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<DIV align=left><BR><STRONG>2013 HUMAN RIGHTS TERTIARY TEACHERS’ WORKSHOP</STRONG><BR>FACULTY OF LAW, UNSW<BR>25 February 2013</DIV>
<DIV align=left><BR><STRONG>CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST TO PRESENT<BR></STRONG>Date for submission: <U>14 December 2012<BR></U>Registration (free): click here<<A href="http://www.ahrcentre.org/node/432">http://www.ahrcentre.org/node/432</A>><BR></DIV>
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<DIV align=left>Dear Colleagues,<BR>The Third Human Rights Tertiary Teachers’ Workshop will be held on Monday, 25 February 2013, from 9.30-5 pm at the Australian Human Rights Centre, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney. The workshop brings together those engaged in teaching human rights in tertiary institutions around the country (and further afield), to share ideas about what we teach (and our students learn), and how we teach and stimulate our students to learn effectively. We welcome participants from all disciplines – past participants have included colleagues who work in law, political science, history, literature, and other disciplines.</DIV>
<DIV align=left><BR>The Organising Committee would now like to call for expressions of interest from colleagues who wish to present their experiences and insights about the teaching and learning of human rights at the 2013 Workshop. While we are interested to share ideas about new developments in the substance of human rights, we are particularly keen to hear from colleagues who may have developed new materials or resources, and innovative methods of teaching/learning or assessment, or methods of introducing new material into their courses.</DIV>
<DIV align=left><BR>We have decided to structure the Workshop around three substantive sessions and a general session on innovation in teaching and learning, but our goal is that teaching and learning perspectives also inform the presentations on the “substantive” sessions. Each panel is likely to have three (no more than four presenters, and we anticipate that presentations will be limited to 15 minutes, in order to allow time for discussion). The proposed sessions are:<BR><BR>· <U>Teaching and learning about the histories of human rights:<BR></U>In our courses we all teach (or assume) a version of the history/histories of the emergence of human rights. This panel will explore challenges to the dominant narratives and how we might go about identifying and unpacking these versions of the emergence of human rights and their influence, and the possibilities for alternative readings of the emergence of human rights.<BR><BR>· <U>Teaching and learning about international human rights systems:</U> Many courses include examination of the UN human rights (treaty body) system, as well as of other international or (sub)-regional systems of human rights protection. We would like to receive proposals for presentations about how colleagues have brought their exploration of one or more of these systems to life for their students, drawing on the range of different resources that are now available.<BR><BR>· <U>Teaching and learning about violence against women as a human rights issue</U>: Violence against women is widespread in our communities and across the world. Addressing violence against women from a human rights poses many challenges, including fundamental conceptual and practical challenges to the traditional human rights framework, as well as being a sensitive and difficult topic in the classroom. We invite proposals for presentations on how colleagues have addressed VAW as a human rights issue in their classes and their responses to the various challenges that engaging with this issue raises.<BR><BR>· <U>New resources, techniques and methods for teaching and learning about human rights</U>: Here we invite colleagues to submit proposals for presentations about new ways that they have developed to teach human rights and to enhance the learning of their students (both the successes and failures!). This panel is not limited by topic – all topics are welcome.<BR><BR>We would be grateful if you could submit expressions of interest to us by <STRONG>14 December 2012</STRONG>. Please email them to <A href="mailto:Andrew.Byrnes@unsw.edu.au">Andrew.Byrnes@unsw.edu.au</A></DIV>
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<DIV align=left>You can also include a proposal in the on-line registration facility at ahrcentreteachersworkshop.eventbrite.com.au<<A href="http://www.ahrcentreteachersworkshop.eventbrite.com.au">http://www.ahrcentreteachersworkshop.eventbrite.com.au</A>>, but once again we would appreciate receiving your proposal by 14 December 2012 if submitted this way.<BR></DIV>
<DIV align=left>If you do not wish to present at the workshop but do wish to attend, please register as soon as you can. There is no registration fee for the conference, but registration is necessary for room booking and catering purposes. We ask that you register no later than <U>15 February 2012</U>, by going to the on-line registration page ahrcentreteachersworkshop.eventbrite.com.au<<A href="http://www.ahrcentreteachersworkshop.eventbrite.com.au">http://www.ahrcentreteachersworkshop.eventbrite.com.au</A>> (you will be issued with “tickets” but not need to worry about bringing those, it is just the free software we are using).<BR></DIV>
<DIV align=left>Further details will be sent to those who have registered and will be available through the Human Rights Teachers’ Network hrteachers.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network<<A href="http://www.hrteachers.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network">http://www.hrteachers.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network</A>> . please join if you are not already a member, contact jtobin@unimelb.edu.au<mailto:jtobin@unimelb.edu.au>.<BR><BR>Andrew Byrnes<BR>Hilary Charlesworth<BR>John Tobin<BR>on behalf of the Organising Committee<BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>