Maria Hantzopoulos

Educating for Peace and Human Rights: An Introduction.

University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

Glimmers of Hope: Peace Education Around the Globe. Readings from Peace Education: International Perspectives.

University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

Human Rights Education Now!, Episode 28: Maria Hantzopoulos, Part Two, March 2024.

Human Rights Education Now!, Episode 27: Maria Hantzopoulos, Part One, March 2024.

Rise for Racial Justice Podcast, Episode 7: Education for Peace and Human Rights with Maria Hantzopoulos and Monisha Bajaj, April 2022.

FreshEd Podcast, Episode 237: Education for Peace and Human Rights with Maria Hantzopoulos and Monisha Bajaj, April 2021

Bringing the World to the US Based Teacher Education Classroom. FreshEd Podcast Blog. July 2024.

Co-written with Monisha Bajaj.  Educating for Peace and Human Rights: A Global Imperative. CIES Perspectives, Winter Edition. January 2023.

Transforming Education through Peace and Human Rights Education. UNSECO International Day of Education Blog for Bloomsbury. January 2022.

Co-written with Roozbeh Shirazi. In a Time of Islamophobia: Teach with Complexity. Teaching
Tolerance Online. November 2016.

Harker hosts first ever Social Justice Conference. Harker Aquila. November 29, 2023.

Superintendent’s Brief. Poughkeepsie City School District. May 13, 2022.

Vassar Class Presents Human Rights Lessons. Hudson Valley Press. June 2022.

Vassar Students Gain Valuable Experience Helping Teachers. Vassar Stories. January 14, 2021.

Educational Equity and Justice Speaker Series. University of Connecticut Neag School of Education. November 19, 2024.

Conference Presentations

Teaching Palestine: Praxes of Transgression and Possibility. American Educational Research Association. Denver, CO. April 2025.

Education and Palestine: Defying Imposed Boundaries, Resisting Erasure, & Charting Educational Praxis Across Spaces. Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. March 2025.

Creating Humanizing and Transformative Educational Spaces through Authentic Assessment: Towards Peace, Justice, and Human Rights. American Educational Research Association. Philadelphia, PA. April 2024.

New Directions in Critical Peace and Human Rights Education: Centering Transformative Agency, Dignity, and Decoloniality in Theory, Praxis, and Scholarship. Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference. Washington D.C. February 2023.

Keynote Addresses and Public lectures

Keynote. Art For Justice Conference: Restorative Approaches to Human Rights Education. NY, NY. Lehman College. April 2025.

Keynote. International Conference: Language Education for Sustainable Development. Universitat Munster, Germany. March 2025.

Building Vibrant Communities of Possibility, Transformation, and Social Justice – Peace, and Human Rights Education in Schools and Beyond. University of Connecticut Neag School of Education Educational Equity and Justice Speaker Series. November 2024.

Keynote and Plenary Panel. Building Communities of Possibility and Transformation: Peace and Human Rights Education in Schools and Beyond.  Joint Symposium on Peace Education sponsored by Hellenic American Union, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and the Athens Comics Library. Athens, Greece. March 2024.

Keynote. Building Vibrant Communities of Possibility:  Social Justice in Schools and Beyond.  The Harker School Social Justice Conference.  San Jose, CA. November 2023.

Keynote. Designing Human-Centered Education to Promote Moral and Innovative Youth Leadership for Peace. The International Convention on Nation-Building, Wellness & Peace (ICNWP) 2023. Bangkok, Thailand. June 2023.

Book Launch (series editor). Teaching for Peace and Social Justice in Myanmar: Identity, Agency, and Critical Pedagogy. Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference. Washington, D.C. 2023.

Youth voice, participation, and empowerment for belonging, equity, and justice. Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference. Washington, D. C. 2023.

Keynote. Peace Education Special Interest Group Launch Event. University College London. July 2022.

Teaching and Learning for Peace and Social Justice: What works, what doesn’t work, and how can our schools be more effective? Alliance of International Education Conference. Amman, Jordan. March 2022.