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Political Science

Dr. Alison Brysk, POLI 2025 Lansdowne Visitor

September 05, 2025

Alison BryskPOLI 2025 LANSDOWNE VISITOR
DR. ALISON BRYSK, Chair and Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Department Seminar: “Abortion Rights Backlash: The Struggle for Democracy in Europe and the Americas"
Tuesday, September 16, 2:30 pm, HSD A264

Public lecture: “Reinventing Human Rights in a Post-American World”
Wednesday, September 17, 7 pm, DTB A102

In a time of worldwide humanitarian crisis and democratic backsliding, how can we imagine a future for human rights? Does the loss of American leadership of the liberal world order--however limited and uneven--undermine global governance or open new possibilities? And how can a renewed vision of human rights guide us towards the next era of global cooperation?

Dr. Alison Brysk is the author of eight books on human rights, democracy, globalization, social movements, gender and Latin American politics. She is the author of Abortion Rights Backlash: The struggles for Democracy in Europe and the Americas (Oxford University Press). Brysk has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center; Fulbright Professor in Canada, India, and at Oxford.