Thursday Oct 26 2023 7:00 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming via YouTube

Hosted by the University of Manitoba's Centre for Human Rights Research and McNally Robinson.

Join us for the launch of Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work featuring co-editors Neil Bilotta, Christina Clark-Kazak, Maritza Felices-Luna, Shayna Plaut, and Lara Rosenoff Gauvin.

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream. Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store. The venue is accessible.

Every day, those doing human rights work are confronted with irresolvable ethical dilemmas that extend beyond institutional ethical processes. Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work invites readers into a series of overlapping conversations, as activists, researchers, artists, and others reflect on the complex disorderliness of ethics in practice, and the implications for human rights work. Contributors share situations when they were ethically stuck between a rock and hard place. What happened? What would they do differently next time? This work proposes that personal reflection and collective, sometimes uncomfortable discussion, are essential components of critical human rights practice.

Neil Bilotta, Clinical Assistant Professor (Social Work), UNC-Chapel Hill. His interests are rooted in anti-racist and anti-colonial social work ethical practices and research with refugees and other forcibly displaced communities.

Christina Clark-Kazak, Professor of public and international affairs, University of Ottawa, a past editor-in-chief of Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, and past president of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration

Maritza Felices-Luna is a Peruvian criminologist and associate professor, University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on political violence, armed conflict and forced migration from a critical perspective using qualitative methodologies.

Shayna Plaut work sits at the intersection of academia, journalism and advocacy. She is interested in how people represent themselves in their own media, with a particular interest in peoples who do not fit neatly within the traditional notions of the nation-state.

Lara Rosenoff Gauvin, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and co-chair of the Respectful Rematriation Ceremony, University of Manitoba. She is a mother, scholar, artist, advocate, and curator whose work centres the knowledge and practices of survivors of violence, conflict and forced displacement.