The Harvey Kaye State of Democracy Lecture with Micheline Ishay

Commemorating the public engagement and broad intellectual spirit of UWGB Professor Harvey Kaye’s career, the Harvey Kaye State of Democracy series addresses some of the most urgent questions facing our democracy, including in the fields of workers’ rights, immigration, racial inequality, public health, technology, and journalism.

Our guest this evening will be Micheline Ishay, Distinguished Professor of Human Rights and International Studies and Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver. As a political scientist, she is known for her work in human rights, political theory, the Middle East, and international affairs. She was the founding director of Korbel's International Human Rights Program, leading it for almost two decades as it became one of the country's top graduate programs in human rights. In 2022, she received the Human Rights in Higher Education Award from the University and…