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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><div align="center"><font color="#800000"><b>Upcoming
Events from the MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice (PHRJ)<br><br>
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**TOMORROW**</font> Building Democracy: The First 10 Years of the South
African Constitutional Court<br>
Justice Richard Goldstone</b>, Harvard University Law School<br>
Tuesday April 5, 2005<br>
4:30-6:00 p.m.<br>
Location: MIT Building 4-237
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<b>Women's Rights and Islam<br>
Professor Lama Abu Odeh</b>, Georgetown Law School and <b>Havva
Guney</b>, Harvard Law School<br>
Thursday April 14, 2005<br>
7:00 p.m.<br>
W11 Main Dining Room, Massachusetts Avenue
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<i>Co-sponsored by the Technology and Culture Forum; first in the Lecture
Series Religion in the 21<sup>st</sup>century. <br>
To register, email: weinmann@mit.edu <br><br>
</i><b>Democracy and Development: The Human Rights Crisis in Nepal<br>
Professor William Fisher</b>, Clark University<br>
Thursday April 21, 2005<br>
5:30-7:00 p.m.<br>
Location: MIT Building 10-485
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<i>Co-sponsored by the DUSP Student Forum<br><br>
</i><b>Our Brains and Us: Neuroethics, Responsibility and the Self<br>
</b>Conference April 17-19, 2005<br>
Kresge Auditorium
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<i>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 <br><br>
</i><b>Open Networks and Open Society: The Relationship between Freedom,
Law, and Technology <br>
Professor Hal Abelson</b>, Department of Electrical Engineering &
Computer Science, MIT<br>
With a response by <b>John Wilbanks</b>, Executive Director, Science
Commons<br>
Tuesday April 26, 2005<br>
5:00-6:30 p.m.<br>
Location: MIT Building 66-110
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<i>Fourth in the Science, Technology and Human Rights Lecture
Series<br><br>
</i><b>Science Policy, Politics and Human Rights<br>
Professor Kurt Gottfried</b>, Laboratory of Elementary Particle Physics,
Cornell University <br>
with a response by <b>Professor Sheila Jasanoff</b>, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University<br>
Tuesday May 3, 2005<br>
5:00-6:30 p.m.<br>
Location: MIT Building 66-110
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<i>Fifth in the Science, Technology and Human Rights Lecture
Series<br><br>
</i><b>Meet the Braz Family: A Documentary Film from Brazil<br>
Dorrit Harazim, </b>Brazilian Journalist and Film Director<b> <br>
</b>Thursday May 5, 2005<br>
6:00-7:30 p.m.<br>
Location: MIT Building 4-231
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<i>Co-sponsored by the MIT Women's Studies Program, Center for
International Studies, and Department of Urban Studies and
Planning<br><br>
</i><b>Symposium on Forced Labor in the Global Economy<br>
</b>Saturday May 14, 2005<br>
9:00 a.m. -12:15 p.m.<br>
Location: Kresge Auditorium
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<i>In conjunction with the BBC World ServiceTrust and International Labor
Organization<br>
</i><b>**Please RSVP to phrj@mit.edu**<br><br>
<font color="#800000">Other Upcoming Events of Interest<br><br>
</font>Biodefense Research and The Boston University Biolab<br>
</b>with <b>Dr. David Ozonoff</b>, Professor of Environmental Health at
the Boston University School of Public Health and the former chair of
that department, and current Director of the Superfund Basic Research
Program<br>
and<b> Dr. Rocco Casagrande</b>, former UN weapons inspector in Iraq and
current director in the Homeland Security Practice at Abt Associates in
Cambridge, MA<br>
Tuesday April 19, 2005<br>
5:00-7:00 p.m.<br>
MIT Room 4-237<br>
<i>Sponsored by MIT Pugwash; for more information, contact:
pugwash-officer@mit.edu<br>
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Susan Frick<br>
Program Coordinator<br>
Program on Human Rights and Justice<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue<br>
Building 9 Room 365<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307<br>
Tel: 617 258 7614<br>
Fax: 617 253 2654<br>
Email: fricks@mit.edu<br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
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