'Feed Your Mind' virtual event series
Global College welcomes Human Rights Professor Kristi Kenyon to give a talk at our last of a series of "Feed Your Mind" virtual events on Wednesday, March 17, at 12:30 PM.Too often it is assumed that "human rights experts" are people in far away centres of power with formal qualifications - but we all have perspectives on what human rights mean and how they affect our lives. With the title "Experts Among Us: Interviewing the Community About their Perspectives on Human Rights", Professor Kenyon's talk reflects on an interviewing activity used in a 4th year human rights course over 4 years, and the ways that it can broaden our thinking about expertise. Dr. Kenyon's talk will be followed by a Q&A session. In order to resemble virtual classroom settings with open discussions, we are hosting the event via Zoom Meeting platform.
Zoom meeting details:
Title: 'Experts Among Us: Interviewing the Community About their Perspectives on Human Rights'
Date: Wednesday, March 17
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Contact us at global.college@uwinnipeg.ca for pre-set questions and for the link to the meeting
Note: First 25 attendees of the event will be given UW Diversity Foods gift card vouchers (each worth $10) redeemable online or in-person on campus.
Dr. Kristi Kenyon's short biography:
Dr. Kenyon's research and teaching is informed and inspired by more than fifteen years working in, on and with civil society organisations in Southern Africa, South East Asia and Canada. Her research focuses on the role that non-governmental organisations play in promoting, protecting and interpreting human rights and health. She also has a strong interest in participatory, experiential and interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning.
Dr. Kenyon is a 2017-2019 Canadian Institute for Advanced Research – Azrieli Global Scholar in the Successful Societies program, and a research fellow with the Centre for the Study of Security and Development (Dalhousie University). She is the author of Resilience and Contagion: Invoking Human Rights in African HIV Advocacy (McGill-Queens, 2017).
Prior to joining the University of Winnipeg, Dr. Kenyon held postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University (SSHRC) and in the Centre for Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). She completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of British Columbia and an MA in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex (UK). Dr. Kenyon has worked as a human rights practitioner with the Amnesty International International Secretariat (London), the Asian Institute for Development Communication (Kuala Lumpur) and the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (Gaborone), and has served on the board of local and international development organizations in Canada and Botswana. She is currently the University of Winnipeg faculty liaison for the Canadian International Council - Winnipeg Branch.