WILLIAM PAUL SIMMONS
  • Leadership Experience
  • Research
    • Publications
    • Awarded Grants and Contracts
    • Invited Presentations
    • Applied Research
    • Human Rights Law and the Marginalized Other
    • Joyful Human Rights
  • Teaching and Pedagogy
    • Problem-Based Learning without Borders
    • Examples of PBL without Borders
    • Course Syllabi
  • Selected Awards
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2022             "Migrants, Displaced Persons, and Human Rights Winners" Center for Peace Studies, North-South
​                      University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. July. 

                      “Decolonizing Curriculum and Pedagogy in Human Rights and Beyond” Brainstorming Workshop for the                              University and College Consortium on Human Rights Education. May. With Sophie Alves.
 
                      “How a Pseudoscientific Communication Technique Clouds Issues of Disabilities and Abuse in the Court
                      System” Presented at Neurodiversity and the Legal System : Towards Equality for All. University College 
                      Dublin, May 2022. With Janyce Boynton.
 
                      “Psycho-Social Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth among Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh” Keynote.
                      MEZCOPH Public Health Poster Forum, University of Arizona. April. 
 
                      “The Aftermath of the Rohingya Genocide” Genocide Awareness Week, Arizona State University. April.
 
                      “Action Research and the Human Rights of People Affected by Leprosy in Niger, Nigeria, and Mozambique”
                      Human Rights Simulation. For Masters Students in Social Justice and Human Rights, University of Sydney
 
                      “COVID, Conspiracy Theories Populism, and Human Rights” Certificate Course on Geopolitics of Peace,
                      Pandemic & Development. North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. January.
 
2021             “Decolonizing the Governance of Humanitarianism and Human Rights in the Context of the Rohingya
                      Refugee Camps in Bangladesh” Preparing Public Leaders in South Asia for a Post-Pandemic World: NASPAA
                      South Asia Virtual Conference. November. With Saleh Ahmed.
 
                       “Problem-Based Learning Beyond Borders (PBL-BB) in Human Rights Practice at UA” Binational Fall 2021
                       Series on Inclusion, Diversity, and Human Rights: Promoting Diversity, Inclusion, and Human Rights
                       Through Education and Research. November.
 
                       “Measuring Individual-Level Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth in International Development: The Case
                       of an Arts-Based Intervention among Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh” 2021 Symposium on Resilience
                       Research for Global Development Challenges. University of Arizona. September.
 
                       “Action Research in Human Rights and Evidence-based Advocacy” Program of the Training Workshop on
                       Disability and SOGI for Asian Civil Society, Organizers: Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of
                       Oslo; Wuhan East-Lake Institute for Social Advancement (EISA). April. With Paulo Hansine and Jone Jose.  
 
                       “Human Rights and Gender in Humanitarian Crises,” Certificate Course on Humanitarianism, Policy, and
                       Diplomacy, North-South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, March 6.
 
2020             “Sexual Violence against Migrants across Contexts,” North-South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, December
                      28.
 
                      “Joyful Human Rights: An Interview with William Paul Simmons,” Clowns without Borders, for their
                      Resilience through Laughter Facebook Live Series, September 23.
 
2019              “Joyful Human Rights” Freethinkers Club, Saddlebrooke Community, November 17.
 
                      “Border Security, Drug Cartels, and Migrant Vulnerabilities in the Americas” Waters Lecture Series,
                      Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC, November.
 
                      “Feminism, Paternal Ignorance, and Human Rights,’ “Cross-cutting Global Conversations on Human Rights:
                      Interdisciplinarity, Intersectionality, and Indivisibility” Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, September.
       
                      Participant, “UCCHRE Roundtable: Critiquing and Constructing HRE in Higher Education” Columbia       
                      University, New York, September.
 
                      “Joyful Human Rights: Rethinking Perpetrators and Victims” Genocide Awareness Week, Scottsdale
                      Community College, Scottsdale, AZ, April.
 
                       “Dancing and Weeping: Toward a Decolonial Reading of Levinas and Human Rights” Keynote Speaker,
                       Convegno Internazionale, “Vulnerabilità, prossimità, alterità: Il pensiero di Levinas come sfida e risorsa per il
                       diritto” Universita di Napoli, April 11-12.
 
                       “Joyful Human Rights” Presented at Roma Tre University, Rome, April.
 
                       “Rethinking Perpetrators and Victims” University of Padova, Padova, Italy, April.
 
                       “Sex Trafficking, Consensual Sex Work, and Discrimination” Keynote, “Discrimination in Russian and
                        European Jurisprudence” Boris Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg, Russia, January.
 
                        “Deconstructing Sex Trafficking Cases around the Globe,” Department of Law, Liberal Arts University,
                        Yekaterinburg, Russia, January. 


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  • Leadership Experience
  • Research
    • Publications
    • Awarded Grants and Contracts
    • Invited Presentations
    • Applied Research
    • Human Rights Law and the Marginalized Other
    • Joyful Human Rights
  • Teaching and Pedagogy
    • Problem-Based Learning without Borders
    • Examples of PBL without Borders
    • Course Syllabi
  • Selected Awards