One of the central tensions in normative human rights law comes out of seemingly opposing impulses to recognize particularity on the one hand while promoting universal rights on the other. Rather than see conflict between diversity and universality as a paralyzing feature of human rights, we follow Wendy Brown in asking "how might the paradoxical elements of the struggle for rights in an emancipatory context articulate a field of justice beyond that which we cannot not want? Inspired by this charge to imagine justice in the future out of the material realities of the present, our workshop focuses on the visual rhetoric of diversity versus the broad claims of humanitarianism in contemporary human rights crises through the ten films of our Second International Human Rights Film Series. We plan a roundtable discussion with participating and other interested faculty to consider the research implications of the films we have shown.