey
Religious Freedom and the Right to Convert: Laws against Forcible or Induced Conversion in India (abstract), Laura Dudley Jenkins
Girl Power or Girl Child: Beyond Victory and Victimization in Advocacy for Girls around the World (abstract), Kelli Lyon Johnson
Democratizing Human Rights from Below: Blacklisted Workers at the European Court of Human Rights (abstract), Filiz Kahraman
Human Rights-Based Activism: Lessons From Health Activism in South Africa and Brazil (abstract), Kristi Heather Kenyon and Regiane Garcia
From Activism to Invested Scholarship: When Outsiders Are Insiders (abstract), Kristi Heather Kenyon and Tal Nitsán
De-centering the Human: Moroccan Islamists and Human Rights (abstract), Ahmed Khanani
Realizing the Right to Sport to Address the Socialization and Trauma Healing of Children in Refugee Camps (abstract), Konstantinos Koutsioumpas
An Experimental Examination of the Efficacy of Human Rights Campaigns: Gender Differences and Stereotypes (abstract), Michele Leiby, Angie Bos, and Matthew Krain
Putting It on the Line: Social Justice Frameworks for Human Rights Fieldwork (abstract), Michael Loadenthal
A 'Revolution of Values' in Immigrant Rights Advocacy (abstract), Jamie Longazel
Gunsmoke and Mirrors: Transitional Justice Implementation During Armed Conflict in Uganda (abstract), Cyanne E. Loyle
Silencing Women’s Agency and Forgetting Sexual Violence: Challenges in Realizing Women Survivors’ Human Rights (abstract), Katarina Lucas
Lights, Camera, Policy? Examining Celebrity-driven Anti-sex Trafficking Campaigns (abstract), Samantha Majic
Promoting Immigrant and Human Rights at the Local Level: A Case Study of the Welcome Dayton Initiative (abstract), Theo J. Majka and Jamie Longazel
Cultural Differences in Support for Human Rights (abstract), Sam McFarland and William Hornsby
Human Rights in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Constraints (abstract), Mahmood Monshipouri
Who Practices Rights-Based Development? A Progress Report on Work at the Nexus of Human Rights and Development (abstract), Paul Nelson and Ellen Dorsey
Privacy and Freedom of Information in Organizational Contexts: Human Rights Issues in an Era of Big Data (abstract), Jo Ann Oravec
Turn Up the Volume: The Amplification of Shame (abstract), Baekkwan Park, Amanda Murdie, and David Davis
Luncheon Remarks: Jason Pierce, Dean, University of Dayton College of Arts and Sciences, Jason Pierce
Mapping the Current State of Human Rights Education in Journalism Education (abstract), Shayna Plaut
Teaching Human Rights Inside and Outside the Classroom: Education Without Borders (abstract), Shayna Plaut, Lisa Brock, Carol J. Gray, William Simmons, and Alice Kim
Practicing Human Rights: How Human Rights Practitioners Shape the Field (abstract), Robin Redhead
From Acceptable Loss to Unacceptable Harm: How Norm Entrepreneurs Co-opted the Human Rights Discourse (abstract), Danielle K. Scherer and Taylor Benjamin-Britton
To Adapt or Not to Adapt? Accommodating Change in Humanitarian Response (abstract), Emily K.M. Scott
