The Harvey Kaye State of Democracy Lecture with Micheline Ishay
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Commemorating the public engagement and broad intellectual spirit of UWGB Professor Harvey Kaye’s career, the Harvey Kaye State of Democracy series addresses some of the most urgent questions facing our democracy, including in the fields of workers’ rights, immigration, racial inequality, public health, technology, and journalism.
Our guest this evening will be Micheline Ishay, Distinguished Professor of Human Rights and International Studies and Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver. As a political scientist, she is known for her work in human rights, political theory, the Middle East, and international affairs. She was the founding director of Korbel's International Human Rights Program, leading it for almost two decades as it became one of the country's top graduate programs in human rights. In 2022, she received the Human Rights in Higher Education Award from the University and College Consortium for Human Rights Education (UCCHRE), an international award for outstanding contributions to higher education and research in human rights. In 2008, Ishay was named the University of Denver Distinguished Scholar.
From 2010 to 2013, Ishay worked as a professor and consultant in the Gulf region from a unique vantage point, as a female scholar in human rights. She had the privilege to learn from Emirati and Arab nationals about their hopes and fears as upheaval shook the region around them during the Arab Spring. As Director of the Center for Middle East Studies, she convenes experts from different backgrounds and expertise to shed light on ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and to explore peace processes.
Ishay received a PhD in Political Science and International Studies from Rutgers University. She was a fellow at the Center for Critical Culture and Contemporary Analysis at Rutgers and Assistant Professor at Hobart and William Smith College. She was a Senior Fellow, Center for Democracy Collaborative, University of Maryland (2004); Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Hebrew University (2006); Visiting Professor, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (2010-2013); Resident Fellow, Bellagio Center, Rockefeller Foundation, Italy (2015); Guest Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna (2021); Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University (2022); Visiting Professor, WZB Social Science Center, Berlin (2023); and Visiting Professor; Sciences Politiques, Paris (2023, 2026). Often interviewed in the domestic and international press, Ishay frequently contributes to international forums in Europe, the Middle East and the U.S.
Ishay is the author or editor of half a dozen books and numerous articles, including Internationalism and Its Betrayal (1995), The Nationalism Reader (1995, 1999), and The Levant Express: The Arab Uprisings, Human Rights, and the Future of the Middle East (Yale University Press, 2019). Her books, The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era (University of California Press, 2004, 2008) and The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches, and Documents from Ancient Times to the Present (Routledge, 1997, 2008, 2022), widely used as texts in courses on human rights, have been translated into multiple languages and published in multiple editions. Responding to the recent surge of populism and authoritarianism, Ishay's current research concerns the future of internationalism amidst post-pandemic recession and regional wars. She is also working on a monograph tentatively titled: Mapping the Levant in a New World Order: From Caravan to Corridors.
This event is sponsored by UWGB and the Mauthe Center, and it is free and open to the public. To register, follow this link: https://www.mcenter.org/event-details/the-harvey-kaye-state-of-democracy-lecture-with-micheline-ishay
Our guest this evening will be Micheline Ishay, Distinguished Professor of Human Rights and International Studies and Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver. As a political scientist, she is known for her work in human rights, political theory, the Middle East, and international affairs. She was the founding director of Korbel's International Human Rights Program, leading it for almost two decades as it became one of the country's top graduate programs in human rights. In 2022, she received the Human Rights in Higher Education Award from the University and College Consortium for Human Rights Education (UCCHRE), an international award for outstanding contributions to higher education and research in human rights. In 2008, Ishay was named the University of Denver Distinguished Scholar.
From 2010 to 2013, Ishay worked as a professor and consultant in the Gulf region from a unique vantage point, as a female scholar in human rights. She had the privilege to learn from Emirati and Arab nationals about their hopes and fears as upheaval shook the region around them during the Arab Spring. As Director of the Center for Middle East Studies, she convenes experts from different backgrounds and expertise to shed light on ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and to explore peace processes.
Ishay received a PhD in Political Science and International Studies from Rutgers University. She was a fellow at the Center for Critical Culture and Contemporary Analysis at Rutgers and Assistant Professor at Hobart and William Smith College. She was a Senior Fellow, Center for Democracy Collaborative, University of Maryland (2004); Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Hebrew University (2006); Visiting Professor, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (2010-2013); Resident Fellow, Bellagio Center, Rockefeller Foundation, Italy (2015); Guest Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna (2021); Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University (2022); Visiting Professor, WZB Social Science Center, Berlin (2023); and Visiting Professor; Sciences Politiques, Paris (2023, 2026). Often interviewed in the domestic and international press, Ishay frequently contributes to international forums in Europe, the Middle East and the U.S.
Ishay is the author or editor of half a dozen books and numerous articles, including Internationalism and Its Betrayal (1995), The Nationalism Reader (1995, 1999), and The Levant Express: The Arab Uprisings, Human Rights, and the Future of the Middle East (Yale University Press, 2019). Her books, The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era (University of California Press, 2004, 2008) and The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches, and Documents from Ancient Times to the Present (Routledge, 1997, 2008, 2022), widely used as texts in courses on human rights, have been translated into multiple languages and published in multiple editions. Responding to the recent surge of populism and authoritarianism, Ishay's current research concerns the future of internationalism amidst post-pandemic recession and regional wars. She is also working on a monograph tentatively titled: Mapping the Levant in a New World Order: From Caravan to Corridors.
This event is sponsored by UWGB and the Mauthe Center, and it is free and open to the public. To register, follow this link: https://www.mcenter.org/event-details/the-harvey-kaye-state-of-democracy-lecture-with-micheline-ishay
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