Announcing an upcoming conference, June 19-20, 2010:
Assessing the State of Human Rights Nine Years After 9/11 The Executive Council of the ISA Human Rights Section, the Steering Committee of the APSA Human Rights Section and the Council of the IPSA Human Rights Research Committee announce their first joint Conference, to take place at Roosevelt University.
Mission Statement
The Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation, created in 1999 through a generous gift from the Mansfield Foundation, gives Roosevelt University a unique opportunity to develop an integrated program of curriculum, research, and outreach focused on social justice issues.
It is our goal to elevate and foster social consciousness among our students, faculty and members of our community, through a pedagogy of transformational learning and through rich social justice programming in the areas of human rights, social and political action, and the arts.
MISJT INITIATIVES:
Transformational Learning
- To develop and implement Transformational Learning across the curriculum at Roosevelt University in ways that enhance and complement the University’s social justice mission. This initiative will include building sustainable relationships with community partners and social justice allies both locally and nationally. These partnerships will provide students with opportunities for learning beyond the classroom and will lead to an elevated sense of civic and social responsibility. Ongoing support and resources for faculty to design and implement courses will be provided to insure a transformative experience for all involved.
Social Justice Programming
- To provide innovative Social Justice Programming that raises consciousness within and beyond the Roosevelt University community, and inspires the realization of social justice and human rights. Ultimately, our goal is to foster an expanded thought process focused on possibilities for transformation, through collaboration with individuals and groups engaged in the struggle to promote social justice and human rights.
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Sociology professor receives Fulbright to study multiracial issues in South Africa • Read Professor Dalmage's blog Dalmage, who has written extensively about America's growing multiracial movement and the resulting shift in thinking about whiteness, blackness and racial politics, will travel to Durban, South Africa, in January 2009 to give lectures and conduct research on multiracial family members in post-apartheid South Africa. "My work will focus on determining how definitions of whiteness and blackness are shifting in South Africa. By understanding the experiences of multiracial family members we will be able to better understand the role of racial politics in post-apartheid South Africa and the workings of race in the processes of globalization. Racial production is clearest at the boundaries of racial categories," said Dalmage. Read more |
Homeland: Photos by Nina Berman Feb 12-May 22, 2009 |
Gage Gallery
The exhibition was sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation, the Joseph Loundy Human Rights Project and the Department of Communication. |
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View the Spring 2008 Mansfield Lecture Video provided by CAN TV |
Fall 2008 Mansfield Lecture: Katha Pollit Originally published in The Nation, these essays showcase Katha Pollitt's keen insights and mordant wit as she skewers one hypocrite at a time from every side of the political spectrum. Copies available from the Roosevelt University bookstores and libraries. Call the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation for more information at: (312) 341-6484. |


11/20 Discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Deborah Nelson 
10/30 One Book, One University lecture with Katha Polit
VIDEO: View the Mansfield Lecture by author Alex Kotlowitz
EXHIBITION: Border Film Project at Gage Gallery
Tubeho Project:
Rwandan Survivors of Genocide [PDF]