April 9, 2015 |
“Speak Truth to Power”Dramatic reading of excerpts from the play Speak Truth To Power: Voice from Beyond the Dark by Ariel Dorfman based on the book by Kerry Kennedy with photographs by Eddie Adams. Keynote Lecture from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights |
February 28, 2013 |
“Just Business: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights”John G. RuggieBerthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
April 21, 2011 |
“International Justice, Transitional Justice: What Have We Learned About What “Works”?”Dr. Diane Orentlicher, Deputy, Office of War Crimes Issues, U.S. Department of State |
October 22, 2009 |
“Are American’s Human?: An Ex-Patriot’s guide to the Future of Progressive Politics in the U.S.”Dorothy Q. Thomas, School for Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
October 20, 2009 |
“Passionate Politics: The Intersection of Gender, Culture, and Human Rights”Dr. Charlotte Bunch, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University |
March 31, 2009 |
“‘The Last, Best Hope of Earth?’ American Democracy and the Right to Vote in Historical Perspective”Dr. Adam Fairclough, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Professor of American History and Culture, Leiden University |
March 3, 2008 |
“Perplexing Predicaments in Human Rights Law: Women, Terror and Tribunals”The Honorable Patricia Wald, Former Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; Chair, Open Society Institute’s Criminal Justice Initiative |
October 2, 2007 |
“Repairing Our Human Rights Reputation”Dr. Harold Koh, Dean, Yale Law School; Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, Yale Law School |
October 25, 2006 |
“Human Rights and State Responsibility”James Crawford, Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge; Director of the Lauterpacht Center for International Law, University of Cambridge |
November 7, 2005 |
“The Lessons of Nuremberg for Today and Tomorrow”Benjamin B. Ferencz, Lawyer; Prosecuting attorney at the Nuremberg Trials |
October 6, 2005 |
“A Jewish Lobby at Nuremberg, 1945-1946”Michael R. Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, Massey College, University of Toronto |
April 13, 2005 |
“International Criminal Courts: Worth the Effort?”Nina Bang-Jensen, Executive Director of the Coalition for International Justice |
September 9, 2004 |
“The Lesser Evil: Hard Choices in the War on Terror”Michael Ignatieff, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
February 26, 2003 |
“American Bystanding in an Age of Genocide”Samatha Power, Founding Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
April 11, 2002 |
“Bioterrorism & Civility”Dr. Joshua Lederberg, Sackler Foundation Scholar |
October 30, 2001 |
“The Mobilization of Shame: A World View of Human Rights”Fr. Robert F. Drinan, S.J.Professor of Law, Georgetown University |
April 11, 2000 |
“Forensic Science: Using New Tools to Address Human Rights Abuses”Dr. Henry C. LeeCommissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Safety |
October 21, 1998 |
“The Peace Process in Northern Ireland”Senator George J. MitchellFormer U.S. Senator of Maine |
April 23, 1997 |
“Human Rights: The Challenge of Relativism”Bernard Williams, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge; Monroe Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California-Berkeley |
October 16, 1996 |
“The Nobel Peace Prize and the World Struggle for Human Rights”Francis Sejersted, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee |