CONFERENCES & PROJECTS

One Community, One Book — All Johnson County Reads

Launched in 2001 by UICHR founders Dorothy Paul and Burns Weston, "One Community, One Book — All Johnson County Reads" is an annual countywide reading project, coordinated by the UICHR, in cooperation with the UI International Writing Program, Prairie Lights Books, and a variety of other University and community groups. The project invites every adult and adolescent in Johnson County to discuss the same human rights-related text. For a description of, and discussion questions for, each year's selection, click on the years below.

2007: Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy B. Tyson

2006: The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle

2005: When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

2004: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

2003: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

2002: First they Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung

2001: The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout