Human Rights Program Faculty Board: June 2010

Human Rights Program Individual Donors

University of Chicago Human Rights Program

5720 S. Woodlawn Avenue • Chicago, IL 60637

773-834-0957 • http://humanrights.uchicago.edu

Mark Bradley

Co-Chair

John Schumann

Co-Chair

Daniel Brudney

Elizabeth Chandler

James Chandler

Bradin Cormack

Jane Dailey

Rosalind Dixon

Norma Field

Michael Geyer

Tom Ginsburg

Ramon Gutierrez

Susan Gzesh

Judy Hoffman

John Kelly

Emilio Kouri

Lyonette Louis-Jacques

Marvin Makinen

Jeanne Marsh

Martha Nussbaum

Robert Perlman

Jennifer Pitts

Moishe Postone

Julie Saville

Eric Slauter

James Sparrow

Amy Stanley

Christine Stansell

The University of Chicago Women’s Board, The Office of the Provost, The College, School of

Social Service Administration, Pritzker School of Medicine, The Center for International

Studies Norman Wait Harris Fund, The Teagle Foundation,

The Robert H. Kirschner, M.D., Memorial Fund

Kristin Love

David Nirenberg

Louis Olom

Michael Pareles

Andrea Parker

Florence Patti

Caryle Perlman

Robert Perlman

Ann Pozen

Richard Pozen

Ellen Rosendale

Kathryn Sangillo

Julie Saville

John Schumann

Michael Shen

Patrick Spain

Katherine Ward

Bernice Weissbourd

Andrea Wenzel

Aizik Wolf

Malika Anand

Maya Barron

Eric Berndt

Quinn Bernier

Jane Bernstein

Mark Bradley

Daniel Brudney

Wing Chan

Elizabeth Chandler

James Chandler

Brian Chelcun

Nan Chen

Catherine Coburn

John Coburn

Judith Cottle

William Cottle

Jane Dailey

Robert Ellis

Deborah Epstein

Alan Exelrod

Vivienne Exelrod

Aaron Foss

Julie Fry

Michael Geyer

David Goldenberg

Oleksandra Golenyshchenko

Gerald Greenwald

Win Greenwald

Miriam Hansen

Warren Huang

Veena Iyer

Patti Kameya

Barbara Kirschner

Jerry Knoll

Susan Kreisman

Angelina Li

Maureen Loughnane

Rebecca Louie

Human Rights Program Support

Michael Geyer, Faculty Director

Susan Gzesh, Executive Director

Noa Vaisman, Lecturer

Antonio Pele, Visiting Scholar

Sarah Patton Moberg, Program Assistant

Jacob Lesniewski, Intern Coordinator

HRP Student Staff: Jasmine Heiss, Tsion

Gurmu, Samantha Wishnak

Human Rights Program Staff

A special thanks to Paul Seeley and Maureen Loughnane

of The University of Chicago Alumni Relations and Development Office.

Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 7 p.m.

Social Science Research Building, Room 122

1126 East 59th Street

Robert H. Kirschner, M.D., Memorial Human Rights Lecture

“Literature and Individual Sovereignty”

Aleksandar Hemon

Robert H. Kirschner, M.D., 1940-2002

This lecture series honors the life and work of Robert H. Kirschner, MD.

Dr. Kirschner was a clinical associate in the Department of Pathology and

Pediatrics and a founding member of the faculty board of the Human Rights

Program at the University of Chicago. He was an internationally recognized

authority on forensic pathology, human rights violations, police brutality,

torture and child abuse and an outspoken opponent of the death penalty.

Ignacio Martín-Baró Human Rights Essay Contest

Undergraduate: Samantha Wishnak, Political Science; “Slums, the Environment,

and the ‘Public Interest’: Right or Recreation?”

MA/Professional: Elizabeth Austermuehle, Law; “CEDAW, the Universal

Declaration, and Their Interaction with Single-Sex Public Transportation”

PhD: Patrick Kelly, History; “‘When the People Awake’: The Transnational

Solidarity Movement, the Pinochet Junta, and the Human Rights Moment of the

1970s”

Dr. Aizik Wolf Human Rights Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship

Hannah Birnbaum, Sociology

Host Organization: Business and Professional People for the Public Interest

(BPI)

Human Rights Minors

Christina Black

Maranda Blount

Stephanie Ciupka

Kara Elliott-Ortega

Tsion Gurmu

David Klein

Noah Lewellen

Ryan Mills

Anna Norton

Ioana Tchoukleva

Clare Wolfe

Liliana Zaragoza

Human Rights Interns

Hannah Birnbaum

Stephanie Ciupka

Molly Costich

Laura Eberly

Kara Elliott-Ortega

Leslie Farland

Sarah Farr

Jasmine Heiss

E. Phoebe Holtzman

David Klein

Patricia Ross

Ioana Tchoukleva

Samantha Wishnak

Liliana Zaragoza

2010 Human Rights Program Student Achievements

Spring 2010 Graduates

Photograph of A. Hemon by: Velibor Bozovic

Aleksandar Hemon

Robert H. Kirschner, M.D., Memorial Human Rights Lecture

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Program:

Introduction and Recognition of Human Rights Program Student

Achievements

Susan Gzesh, Executive Director of the Human Rights Program

Lecture: “Literature and Individual Sovereignty”

Aleksandar Hemon

All are invited to the reception to follow the lecture in the Social

Science Research Building Lobby.

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project,

which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award

and National Book Critics Circle Award, and three collec-

tions of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere

Man, also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle

Award; and Love and Obstacles, which was published by

Riverhead Books in May 2009. Born in Sarajevo, Hemon

visited Chicago in 1992, intending to stay for a matter of

months. While he was here, Sarajevo came under siege,

and he was unable to return home. Hemon wrote his first story in English in

1995. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a “genius grant”

from the MacArthur Foundation in 2004. He lives in Chicago with his wife and

two daughters.