The H(uman)R(ights)DI Guide to SXSW
It’s that time of year when the South by Southwest Festival consumes Austin with a plethora of activity around new media/technology, music, and film. There’s something for everyone, including...
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The HRDI and Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen (El Salvador) pay homage to...
“If they kill me, I will be reborn in the Salvadoran people.” - Monseñor Romero Photo of Monseñor Romero tribute mural in El Salvador International Airport Credit: T-Kay Sangwand Today, March 24,...
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Introducing an Online Tutorial for Archival Research on Human Rights at...
The papers of author and activist Gloria Anzaldúa. (Image courtesy of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin) The Human Rights...
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HRDI Shares Best Practices
Photo: “Memory and Documentation” sign from Ibuka archive, Rwanda. Taken on 2009 HRDI trip. (Cross-posted at Tex Libris) In September, UT Libraries Human Rights Documentation Initiative...
View ArticleHRDI and WITNESS Partner to Expand Human Rights Video Archives
A human rights project established at the University of Texas Libraries has announced a collaborative effort with an international organization that focuses on video documentation of human rights...
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Can I Get a WITNESS?
(cross-posted from Tex Libris) I see pictures of people, rising up pictures of people, falling down I see pictures of people they’re standing on their heads, they’re ready they’re looking out, look...
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Rethinking Power and Resistance Conference Online Archive Launch
The Human Rights Documentation Initiative is pleased to announce the launch of the online video archive from Rethinking Power & Resistance: Gender and Human Rights from Texas to the Transnational...
View ArticleSAA Human Rights Archives Roundtable Interviews T-Kay Sangwand
The Society of American Archivists Human Rights Archives’ Roundtable has started a new interview series called “Five Questions for…” This week, HRDI Archivist T-Kay Sangwand was featured as part of...
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Tejiendo la Memoria: Weaving Memory in El Salvador through Archival Collections
As part of an ongoing partnership with El Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen (the Museum of the Word and Image) in San Salvador, El Salvador, the HRDI is pleased to announce the launch of the Tejiendo La...
View ArticleGiveaway: Tickets to “The Act of Killing” at Alamo Drafthouse, August 9-15
The Human Rights Documentation Initiative and Alamo Drafthouse Films are giving away one pair of tickets to a screening of The Act of Killing playing at the Alamo Drafthouse from August 9-15. The Act...
View ArticleGiveaway: Tickets to “The Look of Silence” at Alamo Drafthouse, August 14-20
Be one of the first five people to correctly answer the Human Rights Documentation Initiative trivia question to win 2 tickets for a screening of The Look of Silence between August 14-20 at Alamo...
View ArticleUpcoming events on Digital Scholarship and Human Rights in the Americas
Join HRDI staff to kick-off LLILAS Benson’s “Digital Scholarship in the Americas” series with two events led by guest speaker Professor Angelina Snodgrass Godoy, University of Washington. Professor...
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Documenting Human Rights in Texas: Interview with the Texas After Violence...
The Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI) is proud to announce our new blog series highlighting the work of our post-custodial partners and archivists. Since 2008, the HRDI has collaborated with...
View Article“Archives Against Annihilation”: Michelle Caswell lecture on archival...
Please join the HRDI at 11:00am on Friday, April 21st 2017 in the Harry Ransom Center’s Prothro Theater, for a lecture by Dr. Michelle Caswell, Assistant Professor of Archival Studies at UCLA. Dr....
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