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2025 Global Engagement Conference
Innovation Across Borders
May 21, 2025 | William Philip Hall | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
2025 Global Engagement Conference
Innovation Across Borders
May 21, 2025 | William Philip Hall | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Celebrating student research and discovery
Conference Themes
Keynote Speaker - Ciara O'Connell, PhD
(Principal Officer, Criminal Policy, Ireland Department of Justice | Global Honors ‘09)
Dr. O'Connell is an expert in international human rights law, with degrees from the University of Sussex, UK (PhD, 2017), the Irish Centre for Human Rights (LLM, 2010) and University of Washington-Tacoma (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences - Global Honors, with a Minor in Human Rights, 2009).
O'Connell has held numerous academic positions, including at the Centre for Human Rights in South Africa (University of Pretoria) and Australian National University, and she is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin Ireland. She has published widely on a variety of human rights-related areas, such as deprivation of liberty and gender and human rights, and has carried out field research in countries across Latin America, Africa and Europe.

OPENING SPEAKERS

Holly Bamford Hunt
Director, The Bamford Foundation
Conference Schedule
Time | Event |
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9:00 AM – 9:30 AM | Meet and Greet / Coffee Social |
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Conference Opens and Keynote Speaker |
10:30 AM– 10:45 AM | Bamford Fellow in Global Engagement Presentation |
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM | Health and Human Rights Panel |
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch and Poster Session |
1:30 PM – 1:40 PM | The Value of Student Global Engagement in Our Times – Phil Shekleton, UW Center for Global Studies |
1:40 PM – 2:20 PM | Climate Change and Environment Panel |
2:20 PM – 3:30 PM | Innovation and Design Panel |
3:30 PM – 3:40 PM | Break |
3:40 PM – 5:00 PM | Care and Community Panel |
5:00 PM | Conference Closes |
Panel | Panel |
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Bamford Fellowship in Global Engagement
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Health & Human Rights
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Climate Change and Environment
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Innovation and Design
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Care and Community
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