[Mitai-announce] Upcoming Events from MIT's Program on Human Rights & Justice

[Susan Frick]

Upcoming Human Rights Events at MIT

IAP course "Introduction to Human Rights"
January 20-30, 2004
Building 2, Room 147
1:00-2:30 p.m.
http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns11.html

Global Public Reason and Human Rights
Joshua Cohen, Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Professor; Goldberg Professor of 
Humanities; Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, MIT
Thursday January 29, 2004
Building 66, Room 168
5:30-7:00 p.m.

Promoting Export Credit Agency Accountability to International Human Rights Law
Gabrielle Watson, PHRJ Fellow
Thursday February 12, 2004
E38-615, 292 Main Street, Kendall Square
4:30-6:00 p.m.

Information and Misinformation in Wartime News Reporting: "News Coverage of 
the Iraq War in Arab and US Television"
Omar al-Issawi, co-founder of al-Jazeera ( 
<http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage>http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage )
Professor Stephen Van Evera, MIT Department of Political Science
Professor Richard Samuels, Director of the MIT Center for International Studies
Wednesday February 18, 2004
Wong Auditorium, Tang Center (E51), 70 Memorial Drive
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Organized by the MIT Arab Students' Organization

Screening of Bhopal film
Shahid Nanavati, DUSP
Thursday February 26, 2004
E38-615, 292 Main Street, Kendall Square
4:30-6:00 p.m.

Depleted Uranium Anti-Tank Shells: Toxic Contaminant or Smart Technology?
Alexandra Miller, Radiologist, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
Ken Czerwinski, former MIT Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Jan Snihs, Researcher, Swedish Radiation Protection Institute; scientific 
leader, UN Environmental Programme, Kosovo
Michael Kilpatrick, Deputy Director, Deployment Health Support, Office of 
the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
Dan Fahey, Policy analyst, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts 
University; former US veteran, Persian Gulf, 1991
Jim Walsh, Executive Director, Managing the Atom Project, Belfer Center for 
Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
Saturday March 6, 2004
Building 34, Room 101
1:00-5:00 p.m.

Sudan at the Crossroads: Transforming Generations of Civil War into Peace 
and Development March 11-12, 2004
<http://fletcher.tufts.edu/sudanconference2004/>http://fletcher.tufts.edu/sudanconference2004/

The Aftermath of US intervention in Guatemala: a Village's Experience
Beatriz Manz
Tuesday March 16, 2004
Location TBA
7:00 p.m.

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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