Rights Talk

This episode features Savita Pawnday, Deputy Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P), an international advocacy and research NGO housed at the CUNY Graduate Center. The conversation engages the themes of mass atrocity crimes, the responsibility of states and the international community to protect populations from gross human rights violations, atrocity pre...

This episode features Dr. Martin Woessner, Associate Professor of History and Society at CCNY's Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, along with students from his "History of Human Rights" Fall 2020 course. Student voices include: Andrew Riffell, Danielle Gautier, Pablo Salinas, Charles Dargan, Elvia Sarabia, Rachel Caron, Molly Caperna, Jean-Phillip Philogène, and Lalita Jairam. T...

This episode features Bann-Seng Tan, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Ashoka University, India. It focuses on Professor Tan's new book International Aid and Democracy Promotion: Liberalization at the Margins . 

This episode features Justin Williams, CCNY Associate Professor of History at the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies. The conversation focuses on Contemporary Pan-Africanism, Ghana and politics in Africa more broadly, racism and US politics, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. The conversation also engages the challenges of homophobia, sexism, economic inequality, and climate change. 

This episode features Iranian novelist Salar Abdoh, CCNY Professor and Deputy Chair, English Department, and Interim Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing. Abdoh discusses his publications, especially his new work Out of Mesopotamia , the story of an Iranian journalist covering the war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, which is based on his own experience as a journalist in the region. The...

This episode features Joan H. Robinson, Assistant Professor of Social Science and Law at the City College of New York's Division of Interdisciplinary Studies. Through an intersectional lens, it engages the themes of gender inequality, domestic violence, pregnancy testing, abortion rights, and sexual violence in the United States. It also address the issue of biomedical testing and privacy rig...

This episode features CCNY's Master's of Public Administration Program Executive Director Bobby Derival. Bringing his expertise in public health and international peace and conflict resolution, the conversation covers the right to health and intersecting rights challenges, including racial injustice, in the United States, Haiti, and globally.

This episode features Susanna Schaller, Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Studies, at CCNY's Division of Interdisciplinary Studies. Its themes include: urban governance, the right to the city, business improvement districts and the impacts of gentrification, and grassroots activism. 

This episode features Dr. Eric Weitz, Distinguished Professor of History at The City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. Drawing on a range of case studies that are extensively examined in Wetiz's published works, the conversation focuses on the connection between the contemporary political order, genocide, and race, and the conditions under which mass atrocity crimes are likely...

This episode features CCNY's Dr. Lesley Lokko, Dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. The themes include: the relevance of architecture to human rights; race and architecture as a field of study and practice; inequality in South Africa; and the Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter Movements.  

This episode features CCNY Professor Rajan Menon, Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair in Political Science, on themes concerning US national security and foreign policy; Russia and Ukraine; China; humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect doctrine; and inequality, "deaths of despair," and the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. 

This episode features Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Black Studies Program at CCNY. The conversation is centered on women writers in the Americas and the influence of African spirituality on the construction of womanhood in their works; and Diasporic Blackness , her book about Arturo Alfonso Schomberg and his efforts to collect and preserve materials...

This first podcast episode features CCNY President Vincent Boudreau discussing the challenges faced by the CCNY community, and public higher education in the United States more broadly, including neoliberal pressures, gaping socioeconomic inequality, and the COVID-19 pandemic.  

The short pilot focuses on undocumented workers in the United States and the impact of COVID-19 on their already precarious circumstances. It features Dr. Susanna Rosenbaum, associate professor of anthropology at the City College of New York Downtown.