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Nayat Karaköseoglu
Alumni Highlight
Nayat Karaköseoglu
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
On January 29th, Nayat Karaköseoglu, a 2014 AHDA alumna and a program coordinator at the Hrant Dink Foundation, participated in a panel entitled, “Topographies of Memory: Exchanging Knowledge and Best Practices.” The aim of the panel was to look at memorialization projects that use and implement a variety of technological tools, with the goal of increasing the efficacy of efforts against social amnesia and the politics of oblivion: Online maps, websites, applications for smartphones and guided tours incorporating sites of memory are among ef
Fred Myers
Whose Story is This?
The Complex Matter of Archival Film
Monday, February 15, 2016

On February 1st, Professor Fred Myers presented on his most recent projects among the Pintupi people of Yayayi in the Western Desert region of Australia.

2015 HRAP
2015 HRAP Program Report Now Available
Thursday, February 11, 2016

The Human Rights Advocate Program's 2015 Annual Program Report is now available upon request by emailing ishr@columbia.edu. The 2015 cohort—which represented the 27th class of HRAP—hailed from Albania, Australia, Belarus, the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Kenya, Myanmar, South Sudan and Turkey.

Matthew Kennis
Alumni Highlight
Matthew Kennis
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Congratulations to 2012 alumnus Matthew Kennis on his new role as Program Director with the Libertas Center for Human Rights, a torture survivor’s treatment center at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. 
 
Bakary Tandia
Alumni Highlight
Bakary Tandia
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

2010 Advocate Bakary Tandia was recently featured in the Voice of America article "African Diaspora Makes Its Voice Count in US Election." The article highlights Bakary's voter mobilization efforts in the 2008 US presidential election and his work in the field of human rights.

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