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As part of the 1949 UNESCO Human Rights Exhibition seminar series, the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University is proud to present

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HUMAN RIGHTS ON THE WORLD STAGE

A talk with Sharon Sliwinski
Associate Professor of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario.

With Commentary by Rosalyn Deutsche
Adjunct Professor of Art History, Barnard College.

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EVENT INFORMATION

Date and time: Monday 9 December 2013 at 6.15pm
Location: TBC (Please note that due to water damage, the location of this event has changed. Updates will be posted on the following website, www.exhibithumanrights.org/events)

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The 1949 UNESCO Human Rights Exhibition operated both as cultural document and as educational implement. Sharon Sliwinski proposes to highlight some of the tensions involved in transposing human rights into these terms. What will be under particular scrutiny are the fantasies that drive such educational campaigns, namely, that proper knowledge will bring about social progress. Professor Sliwinski will address the historical lineage of this fantasy, as well as its persistence in the present in form of “sites of conscience.”

This is the third event in a seminar series revolving around the largely unknown 1949 UNESCO Human Rights Exhibition – the first international event that sought to visually represent the history, meaning and content of the rights set out in the UDHR. The series will lead up to a new display of the exhibition archive at Columbia’s Buell Hall Gallery in April 2014.

This seminar series is made possible with the support of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, the Center for International History, and the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research at Columbia University.

The event is free and open to the public with limited seating offered.