[Mitai-announce] [Phrj-list] Spring 2005 events from the MIT Program on Human Rights

[Susan Frick]

MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice Spring 2005 Calendar of Events

Summer Internship Information Session
Thursday February 3, 2005
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Location: 10-401 http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg
Proposals for Summer 2005 are due February 25, 2005.
http://web.mit.edu/phrj/internships.html

Evidence-cooking and Civil Liberties: From Korematsu to Guantanamo Bay
Harvey Silverglate, Co-founder, Foundation for Individual Rights in 
Education (FIRE) and Carl Takei
Saturday February 26, 2005
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Location: Tang Center E51-085  http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg
Co-sponsored by the Japanese American Citizen's League and the Asian 
American Resource Workshop
http://www.thefire.org/

The Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Reflections 20 Years Later
Rajan Sharma, lawyer for Bhopal victims
Thursday March 3, 2005
4:30-6:00 pm.
Location: 4-370 http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg
Co-sponsored by the Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia

The Idea of Universality in Linguistics and Human Rights
Professor Noam Chomsky, Department of Linguistics & Philosophy, MIT
Tuesday March 15, 2005
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Location: 66-110 http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg

Our Brains and Us: Neuroethics, Responsibility and the Self
Conference April 17-19, 2005
Kresge Auditorium
In conjunction with the American Association for the Advancement of Science 
(AAAS) through its Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion 
(DoSER), the MIT Brain and Cognitive Science Department, and the Boston 
Theological Institute

Open Networks and Open Society: The Relationship between Freedom, Law, and 
Technology
Professor Hal Abelson, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer 
Science, MIT
Tuesday April 26, 2005
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Location: 66-110 http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg

Science Policy, Politics and Human Rights
Kurt Gottfried, Cornell University
Tuesday May 3, 2005
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Location: 66-110 http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg

Forced Labor in the Global Economy
Saturday May 14, 2005
10:00-12:00
Wong Auditorium, E51 http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg
Organized with the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service Trust

Please contact Susan Frick at <mailto:phrj at mit.edu>phrj at mit.edu or 
617-258-7614 or visit <http://web.mit.edu/phrj>http://web.mit.edu/phrj if 
you have any questions or would like more information.

Other Events of Interest

Taking Women's Studies into the Real World
Kesi Haynie, Lisa Greber, Jigna Desai, Rebecca Herzig, and Corrine Willams
Friday February 11, 2005
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Location: 10-340 (Emma Rogers Room)
Please RSVP to womens-studies at mit.edu

 From Flight to Freedom?: Tracing the Path of Displacement
The Inter-University Forced Migration Conference at the Fletcher School
February 11-12, 2005
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
<http://fletcher.tufts.edu/refugeeconference/>http://fletcher.tufts.edu/refugeeconference/

SPRING 2005 COURSES

11.164/11.497 Human Rights in Theory and Practice
Professor Balakrishnan Rajagopal
M, W 9:30 to 11
Room 3-401, 3-403

17.907/17.953 Migration Politics, Refugees and International Relations
Dr. Gary G. Troeller
Mondays, 1:00 pm3:00pm
Room E51-085


Susan Frick
Program Coordinator
Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Building 9 Room 365
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617 258 7614
Fax: 617 253 2654
Email: fricks at mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/phrj
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