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 2015
Double Jeopardy: The Rights of Refugees in Marginalized Communities in the Middle East (abstract), Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous
Global Human Rights Direct: Connecting Human Rights Voices from around the Globe (abstract), William Simmons
Catholic Social Teaching and Economic Rights (abstract), John Sniegocki
Literature and Human Rights Violations in U.S. Borderlands (abstract), Tereza M. Szeghi
Detaining Dialogue: Framing Treatment during the 2013 Guantánamo Hunger Strike (abstract), Kristen Traynor
The Normative Implication of the B Corp Movement in the Business and Human Rights Context (abstract), Cindy Woods
Reciprocal Critique: A Dialectical Engagement of Theology and Human Rights Discourse (abstract), Diane Yeager
Taking on the NYPD by Centering the Impact and Building a Movement: A Successful Human Rights Campaign Case Study (abstract), Nahal Zamani
Enforced Disappearances in México: A Good Practice on Human Rights Governance through Systematization of Experiences in Search of Justice and Truth (abstract), Luis Eduardo Zavala de Alba
Proposals from 2013
Roundtable: Human Rights Philanthropy
Voices in the Wilderness: Catholic NGOs and the Challenge of Human Rights, Kevin Ahern
Arab Human Rights NGOs: Towards an Arab Spring, Elie Al-Hindy
Strategies for Effective Human Rights Campaigns, Jo Becker
Welcome Dayton Immigrant Friendly City Initiative, Melissa Bertolo
Glorifying Individual Rights: Freedom of Expression, Communication Rights and Democratic Media, Lisa Brooten
Savage, Victim, Savior: Human Rights and Visual Culture in the Rohingya Crisis of Burma/Myanmar, Lisa Brooten and Syed Irfan Ashraf
Transnational Advocacy Networks and the Use of Trauma Narratives, Elliott Bynum
Telling a Story or Rewriting History? Fighting Oblivion and Amnesia through Ibero-American Fiction—Quilting the Collective Memory, Pércio B. de Castro
Indigenous Rights in Transnational Perspective: The Rights of Immigrant Workers and the Right to Stay Home, Gilda Rodriguez Cervantes
Human Rights, Sexual Rights, the Muslim World, and Why ‘Pushing the Envelope’ Is Essential to Human Rights’ Global Resonance, Anthony Tirado Chase
Popular Perceptions of Human Rights Issues and Organizations, David (David Bradley) Crow
Sex Work, AIDS and Rights in Sonagachhi, India: Thinking between Hegemony and Resistance, Simanti Dasgupta
Eyes in the Sky: Satellite Technology and Human Rights, Virginia Dixon
Photojournalism and War Crimes: Ethical and Humanistic Limits, Keith Doubt
State-Supported Foster Care: A Matter of Human Rights?, Youssef Farhat, Joe Strychalski, Susan Weaver, and Hilary Zappin
Compromising Moral Values for Survival: Patronage, Capacity, Politicization, Intimidation, and Donor Dependencies, Benjamin Foley
Uneven Ground: Negotiating the Terrain of Human Rights Advocacy in Mexico, Barbara Frey
Frame Stickiness: Explaining variation in how human rights organizations have confronted violence in Mexico since 2006, Janice Gallagher
Montgomery County's Ex-Offender Re-Entry Program, Jamie Gee
Framing Our Focus: How Human Rights Reports shape the Understanding of Wartime Rape, Nicole Gerring
Rhetoric and Ethics in Global Organizations: Implications for Human Rights, Richard Ghere
A Human Rights Mission: Advocacy on the Local and Global Scale, Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi
How Do Independent Children’s Rights Institutions Redefine Human Rights Engagement?, Brian K. Gran
'Gendering' International Peacekeeping: Women for Women on the Frontlines?, Natalie Florea Hudson
Bridging the Religious-Secular Divide within Transnational Women’s Movements? Muslim-Western Partnerships for Women’s Rights, Sheherazade Jafari
The New Slave Narrative: Narrative Advocacy and Human Rights in Stories of Contemporary Slavery, Kelli Johnson
Time for Action: Making Non-State Actors Accountable for their Human Rights Violation, Jean-Marie Kamatali
Explaining Advocacy Agenda: Human Rights NGOs in Turkey, Koray Kaplica
Choosing Rights: The Puzzle of the Rights Frame in HIV Advocacy, Kristi Kenyon
Human Rights Violations at the U.S.-Mexican Border, Moshen Khani, Derek Petrey, and Katherine Rowell
Mrs. Human Rights Stays at Home, Lena Khor
Hydraulic Fracturing in the Great Miami River Watershed: A Human Rights Issue?, Leslie King and Amanda Rupp
Human Rights and Emerging Actors: Indigenous Peoples and Peasants Redefining the Issues, Curtis Kline
Gender-Based Violence and Rethinking Human Security, Roxanne Krystalli
Constructing a Dialogue on Dignity: Advocacy for Human Dignity as Global Institutions' Focus, Mark Lagon
Neglecting the ‘Right on Which All Other Rights Depend’: Press Freedom in the International Human Rights Discourse, Wiebke Lamer
Anna Akhmatova-- Greatest Poet of Russia and One of Her First Dissidents, Tatiana Liaugminas
Community Food Security as a Microcosm of Human Rights, Ellen Maccarone
National Conference for Community and Justice of Greater Dayton, Theo J. Majka
Human Rights Organizations as Agents of Change: When Do They Succeed and When Do They Fail?, Kyla McEntire, Matthew Krain, and Michele Leiby
Vertical Voices and Rationalized Rights: The Problem of Transnational Networks in the International Disability Rights Movement, Stephen Meyers
Media and Globalization of Human Rights, Basilio Monteiro and Kevin Rioux
The Human Right to Water and Advocacy for Urban Water Supply: After the Privatization Struggles, Paul Nelson
The "Immigrant Friendly City" Program: Aligning Human Dignity with the Community Interest, Teresa Perretta, Xiaorui Feng, and Madison Kramer
From Principle to Pragmatism: The Motivational Life Cycle of Transnational Democracy and Human Rights Movements, Tsveta Petrova
The Unfolding Story of Human Rights Reporting: Tensions, Strategies and Next Steps, Shayna Plaut
Universal Truths Encounter the Pragmatism of Modern Medicine: Application of the Principle of Subsidiarity, David Plevak
Avoiding the Question: The Social Practice of Human Rights in Immigration Reform, Nancy Powers
Exploring the Practice of Human Rights Media Advocacy: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Information Politics, Joel R. Pruce
Bringing Theory to Practice: Human / Labor Rights in Academia, Clara Román-Odio
Universal Human Rights as Power Resources: Institutionalized Human Rights and Social Spending in 18 Latin American Countries (1980-2010), K. Russell Shekha
Indigenous American Literatures: Advocacy, Rights, and Sovereignty, Tereza M. Szeghi
Abolition Ohio, Anthony Talbott
Exploring Differences in Anti-Human Trafficking Laws in the American States, Anthony Talbott and Nancy Miller
Struggling to Define the Right to Education, Jessica Ulm
Why Communication Rights Are Essential to the Protection and Advancement of Human Rights in the 21st Century, Andy Valeri
The United Nations Security Council and Human Rights Advocacy, Carrie Booth Walling
Montgomery County's Ex-Offender Re-Entry Program, Michael Ward
Human Beings and Being Human: The Making of 'Gay Rights' as Human Rights, Matthew Weinert
Indivisible Human Rights and the End(s) of the State, Daniel J. Whelan
Why so Pessimistic about Human Rights?, Damian Williams
Generic Testimonies in Human Rights Discourse, Katherine Wilson
Deconstructing Prevention: The Missing Link in the Human Security Approach to Climate Change., Amelia Mae Wolf
Dissymmetry. Equality, and Mutual Recognition: Ricoeur’s Hegelian Interrogation of the Liberal Conception of Human Rights, Diane Yeager
Looking Forward: Documenting the Impact of ESC Violations, Nahal Zamani
