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

Mon Apr 12 10:15:19 EDT 2004

Upcoming Events from MIT's Program on Human Rights and Justice (PHRJ)

Report Back: A Personal Look at the Health and Human Rights Consequences of 
Occupation on Israelis and Palestinians
Dr. Alice Rothchild and Dr. Alan Meyers, the Jewish American Medical Project
Thursday April 15, 2004
4:30-6:00
Location: E38-615, 292 Main Street, Kendall Square (please note room change)

Workshop on Gender and Politics
Brooke Ackerly, "Gender, Culture, and Human Rights Theory"
Thursday April 22, 2004
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: E51-275, Deans Conference Room
Hosted by Sarah Song, Assistant Professor of Political Science and 
co-sponsored by the MIT Political Science Department and the MIT Program in 
Women's Studies

Truth and Community Reconciliation in Greensboro:  A View of the Nations 
First Truth Commission Through Survivors' Eyes
Sally Bermanzohn, author of Through Survivor's Eyes: From the Sixties to 
the Greensboro Massacre
Paul Bermanzohn, survivor of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre
Friday April 23, 2004, 12-1:30 (book signing reception to follow)
Location: 4-163
Co-sponsored by the Center for Reflective Community Practice, MIT: 
<http://crcp.mit.edu>http://crcp.mit.edu
For more information on the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation 
Process see <http://www.gtcrp.org/>http://www.gtcrp.org/ and 
<http://www.gjf.org>http://www.gjf.org. For event information, please 
contact: <mailto:amulya at mit.edu>amulya at mit.edu

Shall We Choose What Types of People Are Born: Rights and Ethics in 
Scientific Research
Jonathan Glover, Director of the Centre for Medical Law and Ethics, Kings 
College
Tuesday April 27, 2004
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Location: 66-110

Technology and Action Conference April 29-May 2, 2004
Threats to Human Rights in the Digital Realm
Thursday April 29, 2004
5:30-7:00 p.m.
Location: 66-110
and
Advancing Human Rights through the use of Technology
Friday April 30, 2004
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Location: 4-237
Weekend workshops will feature trainings in community radio and wireless 
technologies and tech activism/direct action
<http://web.mit.edu/tac/www/conference/index.html>http://web.mit.edu/tac/www/conference/index.html
Co-sponsored with Design that Matters

Conflicts between Multiculturalism and Feminism
MIT Women's Studies Intellectual Forum
Sarah Song, Political Science and Women's Studies
Friday April 30, 2004
12:00 lunch, 12:30 talk
Location: 14E-417
Co-sponsored by the MIT Program in Women's Studies, please RSVP to emmh at mit.edu

An Evening with Alex Cockburn & Noam Chomsky
Tuesday, May 4, 2004
7:00 p.m.
Location: 26-100
Co-sponsored by the MIT Western Hemisphere Project

Constructing the Rule of Law: Public Security, Justice and Democracy Building
Arturo Alvarado, Research Fellow, MIT Program on Human Rights & Justice
Thursday May 13, 2004
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Location: E38-615, 292 Main Street

Other Upcoming Events of Interest

10TH ANNUAL HARVARD INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE:
Reconstruction & Transformation: Development in an Uncertain Global Environment
         Friday, April 16 ,2004 -Sunday, April 18, 2004
Back to the Basics: Restoring Security by Revitalizing Local Communities
         A Panel discussion:  4.00pm, Saturday April 17th, 2004 at The 
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Back to Basics in action: Kabul
         Workshop on Sunday 18th, 2004 at the Kennedy School of Government, 
Harvard University

For Conference Details, see http://www.hidc2004.org

Human Rights Issues and Transboundary Water Policy
Monday April 12, 2004
6:30-8:30 pm
Program On Negotiation, 5th Floor, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School, 1562 
Massachusetts Avenue
(classroom directly to the left when getting off the elevator.)
Students interested in participating, please contact Catherine Ashcraft at 
catcraft at mit.edu for copies of the
articles and the upcoming agenda.

CITIES AGAINST NATIONALISM: URBANISM AS VISIONARY POLITICS
All seminars are held in Building 10-485, 5:30 PM--7:00 PM.

Richard Sennett, London School of Economics
Monday, April 12th: "Cities as Spaces for Democracy"

Jonathan Glover, Kings College London
Monday, April 26th: "Identity and National Conflict"

Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics
Monday, May 3rd: "Iconic Architecture and Global Cities"

Bruce Mazlish, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday, May 10th: "The Global and the Local in Jerusalem"
For more information, please visit: 
<http://web.mit.edu/cis/wg_cic.html>http://web.mit.edu/cis/wg_cic.html

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
http://web.mit.edu/phrj
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