2010
December 3 Richard Hiskes, Hari Osofsky, Philippe Cullet, Sumudu Atapattu Sawyer Seminar: "Rethinking Human Rights and the Environment"
November 12 Sam Moyn, Eric Weitz, Geoffrey Robinson, Ann Marie Wilson Sawyer Seminar: "Rethinking the History of Human Rights"
October 29 David Petrasek, Michel Feher, Bridget Conley-Zilkic, Fuyuki Kurasawa Sawyer Seminar: "Innovative Advocacy Campaigns"
September 3 Ruth Rubio Marin "Reparations for Mass Human Rights Violations: A Gendered Perspective", hosted by Global Legal Studies Center
April 16 Anne Aghion, Noa Vaisman, Joseph Slaughter, Michael Goodhart Sawyer Seminar: "Representation and Human Rights"
March 12 Paul Gready, Molly Todd,Dyan Mazurana, Nancy Kendall, Miriam Thangaraj Sawyer Seminar: "Resilience and Human Rights"
February 5 Patrick Vinck, Michael Carter, Sally Merry, Harri Englund Sawyer Seminar: "Vulnerability and Human Rights"
2009
November 24 Filip Reyntjens "The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996-2006"
November 23 Nora Groce "Making Climate Change a Health Issue: The Lancet/University College of London Commission on Climate Change"
November 8   Climate Change and Refugees Panel--Part of the "Tales From Planet Earth" Film Festival
November 4   An Evening with Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng
October 28   "Human Rights and Climate Change in the Tropical Andes"
October 26 Heraldo Munoz "From Dictatorship to the Security Council: A Political Memoir"
October 16 Philip Bobbitt "Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twentieth Century"
September 23 Clionadh Raleigh "Climate Change and Conflict: Myths, Facts, and Futures"
April 14 Alison Renteln "The Human Rights to Identity: The Legal Regulation of Personal Names"
April 9 Karen Engle "Law, War and Human Security"
April 6 Anthony K. Appiah "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers"
April 2 Christopher Menke "The Self-Reflection of Law and the Politics of Rights"
March 30 Felipe Gonzalez "Human Rights in the Americas: Challenges Confronting the Inter-American System"
March 26 Ben Majekodunmi "The UN's Protection of Human RIghts on the Ground: Dilemmas from Rwanda, Darfur, Nepal, Lebanon and Beyond"
March 5 Christopher Weeramantry "Environmentalism and Human Rights"
February 26 Dyan Mazurana "Life and Security in Rural Afghanistan"
February 19   Post+Human+Rights: "Where are Human Rights Today?" 60th Anniversary Celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
February 9 Jennifer Leaning "War and Human Rights in Africa: Insights from Darfur/Chad, DRC, and Liberia"

 
2008
December 10 International Human Rights Day Where are Human Rights Today? 60th Anniversary Celebration of the UDHR
December 9   Grassroots Campaigns for International Human Rights
December 8 Ishmael Beah Distinguished Lecture Series
December 7 Film "The Road to Guantanamo"
November 5 Flavia Agnes "Women's Rights and Legal Advocacy: Lessons from India"
October 27 Micheline Ishay "Back to the Future? The 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
October 24 Mark Bradley, Francine Hirsch, Peter Holquist & Samuel Moyn
 New Directions in Historical Human Rights Research: A Roundtable Discussion
October 20 Shirin Ebadi 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
October 7 Thilo Marauhn "Regulating the Privatization of War: The Need for National Legislation on Private Military Companies"
September 30 Virginia Vargas "Women's Long March for Equality and Democracy in Latin America"
September 26 Mary Robinson "Human Rights in the 21st Century"
May 5 Elizabeth Weber "Torture was the Essence of National Socialism. Reading Jean Amery Today"
April 24 Ari Zolberg and Djankou Ndjonkou Workshop on Migration and Human Rights
April 17 Sarah Sewell "Accountability in Counterinsurgency: Mission Impossible?"
April 11 Olivier de Schutter "Is There a Right to Food?"
April 7 Nelson Sewankambo and Ok Panenborg Workshop on Health and Development in Africa
April 3 Reinhart Kossler "Genocide in Namibia: Negotiating the Past between Namibia and Germany"
March 24 Julissa Mantilla "Gender and Truth Commissions: The Peruvian Case"
March 10 Charika Marasinghe "Children's Right to Privacy"
March 6 Stephen Marks "Health as a Human Right: The Right to Health in Theory and Practice"
February 27 Ali Engineer "Democracy, Parochialism and Peace"
February 27 Michael Schatzberg, Scott Straus, and Tom Spear "Crisis in Kenya"
February 1 Elizabeth Borgwardt "'All the Clauses in the Preamble to the Constitution are Worth Fighting For': FDR's Four Freedoms and 1940s Transformations in America's Discourse of Rights"
2007
November 28

Florence Chenoweth, Susan Friedman, Heinz Klug and Ken Shapiro

Workshop, "Food Security and Human Rights"