Due to domestic and world events, human rights have become a vital focus for academic research across disciplines. Responding to a growing need to examine and discuss human rights, the Human Rights Program has organized a workshop for the presentation of research and discussion on relevant contemporary human rights issues. The Human Rights Workshop crosscuts all academic disciplines and helps the campus community to engage in the examination of issues of moral and political significance. In 2007-8  the workshop will be organized along thematic lines in cooperation with faculty sponsors: autumn: the history of human rights (Michael Geyer, history);  Winter: human rights and the environmet (Mark Lycett and Kathy Morrison, Anthropology); Spring: human rights and political struggle in comparative perspective (John Comaroff, Anthropology).