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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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Report Back: A Personal Look at the Health and Human Rights Consequences
of Occupation on Israelis and Palestinians<br>
Dr. Alice Rothchild</b> and <b>Dr. Alan Meyers</b>, the Jewish American
Medical Project<br>
Thursday April 15, 2004<br>
4:30-6:00<br>
Location: E38-615, 292 Main Street, Kendall Square <i>(please note room
change)<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>Truth and Community Reconciliation in Greensboro: A View of
the Nations First Truth Commission Through Survivors' Eyes <br>
Sally Bermanzohn</b>, author of <i>Through Survivor's Eyes: From the
Sixties to the Greensboro Massacre <br>
</i><b>Paul Bermanzohn, </b>survivor of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre
<br>
Friday April 23, 2004, 12-1:30 (book signing reception to follow) <br>
Location:<b> </b>4-163<br>
<i>Co-sponsored by the Center for Reflective Community Practice, MIT:
<a href="http://crcp.mit.edu">http://crcp.mit.edu</a></i> <br>
For more information on the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation
Process see <a href="http://www.gtcrp.org/">http://www.gtcrp.org/</a> and
<a href="http://www.gjf.org">http://www.gjf.org</a>. For event
information, please contact:
<a href="mailto:amulya@mit.edu">amulya@mit.edu<br><br>
</a><b>Shall We Choose What Types of People Are Born: Rights and Ethics
in Scientific Research<br>
Jonathan Glover</b>, 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: 66-110<br><br>
<b><i><u>Technology and Action Conference April 29-May 2, 2004<br>
</u></i>Threats to Human Rights in the Digital Realm<br>
</b>Thursday April 29, 2004<br>
5:30-7:00 p.m.<br>
Location: 66-110 <br>
and<br>
<b>Advancing Human Rights through the use of Technology<br>
</b>Friday April 30, 2004<br>
5:00-7:00 p.m.<br>
Location: 4-237<br>
Weekend workshops will feature trainings in community radio and wireless
technologies and tech activism/direct action<br>
<b><a href="http://web.mit.edu/tac/www/conference/index.html">http://web.mit.edu/tac/www/conference/index.html</a><br>
</b><i>Co-sponsored with Design that Matters<br><br>
</i><b>Conflicts between Multiculturalism and Feminism<br>
</b>MIT Women's Studies Intellectual Forum<br>
Sarah Song, Political Science and Women's 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, please RSVP to
emmh@mit.edu<br><br>
</i><b>An Evening with Alex Cockburn & Noam Chomsky<br>
</b>Tuesday, May 4, 2004 <br>
7:00 p.m.<br>
Location: 26-100<br>
<i>Co-sponsored by the MIT Western Hemisphere Project<br><br>
</i><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 May 13, 2004 <br>
4:30-6:00 p.m. <br>
Location: E38-615, 292 Main Street<br><br>
<div align="center"><font color="#0000FF"><b>Other Upcoming Events of
Interest<br><br>
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<font face="Book Antiqua, Bookman" size=2 color="#800000"><i>10<sup>TH</sup>
ANNUAL HARVARD INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE:<br>
</i>Reconstruction & Transformation: Development in an Uncertain Global Environment<br>
<i><x-tab> </x-tab>Friday, April 16 ,2004 -Sunday, April 18, 2004<br>
</i></font><font face="Book Antiqua, Bookman" size=2>Back to the Basics: Restoring Security by Revitalizing Local Communities<br>
</b><x-tab> </x-tab>A Panel discussion: </font>4.00pm, Saturday April 17<sup>th</sup>, 2004 at The Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University<br>
<font face="Book Antiqua, Bookman" size=2><b>Back to Basics in action: </font>Kabul<br>
</b><font face="Book Antiqua, Bookman" size=2><x-tab> </x-tab>Workshop on Sunday 18th, 2004 at the </font>Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University<br>
<h2><font face="tahoma" size=2><b>For Conference Details, see</font><font face="tahoma" size=2 color="#FF0000"> <a href="http://www.hidc2004.org/" eudora="autourl">http://www.hidc2004.org</a></b></font></h2><b>Human Rights Issues and Transboundary Water Policy<br>
</b>Monday April 12, 2004<br>
6:30-8:30 pm <br>
Program On Negotiation, 5th Floor, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School, 1562 Massachusetts Avenue<br>
(classroom directly to the left when getting off the elevator.)<br>
Students interested in participating, please contact Catherine Ashcraft at catcraft@mit.edu for copies of the<br>
articles and the upcoming agenda.<br><br>
<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><br>
</b></font>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.</a>html<br><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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