[IntLawProfessors] Fwd: Fw 2013 HUMAN RIGHTS TERTIARY TEACHERS’ WORKSHOP (Monday, 25 February 2013, Australian Human Rights Centre, Faculty of Law, UNSW, Sydney)

[Don Anton]

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2013 HUMAN RIGHTS TERTIARY TEACHERS’ WORKSHOP
FACULTY OF LAW, UNSW
25 February 2013

CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST TO PRESENT
Date for submission: 14 December 2012
Registration (free): click here<http://www.ahrcentre.org/node/432>
 
Dear Colleagues,
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.

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.

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:

·       Teaching and learning about the histories of human rights:
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.

·       Teaching and learning about international human rights systems:
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.

·       Teaching and learning about violence against women as a human
rights issue: 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.

·       New resources, techniques and methods for teaching and learning
about human rights: 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.

We would be grateful if you could submit expressions of interest to us
by 14 December 2012. Please email them to Andrew.Byrnes at unsw.edu.au
 
You can also include a proposal in the on-line registratio
n facility at
ahrcentreteachersworkshop.eventbrite.com.au<http://www.ahrcentreteachersworkshop.eventbrite.com.au>,
but once again we would appreciate receiving your proposal by 14
December 2012 if submitted this way.
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 15 February 2012, by
going to the on-line registration page
ahrcentreteachersworkshop.eventbrite.com.au<http://www.ahrcentreteachersworkshop.eventbrite.com.au>
 (you will be issued with “tickets” but not need to worry about bringing
those, it is just the free software we are using).
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<http://www.hrteachers.ningcom/?xg_source=msg_mes_network>
. please join if you are not already a member,  contact
jtobin at unimelb.edu.au<mailto:jtobin at unimelb.edu.au>.

Andrew Byrnes
Hilary Charlesworth
John Tobin
on behalf of the Organising Committee

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