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<div align="center"><font color="#0000FF"><b>Upcoming Events from MIT's
Program on Human Rights and Justice (PHRJ)<br><br>
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Refugee and Indigenous Rights: A Report on Current Atrocities in Northern
Thailand<br>
</b>Michael Forhan, Executive Director, Burma Border Projects<br>
Josh Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director, Amnesty International<br>
Thursday April 8, 2004<br>
4:30-6:00 p.m.<br>
Location: 4-163<br><br>
<b>Report Back: A Personal Look at the Health and Human Rights
Consequences of Occupation on Israelis and Palestinians<br>
</b>Dr. Alice Rothchild and Dr. Alan Meyers, the Jewish American Medical
Project<br>
Thursday April 15, 2004<br>
4:30-6:00 p.m.<br>
Location: 4-237 <br><br>
<b>Human Rights & Colombian Coal in Salem, Massachusetts<br>
</b>Professor Avi Chomsky & the North Shore Colombia Solidarity
Committee<br>
Friday April 16, 2004<br>
7:00<br>
Location: 66-100<br>
<i>Co-sponsored by the MIT Western Hemisphere Project<br><br>
</i><b>Workshop on Gender and Politics<br>
Brooke Ackerly, "Gender, Culture, and Human Rights Theory"
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</b>Thursday April 22, 2004<br>
4:00-6:00 p.m.<br>
Location: E51-275, Deans Conference Room<br>
<i>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<br><br>
</i><b>Technology in Action: Applying Human Rights Theory<br>
</b>Thursday April 22, 2004<br>
5:30-7:00 p.m.<br>
Location: 10-250 <br>
<i>Co-sponsored as part of the Technology in Action conference with
Design that Matters<br><br>
</i><b>Ethics in Scientific Research: Reflections on the Human Genome
Project<br>
</b>Jonathan Glover, Director of the Centre for Medical Law and Ethics,
Kings College<br>
Tuesday April 27, 2004<br>
5:00-6:30 p.m.<br>
Location: 54-100<br><br>
<b>Constructing the Rule of Law: Public Security, Justice and Democracy
Building<br>
Arturo Alvarado</b>, Research Fellow, MIT Program on Human Rights &
Justice<br>
Thursday April 29, 2004 <br>
4:30-6:00 p.m. <br>
Location: E38-615, 292 Main Street<br><br>
<b>Conflicts between Multiculturalism and Feminism<br>
</b>MIT Women's Studies Intellectual Forum<br>
Sarah Song, Political Science and Womens Studies<br>
Friday April 30, 2004<br>
12:00 lunch, 12:30 talk<br>
Location: 14E-417<br>
<i>Co-sponsored by the MIT Program in Women's Studies<br><br>
Also of possible interest to PHRJ affiliates is the following seminar
series, linked to the DUSP-CIS Jerusalem/Al-Quds 2050 Project. Please
contact Diane Davis at dedavis@mit.edu for more information.<br><br>
</i><div align="center"><font color="#0000FF"><b>CITIES AGAINST
NATIONALISM: URBANISM AS VISIONARY POLITICS<br>
All seminars are held in Building 10-485, 5:30 PM--7:00 PM. <br>
UPCOMING SPEAKERS INCLUDE: <br><br>
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Rogers Brubaker, University of California Los Angeles<br>
Monday, March 29th: <i>"Ethnicity and Nationalism in a Transylvanian
Town: Between Politics and Everyday Life"<br><br>
</i>Jo Beall, London School of Economics***<br>
WEDNESDAY April 7th: <i>"When Cities Save Nations: Post-Apartheid
Metropolitan South Africa"<br>
</i>***(Please note that due to the Passover holiday this talk is
WEDNESDAY, NOT Monday!)<br><br>
Richard Sennett, London School of Economics<br>
Monday, April 12th: "<i>Cities as Spaces for
Democracy"<br><br>
</i>Jonathan Glover, Kings College London<br>
Monday, April 26th: "<i>Identity and National
Conflict"<br><br>
</i>Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics<br>
Monday, May 3rd: "<i>Iconic Architecture and Global
Cities"<br><br>
</i>Bruce Mazlish, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
Monday, May 10th: "<i>The Global and the Local in
Jerusalem"<br>
For more information, please visit:
</i><a href="http://web.mit.edu/cis/wg_cic.html">http://web.mit.edu/cis/wg_cic.html<br><br>
</a><b>Have a great spring break!<br>
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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<br>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/phrj" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/phrj</a><br>
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