Join us for the final speaker of the Anne Frank Center Series. Dr. Martin Claar's presentation, The Legacy of Silence: Frank, Roosevelt, and the Universal Declaration of Human Right, shows the connection between Anne Frank’s experiences as extolled in her diaries and Eleanor Roosevelt’s aspirations to protect people like Frank after reading the diaries. The result is an expansive legal body, known as the Human Rights Regime, which begins with Roosevelt’s work on the Universal Declaration of Rights as a protection of the silent – the persecuted and harmed members of our global community. Several major treaties will be examined and some modern challenges to the fulfillment of the Human Rights Regime will be discussed.

After Dr. Claar's presentation, we will have a moderated discussion panel with the Anne Frank Exhibit Student Docents.  Learn about their experiences during training, about the impact of presenting to the exhibit guests, and about what they learned along the way.

Special thank you to our private donors and sponsors at OHGMEC and Bexley Community Foundation for supporting the Anne Frank Series at Capital University.

Bio: 

Martin Claar, Assistant Professor at Capital University; PhD, Norhtern Illinois University

Martin Claar is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Capital University.  His research and interests are in the areas of ethics, global warfare, technology, and Just War theory.  He is the co-editor of Terrorism in Youth Popular Culture: Teaching the Next Generation from the Cold War to Present (2024). His work has been published in T.V. Paul’s Accommodating Rising Powers (2016), Aaron Kushner and Stephen Clause’s A Hero in All of Us: Heroism and American Political Thought as Seen on TV (2024), as well as the Nonproliferation Review, Diplomacy and Statecraft, and featured on the Struggle to Understand podcast. ORCiD Number: 0000-0002-3012-2442