[Mitai-announce] [Phrj-list] Upcoming Events from MIT's Program on Human Rights

[Susan Frick]

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

Human Rights and Private Wrongs: Doctors Across Borders and Their Discontents
Professor Alison Brysk, University of California-Irvine
Wednesday November 10, 2004
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Location: 4-156 http://whereis.mit.edu

Our Brains, Ourselves, Our Common Future: Neuroscience and the Struggle for 
a More Just, Participatory, and Sustainable Society
Professor Stephan Chorover, MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Monday November 15, 2004
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Location: E25-111 http://whereis.mit.edu
Science, Technology and Human Rights Lecture Series

Migration, Human Rights and Human Smuggling
Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, Executive Director of the University Committee 
on Human Rights, Harvard University
Tuesday November 30, 2004
4:30-6:00 p.m.
E38-615, 292 Main Street, Kendall Square http://whereis.mit.edu

Refugee Rights after 9/11: Comparing the Canadian and U.S. Regimes
Professor Obiora Okafor, Osgoode Law School, York University
Thursday December 2, 2004
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Location: E38-615, 292 Main Street, Kendall Square http://whereis.mit.edu

Other Events of Interest

Sudan Candlelight Vigil
Friday November 5, 2004
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Boston Common
Organized by iAbolish the American Anti-slavery Group. Visit 
www.iabolish.com/vigil for more information.

15th Anniversary Commemoration of the Assassination of Father Ignacio 
Martin Baro
Robert White, former Ambassador to El Salvador
Elena Letona, Director of Centro Presente
4:30 p.m.
Sunday November 14, 2004
First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden Street
For more information, visit: http://www.martinbarofund.org/events/fall04.htm

Workers' Rights are Human Rights
Saturday December 11, 2004
Boston Public Library
Organized in conjunction with American Friends Service Committee, Amnesty 
International USA, Cultural Survival, Jobs with Justice, Oxfam America, 
Reebok Human Rights Program, and the Unitarian Universalist Service 
Committee among others in honor of International Human Rights Day

Update on the Narmada Valley, India
Documentary Film screeing of 'Drowned Out' and Discusstion with
Sukumar Krishnan, Senior Activist of the Save the Narmada Movement and 
Human Rights Advocate at Columbia
University's Center for the Study of Human Rights
Sunday, November 14, 2004
2:00 p.m.
MIT Building 4-231  http://whereis.mit.edu

Call for Papers and Posters
for the 2005 Annual Meeting of the World Student Community for Sustainable 
Development: Beyond Brundtland
to be held at MIT in Cambridge, MA
March 16-19, 2005
More information can be found at http://www.wscsd.org


Susan Frick
Program Assistant
Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Building 9 Room 365
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617 258 7614
Fax: 617 253 2654
Email: fricks at mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/phrj
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