Global Human Rights Hub
Events
In our work to empower rights through research, the Global Human Rights Hub offers a variety of events and activities. Join us for working group meetings to workshop research in progress and receive feedback. Themed conferences provide networking and publication opportunities and featured speakers bring Hub faculty, post-doctoral scholars and graduate students together to engage in intellectual dialogue. If you are interested in presenting your work, please contact us at [email protected].
Past events at the Hub
The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture
December 4 | 12–1:30 p.m.
MERCC C240 (The Mercado, ASU Downtown Phoenix campus)
The Hub hosted a book talk with UC Santa Barbara Professor, and author of "The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture," Lisa Hajjar.
About the author: Lisa Hajjar has an international reputation for her work on sociology of law and conflict, human rights, political violence, and contemporary international affairs. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who contributes to multiple fields in the social sciences and humanities, including Middle East Studies, American Studies, and Law and Society. Her current research focuses primarily on the US “war on terror,” particularly around the issues of torture, targeted killing, and Guantanamo. She is the only social scientist who has traveled to Guantanamo (14 times to date), where she conducts research and writes about the military commissions. Another area of current research focuses on human rights in the Arab world. Her journalistic writings have been published by The Nation, Al Jazeera English, Middle East Report, and Jadaliyya.