[Mitai-announce] March events from MIT's Program on Human Rights & Justice

[Susan Frick]

Upcoming Events from MIT's Program on Human Rights and Justice (PHRJ)

Industrial Impunity: Remembering the Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Dr. Ken Geiser, Director of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute
Shahid Nanavati, SPURS Fellow
Thursday March 4, 2004
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Location: E38-615, 292 Main Street

Depleted Uranium Weapons: Toxic Contaminant or Necessary Technology?
Dan Fahey - Policy analyst, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts 
University; former US veteran, Persian Gulf, 1991
Thomas Fasy - Pathologist, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Michael Kilpatrick - Deputy Director, Deployment Health Support, Office of 
the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
Jonathan King - Professor of Microbiology, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology
Alexandra Miller - Radiologist, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
Tanya Palmateer Oxenberg - DU contamination expert, Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Jan Snihs - Researcher, Swedish Radiation Protection Institute; scientific 
leader, UN Environmental Programme, Kosovo
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.
For more information, visit 
<http://web.mit.edu/pugwash/du>http://web.mit.edu/pugwash/du

The Human Right to Environment
Kilaparti Ramakrishna, Director, Program on Science in Public Affairs, 
Woods Hole
Thursday March 11, 2004
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Location: E38-615, 292 Main Street
*POSTPONED*

Investigating the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science
Kevin Knobloch, President, Union of Concerned Scientists
Philip Morrison, Institute Professor Emeritus, Physics Department, MIT
E. O. Wilson, Professor Emeritus of Science, Harvard University
Thursday March 11, 2004
7:00 p.m.
Location: 10-250
Co-sponsored by the MIT Western Hemisphere Project, Technology & Culture 
Forum, and Student Pugwash

The Aftermath of U.S. intervention in Guatemala: A Village's Experience
Beatriz Manz, Author of Paradise in Ashes
Tuesday March 16, 2004
7:00 p.m.
Location: 66-110
Co-sponsored by the MIT Department of Anthropology and Western Hemisphere 
Project


Susan Frick
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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