Past Conferences
2019
Humans are increasingly interconnected to the environment, and this has implications for how changes in the environment impacts our health and quality of life. This realization of interdependence has spurned a new field: Planetary Health.
2018
This conference examined and discussed the intersectional and reciprocal impact of gender violence, racial conflict and economic ramifications on womxn’s health in the United States and abroad.
2017
The theme for Dartmouth College's 2017 PHR Conference was "Violence against Difference," specifically looking at racial violence, gender violence, and violence against healthcare workers. The topics were examined through the lens of structural violence and human rights violations. The aim was to increase our understanding for not only why these violent acts occur but also how to prevent them in the future.
2016
The aim of this conference was to generate a discussion on the current crisis abroad and unpack the legal, logistical, and health-related implications of mass migration. It is our hope that the symposium inspired understanding of root causes for displacement and migration, and encourage Dartmouth students and community members in the Upper Valley to come together and work towards creating an environment that is both welcoming and empowering to refugees.
Prison Rights Symposium
2015
The 2015 PHR Conference held at Dartmouth College.
2014
Topics discussed included: gender inequity, business and human rights, LGBTQ issues, domestic and sexual violence.
2013
In his Nobel Laureate lecture in 1964, Martin Luther King likened the evil of poverty to “a monstrous octopus [that] projects its nagging, prehensile tentacles in lands and villages all over the world.” In this sense, the Geisel School of Medicine chapter of Physicians for Human Rights, Tuck’s Center for Business & Society, and the Nathan Smith Society of the Dartmouth College organized a campus-wide poverty symposium at Dartmouth College that sought to promote awareness and understanding among all students, faculty, and members of the Dartmouth & Upper Valley communities of issues of poverty on the local, national, and global levels. It was also our hope that this symposium would yield activism and volunteerism among Dartmouth students and community members as well as inspiration for future collaborations across Dartmouth towards the alleviation of poverty.