Honor Student Invited to Present at Human Rights Lab

The final meeting of the Human Rights Lab in the Spring semester of 2025 showcased the scholarship of Indira Amin, an undergraduate honors student at Purdue University. The event took place on Friday, April 25.

Indira, a Biology major with minors in Chemistry and Psychology, has spent the semester immersed in HIST 33805: History of Human Rights, the core course of Purdue’s Human Rights (HURS) minor. In a rare opportunity typically reserved for faculty-level researchers, she presented original scholarship developed through this program.

Her presentation, “The Evolution of Human Rights: From the Enlightenment to Digital Age Challenges,” explored the development of human rights through three influential schools of thought—natural law and Enlightenment philosophy, religious and ethical traditions, and post-World War II internationalism. Drawing from these diverse frameworks, Indira constructed a compelling and accessible narrative that bridges historical origins with contemporary human rights challenges.

Dr. Rebekah Klein-Pejšová, Associate Professor of History and director of the HURS program, praised Indira’s work, stating:

“Indira’s work displays a level of scholarly maturity in concept, development, and execution, that showcases the kind of engaged work students undertake in the Human Rights Program. She has created a durable deliverable in a creative, analog-style interactive format that threads heterogeneous human rights concepts and dynamic trajectories into an accessible landscape.”

This event is not only a thought-provoking session for anyone interested in global justice, ethics, or policy—it is also a celebration of the high-level academic work being produced by Purdue students and the transformative potential of the Human Rights Program.