/ Keith Watenpaugh Content for UC Davis en /news/human-rights-lectures-take-star-trek <p>The University of California, Davis, Human Rights Lecture Series takes off with a talk about <em>Star Trek</em>,&nbsp;exploring how the television series and movies can help explore human rights topics.</p> November 29, 2017 - 4:36pm Karen Michele Nikos /news/human-rights-lectures-take-star-trek /news/matter-rights <p>Last year, at the abandoned Idomeni train station in Greece, I spoke with Kurdish sisters from Syria. They were living in a makeshift refugee camp on the nearby border with Macedonia. Just a week before, a small boat had carried them across the Aegean from Turkey. Back home, the women, both in their 20s, had studied health sciences at the University of Aleppo.</p> June 19, 2017 - 8:56am Jocelyn C Anderson /news/matter-rights