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<div align="center"><font color="#FF0000"><b><u>Upcoming Offerings from
MIT's Program on Human Rights and Justice<br><br>
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<font color="#800000">Iraq: What Now?</b> Starr Forum<br>
</u></font>Friday December 5, 2003 <br>
12-1:30 p.m.<br>
<b>Stephen Van Evera</b>,<i> moderator, </i><font size=2>MIT Professor of
Political Science/CIS Associate Director<br>
</font><b>Daniel Benjamin, </b><font size=2>Senior Fellow, Center for
Strategic and International Studies<br>
</font><b>Juan Cole</b>,<b> </b><font size=2>Professor of Modern Middle
Eastern and East Asian History, University of Michigan<br>
</font><b>Ivo Daalder</b>,<b> </b><font size=2>Senior Fellow in Foreign
Policy Studies, Brookings Institution<br>
</font><b>M I T's W o n g A u d i t o r i u
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</b><font size=2>Building E51 / Tang Center / 70 Memorial Drive<br>
(near the Kendall T Stop in Cambridge)<br>
online map:
<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=Tang+Center" eudora="autourl">http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=Tang+Center</a><br><br>
</font><font size=2 color="#800000"><b><u>Introduction to Human Rights
course offered over IAP!<br>
</u></b></font><font size=2><a href="http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-5552.html" eudora="autourl">http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-5552.html</a><br><br>
</font><font size=2 color="#800000"><b><u>PHRJ Internship Applications
for Summer 2004 due February 20<br>
</u></b></font><font size=2>See
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/phrj/internships.html" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/phrj/internships.html</a>
for details and contact phrj@mit.edu with questions as you prepare your proposal!<br><br>
</font><font size=2 color="#800000"><b><u>Funding Opportunities<br>
</u></b></font><font size=2>Interested in receiving a spreadsheet detailing various grant opportunities from sources identified by the Center for International Studies? <br>
Reply to this email and request the Funding Opportunities spreadsheet.<br><br>
</font><font color="#800000"><b><i>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. <br><br>
</i></font><div align="center"><font size=2 color="#FF0000"><u>Other Human Rights related events <br><br>
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<font color="#FF0000">***TONIGHT!*** </font><font size=2 color="#FF00FF"><u>Little Angel of Colombia<br>
</u></b></font><font size=2>Thursdays at 38 Documentary Film Forum<br>
<b>Thursday December 4, 2003<br>
</b>8:00 p.m.<br>
</font><font size=2 color="#FF00FF"><b><u><a href="http://www.38cameron.com/html/events.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.38cameron.com/html/events.htm</a><br><br>
The End of Tolerance: Engaging Cultural Differences<br>
</u></b></font><font size=2><i>Richard A. Shweder, University of Chicago<br>
</i><b>Monday December 8, 2003<br>
</b>4:30-6:00 p.m.<br>
<b>E38-615</b>, Center for International Studies, 292 Main Street<br>
Shweder is author of <i>Thinking Through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology</i>; <i>Why Do Men Barbecue? Recipes for Cultural Psychology</i>; <i>When Cultures Collide: The Moral Challenge of Cultural Migration (current)</i> and editor of <i>Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion; Cultural Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development</i>; <i>Metatheory in Social Science: Pluralisms and Subjectivities<br>
Ethnography and Human Development: Meaning and Context in Social Inquiry</i>; <i>Welcome to Middle Age! (And Other Cultural Fictions) </i>and <i>Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies<br><br>
</i></font><font size=2 color="#FF00FF"><b><u>Women and Globalization</b> <br>
</u></font><font size=2>Monday, December 8, 2003<br>
Time: 6:30-7:00 p.m. gather; 7:00 (promptly) program begins<br>
Location: The Community Church of Boston<br>
565 Boylston St. (near Copley and Arlington T stops)</font><font face="arial" size=2 color="#0000FF"> <br>
</font><font size=2><b>Maria M. Aguiar</b>, Global Program Director, Grassroots International<br>
<b>Dr. Elaine Bernard</b>, Director Labor & Workplace Program, Harvard Law School<br>
<b>Dr. Ellen Israel Rosen</b>, Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University<br>
(author of "Making Sweatshops" a book on the globalization of the textile and apparel industries.)<br>
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. <br>
Also, we </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2>expect</font><font face="arial" size=2 color="#0000FF"> </font><font size=2>to have a few signed copies of DSA Honorary Chair Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Global Woman" to give away to some lucky attendees.<br>
<b>Sponsored by Boston Democratic Socialists of America</b>, (617) 354-5078 <a href="http://dsaboston.org/">http://dsaboston.org/<br><br>
</a></font><font size=2 color="#FF00FF"><b><u>Human Rights Wars and America's Response<br>
</u></b></font><font size=2>Tuesday, December 9, 2003<br>
5:30-7:00 p.m.<br>
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Forum, Columbia Point, Boston. Call 617-514-1643 for reservations.<br>
<b>John Shattuck</b>, 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, <i>Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's Response</i>, with author Samantha Power.<br>
<a href="http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/calendar.html#december9" eudora="autourl">http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/calendar.html#december9</a><br><br>
</font>Susan Frick<br>
Program Assistant<br>
Program on Human Rights and Justice<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
E38-277, 292 Main Street<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307<br>
Tel: 617 258 7614<br>
Fax: 617 452 3962<br>
Email: fricks@mit.edu </body>
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