Fall Information Session
Every fall, an information session is held for students interested in the Human Rights Program, especially those considering a minor or self-designed major in Human Rights.
Spring Career Workshop
Beginning in spring 2008, a workshop will be held for Human Rights students about career options, including information about graduate and professional schools.
Human Rights-in-Hartford Working Group
Part of the Local-Global Conversations Initiative, the Human Rights-in-Hartford Working Group will convene in 2007-2008 to explore concrete ways in which Trinity’s HRP might facilitate conversations among local human rights and social justice organizations about the relevance of international human rights norms. The Group will meet four times during the academic year. Interested members of the Trinity community should contact the Human Rights Program.
Winter Break Virtual Reading Group
Students, staff, and faculty are invited this December and January to read Ishmael Beah's critically acclaimed A Long Day Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier and then participate in an online discussion forum. Beah will be speaking at Trinity in April 2008. Further details about the reading group will be available in mid-November
Fred Pfeil Memorial Lecture
Commencement Speakers of Note
The Burma Project (Archived)
CASE Media Fellowships Program (Archived)
Fred Pfeil Memorial Lecture
In 2006, the Human Rights Program initiated an annual Fred Pfeil Memorial Lecture, honoring a member of Trinity’s faculty who served on the Program’s Advisory Board and was a deeply committed social activist.
2007: Mark Dow, author of American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons
2006: Professor Victor Streib, Ohio Northern University Law School
Commencement Speakers of Note
Commencement 2006, Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi
Commencement 2000, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke
The Burma Project (archived)
Trinity’s Human Rights Program initiated a project in 2000 to honor the efforts of educators worldwide fighting on the frontlines of human rights and social justice. On March 30, 2001, Trinity so recognized three Burmese teachers who were imprisoned in Burma. The awards ceremony was held at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, and the guest of honor was Queen Rania al-Abdullah of Jordan. In November 2001, the Trinity chapter of the Free Burma Coalition was formed as a student-faculty reading group.