- Human Rights Archives: 3 US collections Robin Kirk of the Duke Center for Human Rights writes about Duke’s Archive for Human Rights on her blog, Talking Rights. She has also posted links to recordings of presentations from the recent Forum on Human Rights in Mexico City, which I posted about here. Listen to human rights archivists from three US academic collecting […]
- Behind the Abu Ghraib photographs: Gourevitch/Morris New Yorker article Thanks to everyone at Duke for a great visit. I had the opportunity to meet and speak with a great group of archivists there, as well as to screen Missing Lives: Disappearances and Impunity in the North Caucasus to a more general audience. Produced with partner Human Rights Center Memorial, the video documents the problem […]
- Activist Archivists We did our session “Activism in the Archives: Working with Human Rights Collections” on Saturday. Patrick Stawski is the Human Rights Archivist at the Archive of Human Rights at Duke University. Patrick spoke about developing the collection there, and the importance of outreach and engagement. The AHR is now the home of the International Monitor […]
