HUMAN RIGHTS AT UCONN
Examining the most pressing human rights questions and preparing the next generation of human rights leaders.
Highlighted Events
Nobody’s Listening
Immersive Exhibition
Spring 2025 • Storrs, CT
Nobody’s Listening is an immersive exhibition commemorating the Yazidi genocide initiated by ISIS in the summer of 2014 in northern Iraq. Using photography, art and virtual reality technology, the exhibition explores the consequences of the genocidal campaign by ISIS and its devastating effect on persecuted communities and their cultural heritage. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a ground-breaking virtual reality experience, Nobody’s Listening: The Forgotten Voices of Sinjar. This room-scale interactive experience transports viewers to northern Iraq using a blend of 360-degree documentary film-making, stunning Yazidi artwork and the latest virtual reality technology.
Inaugural Genocide Awareness Lecture
Our Walled World: Identity & Separation in Deeply Divided Societies
April 22, 2025 • Storrs, CT
Dr. James Waller, the Christopher J. Dodd Chair in Human Rights Practice and a renowned expert in genocide and atrocity prevention, delivers the inaugural Genocide Awareness Lecture at UConn, commemorating Genocide Awareness Month. Offering a comprehensive analysis of how deeply divided societies construct physical, symbolic, and hidden walls that foster isolation and fear, Dr. Waller examines these divisions through a global comparative lens. Emphasizing the critical need for greater integration, Waller will propose strategies that dismantle the barriers perpetuating the ‘us’ and ‘them’ fault lines of our fractured societies.
