{"id":13188,"date":"2020-02-10T05:56:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T10:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13188"},"modified":"2020-02-10T09:48:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T14:48:18","slug":"michel-degraff-the-annual-northwestern-university-conference-on-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/02\/10\/michel-degraff-the-annual-northwestern-university-conference-on-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Michel DeGraff @ the Annual\u00a0Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michel DeGraff was a speaker at the annual\u00a0Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights on\u00a0January 16\u009618, 2020 #NUCHR2020. This year, the\u00a0conference&#8217;s\u00a0theme was &#8220;Language and Human Rights:\u00a0The Right to Speak&#8221;.\u00a0 Michel spoke at a panel on\u00a0&#8221;Language, education and information&#8221;. The title of his presentation was &#8220;Language and social justice: Haiti as a &#8216;canary&#8217; for human rights globally.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More information on the conference&#8217;s speakers and agenda can be found there, with useful links to organizations such as WikiTongues and Universal Human Rights Initiative that also do work at this important intersection of linguistics and human rights:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuhumanrights.com\/conference-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nuhumanrights.com\/conference-2020<\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuhumanrights.com\/2020-speakers\">https:\/\/www.nuhumanrights.com\/2020-speakers<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michel DeGraff was a speaker at the annual\u00a0Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights on\u00a0January 16\u009618, 2020 #NUCHR2020. This year, the\u00a0conference&#8217;s\u00a0theme was &#8220;Language and Human Rights:\u00a0The Right to Speak&#8221;.\u00a0 Michel spoke at a panel on\u00a0&#8221;Language, education and information&#8221;. The title of his presentation was &#8220;Language and social justice: Haiti as a &#8216;canary&#8217; for human rights globally.&#8221;\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13189,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188\/revisions\/13189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}