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Legal Anthropology, Human Rights to be Topic of Talk

UC to Host Human Rights Educators

Written By Keshia Clukey, PR Intern

Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu

Utica, NY (10/04/2006) - How can human rights education be used to improve the legal and social standards of minorities throughout the world?

This will be the topic of a presentation at Utica College on Thursday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Willard Conference Room, 208 Deperno Hall. The program is free and open to the public.
Reetta Toivanen, a social anthropologist who has studied the differences and similarities between and across cultures, will be one of the presenters. A visiting scholar at Harvard University in 2000-2001 with advanced degrees from the University of Helsinki and Humboldt-University, Berlin, Toivanen is a member of the Nordic Network for Human Rights Research and is affiliated with the Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University in Finland. She is a senior researcher at the department for social anthropology at Humboldt-University, and a board member of the International Human Rights Education Consortium (IHREC), based at Utica College.

Claudia Mahler, lawyer and human rights educator, studied law at Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck, Austria, where she earned her doctoral degree. A former member of the Austrian Advisory Board on Human Rights, Mahler is a senior researcher at the human rights center of the University of Potsdam.

Both Toivanen and Mahler will draw upon their extensive experience working in six European countries with 15 different minority groups in discussing the use of human rights education.

For further information, contact Anamaria Iosif Ross at (315) 223-2514, aross@utica.edu, or Thomas Crist (315) 792-3390, tcrist@utica.edu 

About Utica College – Founded in 1946, Utica College is a comprehensive private institution that grants the Syracuse University baccalaureate degree and the Utica College master’s and doctoral degrees. The College, located in central New York, approximately 90 miles west of Albany and 50 miles east of Syracuse, currently enrolls an approximated 2,900 undergraduate and graduate students in 31 undergraduate majors, 24 minors, 13 master’s and two doctoral degree programs.

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