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Human Rights

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Immigration, Toleration, and Human Rights

Human Rights, Immigration
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Access to Information as a Human Right

Human Rights, Latin America, Peace, Violence, and Security
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Human Interactions and Normative Innovation

History, Human Rights, Philosophy, Political Science
Protest by detained African asylum seekers in Holot detention facility in Israel, 2014.

Negotiating Carceral Regimes in the Global South: Crime and Punishment Across the Islamic World

21st Century, Asian Languages & Literature, Capitalism, Colonialism, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media
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Transformative Education Behind Bars

Current Events, Democracy, Human Rights, Prison Studies
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Digital Border Technologies and Media

Human Rights, Immigration, Media Studies, Science & Technology Studies, Visual Culture

People

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Melinda Cohoon (she/her/hers)

Melinda Cohoon researches Iranian and Iranian-American gamers using virtual ethnographic methods.

Human Rights, Media Studies, Middle East, Technology
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Simpson Center for the Humanities

Hours

Monday - Friday, 9 am to 5:30 pm

Location

We are located on the second floor of the Communications Building on the University of Washington campus at 4109 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195. View campus map.

Mailing Address

Simpson Center for the Humanities
University of Washington
206 Communications
Box 353710
Seattle, WA 98195-3710

Telephone

206.543.3920

Email

Send general inquiries to humanities@uw.edu

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