Speaker to Discuss Anti-Slavery Initiative

Speaker to Discuss Anti-Slavery Initiative

04/09/2018 

Political scientist and women’s studies scholar Hannah Britton will discuss actions people can take to prevent slavery and human trafficking on Wednesday, April 11, at SUNY Cortland.

Britton, who leads the Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Initiative at the University Kansas, will present “Moving Upstream:  Preventing Human Trafficking and Exploitation,” at 4:30 p.m. in Moffett Center, Room 2125.

The talk, which is free and open to the public, continues the 2017-18 Rozanne M. Brooks Lecture Series at SUNY Cortland, which takes on the theme of “The Culture of Human Rights and Realities.”

Before the lecture, a reception to welcome the speaker starts at 4 p.m. in the Rozanne M. Brooks Museum, Moffett Center, Room 2126.

As human trafficking continues to gain international media attention, much of the media focus continues to be on rescuing survivors and prosecuting traffickers, after exploitation has occurred.

Britton, an associate professor of political science and women, gender, and sexuality studies, leads an initiative that has prioritized identifying moments of intervention as well as risk and protective factors that may help prevent trafficking before it happens.

The Brooks Lecture Series honors the late Rozanne Marie Brooks, a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and SUNY Cortland professor of sociology and anthropology. Brooks was a SUNY Cortland faculty member for 36 years; she passed away in 1997.

The 2017-18 Brooks Lecture Series is sponsored by a grant from Auxiliary Services Corporation (ASC) and the Cortland College Foundation.

For more information, contact Sharon R. Steadman, a SUNY Cortland professor of sociology/anthropology, lecture series organizer and Brooks Museum director, at 607-753-2308. 


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