[Mitai-announce] Bhopal film & discussion Thurs. March 4

[Susan Frick]

The Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984:

a short film and discussion about industrial impunity and international 
corporate responsibility

Thursday March 4, 2004

4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

MIT Center for International Studies (E38-615, 292 Main Street, Kendall 
Square, Cambridge)

Dr. Ken Geiser, Director of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction 
Institute will discuss:
    * Issues to be taken up at a global level when large corporations enter 
third world nations
    * Lessons from such disasters and what has been done by the industrial 
control authorities worldwide since the Bhopal gas leak
    * The current inadequacy of codes and structures to hold corporations 
and their senior officials accountable
    * Lack of international ability to redress corporate crimes
    * Corporate crime becoming more institutionalized, more legitimate, and 
more intense with the advent of globalization
Dr. Ken Geiser
Toxics Use Reduction Institute, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Professor Kenneth R. Geiser, Ph.D., is director of the Massachusetts Toxics 
Use Reduction Institute, a multi-disciplinary research, education and 
training, and policy center at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, 
where he is Associate Professor of Work Environment. Dr. Geiser established 
and oversees the Institute's programs which serve more than 600 
Massachusetts firms that report under the Toxics Use Reduction Act.  He is 
co-director of the University's Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, a 
new research and technical assistance center promoting environmentally 
sound and occupationally safe forms of workplace organization.  An 
internationally recognized expert on environmental law and policy, clean 
production and sustainable development, Dr. Geiser serves on the core 
Advisory Group for the United Nations Environmental Programs Cleaner 
Production Programme. He also serves on the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency's Toxics Data Reporting Committee of the National Advisory Council 
for Environmental Policy and Technology, and the Agency's Common Sense 
Initiative for Regulatory Reinvention. He completed his undergraduate work 
at the University of California Berkeley, and holds graduate and doctoral 
degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sponsored by the MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice
http://web.mit.edu/phrj


Susan Frick
Program Assistant
Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E38-277, 292 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617 258 7614
Fax: 617 452 3962
Email: fricks at mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/phrj
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