[Mitai-announce] Upcoming Events from MIT's Program on Human Rights and Justice

[Susan Frick]

Upcoming Events at MIT's Program on Human Rights and Justice


****TODAY!!!****
Program on Human Rights and Justice Internship Information Session
Thursday November 20, 2003
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Location: E38-714 (292 Main Street)
Deadline for Summer 2004 proposals: February 20, 2004

Please also check out the new student Human Rights Newsletter (available 
on-line at http://web.mit.edu/phrj) and consider contributing to future 
editions of this monthly publication for the MIT community.

Cities in Conflict Seminars
Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America
Professor Jennifer Lee, University of California-Irvine
Monday November 24, 2003
4:30-6:00 p.m.
E38-615, Center for International Studies, 292 Main Street
Lee's recent articles focus on race and ethnic relations, black/immigrant 
competition, employers hiring practices, and immigrant 
entrepreneurship.  Her book, titled Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and 
Koreans in Urban America, was published in 2002 by Harvard University 
Press.  Her current research project, "Immigration, Racial/Ethnic 
Diversity, and Multiracial Identification" stems from her theoretical 
interests in the intersection of race, ethnicity, and immigration.

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

Happy holidays everyone and I look forward to being in touch in early 2004 
to present another semester of human rights-related events and 
opportunities to get involved.


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
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