This panel discussion will explore the contested realities of human dignity and the universality of human rights. Light food will be provided.

This Douglass Dialogue will feature scholar and activist Loretta Ross, associate professor of the study of women and gender at Smith College, whose resume includes a long commitment to reproductive justice and countering white supremacy.

Ross will be joined by UMD faculty members Karin Rosemblatt, professor of history, whose scholarship focuses on Latin America and the transnational study of gender, race, ethnicity, and class and their relation to policymaking, and Ampson Hagan, assistant professor of anthropology, a medical anthropologist whose research focuses on humanitarianism, rescue, and unauthorized migration in the context of contemporary Niger.