Inaugural event for the Hitchcock-Kelly Fund for Human and Indigenous Peoples' Rights features Professor James Amaya
April 18, 2023
The inaugural event for the Hitchcock-Kelly Fund for Human and Indigenous Peoples' Rights, featuring Professor James Amaya, is scheduled for Monday, April 24 at 7 p.m. (MDT) in Anthropology room 163. Parking is available in C Lot. The event is sponsored by UNM's Native American Studies, Department of Anthropology, and the Latin American Iberian Institute.
Amaya will present a keynote address titled "Ideas about Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples.” The address will focus on ideas about human rights that have been generated through thinking about the essence of human dignity. Anaya will explore ideas about fundamental human rights and how they have been seized upon to support Indigenous peoples and their demands to survive and flourish in the world.
Amaya is a University Distinguished Professor and the Nicholas Doman Professor of International Law at the University of Colorado Law School. He earned a B.A. from The University of New Mexico Department of Economics, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples
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