The University of Texas at Austin

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice

Human Rights Speaker Series

The Center hosts a speaker series featuring faculty from various disciplines both from UT and from other universities. We encourage speakers to present works in progress so that the participants might be involved in the development of the work. All events will take place on Tuesdays (unless stated otherwise) in the Eidman Jury Room (2.310) at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law from 3:30-5:00 P.M.


Visit our speaker archives


Spring 2008

Itty Abraham
Director, South Asia Institute, University of Texas

Audio: ''A Genealogy of Caring: A Long View of the Figure of the Refugee''

January 22

Álvaro Restrepo
Founder, El Colegio de Cuerpo de Cartagena de Indias

Video: "Individual Body/Collective Body"



Press release.


LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor, co-sponsored by the Performing Arts Center

February 5

Jennifer Harbury
Human Rights Lawyer

Video: "The US and Torture: History and Jurisprudence"

February 19

Barbara Harlow
Professor, Department of English, University of Texas

''Tortured Thoughts: The Example Set by Ruth First from her Interrogation in 1963 to her Assassination in 1982''

March 4

Alejandro Moreno
Associate Director, Internal Medicine Residency,
University of Texas Medical Branch Austin Programs

"Implementation of the Istanbul Protocol - A Summary Report of the Efforts to Eliminate Torture and Ill-Treatment in Mexico."


Read the press release.

Wednesday, April 2