Summer 2020 Course Spotlight: Human Rights Advocacy - Scholars at Risk

Over the summer term, the Human Rights Advocacy: Scholars at Risk course collaborated with Scholars at Risk, an NGO based in New York City. Through this collaboration, the class worked as "the case-responsible entity for a scholar who is being persecuted for his/her ideas."⁠

Specifically focused on the Uyghur scholars currently imprisoned in China, students created visual campaigns drawing attention to this issue. The featured image is these students’ call for transnational student solidarity on behalf of the Uyghur people being persecuted in Western China.⁠

Human Rights Advocacy: Scholars at Risk was taught by Adam Braver of Roger Williams University and Esther Gallo of the University of Trento.

Post Date: 08-19-2020