Submit Your Poster to Celebrating the Movement, Charting Change
The Human Rights Program is excited to present our inaugural Human Rights Day symposium, Celebrating the Movement, Charting Change, on December 10, 2024.
Each year, the international community observes Human Rights Day on December 10, honoring the day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This landmark document set forth a vision of equality, justice, and dignity for all.
This inspiring event brings together our human rights community, faculty, and students to explore the progress, challenges, and future of the global human rights movement. The symposium will spotlight efforts to defend human rights, featuring a student poster session, faculty panel discussion, and a keynote address. Participants will engage with emerging research, exchange ideas, and examine both the advances and ongoing challenges in protecting human dignity worldwide. For full details, please visit the event page.
This event provides a unique platform for you to present your work. The student poster presentations will showcase projects, policies, research, and creative engagement on critical human rights issues. The symposium aims to foster collaboration and dialogue around human rights. All interested students are welcome to apply to participate in the poster session. The Human Rights Program will pay for poster printing. Students enrolled in campus human rights programs are especially encouraged to share their work.
Apply to the Student Poster Session!
Apply here by November 18, 2024. You will be asked to provide some information on your poster content. You will have until December 1 to submit your poster for printing.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional students from all disciplines are invited to apply to present, in a poster presentation format, work focused on human rights issues at the local, national, or international levels. Submissions can include:
Research Projects : Academic, empirical, and applied research focused on a specific human rights issue, policy, or initiative.
Advocacy Projects: Projects demonstrating organized efforts to address a human rights issue, from online awareness campaigns to grassroots mobilization.
Professional Experiences: Reflections on experiences in human rights through volunteer work, internships, jobs, or fieldwork.
Policy Analysis: Research focused on evaluating or proposing human rights policies or frameworks at any level.
Creative Engagements: Art-based presentations that explore or communicate human rights themes.
Submissions can address any dimension of human rights, including but not limited to:
- Civil and political rights
- Economic, social, and cultural rights
- Environmental justice and human rights
- Human rights in technology and digital spaces
- Refugee and migration issues
- Gender equality, race, and intersectionality
- Human rights and conflict
- Accountability for human rights violations
For the application, students will need to include the following:
- Type of proposal (research project, advocacy campaign, experience, artistic engagement)
- Proposal Title
- Poster Proposal: This is a summary of your project. It should highlight your major points, explain why your work is important, describe how you researched your problem, and offer your conclusions. No more than 1,200 characters.
- Key Words: Specific terms or phrases that highlight the main themes, topics, or skills related to your project, research, or experience.
- What is the relevance to Conference Theme: Celebrating the Movement, Charting Change? No more than 1,200 characters.
The application deadline is November 18. Apply here. Students will be notified of their acceptance by November 22.
Submission
Students whose work has been accepted for the symposium must submit their posters by December 1. No exceptions. Details on how to design and submit posters will be shared with students who are selected for participation.
Poster Session: Tuesday, December 10, 1:00 - 2:15 PM
During the 75 minute poster session, you will have the opportunity to showcase your research and stand by your poster and engage in one-on-one or small group discussions with attendees who are interested in your work.
You will explain your research methods or work, findings, and implications to a diverse audience of peers, professors, and human rights professionals. This setting encourages feedback, questions, and the exchange of ideas.
You are encouraged to invite your faculty mentor(s), research group, peers, friends, and family. This event is open to the public.
