Internationally recognized scholar and educator Hugo Slim visits the University of Oregon Nov. 16-23 as the 2013-14 Savage Professor of International Relations and Peace.
Slim's visit marks the beginning of a collaboration between the UO and the University of Oxford, which focuses on issues of global human rights through events and scholarship opportunities for UO students and faculty members on the Eugene and Oxford campuses.
While at the UO, Slim will conduct a workshop on prevention-oriented curriculum with UO faculty and 4J teachers, attend classes, engage with students interested in international aid work and deliver the UO's second annual address on the State of Human Rights.
His lecture, "The State of Human Rights: The Challenge of Humanitarian Action," will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, in the Knight Law Center Campbell Auditorium. Admission is free. All are welcome.
Hugo Slim is a senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at the University of Oxford where he leads research on humanitarian ethics. He has been a board member of Oxfam GB, an international advisor to the British Red Cross and is currently on the board of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD).