[Mitai-announce] Upcoming Events from PHRJ

[Susan Frick]

Upcoming Offerings from MIT's Program on Human Rights and Justice

Iraq: What Now? Starr Forum
Friday December 5, 2003
12-1:30 p.m.
Stephen Van Evera, moderator, MIT Professor of Political Science/CIS 
Associate Director
Daniel Benjamin, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Juan Cole, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern and East Asian History, 
University of Michigan
Ivo Daalder, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution
M I T's   W o n g   A u d i t o r i u m
Building E51 / Tang Center / 70 Memorial Drive
(near the Kendall T Stop in Cambridge)
online map: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=Tang+Center

Introduction to Human Rights course offered over IAP!
http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-5552.html

PHRJ Internship Applications for Summer 2004 due February 20
See http://web.mit.edu/phrj/internships.html for details and contact 
phrj at mit.edu with questions as you prepare your proposal!

Funding Opportunities
Interested in receiving a spreadsheet detailing various grant opportunities 
from sources identified by the Center for International Studies?
Reply to this email and request the Funding Opportunities spreadsheet.

We are currently planning several events along the theme of Breaking 
Disciplinary Boundaries in the Study of Human Rights and encourage you to 
contact us to participate in the Spring 2004 line-up.

Other Human Rights related events

***TONIGHT!*** Little Angel of Colombia
Thursdays at 38 Documentary Film Forum
Thursday December 4, 2003
8:00 p.m.
http://www.38cameron.com/html/events.htm

The End of Tolerance: Engaging Cultural Differences
Richard A. Shweder, University of Chicago
Monday December 8, 2003
4:30-6:00 p.m.
E38-615, Center for International Studies, 292 Main Street
Shweder is author of Thinking Through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural 
Psychology; Why Do Men Barbecue? Recipes for Cultural Psychology; When 
Cultures Collide: The Moral Challenge of Cultural Migration (current) and 
editor of Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion; Cultural 
Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development; Metatheory in Social 
Science: Pluralisms and Subjectivities
Ethnography and Human Development: Meaning and Context in Social Inquiry; 
Welcome to Middle Age! (And Other Cultural Fictions) and Engaging Cultural 
Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies

Women and Globalization
Monday, December 8, 2003
Time:  6:30-7:00 p.m. gather; 7:00 (promptly) program begins
Location:  The Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston St. (near Copley and Arlington T stops)
Maria M. Aguiar, Global Program Director, Grassroots International
Dr. Elaine Bernard, Director Labor & Workplace Program, Harvard Law School
Dr. Ellen Israel Rosen, Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University
(author of "Making Sweatshops" a book on the globalization of the textile 
and apparel industries.)
As the first world economy goes increasingly global in its relentless 
pursuit of a low-wage work force, the effects on women - the world's 
traditional low-wage workers - has been particularly profound. Join our 
panel of scholars and activists in discussing these important trends.
Also, we expect to have a few signed copies of DSA Honorary Chair Barbara 
Ehrenreich's book "Global Woman" to give away to some lucky attendees.
Sponsored by Boston Democratic Socialists of America, (617) 354-5078 
<http://dsaboston.org/>http://dsaboston.org/

Human Rights Wars and America's Response
Tuesday, December 9, 2003
5:30-7:00 p.m.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Forum, Columbia Point, Boston. Call 
617-514-1643 for reservations.
John Shattuck, former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human 
Rights, and Labor and current CEO of the John F. Kennedy Library 
Foundation, will discuss his new book, Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars 
and America's Response, with author Samantha Power.
http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/calendar.html#december9

Susan Frick
Program Assistant
Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E38-277, 292 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617 258 7614
Fax: 617 452 3962
Email: fricks at mit.edu  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitai-announce/attachments/20031204/6d0005b4/attachment.htm