[Mitai-announce] Amnesty will appear as part of the zones of emergence lecture series

[Elan Pavlov]

This week Kayvan Zainabadi will be speaking at the ZONES OF EMERGENCY - 
lecture series. Details below.


Monday, February 25, 2008

ZONES OF EMERGENCY - lecture series

Time: 7:00p–9:00p

Location: N51-337, (Joan Jonas Performance Hall)


The Chilean Alfredo Jaar will present a selection of works, that focus on his 
practice in zones of emergency like Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship, and 
in Rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide (1994 -2000). Kayvan Zainabadi, 
former president of Amnesty International at MIT, will speak about his 
experience at MIT working with Amnesty on crisis in Darfur.

Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect and filmmaker who lives and works in New 
York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated 
in the Venice, Sao Paulo, Johannesburg, Sydney, Istanbul and Kwangju Biennales 
as well as in the Documenta in Kassel. Major solo exhibitions include the New 
Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Whitechapel in London, the Museum 
of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Pergamon Museum in Berlin and the Moderna 
Museet in Stockholm. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985 and was chosen 
as a Mac Arthur Fellow in 2000.

Kayvan Zainabadi is a 5th year graduate student in biology at MIT, and former 
president of the Amnesty International chapter of MIT, and co-founder of 
MIT-STAND, an anti-genocide student coalition. Last year, Kayvan led a 
successful campaign that led MIT to divest its investments in companies that 
were funding the genocide in Darfur. Kayvan has been a lead organizer of 
fundraising drives on campus that have raised over $8,000 for humanitarian 
relief. As a result of their work, MIT Amnesty International recently received 
the 2007 Student Leader Awards in Philanthropy.

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Web site: http://web.mit.edu/vap/about/lecture.html

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Visual Arts Program

For more information, contact:
Amber Frid-Jimenez
617-869-9840
amber at media.MIT.EDU