[Mitai-announce] Reminder TODAY STARR FORUM: DARFUR/DARFUR
Karen Li
karenli at MIT.EDU
Thu Oct 15 14:03:48 EDT 2009
The MIT Center for International Studies Invites You To A Starr Forum
on
DARFUR/DARFUR
The Crisis | The Exhibit
[1]http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_101509_darfur.html
Thursday, October 15, 2009
MIT Stata Center
32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
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:
[2]http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_101509_darfur.html
--
Michelle Nhuch
Director of Public Programs
Center for International Studies at MIT
Room E40-443
(p) 617.253.1965
[3]http://web.mit.edu/cis/
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
References
1. http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_101509_darfur.html
2. http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_101509_darfur.html
3. http://web.mit.edu/cis/
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