[Mitai-announce] STARR FORUM: DARFUR/DARFUR Exhibit and Panel

[Karen Li]

*The MIT Center for International Studies Invites You To A Starr Forum on*


*DARFUR/DARFUR
*/*The Crisis | The Exhibit
*/*http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_101509_darfur.html*
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/*Thursday, October 15, 2009
MIT Stata Center
32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
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7:00 - 8:00 PM
THE CRISIS
Kirsch Auditorium, Stata Center
Robert Rotberg, Susannah Sirkin, and Marcus Bleasdale
The discussion concludes with a Q&A

8:00 - 9:00 PM
THE EXHIBIT
TSMC Lobby, Stata Center



The free Starr Forum event commences in the Kirsch Auditorium with a 
panel discussion featuring Robert Rotberg, Belfer Center, Harvard's 
Kennedy School of Government; Susannah Sirkin, Physicians for Human 
Rights; and Marcus Bleasdale, member of the DARFUR/DARFUR team. The 
event concludes in the TSMC Lobby with the DARFUR/DARFUR exhibit and 
reception.

DARFUR/DARFUR is a traveling exhibit of digitally-projected images that 
provide visual education about the richly multi-cultural region while 
exposing the horrors of the ongoing humanitarian crisis. The exhibit is 
a product of Art Works Projects and curated by Leslie Thomas, founding 
director of Art Works Projects.

Photographers include former U.S. Marine Brian Steidle and 
photojournalists Lynsey Addario, Mark Brecke, Helene Caux, Ron Haviv, 
Paolo Pellegrin, James Nachtwey, Ryan Spencer Reed, and Michal Safdie. 
The exhibit was edited by Matthew Jacob and is accompanied by Sudanese 
inspired music.

/A CIS Starr Forum event brought to you by MIT Center for International 
Studies and Boston International. Additional co-sponsors include the MIT 
Program on Human Rights and Justice; MIT Amnesty International; and 
Physicians for Human Rights./

/The event was funded in part by the Council for the Arts at MIT.

/*For more information, visit the event page:*

http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_101509_darfur.html






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Michelle Nhuch
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