[Mitai-announce] Upcoming Events from PHRJ

[Susan Frick]

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

Refugee and Indigenous Rights: A Report on Current Atrocities in Northern 
Thailand
Michael Forhan, Executive Director, Burma Border Projects
Josh Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director, Amnesty International
Thursday April 8, 2004
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Location: 4-163

Report Back: A Personal Look at the Health and Human Rights Consequences of 
Occupation on Israelis and Palestinians
Dr. Alice Rothchild and Dr. Alan Meyers, the Jewish American Medical Project
Thursday April 15, 2004
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Location: 4-237

Human Rights & Colombian Coal in Salem, Massachusetts
Professor Avi Chomsky & the North Shore Colombia Solidarity Committee
Friday April 16, 2004
7:00
Location: 66-100
Co-sponsored by the MIT Western Hemisphere Project

Workshop on Gender and Politics
Brooke Ackerly, "Gender, Culture, and Human Rights Theory"
Thursday April 22, 2004
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: E51-275, Deans Conference Room
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

Technology in Action: Applying Human Rights Theory
Thursday April 22, 2004
5:30-7:00 p.m.
Location: 10-250
Co-sponsored as part of the Technology in Action conference with Design 
that Matters

Ethics in Scientific Research: Reflections on the Human Genome Project
Jonathan Glover, Director of the Centre for Medical Law and Ethics, Kings 
College
Tuesday April 27, 2004
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Location: 54-100

Constructing the Rule of Law: Public Security, Justice and Democracy Building
Arturo Alvarado, Research Fellow, MIT Program on Human Rights & Justice
Thursday April 29, 2004
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Location: E38-615, 292 Main Street

Conflicts between Multiculturalism and Feminism
MIT Women's Studies Intellectual Forum
Sarah Song, Political Science and Womens Studies
Friday April 30, 2004
12:00 lunch, 12:30 talk
Location: 14E-417
Co-sponsored by the MIT Program in Women's Studies

Also of possible interest to PHRJ affiliates is the following seminar 
series, linked to the DUSP-CIS Jerusalem/Al-Quds 2050 Project. Please 
contact Diane Davis at dedavis at mit.edu for more information.

CITIES AGAINST NATIONALISM: URBANISM AS VISIONARY POLITICS
All seminars are held in Building 10-485, 5:30 PM--7:00 PM.
UPCOMING SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Rogers Brubaker, University of California Los Angeles
Monday, March 29th: "Ethnicity and Nationalism in a Transylvanian Town: 
Between Politics and Everyday Life"

Jo Beall, London School of Economics***
WEDNESDAY April 7th: "When Cities Save Nations: Post-Apartheid Metropolitan 
South Africa"
***(Please note that due to the Passover holiday this talk is WEDNESDAY, 
NOT Monday!)

Richard Sennett, London School of Economics
Monday, April 12th: "Cities as Spaces for Democracy"

Jonathan Glover, Kings College London
Monday, April 26th: "Identity and National Conflict"

Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics
Monday, May 3rd: "Iconic Architecture and Global Cities"

Bruce Mazlish, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday, May 10th: "The Global and the Local in Jerusalem"
For more information, please visit: 
<http://web.mit.edu/cis/wg_cic.html>http://web.mit.edu/cis/wg_cic.html

Have a great spring break!

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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